YoshiFan

And what makes it worse is that parking was already raised from last seasons from $15 to $17. I just hope we don't have to pay $70 for a season parking pass next season like at SFGAM.

I agree Steel Force is a great coaster, I think it's the 2nd best in the park right after Talon. The fact it rarely has a wait (along with the other coasters at Dorney) also doesn't hurt. My last coaster was Nitro at Great Adventure on Wednesday

A few years ago I remember reading that the signs are based on the wait time if 1 train is running which based on the time on the signs seems accurate. The problem with the signs is that people see them and think the wait is really that long and turn around and exit the line. I remember last year in line for Nitro it was just before the 60 minute sign. 2 people said they didn't want to wait an hour and were about to leave until I told them it should be about 20 minutes and they decided to stay in line. I have also had that happen at other coasters at the rapids. I think Kingda Ka closed led to lines being a little longer than normal, I got 14 rides in 3 1/4 hours. The Log Flume broke down around 4:30 and they had to evacuate it, it opened up around 25 minutes later without any problems.

I could see SF considering it especially with how popular Green Lantern at Great Adventure is.

That would be great, along with bringing back the season pass lot if possible. I have never been to the park on one of those Saturday's in the summer but I have seen pictures and the parking situation is horrible. Besides the overflow lot being a very long walk to the gates, they sometimes have to park cars on the grass on the side of the overflow lot.

Thunderhawk at Dorney on Monday.

The Flying Wave was having a lot of problems since it was so old. There was no excuse to not replace it with a new swing ride though especially since they aren't that expensive compared to a major flat or a coaster. Hopefully we get a new swing ride next year along with some other rides. If Red Zone was in control, who knows what other flats they would have removed since they removed and closed so many rides in such a short amount of time and the only rides they added were The Dark Knight and a 3rd plane ride (4th if you count the Royal Elephants which is basically the same ride)

Those ride prices are crazy, it makes Knoebels look expensive! $0.25 for the kiddie rides, $0.50 for the flats and $1 for the coaster. That has got to be the cheapest park in the country.

I don't think it is any worse than in past years with some of the same problems as in past seasons like Rolling Thunder's slow dispatches and Superman stacking and Bizarro double stacking. Unfortunately, I don't see Superman or Bizarro having faster dispatches unless they have more than 2 people checking restraints. In the beginning of the season Nitro's 3rd train wasn't ready which wasn't good with spring break crowds but multiple trains have been running on the coasters every time I have gone to the park. In 6 visits to the park this season, I have seen 2 trains on Skull Mountain every time, at least 2 trains on Nitro and Bizarro every time, 2 trains on Superman except for 1 trip when it was a walk on with 1 train running, 2 trains on Runaway Mine Train every time, and 3 trains on Kingda Ka every time. In some ways, operations are better. Last Thursday the Skyway was running both sides all day even after 5:00 when it had no wait. With RedZone in control, I very rarely saw both sides running at all.

Steel Force about 4 1/2 hours ago

I had always thought that the actual holiday of a holiday weekend like Labor Day and Memorial Day were empty, but I found out that wasn't the case when I went to the park on Labor Day 2009. I only got 6 rides in around 3 1/2 hours (in the middle of the day). It sounds like today was even more crowded. Hopefully with daily operations now, crowds will still be low during the week for the next few weeks like in past years. After the crowds last week, I'm not so sure. Did they reconfigure the queue? If the merge point is at the stairs, the Flashpass users could still have a 15 - 20 minute wait with the slow dispatches the ride always has. I guess that also means from now on the right side is going to be the side running on days when they only ride one side.

Flashpass merges at the station for Nitro, Bizarro, El Toro, Batman, Superman, Kingda Ka and I think Green Lantern so you can pick your row. Dark Knight merges at the pre show, Skull Moutain uses car 5, Rolling Thunder also uses the middle rows and Runaway Mine Train has 1 row in the middle reserved for Flashpass. ^^^The pathway in the Golden Kingdom is closed

At opening, go to Green Lantern then stop at Superman, go to Kingda Ka and then El Toro. Those are going to be the 4 rides with the worst lines. After that, I would go to Bizarro, go on the Log Flume if you want (I know it isn't a coaster but it can get a very long line later in the day) and take the Skyway over to the other side of the park and ride Batman and Nitro. That would take care of all the major coasters.

Park is very crowded now, Green Lantern almost has a full queue and try have an overflow queue setup. Superman looks to be around 45 minutes. The lot isnt that full but there a ton of buses. I wasn't even in line for 2 minutes before getting cut by a group of kids (waiting for Blackbeards since it is only a 2 cycle wait)

I'm not sure, I know on May 6th, there were at least 30 buses for Physics Day but it wasn't crowded since the park was only open for them (the park was open at 5 for Passholders for Coasters After Dark). Since it is the last Physics Day it may not be as many kids. I would wait to see how crowded it is before deciding to get a Flashpass or not.

Physics Day, lots of school kids during the day. Plus the park is open until 10 and is normally only open until 8 on Friday's so it will probably be crowded since they likely wouldn't stay open later unless they anticipate larger crowds. I could be wrong though since I figured it would be dead today and it sounds like it was the total opposite of that.

I am really surprised to hear it was so crowded today, were there a lot of school groups? I would have never expected that there would be full queues. How long was the wait for Green Lantern?

Dark Knight at Great Adventure

Should be empty, I went on a Wednesday last year in May, almost all rides walk ons. Weekdays in May and June (before school lets out) are almost always empty unless there is an event scheduled.

It was removed at the end of 2009 and is now at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA

The park is closed Monday and Tuesday next week

There are banners all over the fort, and banners and ads in the station. There were 2 sets of old photographs with captions about traveling to the West in the queue. One set of them was removed for the banner. I know it's not the greatest picture of the train, I tried to take a picture quickly before someone said something about having a camera out in the station (that I have seen happen to others even though I always keep the phone in a zippered pocket while on the rides).

Individual rides are expensive, the major coasters are over $7 per ride each and the smaller coasters are around $4.50 - $5.40 each and 1 ride on each of the 6 coasters is going to be around $35 - $38. I'd go with the wristband unless you don't have a lot of time. Atmosfear is a great drop tower and if you like log flumes, Morey's is my favorite after Splash Mountain. It's a very long flume with 2 drops and a small dark ride section.

I have only ridden 5 B&M inverted coasters and I would rank them like this: 1. Talon 2. Dueling Dragons Fire 3. Dueling Dragons Ice 4. Great Bear 5. Batman The Ride (Great Adventure)

Flitzer at Playland's Castaway Cove on Sunday