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They didn't screw up Eagle's entrance just to run it without games open

Wow, sounds like New England is going all out on a night not even that cold. Are they piloting some ideas there for consideration in the rest of the chain? If it isn't a corporate pilot the other parks should probably take notes (with an effort like that Great America might even be able to open).

Couple of interesting things in today's announcements IMO. I hope they consider more deals on alcohol next year. I might pick up two of those packages this weekend.

I would have recommended one of the Motorola G5 models for a low cost upgrade. But a Cyber Monday iPhone deal ain't bad either. Welcome to one of the two real app stores

You can do the entrance plaza fingerprint processing for the full blown gold with parking passes too. If the Six Flags app isn't on the Amazon App Store you can probably sideload it from APK Mirror.

The park really is absolutely gorgeous for the event. I know I said this last year, but one thing the holiday events do is make you wish the park would step up their lighting game for the regular season. Some other parks do midnight closes some summer weekends - better lighting would make that enjoyable for us.

It is. Great way to welcome people in to the event. More playing with my phone camera: I like the new lighting on American Thunder.

Tonight is a two-color night for Colossus, so that's good news for the park on the crowd size front.

I've noticed there are also blue hot chocolate mugs. So I assume that is the actual 2017 mug, but they're still trying to sell the remaining red stock.

Looks good enough to put on display in the park. I do like the Friday hours. 10pm is nice.

*Next year. I'd ask how feasible a set of drive wheels is for Thunder but has the issue that prevents faster dispatches been fixed? Okay maybe I shouldn't post EVERY idea that pops in to my head.

They do literally have walls up at the two railroad crossings at either end of the Illinois train station. Different than last years barriers I believe. I wish I'd taken a look at the back of them. If they're simply sandbagged down then they could always do what they did last year and open extra rides on an as needed basis. I'm with ya man. I really wanted Eagle rides, and it never really seemed to ever go down on cold Fright Fest nights so I'm really just wondering why. They've taken three kiddie rides off the table with the current barriers too.

Eagle isn't showing closed for the season now, for what that's worth. I'll be applying tonight.

??? Am I gonna have to Griswold an Eagle ride? When is the last time it valleyed? Let's also keep in mind they actually ended up having four rides north of the tracks open last year.

I don't remember hearing anything was problematic so I don't think we'll be seeing something close in its place. I'd imagine staffing will be better in year two (I'm even considering applying as a second job - but a 33 year old?)

Yay Eagle!!!!!!

The HITP site appears to be back up today. Seems to be the same content as last year - Boomerang and Skyscreamer not on it even though we know they had those open some. https://holiday.sixflags.com/stlouis/things-to-do/#holiday-thrills

Right you are. Anyway I wasn't there Monday or Tuesday either, but I very much doubt the crowds were anything more than thin. Reduced hours and not the best of temps.

Click Operating temperature is about 50-55°. Okay so HITP Boss is a pipe dream. I'm not sure what makes it so sensitive. I'd still love Eagle, I do wonder if it can be run.

$3,000 +/-, its being looked into for next year. Some well meaning maintenance works cut out the wrong cables, destroying the pumpkin. For reference for about $7200 in PWM-controllable RGB LED strips (20 runs around 22.5 meters each @ <$15/meter), and below $1000 in controller hardware (potentially less than $500), an enterprising maintenance person could build a display on the wheel that could display basically anything you’d want it to. This might actually be comparable to the addressable LED Christmas trees. It’d cost more than fixing the pumpkin. But it costs less than I’d have expected. PS: Outlaw Run's minimum opening temp is 37°F. I can't see The Boss being as high as 50° even if Outlaw has heaters.

I believe it comes down to the temperature of the wheels/bearings. If the track contacts that should make the ride faster you'd think, less contact with the up stops and guide rails. And in the mornings they have to add weight to the trains until the wheels warm up, then the trains will complete the circuit empty. Heaters in particular probably can boost its cold weather operation, but I don't know by how much. Getting the optimal air flow to that area might also be difficult with the station design. In order to prevent valleying they probably review the circuit completion times like they were on most of the other rides last year. American Thunder did go down for lubrication a few times because it was starting to run slow IIRC.

Boss won't be because it can't run below a certain temperature (although I can't remember what that temperature is), but the whole Illinois section of the park was closed off last season because of Boomerang and with it being re-opened now all the rides back there should operate, we should get a info dump about HITP with all the rides soon after FF is over I wonder if the park is considering using heaters to warm the rolling stock like Great Adventure has. If so The Boss might be possible. Any employees know if they were testing The Boss weekdays during HITP to see if there are ways to get her going?

Is there a date that 2018 resort reservations will become available online? I keep trying to spec out a getaway next year and it won't do it. Apparently I'll need to be quicker than usual too given the loss of one option. Edit: I was finally able to find something searching the topic. So it looks like they were available early November last year?