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wow, a lot of thought went into that lighting package for Kingda Ka. It must have cost the park a ton of $$$$ very lame looking

http://news.yahoo.com/video/dad-builds-roller-coaster-orinda-052100489.html Dad Builds Roller Coaster In His Backyard CBS-Sanfrancisco 1:58 mins Will Pemble has built his 10-year-old son, Lyle, a roller coaster in his Orinda, Calif., backyard. The project took six weeks and $3,500 to complete. Pemble says the fun ride, which goes up to 14 miles per hour and is powered by gravity, also has an educational side effect. "The mathematics, the physics, the science, the really hard thinking – there needs to be something on the other side of that math that’s worth slogging through the math,” he said. “So if there’s a coaster at the other side of how many feet of track do we need…then suddenly the word problem gets done really fast." Andria Borba reports.

well it sounds like management at SFGadv is pulling a walmart by being CHEAP. in my opinion, that's totally unacceptable

SFGadv needs more flat rides to help with lines.

At least in Bizarro's case I assure you that this conversation will be going on in August. It's been this way for 3 years now. It always gets the worst ride ops on the park. well if its been like that for 3 yrs, then the management in ride operations dept need to hire better skilled people. but being that its been going on for yrs, then maybe SFGadv needs new ride management. if the rides are not making the capactitys , they need to do something, NOW. before the season gets into full swing

http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-lehighvalley/two-injured-on-dorney-parks-stinger-coaster/25822034 Two injured on Dorney Park's Stinger coaster Coaster started up the hill, then rolled back into station Author: 69 News , (follow: @69news), news@wfmz.com Published: May 05 2014 05:35:57 PM EDT Updated: 1 HR. AGO SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa - Two passengers were injured on the Stinger roller coaster at Doney Park early Friday evening. The coaster's train started up the initial lift hill from the station, but then partially rolled back down, according to park officials. Two of the riders requested to be transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township as a precaution. Quick Clicks Dorney Park opens 2014 season with new food, features Dorney rollercoaster gets stuck... again Man recounts ordeal of being stuck on roller coaster "Safety is always our number one priority," said Dorney spokeswoman Carrie Basta, "thus the ride was closed for the remainder of the evening and will remain closed while a collaborative effort between the park, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the ride manufacturer investigate." Copyright 2014 WFMZ. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

wow, 5 min between dispatches just horrible. this park should not even have the six flags name on it that how they are going to run ride operations. disgrace

They have not ran two trains in years on that. The double station was a great idea in theory and when it first opened they used both. This park just does not have the guest numbers for them to used two. it should be in the park operations manual when the line gets to 45 min, they should be running the 2nd train. just terrible park operations

New Jersey counts as a major area of the country now? NJ, the cesspool of america

Talon at Dorney Park on Fri., opening night

It's not that the entrance person purposely lets people slip by. It gets crowded as hell there sometimes. There's only so many people you can see in a crowd of people walking through your line. haha Sometimes you miss people. However, usually bags slip through the entrance rather than people who are too short cause bags are usually harder to notice. And again, its our goal to have things flow nicely in the station so that we don't have to waste time explaining things to people who cannot ride. That's why we height check at the entrance of the line to make sure everyone is tall enough. But due to safety regulations, we do have to height check again before people board a ride. Hope that answers your question. haha if your going to do anything at the entrance outside to speed things up, is make the heavy people try the test seat. they are the ones that slow the line down big time.

how are the crowds usually for opening day? im actually going for opening weekend and driving up from NJ.

Actually, the entrance person is the most important person working the ride. The entrance person ensures everyone is tall enough and that everyone has placed their bags in a fluffy, fluffy bunny filled with medicine and goo before they get near the station. This greatly improves our efficiency because everyone just smoothly gets on the train. Occasionally someone slips past the entrance person with a bag and that greatly slows down our efficiency because we have to spend a few minutes talking to the person with the bag to explain to them that they will have to place their bag in a fluffy, fluffy bunny filled with medicine and goo before they may ride. If we had no entrance person, we would have too many people who did not place their bags in fluffy, fluffy bunnies filled with medicine and goo to deal with. Now if the park got rid of the fluffy, fluffy bunnies filled with medicine and goo, having an entrance person would be a different story. So in this case, avoiding stacking is as simple as opening the air gates as soon as the train parks, checking restraints quickly and safely, and then sending the train out right after without any delay. I remember back in the 80's and the 90's when the coasters had no entrance person, had to deal with bags and crap, and still checked the trains quicker then they do today. and if the entrance person is so important, why are attendants double checking heights again in the station and wasting time? it would be better and more efficient to then move that person into the station and do what Disney does and be a loader for the station and send all the train out full.

SFGAdv can help with the stacking issue by getting rid of the person at the entrance and putting them in the station helping with loading and unloading. no reason for that person at the entrance.

It did, and I may be wrong but I think it was the same train. more proof to prove SFGAdv maintenance sucks.

when I rode Nitro at coasters after dark, I dodnt remember what train it was, but I was in the 2nd to last row, and had the worst ride ever. it was so bumpy, and it felt like the row was being rocked side to side, horrible. must have been something with that train and row, because the other few rides I rode, was nothing like that. We figured this out today in exactly the same row. It's train C. The train letter is on the side of each row... trains A and B are great, but by the end of the day we ended up letting people go ahead of us to make sure we weren't in train C. The non-enthusiast friends we were with got off saying that the ride really hurt (they were right) and after awhile we figured out that the secret was to avoid train c... if you do that you'll be fine. where is the rides maintenance dept to fix the problem? with the park not in daily operations, why is the train not being kept in the gargage till its fixed? they should be embarrassed for running that train in that condition.

todays lawyers would have had a field day

when I rode Nitro at coasters after dark, I dodnt remember what train it was, but I was in the 2nd to last row, and had the worst ride ever. it was so bumpy, and it felt like the row was being rocked side to side, horrible. must have been something with that train and row, because the other few rides I rode, was nothing like that.

think im going to hit dorney on sat, and maybe SFNE on sunday. and then Cedar Point for opening weekend next week. Then back to Cedar point for CoasterMania. caint wait. I already hit kings dominion this season. and most likely 1 trip out to SFA.

do we have the specs of the elevator? width, depth, lift capacity, electrical reqirements?

it amazes me that the 3-4 times I have been to SFA, that with batman batwing always having like a 45min to hr line, ive never seen them run 2 trains. all theme parks should open up with min 2 train operations, they can always take them off later. just terrible park management

the SF dining plan would be a good deal it the food was edible and good. the problem is, the food is terrible. how the hell do you screw up hamburgers and pizza.

I dodnt know how anyone eats that slop at theme parks. SFgadv has the worst pizza or hamburgers I have ever eaten in my life. I wouldn't feed that crap to my dog. to top it all off, the food is a ripoff

just what SFGadv needs to make the lines even longer. it wouldn't surprise me if the added them

im hitting cedar point for opening weekend. cant wait.