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^ I am in the minority in that I have no problem with Skyrush's restraints. I can see how they could bother some people but I was fine with them. The OTSR's on Fahrenheit and Storm Runner (and Kingda Ka, etc) are what I'm talking about.

How awesome would Hershey be if they put those Maverick/I305 restraints on Storm Runner and Fahrenheit?

^ Yes, no re-rides ever. It is absolutely the worst thing about Dorney. I even had a crew member ask a ride supervisor when we had an empty station on Talon and she hemmed and hawed for a second and then said "sorry no, you have to walk around". But... but.... there is no one waiting. :/ We mentioned how at Great Adv they'll let us re-ride til we're dead and they all laughed in agreement but still made us walk around.

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Yep. Full on "arms out, legs spread" metal detector wanding. No loose articles whatsoever (tho they let me ride with sunglasses w/o a strap on a ride in 2014, after they wanded me, go figure). It's only on the SLC, I'm guessing because a few parts of it are over the midway and the rest is over the waterpark. I'd hate to be riding a waterslide and get my head smashed in by someones cell phone falling out of the coaster above me. They do have "free" lockers right next to the entrance to the coaster, but you have to use a CC to access them, as there is a half hour time limit and then they charge you. Not sure how much, Ive never used them.

Nice photos. I have been meaning to check out those Ocean City parks for forever and I never seem to make it happen. Morey's is killing them with their Flitzer themeing though lol. (looks better at night but can't seem to find a pic)

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There's a whole thread about Morey's here. Please post there, I'm the only one that ever does LMAO. Also, those shirts are awesome but they only had them in smaller sizes, so I have yet to grab one. The Great White ones with the blueprints of the PTC trains are awesome. You can also get them in the store under KONG on Surfside. The Artbox thing is cool - they have some really cool prints people have done of the rides, particularly the coasters. I want to pick one up. As far as the Nor'easter, after they installed the new trains in '08 it was running really well but something happened between 2013 and now. I haven't ridden it this year but any rides on it I had last year were scary rattly, like the train was ripping itself apart. Now with the airport security style wanding at the entrance, its just not worth it.

Ultimate Flight, Wednesday night.

^^ Oh man. Between the chicks hair and shoulder pads, and everyones western PA accents (that Philly drawl mixed with a southern twang) that video is beyond hilarious. Cool little side report on Lazer, tho.

WHAT. Dude, you need to come for a visit, I'm always there. I think you would like it. The Great White is worth a trip and there's tons of awesome flats and great food. And lines are generally similar to Dorney except weekend nights in mid summer and even then they are totally manageable. I could talk up Morey's all day, I spent the last two weekends there. That would be awesome. We'll probably head down there finally either later this year or next year. We'll absolutely hit you up when we do. DUDE. Seriously. I would love to show you guys around the island. It is absolutely, no question, the best Jersey boardwalk/shore town for rides, location, atmosphere, and food. Now that they have bars on the boardwalk its even better. Heavy family atmosphere with very little riffraff. You can get relatively cheap rooms if you shop around, moreso after mid-August when the crowds really die down. Give me a heads up when you think you'll be headed that way and I'll make arrangements to be down there. Just keep in mind the piers start to close down after Labor Day in a staggered fashion. For instance Adventure Pier (with Great White) tends to close first in the fall and opens last in the spring - like mid-May). Mariners Pier (the central one with the boomerang and giant wheel) stays open the longest - til late September and opens first in the spring, in April around Easter. Definitely hit me up, you guys will dig it for sure. edit: Sorry to threadjack - back to your regularly scheduled Knoebels thread.

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WHAT. Dude, you need to come for a visit, I'm always there. I think you would like it. The Great White is worth a trip and there's tons of awesome flats and great food. And lines are generally similar to Dorney except weekend nights in mid summer and even then they are totally manageable. I could talk up Morey's all day, I spent the last two weekends there.

We had a nice relaxing day at the park yesterday. Crowds were medium to high for a weekday, but it never got super packed on the midways and the longest we waited for anything was 30 minutes, so we never bothered with Flash Passes. Seemed like a ton of day camps on trips - lots of teens and pre-teens with matching shirts, many with camp logos on them. We got to the park around 10:45, got a good parking spot right near the preferred entrance, and headed for the park entrance where we found the ticket booths all had long, seriously slow moving lines. Two of the three of us have season passes so the third was getting the BAF for $9.99 deal so we had to wait. After 45 minutes (!!!) we made it to the booth and it took all of 2 minutes to get him a ticket, I really don't understand why it takes people buying day tickets so long. Lots of people with coke cans in line. Ugh. Since I have yet to ride Nitro in 2015 we headed there first and were greeted by a walkon. Score! We got train C, sat toward the back and I can happily report it was smooth as butter. What a great first ride of the day, that first drop in the back of the train never gets old. I love this ride. We all had our heads set on Namtab but when we attempted that next the line was out to the entrance. I figured since it's the "hot" ride of the park right now everyone would head here first so it made sense the line was so long. We would try back later. Since we were in the area we ducked in Skull Mountain and we had a station wait. I love this ride so much. They really had the death metal cranked today and its nice they sealed all the holes in the building, its nice and dark. And would you believe it - Skull Mountains station was Air Conditioned! Whoa now Six Flags don't get carried away or we'll start expecting this kind of treatment all the time. We sat in the last row of course because you get great ejector air over the drop. The rest of the ride is just silly and always makes me laugh like an 8 year old. From here we wanted to get a ride on El Toro so we headed over to the Skyride and discovered a modest line and one side operations. After not moving in line for 10 minutes we gave up, hopped the queue fence and decided we'd get over there faster by walking. On our way we spotted some cool sandcastle art advertising Fright Fest and Holiday in the Park. Pretty cool. On our way to El Toro we caught El Diablo running (even with a very short queue still skipped it), and we stopped at the just opened Macho Nacho and had ourselves some margaritas. They were pretty good but the service was slooooooow. They had one bartender and he was brand new and lacked any sort of grasp of English. Still, they were good and its nice to be able to sit and have some booze in this park. Finally! With bellies of tequila we sauntered over to The Bull where we had a quick 10 minute wait. Upon entering the station we heard this announcement over the PA system: "I know this is going to sound weird... but El Toro has 14 different trashcans placed around the ride. We understand the ride is bumpy, but if you need to use a trash can after the ride, please make sure it goes INSIDE the can and not on top of or all over the side of it" to which the station responded with cheers. After we found our rows toward the back of the train we watched one of the crew cleaning up the trash can directly next to the train inside middle section of the station. Gross. As we were boarding my buddy was securing his phone, a kid on the incoming train noticed and yelled at him "You better put that phone away, we just lost mine!!!" As we departed the station around the first turn we saw the same group of kids looking through the fence and obviously conspiring a way to get that phone back lol. The ride was fantastic as always, it was my one buddies first lap in the last car (he'd ridden with us last year toward the front of the train) and he was blown away. From here we attempted Zumanjaro, as my concerns of it being closed were for nothing - we had seen it running with people throughout the day. Of course when we got back there the line was closed off for technical difficulties. We turned towards Kingda Ka and that line was out of the entrance. Booooo. We walked out of the Golden Kingdom and gave Superman a shot - the greeter informed us it was an hour and a half wait. Nope! Let's give Namtab another shot. So we headed there and the line just into the switchbacks before the tunnel. They had two trains running and this line basically never stopped moving. This crew was hustling more than any other crew I witnessed all day. And believe it or not - the tunnel/steps have AIR CONDITIONING!!! I was really blown away by this. We sat in the front (row 7) and jesus god that thing has so much insane force. Easily the most intense ride in the park after Toro, got us all a little dizzy. From the lift we could see Nitro's queue was totally full. We needed lunch and a break so we headed out to the lot to eat sandwiches we had packed in the cooler in the car. Once we headed back in we gave Zumanjaro another shot and the line was long but bearable. For one, its nice that most of the queue is covered and for the whole not-being-able-to-run-both-rides-at-the-same-time thing they seem to have it down to a science as just like Namtab, this line never stopped moving. It was about a half hour but didn't feel that long. This was my one buddies first ride on this and he has an extreme fear of heights so it was fun to see his reaction. He said he would do it again, but he was white as a ghost and basically speechless when we got off. LOL On our way out of the Kingdom we stopped at Superman and the line was a lot shorter than earlier. Again we waited about a half hour for this but mostly in the shaded parts of the queue and the line didnt really stop moving. I have to say this crew was hustling too. We did the last row and holy crap the way you get yanked through that pretzel loop is just ludicrous. While exiting through the gift shop I picked up a really cool Superman magnet to add to the growing collection on my refrigerator. All day we had been talking about doing one of the water rides so since none of us have done Congo Rapids in forever (its been 2 decades for me) we headed there. Another 10 minute wait and we all managed to basically get soaked head to toe. I forgot how fun that ride is and I'm glad we did it. We headed out at 5:30ish, as one of my buddies got a muscle cramp in his side on something midday (Toro we think?) and with each ride it was getting worse and worse. Since we had done everything we really wanted to we decided to head out, stop for food somewhere and head home. Nice weather, never felt PACKED, glad we could take a day off and enjoy the best of what the park has to offer for a few hours. Nitro 1x Skull Mountain 1x El Toro 1x Namtab 1x Zumanjaro 1x Superman UF 1x Congo Rapids 1x

Willow Grove Park. Mainly because my parents went there and where it was is not too far from where I live. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Grove_Park It's a mall now.

This is old but... (This is why I don't envy those ops!)

Makes sense, thank you.

I have to admit I haven't been following along with this ride, so sorry if its been discussed, but what is the deal with the track and supports wrapped in plastic like that?

^ Yes it is possible. It just depends on when you go. On a Saturday in 2013, on my first visit to the park in 20 years we worked our way around without a FP, and were able to ride everything but Superman and Green Lantern, but we skipped those since we had to leave @ 5pm. If we hadn't had to leave, we could have easily hit every coaster. I've been there on dead-to-moderately crowded days and hit everything with no problem in a few hours. Even when its pretty busy if you are there for a full day open to close and hit the rides strategically you could probably do all of them without a FP.

^ The new Kong flyers are awesome, I'm a big fan. If you haven't had a Beaver Tail they now have a new stand at the front of Adventure Pier. I just tried them and they were good. Idaho Potatoes for fries (at Schllenger, across from Mariners, between Khor Bros & Chickies) are the best on the boards. Yes, better than Curley's. If you dig arcades Gateway 26 is the best. Huge, tons of old school games, tons of cranes (my fave) and most for only a quarter, unlike everywhere else on the boardwalk. If you want to get off the island not far is the Cape May Zoo which is awesome. Otherwise I'm drawing a blank. If you get pizza get Macks.

Because people are bad enough w/their phones on rides, selfie sticks make a bad problem even worse. They are a hazard not to mention obnoxious.

I haven't been on all of those types of coasters (no hybrids unless you count Gemini? or The Great White?) so therefore my list is a mix of favorites and top of bucketlist rides. Millennium Force Skyrush Medusa Steel Coaster Alpengeist El Toro T-Express Storm Runner Maverick Phantoms Revenge Bizarro (SFNE) ^ If this was a real park, I'd buy a tiny piece of land in the middle and move in.

^ Unless some cataclysmic event happens, I will be there Wednesday for sure. We'll likely be at El Toro first thing in the morning, but we're planning on staying all day so we'll be floating around. We'll be at Kingda Ka at some point, buddy has never ridden that either because as he says "it's always closed when I go!" and wants to. I guess we won't be riding Zumanjaro. Has anyone been over mid-week lately? Crowds? Crossing my fingers everyone goes to HH. Anyways, if you see me say wassup. Unrelated, I'm pretty excited about this.