PhantomPoster32

Well is a HUSS Condor and Troika a "great addition"? If yes, then "CHALLENGE COMPLETE"

The only thing that has changed is they have done some more work on the buildings in Bicentennial Square

The marketing possibilities are endless. Z17

It really does have a great view. Yes, most kids are out of school already or will be before next weekend. We rarely run into June in MO/KS unless we have a bad winter (which we did not)

Fixed that for you True, but I wouldn't consider "more intense than..." to be any sort of nit pick I agree. It's hard to nitpick perfection

Fixed that for you

Since its Thursday, the crowds shouldn't be TOO bad. If you want to catch the Mamba, the lines might ether be in or just outside the station. You probably won't need a Fast Lane unless I'm wrong about the crowds. I'm going to let someone else answer the weekday saver price question. In other words, you should be able to catch most rides with a walk on. Have fun To be honest - by June 14th, most of the crowd (if there is one) will be over at Oceans of Fun most of the day

PATRIOT

Since the information is out there now - SDC received the first of several new locomotives that they bought from a private owner out of Wisconsin. The "new" narrow gauge engines will be put into rotation with the engines the park already has. The first to arrive is Engine 504 and it is currently sitting on flat bed on the back lot.

I'm just going to take a stab at it and guess that SDC is getting a B&M hyper. Aside from mediocre and dated Mamba, Missouri is lacking a decent hyper. Wouldn't a wingrider make more sense for this location in the park?

Found some more construction photos of clearing and markers http://goo.gl/6YhYfR

Is it a C L as in Center Line?

So... what do you make of this marker?

The current Dalmatian is named Jazz. It's human is Far Cheef Jess. She is only at the park on the weekends.

From what we're hearing it's still going to be a B&M. Whatever it ends up being, it will be a pretty decent sized coaster. Also regarding the thing CaptainUnknown was asking about. Stuff arrived last night. I'm going to let it sit for a full 24 hrs before saying just what it is as the park's uppers have been really sticklers on keeping things hush hush on what all is happening the remainder of this season and during the next off season

Maybe by Friday? I'm waiting for confirmation on where exactly this stuff is coming from. So I'm not being disingenuous - this is for an upgrade to an already established ride and not a new ride. Unfortunately I do no know to what extent they plan on doing with the stuff they bought.

We have clearing

Awesome!!! Considering we are at the park every other weekend it will be interesting to see if this actually turns out to be true or not. UPDATE: so the staging area is not related to the coaster but improvements to another ride. Regarding the new coaster, there is land and tree clearing that has started. They have created a new access road from Indian Point Rd.

The 500ft tall inverted, launched, B&M Aquatrax with 19 inversions? Aquatrax is Intamin. n00b. Leave him alone. He was trying to be like the cool kids and failed miserably.

The 500ft tall inverted, launched, B&M Aquatrax with 19 inversions? Yep you got it. Freaking dingleberry fairy Employees were told that starting later this week they would have to park elsewhere due to that becoming a staging area

Word on the street is things are getting ready to kick into overdrive at the park on the 2017 coaster.

That's NOT the walled off area. Nice try.

Only if you have never been before. I like to give any park I've never visited a try.

I've said it before and I will say it again. Parks outside of the St. Louis area have no effect on SFSTL's attendence. Now if I were to open a park 10mins. down the road it would be a different story. There is no invasion into the STL market. Now if a company came and opened a park near the STL area then yes, that would indeed be a threat to SFSTL's attendence. I always value your opinions and agree a lot with what you say on here, and Im not trying to argue with you, but they absolutely do. They didnt used to maybe 10 years ago, but they definitely do now, trust me tey do, surveyys dont lie. Not to mention the amount of people who from this area now are not onlu going to HW, but getting season passes there. Now this next part is my opinion, but I truly believe you can see this yourself when walking around the park.... take a look at the type of clientele that walks around SFSTL, its getting trashier and rougher looking all the time, and thats because people that have more money to spend are going elsewhere. My family didn't bother to renew our season passes this year for the first time in 20 years. That's at least 4 regulars that didn't renew and I know we weren't the only ones. We might visit once this year - but we'll be perfectly fine not going at all. Nothing has changed to warrant a visit.

I live in the Springfield metro area, and I don't think I've seen a SDC commercial at all around here. When last we went to Kansas City, we saw two within an hour of watching television. Maybe parks just don't advertise as heavily to the local audience, since they're already aware of the park? Really? We get KY3 up here in JC and there's a SDC commercial during the 10pm news almost every night.