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Kingda Ka at Great Adventure last Sunday, it was going to be Nitro but it was closed all day.

What's with the people in bathing suits? It was way too cold for water rides and I thought none were open anyway.

They closed the park 3 days in a row early in September last year. Friday was a SP holder only night, they closed 2 1/2 hours early (only a 5 hour event), the next day they closed at 4 instead of 10, the day after they closed a few hours early. I went to the SP holder event, I wasn't that upset because I got 23 rides in 2 1/4 hours but plenty of people were, who drove to the park after they called and were told the park would be open until 10 and didn't get on any rides because they got there too late(it was raining all day, the park was only open from 5 - 10 for SP holders but cleared up around 6). A little over 400 people were there that night. As much as I hate seeing the park closing early, I know that in April, May, September and possibly October and even the summer for that matter, I will not to go to the park if bad weather is forecasted. I'm not even sure what to do about tomorrow. It is going to be in the upper 40's with 15 - 20 mph winds. The park is closed for a buyout but open to SP holders as well. I don't think they will close early but I know it is possible so if I do go, I am getting there early. I just wish they would update the website when the park closes early. The day the park closed at 4 instead of 10, it still said the park was open until 10 at 6:00. If I was going to go to the park (it wasn't raining that much at that point) and checked the website I would have thought it was open.

Good luck, you will need it! If Midway America is closed (since they could still open it as they did in past years) and only 5 coasters are open, I don't even want to think about how bad the lines are going to be. Then there is the chance they won't be running multiple trains on everything. I hope I am wrong and lines won't be bad but I can see crazy lines for the few coasters open.

The only issue is that if enough people don't show up, the park will close early. In September last year there was a Season Passholder night, it was raining all day but at 5 when the event started it was misting, and later cleared up. They still closed 2 1/2 hours early even after people called and were told the park was open from 5 - 10. Plenty of people showed up only to be turned away after they had called to make sure the park was open. 410 people were in the park that night. The same weekend, they closed early on Saturday and Sunday

Houdini closed wouldn't be such a big deal but there are way too many SBNO rides in a park that has so few flats. They really need to get the bumper cars, Music Express and Tango (rockin tug) back open.

Great Adventure is open for season pass holders on Easter as well. There is a buyout that day with a large Jewish group that always goes to the park on Easter.

Superman Ultimate Flight at Great Adventure on Sunday 4/5

Dorney Park, regular pass Six Flags Great Adventure Premium Pass (no extra cost, if you process by May you get Premium which entitles you to the passholder events). I don't travel much anymore so I didn't see any reason to go for the CF Platinum Pass since the closest CF park other than Dorney is King's Dominion which is around 5 hours away. I used to have a WDW Annual Pass but didn't renew.

$1.00 per use, up to 2 hours. The thing is, if the waits aren't bad, you can leave it in 1 locker and go to other nearby rides. Since Batman, Nitro and The Dark Knight are within a few hundred feet of each other, what you can do is put your stuff say in the Nitro locker and leave it there while you ride Nitro, Batman and TDK rather than having to pay to put it in a locker each time. They are very strict with the locker policy, you can't take anything with you in line that won't fit in a pocket, not even the souvenir refill soda bottles and now this year every coaster except the kiddie coasters and Runaway Mine Train and Rolling Thunder have them.

I have seen the park emptier once, Family Fall Fun Night last year. Only 410 people supposedly were there. On the sky ride, I saw a total of 5 people (not counting the employees) walking around the park. Valleying is where the train gets stuck usually at a low point because it doesn't have enough speed to make it through the entire circuit.

Darn, that is a shame. I just hope all the other coasters are running tomorrow.

I'm not happy to hear that, last year it was 5 minute dispatches all season except at Frightfest when it took a little less time but I was hoping for fast dispatches this year, not slower. I skipped it so many times last year or only rode it once a trip because I wasn't willing to wait 15 minutes for a 2- 3 train wait. I also hope Nitro is running tomorrow. Especially since if it is like last year, where a line at the 30 minute sign was around 10 minutes.

How crowded was the park overall? I'm hoping tomorrow will be better since I had to work today and was planning to go tomorrow.

I don't know, I was never there on season pass day, but I was there when the group was there on a regular operating day last season. It was horrible. 30 - 45 minute waits for everything except Kingda Ka which I heard was over an hour.

It is a buyout day, there is a large Jewish group that goes to the park on Easter (they are also ther on the 13th when the park is open to the public).

Jackson school district and NYC have Spring Break from the 9th to the end of the week after that. I am thinking the 10th (and the 11th) will be crowded since it is a holiday weekend but I could be wrong since last year on the Wednesday when they were open during the week in April the park was dead in 2007 but in 2008 it was jammed. I also don't think a lot of people don't realize the park will be open yet since I have heard no advertisements on the radio or on TV like last year before the park opened.

I agree with what has been said about the lines. It used to be better, now they don't seem to care if they only run 1 train on a popular ride like Storm Runner. I also agree about that song on the tour dark ride. Before they refurbished the ride those annoying cows and that song were not there and it was a much better ride.

This weekend can't come soon enough, I can't believe the offseason is finally over in a few days. Only 4 more days until Nitro

What seems strange is that Kingda Ka is included with regular and gold at Great Adventure and X2 has a higher possible capacity (RCDB says 1600 vs 1400 for KK, even though I realize that they are unlikely to get those numbers) and both rides at their respective parks are the rides that constantly have long waits. There are days when Kingda Ka can have an hour wait when everything else except maybe El Toro is either a walk on or short wait.

Sad to hear that some of the changes made to the museum were bad. I was last there in 2005 and really liked it, then last summer it was closed and I was looking forward to seeing what changed. Now I'm not in such a hurry to go back.

The queue for Saw looks really bad, like a boxed in feeling. Does this park ever not have long lines? Every TR or Photo TR I have read makes it look like it is impossible to have a day where everything is a walk on or short wait Kingda Ka goes from 0 - 128 in 3.5 seconds.

A McDonald's I was at last week had Great Adventure coupons...for Frightfest 2008. I was surprised to see it since with the park opening in less than a week you would think they would have had 2009 coupons.

It was like that at Great Adventure last year, the capes were prizes for some game where it was a winner everytime. I saw lots of people wearing them on every trip to the park.

That Guitar Hero game is very interesting. 85% is super easy to get, and I see they are giving an expensive prize away for getting 98-100% on Expert. I'm sure there are plenty of people who can get that score and I give it a few months at the most until they either make it 100% to with the guitar and game set or get rid of it completely.