YoshiFan

I agree they need more food places open or at least more workers at the places that are open. Normally on the way out of the park around 6 - 6:30 I stop and get dinner and then a snack to take home because of the dining pass. Yesterday it looked like it was going to be at least an hour wait for dinner with only 1 or 2 lines open at the places I walked past. The snack lines were bad too and it looked like many of the places had run out of snacks like the popcorn bags so I didn't bother with either (lunch was ok with only 1 person ahead of me at the Garden State Grill).

Even when leaving the park after 6, there were long lines to get tickets and the amount of people walking in the parking lot towards the park was something I had never seen before (maybe on a Saturday during Fright Fest it is also like this?). Same thing with the cars entering, the line to the parking booths was gone but it was a steady amount of cars entering.

The park is extremely crowded although not surprising with the weather. From riding Nitro, the line of cars to get into the lot is backed up to the toll booths after you get past them (and a long line to get to the toll booth). Nitro's line is almost to the switchbacks. Crowds were low until around 3:30. Even Air Jumbo had an almost full queue when I walked past it earlier.

The 2 I thought of have similar names, Vertigo at Walibi Belgium and Vertigorama at Parque de la Ciduad. One barely opened at all, the other never opened.

I first heard the rumor in late 2006/early 2007 after Renagade was announced. People thought that Dorney would be next to get a GCI and then they ended up getting Possessed instead.

Once the Dinosaurs Alive contract is up, maybe a coaster could go there.

4 out of Dorney's 8 coasters are clones (Stinger, Possessed, Wild Mouse, Woodstock's Express). How did Six Flags ruin Great Adventure when they have owned the park since the late 70's? Many of Great Adventure's recent additions have been for families. The new play area for Hurricane Harbor next year, Safari in 2013, Adventure Alley in 2012 plus the reopening of family rides like Tango and some kiddie rides that were removed by the previous management. Plus Great Adventure has a much better selection of coasters for families and kids. Someone 44" can ride The Dark Knight, Blackbeard's, Road Runner Railway, Skull Mountain and Runaway Mine Train. At Dorney, all they can ride is Wild Mouse and Woodstock's Express. I live almost an equal distance away from both parks and would pick going to Great Adventure over Dorney any time. I'd rather be riding Nitro and El Toro than anything at Dorney.

If it really ends up being that warm, that would be awesome. I would have never expected to be at Great Adventure in December wearing shorts and a t-shirt and riding Nitro a year ago.

I wonder if it is because of Great Adventure that they have some coasters open. It seems too coincidental that they wouldn't run any coasters for as long as the event had been there each year then all of the sudden with Great Adventure running 7 coasters, they decide to open some non kiddie coasters too.

The park was getting really crowded when I left at 6:30. The midways had a lot of people walking around and there were many cars still entering the lot. From the parking lot it looked like Green Lantern was around 30 minutes.

Hydra's jojo roll. You go through the inversion so slowly that you hear coins falling out of pockets often and sometimes other items as well.

I'm also concerned it could lead to no single rider policies on log flumes. I know Morey's Piers already does that. It could end up like ferris wheels where it seems like you can't find any that allow single riders anymore.

It depends on when you go in the summer. On a weekend it will probably be needed. You could probably get away without it on a weekday if there are no major events scheduled that day like a concert. If you can go to the park in June on a weekday, that would probably be the best if you pick a day they are open until 9 (usually starting the 3rd week of June). School groups leave by 4 - 5 and it's usually walk ons the rest of the day.

Some of the kiddie and family rides even have temporary extra queues set up for the lines. I noticed it at Deja Vu and at Road Runner Railway (I wanted to walk through the Seaport and see the decorations so I'm not sure if the extra queue for that ride is normally there).

The Dark Knight at Great Adventure around 2 1/2 hours ago.

I guess most people who wanted to go the park this weekend went on Friday or yesterday with the warmer weather. The park is empty today, walk ons for all coasters.

I didn't see a single person using Flash Pass yesterday which I was kind of surprised about since even on days when the park is empty I always still see a few people with Flash Pass. Maybe they would have had more Flash Pass users if they had big signs to let people know it is half price compared to the rest of the season. I don't know if the $5 off season pass discount still applies but that would make a regular Flash Pass $17 (website is showing the non passholder prices as $22 for regular, $35 for gold, $55 for Platinum). For years I have wanted Holiday In The Park and have said in the past I would have been happy with just Skull Mountain and the Dark Knight open and I would have still attended the event since 2 coasters is better than nothing (since the only alternatives in the area before Hershey this year were all kiddie coasters). As soon as I heard Nitro would be running, that was enough for me to want to get back to the park at least a few more times before January.

I'm here now. Crowds are very low although they just opened. Skull Mountain is running 2 trains. Nothing was done to the interior of the ride itself. Nitro is currently testing. It looked like Green Lantern has 1 train running. Batman is running forwards. Edit, Nitro opened at around 1:35, 2 trains running with no wait.

That would be interesting if it was on Flash Pass. I also am curious to see if they lower the Flash Pass pricing with fewer rides available than normal.

BOOM Note: they are not advertising Batman as "Batman: The Ride Backwards", take that for what its worth. Also, we now have a HITP "brochure" in PDF format, complete with a detailed HITP park map HERE. Looks like there is some conflicting information on their rides list. All of the Bugs Bunny National Park rides are in the open rides list and Bugs Bunny National Park is under the closed rides list. They even have the National Park Water Tower listed as being open.

It's nice to see the park offering ERT on the 22nd. The are already opening the rides early for the Santa Run race participants and probably thought they might as well give passholders another perk.

I'd also rather not see Shockwave because it would make us even wait longer to get a hopefully better quality coaster than Shockwave or Stinger.

The pictures of the lights are promotional pictures taken sometime earlier this week.

Thanks for the update, that's good to see Batman is running. How are crowds?

I guess Zumanjaro being closed was a last minute change. I was at the ride Sunday night and heard the ride ops talking about who was working at the ride this upcoming weekend. I'm happy to see Batman closed if they are returning it to run forwards for Holiday in the Park, I haven't ridden the coaster since June before they starting running it backwards.