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If you move quickly and get there early, you can do all the important things in about 2 hours. Wild One is the best ride in the park, and don't skip Roar! They did a good job with the re-tracking. Batwing was really fun, the Flying Dutchman is one of the few enjoyable Vekoma models. Superman is great, but the restraints may be hard on your legs. The flats aren't outstanding, but it's a decent collection for a Six Flags park. Joker's Jinx is also fun, but it wasn't as intense as I was expecting it to be.
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Knoebels Discussion Thread
I Like Theme Parks. replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
You can't go wrong with the International Food Court, since it's pretty consistent when it comes to great food. The Bavarian ham sandwiches are awesome, and the alligator bites are actually really nice, especially if you haven't had alligator meat before. -
Knoebels Discussion Thread
I Like Theme Parks. replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
^That thing has an massive capacity. No air gates, no seat belts, a simple buzz bar that covers two seats at a time and are easy to check, plus super-fast ride ops creates a queue line that moves at light speed! Although the actual queue for Phoenix is small because of the lack of switchbacks, if the entire queue is filled up, I noticed that the average wait will be around 10 minutes if they run two trains. -
Worst Flat Ride Aesthetics
I Like Theme Parks. replied to Johnlloyd's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Rides like Test Track are usually put into the dark ride category, but they're very different from most traditional dark rides. -
Definitely try to do things as early and quickly as possible. The operations are bad. But last summer I went on a rainy afternoon where crowds were light, and I was able to do all the major rides and more in about 3 hours. I don't think the park is really worth 2 days. The other parks in the area aren't open yet, but there are a few mountain/alpine coasters in the area, and those things are awesome! So if you do everything at SFNE and you have some time left over, I would suggest checking out those, too. http://rcdb.com/r.htm?na=&nm=na&pl=9766&cs=279&ot=2
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About a week ago I had a dream where I was at a really nice public park. It had lots of nice pathways, lakes, and nice landscaping. But it wasn't an amusement park. For some reason, there were some old castles. They were really cool, and they looked nice. I walked into another castle, but it turned out on the inside it was a roller coaster station. It was a mine, and it was pretty much a clone of Runaway Mine Train at Six Flags Great Adventure. It went over some lakes, around the landscaping, and it was a lot of fun. I rode it a bunch of times. Except the station was really slippery, like there was no friction at all. If you went sliding slightly in one direction, there was no way to stop you. So people kept sliding around randomly and a bunch of people kept falling onto the track, and plummeting to the ground. They were okay though, since they kept getting back onto the ride.
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^That's pretty good news that it was somewhat smooth before. So it will be even better. The PTC lap bars are certainly no buzz bars, but they do give you a good amount of room to come out of your seat a little bit. Thunderhawk is probably my most anticipated ride at the park, since I LOVE old-school PTC woodies, even the rough ones!
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I haven't been on this ride yet, but a lot of people said the headrests were bad and made the roughness more noticeable. And these trains will be slightly lighter, and the fact that these new trains haven't been used and beat up probably has something to do with it. The ride will probably be smoother for a few seasons, but the park will eventually have to do a complete re-tracking the near future if it is as bad as people say it is.
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WTF LAST NIGHT I HAD ONE OF THE MOST INSANELY WEIRD COASTER DREAMS EVER!!!!! So in the dream, my cousin broke her toe so we had to go there for a few days for some reason. When we stayed there, I had to live in a tiny house and when we got there, we had to go into a giant theater and watch a random presentation about food safety. The next day in the dream, we went to a nearby amusement park. It was apparently supposed to be Six Flags America, but it was highly themed on the same level as a Disney park. The coaster collection consisted of The Voyage, Raven, and Legend from Holiday World, An out-and-back kiddie wooden coaster they called Roar, Lisebergbanan from Liseberg, and Turbulence from Adventureland, except it was three times larger. They also had some kiddie coasters and a flat ride that was a cross between a Disk-O and a Round-Up. Over the course of two days at the park, I was able to ride everything except for the Legend, since it valleyed in the middle of the course with people still in it. The people were stuck there for days until they eventually died of starvation. I went to the park for a third day, but this time all of the food stands were closed. Everyone gathered around a giant restaurant, and I went there and there was a private party going on. I walked in anyway, and I just kept walking until I entered a city and I got lost. So I turned back around and got back to the park. My family was there at the restaurant, and there was a table with some guy laying on it, and he was getting a surgery done. Apparently everyone was gathered there because he had food poisoning. The doctor was grabbing maggots out of his throat and said the man wasn't going to make it. Then a giant spider ripped out of the guy's throat, and out of the same wound, a snake came flying out and killed the doctor. Then the dream ended. Yep, seems like an average day at Six Flags America!
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Favorite Log Flume
I Like Theme Parks. replied to apollo210's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I haven't been on that many flumes. But my favorite ones I've been on are Splash Mountain, Le Scoot, and Coal Cracker. The ones at Knoebels and Lake Compounce look really nice, but I haven't been on those yet despite visiting both of those parks twice last season. I'm probably going back to both of those parks this year, so I'll definitely have to try them out. -
When I went the operations were painfully slow, the staff wasn't helpful or friendly at all, and worst of all, they had this stupid policy! Even some other Six Flags parks don't have all of these problems. And out of the four I've been to, SFNE is the only one with the no-choosing-your-seat rule. I'm pretty sure the park has a new head of operations this season who used to work at the Great Escape. And that park is much friendlier and their rules aren't as stupid. So there might be some hope left that the new guy isn't smoking as much crack as the last one.
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^Bathrooms in Gotham City would be a MAJOR upgrade. I'd hate to be there if I had to piss on a busy day where the crowds are unmanageable and if it was hard to get around! As for RMC coming in, I really don't see that happening anytime soon. First of all, the park wouldn't receive an addition that large, and second of all, after all the work that has been done on Roar and the success it has had so far this season, it seems like the park is doing everything they can to NOT bring in RMC. And if anyone tries to RMC Wild One, they're dead!
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Here are the main ways I rank coasters: -Elements. I usually obviously enjoy a ride that has elements I like the most. My favorite element is the classic airtime hill. I also really enjoy good, fast turns and forceful helices. I'm also a fan of inversions, and I really like it when coasters do a strange or unique inverting element. Such as Storm Runner with its weird zero-g-roll-into-a-weird-dive-loop-flying-snake-dive-thing, or Fahrenheit's Norwegian Loop. And this is why I would love to get a chance to ride Cannibal because of its Lagoon Roll. But literally any element can be amazing if it's done right, which brings me to the next category. -Intensity. Basically, I like it when coasters pull a log of g-forces, airtime, and/or laterals, and when they go through their elements quickly and forcefully. -Originality. I usually rank commonly-cloned coasters a little lower. For example, Batman: The Ride clones are awesome, but it just doesn't feel right to me to rank them along with the other inverts I've been on like Raptor and Alpengeist. Speaking of inverts, Great Bear is a perfect example of a super-creative coaster. It starts off with a helix, focuses on blending both calm and intense elements, and it interacts with the terrain, water, and with other rides. -Pacing/Element Sequencing. I like it when a roller coaster sort of "tells a story" with its layout. Weather this is starting out in an unexpected way and ending with a surprise while having a lot of variety in between, or getting more intense as the ride goes on, there are multiple ways to do this. If you check out Roller Coaster Philosophy's roller coaster sequencing theory, this might make more sense. Thunderbolt at Kennywood is probably the best example of this. -Variety. Roller coasters with a lot of variety in the elements will be more likely to be ranked highly. El Toro and Maverick are great examples of this. -Scenery/Theming/Location. Boulder Dash, Space Mountain, and Apollo's Chariot are all very different coasters, but they are great examples of this.
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I don't know, operations have always been so hilariously, mind-numingly terrible that I never had the opportunity to re-ride despite non existent crowds. Well... except on Roar but I wouldn't re-ride Roar if you paid me. Did you ride it this season yet? Because when I went on it, it was so smooth I could ride it all day long if the operations weren't so slow (and if the stupid girl operating the ride didn't make us sit in the station for 20 minutes because they needed to call maintainence to get another stupid girl's phone from the track, when the right thing to do would be to tell her to come back at the end of the day and get it.) Seriously, that ride is my second favorite coaster in the park!
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This is exactly what I just said. Also Mind Eraser, Roar and Gotham City's appearance are all horrendous. Come on now... let me know one themed or unthemed area in any park in America uglier than Gotham City at SFA. Besides everything at Lakemont Park and Conneaut Lake I'm struggling, and those parks don't have nearly the budget that Six Flags has. I'm pretty sure both parks have a combined maintenance budget of eight dollars. I think Lakemont might actually be nicer than SFA's Gotham City! But the rest of the park looks pretty good, with decent facades, good landscaping, and a little theming here and there. But you can still tell it's a Six Flags park.
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Look at the elements in the first half of the ride. It goes: inversion, hill, over-banked turn, twisty hill. Then the ride repeats that list in order, except the other way around. Twisty hill, over-banked turn, hill, inversion. This really brings the first half back to a full circle with the "symmetrical" list of elements. Then after that they throw you into a ton of awesome airtime hill as a good finale. So it really seems like they put a lot of time into making the element sequencing and pacing of the ride perfect!
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Two pleasant surprises were at Six Flags America on Saturday. Well, the whole park would be a surprise I guess, since I had a great time there and it is MUCH better than people say it is. But Wild One and Roar were the two biggest surprises. I was expecting Wild One to be very good, since I love the classic PTC woodies. But it was much more forceful and smooth than I thought it would be. There are some wild moments of airtime! And Roar was a ride I didn't really care about, but I just rode it because why not. I've heard that it was rough and slow. But the re-tracking that has been done really made the ride super smooth! It felt like a brand new ride. And there were some really good turns and quick transitions, and there were a few good airtime hills. So it is like how any good GCI should be! These were my two favorite coasters in the park, and it seems like the park is doing the opposite of what other Six Flags parks are doing. They are really trying to clean up the place and make it nice, and they are taking great care of their wooden coasters instead of just letting them deteriorate so they can tear them down or bring in RMC.