LaMapa

Had a GREAT day at the park today! It was empty(well, for Spring Break). Longest wait was 20 minutes for Tatsu. Other headlines: 1. X2 music is BACK ON on one of the trains 2. All the photo booths received NEW flatscreen TVs and all the booths just look new 3. Riddler's Revenge is back to 2 trains! Walked right on today! (and..the old station music is back) 4. Apocalypse, Batman, Ninja, and Goldrusher were running one train 5. Baja Ridge has the Mexican music playing again! my favorite! 6. The park is now fully staffed (security at the front of every line at the entrances, etc.) 7. GREAT operations. Even Tatsu was barely stacking! GL was slower than ever though... 8. LL:DOD is being worked on. There were workers on top of the Superman tower today. Sky tower still closed. Pictures might be coming soon. I don't know if my computer will start working again.. Any questions/comments? Thanks! P.S. I might be back at the park on Thursday...

^Define on time. They said SPRING. That means they have til mid-late June to funish this and open it up. And that is plenty of time. Let's end with this. LL:DOD will open sometime in the next 4 months. And my ride to the park (they aren't going with me) is leaving early so I will be at the park around 9:45 AM. (yay.) Well at least we will be the first ones in!

^cool! Maybe I'll see you! I'm gonna get there around 10.

I'm gonna head down to the park tomorrow with a friend and I will try to snap a few pictures for you guys. Hopefully it won't be as crowded as last week.

^Sounds good! Going Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thrusday of next week and hoping for it to be a little bit lighter. Drove by the park today and the parking lot was full..FULL. Like close to no spots open. But they weren't using the dirt. Hopefully next week the lot won't fill any further than Colossus. That is a bearable day. What you just told me about sounds VERY crowded. I've been lucky the last couple Spring Breaks. 10 minute wait for X2 by 1 PM on a sunny day.

X2 will always operate in the rain, as long as it is not windy. I've ridden it in pouring down rain, but when the slightest wind comes in, they shut it down. They did that one day last summer and that gave us a 2 hour wait for Tatsu. Luckily, it opened at 5:30 PM and it was my last ride of the day (and I was on the front row of the first train of the day!)

^That's what I was wondering. According to the current park map, it says "backwards", but who knows? They might run one forwards. I suppose they could test the forward car while they test LLDOD. And I wonder if they would turn around one of the new cars or if we will get one of the old cars back. (I know they still have them.) The LSMs are covered up right now. Also, nice to hear that the first Lex Luthor pieces have come in. I have hope in them now! I kinda had a feeling that that they would come in this week. Hmm..

^They did that before S:EFK opened last year.

Ok, that's a good start, but Superman will be closed. So after Apocalypse, go to the Riddler's Revenge single rider line, Green Lantern Single Rider line, Batman, Scream, Colossus, Goliath, Revolution, Viper, (Gold Rusher if you want to), then end at X2.

^Riddler's Revenge, Green Lantern, Revolution (probably won't need it though), and Viper (could never find the SR line). And these are all signed. Just follow the signs. Go in the exit for GL, and Riddlers and follow signs from there.

Yep. And the whole CP thing is getting old and predictable. Full Throttle (hopefully) will be really awesome!! I feel like LL:DOD was given to us as a holdover until next year when the park really does "GO BIG".

^Yes, I'm at Cyber Cafe at the park right now. Nothing on the tower! Just electrical! And you never know how long it will take.

Then I'm guessing they can send the side under maintenance up empty or they will be able to just leave one side on the ground. maybe it is When they are running two sides,they must go up together.

Either that or they run one side empty. But it should be fine. Hopefully they will go fast because this will have GL or worse capacity.

5/26!!

^MAYBE June. Maybe. We would have to be seeing visible construction on the tower within the next week or so for them to even be thinking about a May opening. They would still have to hurry for June. So I think they are running behind schedule.

^Yes, but that should have been done late 2011-January 2012. They need to get a move on it. Look at GL last year. Enough said. But I was amazed when they got Superman running a month early last year! That was amazing!

^Probably. They would have already demolished it if they weren't repurposing it. Or they are just using it to block off the construction. Think about how strange the area would look without it. Also, they need to start on vertical LL:DOD construction SOON. They are running late. If they weren't actually going to do anything to Superman, then why did they close it in February?

^Yep! If one person uses it for one ride, then the next person can use it for the next ride. Works perfectly fine. Also a recommendation: Reserve the next ride while you are waiting in the station for the ride you are currently at. Once the employee checks the device, then you can book another ride.

^Yes. So can someone explain how bad the average Summer Saturday is?

I've NEVER needed a Flash Pass whenever I visit the park. If you have a good strategy, then you can get done fast. Also, where is the single rider line for GL? Which side? And is it still the exit?

^Regular and Gold FP: Red Q-bot and that's it Platinum FP: Silver Q-bot and wristband so you can ride twice. If you want to ride X2 and Green Lantern using FP, then you must have a at LEAST a GOLD FP and you must pay $15 per person per ride on each. If you ride X2 in the morning, then you won't need to use this for X2, but for Green Lantern, it's really your choice if you want to wait in line or not. That line moves REALLY SLOW because the ride has terrible capacity and only gets about 480 people per hour on a good day (taking into consideration SFMM ops). Also, how do you think crowds will be this Sunday?

How do you guys think the crowds will be this Sunday?

^Yes! Do this! Although I recommend that you run straight to X2 in the beginning and get on that. I can usually then get to Tatsu with an in-station wait only, then down to Apocalypse, Riddlers, etc. I would say to try to hold off lunch until at least after Riddler's. Then I would go to Goliath at the very end and I usually have a 30 min. wait for that. Then I will do Viper, Revolution, and Ninja, and if I have time,, X2 again

Nope! It happens all the time! Don't worry!