teacherkim

Great to see your post! We did HHN in 2019 and are planning on hitting it next year when we come to get our visit to Epic. Figure late Sept/early Oct will be better crowds, some kinks worked out at the new gate, and we get HHN as a bonus. We're going to force Bert to come with us ?

Ok. On behalf of all the teachers that will now not have to deal with you as a parent, thank you.

Lol, sure you did. Clear implication by you that adults shouldn't be allowed to ride kid's coasters. I say it's up to the park, if they have a rule fine, if they don't then stop judging......even if you think it's weird. In my opinion you started the lecture by telling someone what they did was "cringe", that's inherently derogatory and I was simply presenting an opposing point of view.? I believe I clearly stated that you had every right to take a car nap even if it's something I wouldn't do, that was kind of the point of the whole statement. I was expressing my personal views, had nothing to do with being a teacher. If I had my teacher hat on I would have given you a C- for your summarization and told you to re read my response, you missed the point of my counter point to what you said. See the difference? Sorry about your history and work schedule but you chose your situation and are perfectly capable of changing it if you feel it's damaging to your health and well being. I too was a public servant although through a different medium and it's often unappreciated work. I hope to NEVER outgrow cart riding; shopping's a drag, might as well get some fun out of it, lol!

Annnnd that is the whole problem. Everybody's normal is different. Trying to justify it as not normal because it makes you uncomfortable or weirds you out or isn't your thing or you're worried about what others may think or whatever just doesn't work for me. If you aren't breaking a rule/law or violating someone's else's rights and let's be VERY clear; somebody doing something you personally don't like is not a violation of your rights, it's only a violation of your rights if their action prevents you from exercising your free will, people tend to confuse rights and beliefs all the time........then IT. IS. OK! For example I think a public car nap that takes time out of an expensive theme park day is kind of weird and wasteful BUT it doesn't prevent me from enjoying my day so have at it. It is ok, even if I wouldn't do it.

Ok, Boomer as my son would say. Of course I mean that as attitude not literally since I am older than you. I'm 56 and I don't need car naps. Just did 14 theme parks in 14 days in Europe without a nap. And you feeling like an adult on a kiddie coaster is cringe says way more about you than them. Just like the old guy that scowled at me for riding my cart down the parking lot at Target yesterday, lol. I mean it was a perfect grade of downhill all the way to the car why not have a little fun. Why is every old man at the end of every episode of Scooby Doo against having fun?! ?

Don't be ashamed of your zen kiddie coaster credit. Everyone on this board has had those moments. We've been wanting to get back to get Wildcat's Revenge and since we are low on days off and funds after an epic Europe trip......we are flying in to Philly late on the first Fri in Oct, then driving to Hershey which means we will get to the hotel about 1:30 am (massively cheaper than trying to fly to Harrisburg which would also include a layover) then we'll do the park during the Halloween event all day Sat and are driving up to Knoebels on Sunday which is 2 hours out of the way, just to spend about 4 hours there before we have to be back at the Philly airport to get home Sunday night so my son can work on Monday. What could go wrong? Point is we all do super weird things to satisfy this hobby/obsession/compulsion, whatever it is.?

Man..............I'm so jealous. 4 houses at SFSTL, 4 of the same old houses they have had the last several years. All pretty generic, no IP. I totally get why they don't have the Christmas event anymore but FF is very popular and I really really wish they would make some improvements. Yeah it does! We just got a new park President this year so I am going to stay positive and give him the benefit of the doubt and hope improvements keep coming down the pike, particularly for FF, although that will have to be for next year. Why don't you tell Jeffrey to give our guy a call and do some mentoring, lol.

The lounges are definitely a cool idea but it was not universal throughout the chain. Some parks had them, some didn't and I suspect staffing had a lot to do with that. When we used the one at SFOG summer 2023 they were very diligently checking or it would have been overrun, but a lot of the parks just can't afford to have a staff member standing around doing nothing but checking passes if they are short of ride ops and food servers. Some CF parks had a similar type of VIP lounge set up, although the ones I saw were all outdoors so not as useful. I suspect the whole idea is dead for the future unless they make it some sort of paid add on that they can profit from and therefore justify the use of the employees. I wonder if any of the other SF parks are doing something like a Stranger Things house? I would so love SFSTL to step up their FF offerings. It's still the biggest event of the year here.

At just barely 5'1" I have to launch myself off of wing/suspended and sometimes dive coasters in order to not lose my virginity a second time; I love Velocicoaster but the extra large codpiece, to use a historical term, is not my friend on that one. My difficulties often gets a bit of a chuckle from my son who is about 10 inches taller than me. Hope it doesn't get more difficult to execute the older I get though ?

I agree that this is a stopgap for one year since they knew everyone was expecting some sort of overall pass and that after next year there will be one pass to rule them all but at an increased price. Although not necessarily more than if you were already paying for passes for both chains. For several years we had SF Diamond Elite VIP memberships and CF platinum passes. For the time being I think we will just add the all park add on to our SF memberships (I mean those are really ridiculously cheap) and we can just pay as we go on food for any CF park visits next year. I still think the SF memberships are on borrowed time so I'll be curious what they come up with for 2026.

Lol, I totally am with Stacy on needing a stepstool! Always have to hoist myself up on wing coasterss.

Wow. I am quite surprised the memberships survive and that it's fairly cheap to add on the all park passport. So if I am reading all this correctly that means that for an extra $8.25 a month I retain my DEVIP perks at all original SF parks and also get parking/entry to all original CF parks but no other perks at said CF parks. Does that sound correct?

So glad you got to explore the Tower! Lol, I have a picture of Joel, age 9 sitting on the King's potty. Very jealous that you got to do the ceremony of the Keys, that's one I haven't scored yet.

I was able to spend an entire day at the British Museum years ago on a college trip. Of course the future history teacher in me relished every minute of it! Was back with my family about 12 years ago and promptly disowned every one of them when I could not get them out of Herrod's to go to the museum. Philistines. Two visits to London and I STILL haven't made it to the Victoria and Albert.

Guessing the funhouse won't be ready to go until next year but hopefully they can get the ride operational for FF. That event has always been the biggest money maker of the year for the park. We will be at the ACE event on 9/14 and I'll see what info I can wheedle out of the bigwigs. They are going to give away some sort of souvenir from the carousel and have some larger pieces that couldn't be reused available for auction, proceeds to go to ACE's preservation fund. At least I know what I will be getting Prozach for Christmas this year ?

As stated those lands are the most popular, by far, of all the areas of both parks and at the risk of stirring up intense debate, which I really don't want to do. Truly. Let's just say that I think most people can (or perhaps choose to is the better word) separate the artist from the art. In other words J.K.'s opinions and however you feel about them and I strongly suggest we not get into that here, just not the right forum, don't change the quality of her work and the world she created before those views were known. Besides, right or wrong, a lot of people just don't care about her personal views. Just being honest. With the new Max reboot series in the works I don't see the popularity dying out.

Uhhhh, ouch, I named my son Joel. Anyway, your opinion which was my whole point, lol. I'm willing to do some speculation but just as willing to assume nothing and wait to see how it plays out.

Well as a dear teaching colleague once said "you can't fix stupid"..................but seriously, how terrible that his stupidity cost him and all those involved so dearly.

Whoa there. Let's not get crazy, I'm 56 years old but only about 60" and a half (maybe 61" with my shoes on) I don't want to cut it too close ?

Oh man I hope that doesn't happen but I get your point. Hopefully, Universal will have clear signage and warnings that it is scary and combined with the fact that Universal tends to be somewhat less little kid oriented than the mouse down the street, that prevents the issue. Fingers crossed.

So pointless and so unavoidable. I feel very bad for his family and also for the other riders and staff that had to deal with it. Why oh why don't people realize that sometimes rules are there to protect them. Arrggghhh!

To quote Billy Joel "you may be wrong for all I know but you may be right"................while I realize everyone is going to speculate and have an opinion; I'm going to do my best to just give it a fair chance and wait and see how it works out. I'm not sure we will fully realize the impact until at least a few years have gone by. I also think just lumping one chain bad and one chain good is a bit of an oversimplification. Both chains have their pros/cons and both chains have their stand out parks and their regional nobodies. I do hope they offer some sort of all encompassing pass.

I'm glad to see they've been continuing with updates on FB. Not only the new ride but food and drink offerings as well as Trivia Tuesdays. I know I have kind of harped on this but I really think it is so important for the park to engage the community. Despite whatever gripes we might have as individuals, we certainly all want the park to be successful.

I notice it. Didn't get triggered, lol, but noticed it.

Well PETA is going after them anyway. Not so much the park itself but the company that provides the animals and, I think, the staff for the petting/animal areas. Demanding an investigation and that the state do extra inspections, etc, etc. And then apparently goats got loose a few days later.