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So I saw in the Frontier City thread that the park is still using Pepsi products due to some contract agreement. Does this mean SFDL will also carry out using Pepsi this year? Honestly i’d prefer if they had Pepsi instead of coke

Awesome to hear that, at least in FC’s case, Six Flags is actually putting thorough effort into upgrading their newly acquired parks. We’ve seen some of the upgraded signage, renderings of Flash Pass lines, and of course a huge new addition their first season in. As for the sound system, i’d love to see a sound system improvement at Darien. Over the course of the years, the speakers have gotten quite, or are flat out broken and high quality audio really sets a good mood throughout the park. Same goes for theming: this park has had ZERO theming since Six Flags left in the early 2000s, it’s dry, and blah. As I said with sound systems, theming also helps set a good mood through the park. Not let’s just hope maybe Six Flags will fork over a larger maintenance budget for the place, maintenance has been a train wreck for so long st this place. I’m excited to see all the improvements around the place.....hoping to attend opening day!

Alright, decided to DM the park’s Facebook. They are now saying that SkyScreamer is scheduled to open on May 18th.

Wow, even the ordinary people are beginning to question the lack of SkyScreamer content on SFDL’s social media. Get used to it people, Six Flags doesn’t like to really post on their accounts But honestly, is it really that hard to post a picture every so often?? One of the comments on the park’s recent Facebook post.

To support my ideas, it appears that Frontier City just recently switched fully over to the Six Flags official site. Frontier City’s rides are now on the SF page

^ The 25th last year was the Friday that started off Memorial Day weekend, which was when Tantrum opened. I have a good feeling that notice is from LAST May.

Kinda looks like SF has just been giving up on the Darienlake.com site, since they’re likely switching over to the Six Flags site soon. Twister is still on there,the Tantrum isn’t open until the 25th notice from last year is still there, etc. Looks like either they’re just not caring about the old site anymore or it’s just the wonderful Six Flags web team

I remember seeing that. That lady was so confused convinced it was B: TE. She just would give it up!

Remember the other day when somebody posted about how the website said Tantrum wouldn’t open until the 25th? I swear DL officials read this thread because now the website doesn’t mention Tantrum being closed and is showing the correct dates.

Just out of curiosity, where did you hear this information from?

Next time someone from upstate calls me out for putting ranch on my wings I’ll just show them this post about what upstate New York considers respectable pizza and we can call it even. I’ve been to New York. I’ve been to Italy. I know what good pizza tastes like, and I can firmly tell you that, for a theme park, the personal pans at Darien Lake last season were definitely some of the best I’ve had throughout theme parks. You definelty just had a bad pizza. I gotta agree. While it’s certainly not even close to the best pizza out there (i’ve lived in Buffalo my whole life, I know good pizza), in relation to other theme parks, it’s actually pretty impressive. Honestly, Darien has some of the best theme park food in general. I mean, it isn’t necessarily good but in comparison to other theme parks i’ve been to, besides maybe Disney, the DL food has been impressively good. I am not sure if the food that they contracted for a corporate party in the party area is the same stuff they serve within the park but we went to a corporate party a couple years ago and the food served was some of the most vile, disgusting food I have ever had the pleasure of eating. Now I don't expect the world from theme park fare and I am generally not picky about served food especially when it doesn't cost me any money to eat but man, this food was barely edible. A lot of people weren't eating anything and we couldn't access the drink machine because it was swarming with bees, well that isn't necessarily DL's problem as its a problem when you have soda outside no matter what in the summer but still annoying. They could have provided bottles of water to drink instead of having to get the water from the drink machine that was swarming with bees or at least a water dispenser of some sort with paper cups in the food area, I have seen kegs full of water, they could have used one of those. I can't describe the hamburgers and the mac and cheese must have contained a substance other than cheese on it because it both looked like plastic and tasted like plastic. They did serve fruit but well, it didn't taste like fruit, I think they put something on it that made it not taste like fruit, it was the kind of fruit that is served out of a bag. The only good thing was they served ice cream bars out of a cooler and believe me that was the best part of the meal. I attended a catered party at DL in 2016 I believe. The food at that party was disgusting. I’ve worked in theme park catering in the past and I’ll tell you the food at the catered picnic is far worse and cheaper then the food sold at the stands. Think about it, how much needs to be made at once. Sometimes we’d have over a thousand people we needed to make food for. Hot dogs and burgers are cheap brand, hundreds thrown on the grill at once and everyone rushing. The cheap catering food and cooks rushing to tend to all the hundreds on the grill doesn’t result in a good product. I mean, we could offer better food at these events but think about how much it would cost the person booking it for possibly thousands of people.

^ And Bill, it is a literal sin to dip wings in ranch. No. Don’t. Just don’t do it.

Next time someone from upstate calls me out for putting ranch on my wings I’ll just show them this post about what upstate New York considers respectable pizza and we can call it even. I’ve been to New York. I’ve been to Italy. I know what good pizza tastes like, and I can firmly tell you that, for a theme park, the personal pans at Darien Lake last season were definitely some of the best I’ve had throughout theme parks. You definelty just had a bad pizza. I gotta agree. While it’s certainly not even close to the best pizza out there (i’ve lived in Buffalo my whole life, I know good pizza), in relation to other theme parks, it’s actually pretty impressive. Honestly, Darien has some of the best theme park food in general. I mean, it isn’t necessarily good but in comparison to other theme parks i’ve been to, besides maybe Disney, the DL food has been impressively good.

They haven’t started constructing it and they only have just over 2 weeks.....wow that thing must really be able to be built quickly!!

Pretty much almost everything in the park has looked like crap for the past few years now most notably, "Superman" Ride of Steel, Viper's station, and I think some of the kiddie rides in the "Seaport" area. Don’t forget about Mind Eraser’s half paint job

I’m just glad that since they aren’t getting a new sign, that they are at least re-doing the existing one. That thing has looked like crap for these past few years now.

Yes, it was. Found this very low quality photo off Google.... Paint and the finishes were a bit different back then, but that sign goes wayyy back it appears.

As for the portal, has anyone else that has gotten the all season dining noticed that it isn’t mentioned on the portal? It says that I have the drink bottle for the plan but not mentioned the plan itself anywhere in my offers. Drink bottle for dining plan but no dining plan listed......interesting

Speaking of the website, did anyone else notice that Tantrum was never put on the website for some reason? A bit strange that their newest coaster wouldn’t be a priority to advertise about on the site.

Um....what on earth is this?? CP’s strange new instagram post

Is that the app where you can buy these? [attachment=0]sox.jpg[/attachment] [attachment=1]sox2.jpg[/attachment] Lol I swear I can’t tyoe today, fixed. My point is why is Six Flags being SO SLOW and hesitant to actually get things done?? Not on the app still, not on the website still, just became SFDL, and the new ride isn’t being constructed yet even though it easily could have, etc. It’s just weird how amazingly slow Six Flags has been towards adding DL to their chain.

By the way, speaking of Six Flags changes...will the park ever be on the Six Flags app?? The park opens in almost 3 weeks and there’s still no sign of the place on the app.

Speaking of social media, this was what the park just posted on their Twitter page. Looks like they’re finally realizing that they are SIX FLAGS Darien Lake now, and got rid of that Darien Lake Vacations logo for their camping ads, and instead using a new “SFDL Hotel and Campground” logo.

This is where my question comes in: Why didn’t they start building it yet? If they did, it could be ready to roll by opening weekend. The weather is nice enough to do so now, so just why not?

I can confirm that at least they recently updated the snapchat geofilter for the park to the new Six Flags branding finally. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Speaking of Snapchat, what ever happened to Darien Lake’s Snapchat account? Did it just sort of die off?