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Just got back from the park. Not that busy today. Not any busier than a normal weekday in July. Everything had a decent line except for X2. We had the whole entire station to ourselves!! We went over and over again on half empty trains! It was strange. It did look like there was a new piece of wood over by the monorail tunnel on the samurai summit side. But I didn't walk over there.

Let's cap it with this: SFMM is a good well-rounded overall coaster experience. It has a huge variety of coasters. But it's nowhere near the best of the best. It doesn't have airtime, and operations aren't the best. It's probably the best coaster collection on the west coast, but it isn't great.

X2 really depends on where you sit on the ride and on what train. The front is overall smoother than the back, but I have had some amazing rides in the back. The rotations are only rocky on the ramp side, the stair side doesn't have that problem. And right now they are running trains 1 and 3. Train 1 is MUCH smoother than train 3. Train 2 is even smoother. Train 3 is rough, train 1 is pretty smooth (enough as to where you would want to ride it again), and train 2 is glass smooth. But we don't get train 2 back until January. And I completely agree with Zingoman.

^we already have 2 solid woodies. Do we really need another one? Full Throttle will be awesome!

10:30-6 is plenty of time. They shouldn't be complaining. The hours are listed before you enter the park and on their website. And yes, the security walls of death are just past the carousel or just before Mooseburger.

Why would they remove Log Jammer in the first place if the new coaster wasn't going to use the majority of the lot? I have a feeling this is something pretty major... Something SFMM has needed for a while. High capacity and airtime. That's what we need.

The survey did say it was for 2013 OR 2014.

You got 2 working speakers!? I'm jealous! You are usually lucky if you get 1! But train #1 is quieter than train #3. The back row doesn't have audio.

Why would they run X2 with 1 train? It looked like there were 2 running today. It's just annoying.

I'm not surprised they haven't started at all. They aren't going to start until after they announce. So very soon. We know that SFMM can build rides very quickly, it's just they always start very late.

^Tatsu didn't have a line!?

From the SFMM thread:

2013 passes will begin being sold on September 15th. This is when the price will drop back down to $61.99 or something similar.

If you buy at the park, use the receipt given to you at the ticket booth to get into the park. Then go back out of the park later in the day (6pm ish is usually good) and get your pass processed. Works like a charm every time.

The tunnel is really only wide enough for the coaster to go through once, it could loop around and come back under SEFK near where Goldrusher passes under it.

I would be disappointed if it was another B&M. I'm on team Intamin! We need another amazing coaster from them.

Just SFMM this year. But probably 30-40 times this year. (Every week or every other week during off season and either once or twice a week during the summer).

They will probably announce it via the GoBigCam like they did last year. Last year we only had one weeks notice before the announcement. Probably the same this year.

Tatsu has been the longest wait in the park lately. Not surprised about that. X2 had relatively bad operations on Tuesday and still didn't have much of a line. I think it's finally losing popularity. I haven't had to wait anywhere in the first queuing section (near the entrance) all summer long! And about Superman. The sides seem to switch off on which one goes higher. On Tuesday, other right side was going much higher (into the brakes) and the left side wasn't even touching the brakes. Last Friday, the left side went almost half way up into the brakes but the right side wasn't even close to touching the brakes. I rode both sides on Tuesday, and they both feel exactly the same. Just choose the side with a shorter line. Oh, and the rush for Lex is almost completely gone in the morning now. I rode on Tuesday about 11:30 and you could walk right into a row and get on the next car going up.

I wasn't too surprised once it was gone. I knew it wasn't for this year. And SFMM almost always starts construction really late. They aren't slow at all. They just wait until really late to begin visible construction. So we can tell the magnitude of this ride once they begin construction.

I saw that too when I was riding X2. I think it was about 2:30ish. But it seems that they are finally getting a handle on it. There hasn't been too much downtime lately. And it was quite interesting to watch it drop from half way.

Green Lantern has been flipping a lot more lately, and it seems to be more luck than anything. It doesn't even have to be unbalanced to get a good ride. I have gotten many balanced rides with multiple flips. Actually sometimes when I get unbalanced rides, it won't flip as much. But they seem to be loosening it up quite a bit.

Got back from the park. It was really, REALLY empty, probably winter empty. Got there around 11:15 and walked on Goliath, Lex (no line whatsoever), Green Lantern, Batman, Scream, Colossus, and Riddlers Revenge. Then headed over to Superman (just right side running) and waited 20 minutes. Then went down to Tatsu and found a completely full queue and decided to wait. Only took 40 minutes to et though the entire queue and ride the ride! It was amazingly fast! Then walked on Apocalypse and Viper (which is one of my favorite coasters, really smooth and no head bumping whatsoever; I don't get how people think it hurts), and headed over to X2. X2's line was in the station only, so we rode twice. Then walked on Revolution, Ninja, and Goldrusher. Went over to Goliath and rode twice in a row in the back row without getting off then used single rider for Lex and walked on. Headed to Batman which was broken down (a B&M broken!?) so went to Superman instead. Waited 25 minutes for the left side (both sides were open now). Then headed out around 6PM (Tatsu's line was almost a walk up into the station). And the sign by the old action theater has been there since at least June. Maybe even before that. But overall really really good day at the park, with some really good operations! ^When I rode Ninja today, it was quite nice! I liked it, not rough at all. But Goldrusher is getting rough to where I can't ride twice in a row. It is just really jerky.

That sign near Jet Stream has been there at least all Summer. Was it crowded yesterday? I'm heading down to the park today.

That sign near Jet Stream has been there at least all Summer. Was it crowded yesterday? I'm heading down to the park today.