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Looks really muggy there.

It's a nice park. Afterburn is a great coaster and Intimidator is fun, too.

Paula stated earlier that the location of Hyena Falls is all part of the plan.

New for 2015, Mr. Freeze will be modified with a catch car starting at the bottom of the spike and pulling you backwards to the top. The catch car will release the train making this the first Hyper coaster in St. Louis! Mr. Freeze Hyper Release! Coming in 2020, Mr. Freeze REVERSE Hyper Release!

hahaha Truth!

I think I liked Thunderhead a little more than American Thunder, but I'll agree it's a highly underrated coaster.

I agree with this ten fold. I've never seen ride operators look as lazy as they did the other day. It really aggravated me, but I tried not to act concerned since I was with a first timer to the park. I didn't want to ruin his time.

I deal with people for a living. There's really no nice way to put it. The employee was intentionally on a power trip. Trust me. You could tell she clearly got enjoyment from making my day worse. Believe it or not, these people exist. I'm not even going to act like what you said is out of line. That being said, I can tell you I was nothing but polite to this girl. I'm a bit of a smartass and that comes off wrong when you read it instead of meeting me in person. I'm 'the guy' who is always overly polite to servers. It doesn't matter if you believe me or not. I have enough confrontation at work, therefor I try to have as little of it as possible outside of my duties. PS - I stopped being such a smartass on this site, since people misinterpret me.

You're probably right. I completely forgot about your experience until you just brought it up. It really is making me not want to go to Six Flags parks, anymore. We just had bad experiences with customer service throughout the day. Every single flash pass attendant was incredibly rude. Out of our 20 or so rides we were greeted ONE time. You would think after paying $110 for a premium flash pass they could at least greet you. One kid even halfway yelled at me "Turn it on!" when he went to scan my pass. Not to be ignorant, but I had a split second temptation to take him to the ground. As a police officer, I literally receive more respect from most crack heads, drug dealers, prostitutes, and every day low life criminals than how the staff treated us yesterday. The staff members who put forward a minimal effort to be friendly were few and far between. The difference between my day at King's Island and my day at Great America were absolutely night and day. Cedar fair felt like it was being operated by a staff of young adults. Great America was being operated by a group of punk kids. I'm embarrassed that it was my friend's first experience to a park outside of Six Flags St. Louis and I tried to explain to him how much better the customer service is with Cedar Fair and most other parks. Overall, we spent approximately $350 at the park to be treated like crap. I'm honestly disgusted.

I agree. I think the time for that has come and past. I had hopes, before SF corporate thought that something like Boomerang was a good fit for our part. That was a pretty big statement.

So I went to the park yesterday and had the worst single most customer service experience I've ever had at a park. It was possibly the worst customer service I've ever had anywhere. My friend and I went to buy a couple beers. I look young for 29, so I always have my ID out and I took my sunglasses off as a courtesy. I handed the girl at the counter my Illinois Driver's License and politely asked for two Miller Lites. (I am always polite to servers) She kept looking at my ID and looking at me. After several seconds passed, I kind of raised my eyebrows in question and she flat out rudely told me "This doesn't look like you." Keep in mind I have my hair the exact same length in my ID and the picture was taken last year. I said "Excuse me?" She said again, "I don't think this is you." I was pretty pissed off at this point and told her "Well it's been me for 29 years." I spouted off my birthday and my address and she still just looked at me like she was going to deny me beer. She was trying to make it obvious to her co worker that at this point she just wanted to tell me no. After that, she was trying to be spiteful and she was on an evident power trip. She went over to another server and overly convincingly tried to say "I don't think this is him." I could tell she really wanted the other girl to say it wasn't me so she could deny me a beer. At that point, I was prepared to make a scene. I told her if she didn't think that was me than she needed to call the police, since I used my credit card under that name to buy our tickets, our parking, and our flash pass, because as a police officer I know that Unlawful Use of a Debit Card is a felony. The other employee looked at me for two seconds and said "Yeah, that's him... same eyes." I was extremely pissed at this point as the the worst staff ever continued to be a smart ass throughout the rest of the transaction and she held a smart ass grin on her face. When we went back for a second beer... HOURS LATER MIND YOU... I even tried to be nice and joke with her. I went out of my way to apologize to her if I did anything to upset her. I joked with her and asked her if she was going to give me a hard time. She smiled and laughed and told me she just didn't want to get in trouble. In reality she just wanted to go on a power trip. I played it off like nothing ever happened, smiled, thanked her for the beers, and told her that I understood, despite the fact that she never once apologized. At that time I still didn't know they had anywhere else that sold beer, so a while later I reluctantly walked back to the beer lady for my third and final beer throughout the entire day. Again, I smiled, greeted her, and asked her for two more beers (one each...) for my friend and I. She grinned and with a huge smartass tone looked at me and said "Well..... I'm sorry... I've served you two beers already (within FOUR hours) and I don't think I should serve you anymore..." With two hours left at the park I was determined to not let it ruined my time, so I went to JB after discovering its existence for my third and final beer, where the bar tender greeted us with kindness and served our beer. I'm tempted to call and complain, but I didn't get her name. I can describe her pretty well if that would help. Would it be worth it to complain or would it even go anywhere? I can see her giving some BS account of the story and make it out like I was being the asshole, but I played it over and over again in my head. My friend said I was being nothing but nice... I even apologized to her... for HER actions.

Oh God, here we go again...................

I think the problem is HVAC. My grade school did not have air conditioning and havering class in August would have been a nightmare. You make a great point. I remember sweating my a$$ off in class at the beginning and end of the school year. It really interfered with my sleeping! Only one of our three buildings in my high school had AC and it kept the building at a nice cool 80 degrees, which was a luxury at that time. AC was unheard of in K-12.

How were all of the other rides? I'm hoping Friday won't be too terrible, since school is right around the corner.

School already? That's really early. The good news is that hopefully that will cut down the crowds at Great America slightly, this Friday.

^ The summers will only get faster with time! I feel like a lot of parks are closing really early this summer, though.

Great America seems like it's winding down early, too. I'm going Friday, but I haven't decided if I'm going to stand in line for two hours just to ride Goliath or not. Seems really early to close the week day season. God I'm starting to hate Six Flags.

^Sundays and Friday's are usually comparable, so at least I know what to expect. How were the lines for everything else?

^ Thanks! I didn't know about that feature.

I start a great teaser campaign about the shape of my next bowel movement, but that doesn't mean it's worth coming to my house to see.

My wife and I will be off to Pensacola, FL for some R&R next week. Are there any decent parks nearby? I couldn't find anything.

I guess I'm the only one who feels that the mass "selfie" makes me want to face palm.

I honestly think the Platinum is worth $30 more just for the 2 rides on Goliath, Plus you get consecutive rerides on everything but V2 & Giant Drop. Thanks for the tip. We've done the gold before when we visit first time parks. I make a good wage, so it's not that I don't have the money to spend on the gold... but just because I make enough money doesn't mean that I can't see that I'm being taken for a ride with that price. My wife and I cringe every time we drop money on the gold passes, just because they are so unreasonably priced. I hate how SF tries to squeeze every every last dime out of your pocket. At least when we buy fast lane passes for anywhere from $45-60, depending on the park/day, we don't feel like we got taken on the deal.

So will the flash pass gold be worth it next Friday? What kind of wait times will I be looking at?

I'll be heading to the park next Friday, 08/08. How should I expect the crowds to be? I'm going with a buddy of mine from work, so I'm looking forward to seeing a first timer at the park.