Haymaker

That usually improves as the season goes on

Make a right at Wende Correctional. Follow that and it turns into Sumner and goes to 77 right next to the entrance. Never has any traffic.

If it takes you 45 minutes to get to Darien from Depew, youre doing it wrong. Very, very wrong. And if it takes you an hour and a half to get to CW, youre speeding and not hitting any traffic. It does actually take 30 minutes almost exactly from my location to get to Darien Lake, but I added the extra 15 because almost always I’m picking up other people and usually start venturing to Darien Lake from farther east -making the travel time indeed about 45 minutes, thanks to the wonderful out of sync traffic lights in the area (I swear if it’s not Genesse, the lights are never in sync anywhere and that can add so much time to a commute). Also with Wonderland it does depend, last time I got there in an hour and 50 minutes due to fighting with the GPS to avoid the ETR/407 because it can get pricey if you aren’t subscribed to it (or however that service works) it initially said my time from home to Wonderland would be 2:00 hours, then it dropped to 1:15 after the border and by the time we got to the 407 situation it added 26 minutes to my travel time because it kept taking me to 407 entrances and I kept driving away from them. The time prior, traffic was almost non-existent so it did take about an hour and a half to get to the entrance right across from the 400. My favorite part of traveling there is watching the time drop by easily 30 minutes when I cross over the border in 5 minutes or less - yes, there are times when that is possible. It is worth noting; your mileage and results may vary, friends. An hour and a half is a lot more accurate than 4-6 hours. As is stating a Platinum Pass with season long FunPix is only $250 when you renew at the right time and that gives access to 11 parks instead of the one meh park a $70 or $80 season pass gets you at Darien Lake (or just add $20 per each six flags park to give the pass a little more value). There are people out there who would pay $500 or so for all the benefits at CW, but again, totally not required. You should learn the back route... saves a lot of hassle. I can get there in 15-20 mins from Walden/Central area.

If it takes you 45 minutes to get to Darien from Depew, youre doing it wrong. Very, very wrong. And if it takes you an hour and a half to get to CW, youre speeding and not hitting any traffic.

The group asking about lights on the Giant Wheel warms the cockles of my heart... the coaster paint can fade to oblivion, just give me some got dam lights on the wheel! Its great ambience at night while around the campfire

To. Dispose. Of. Them.

Probably loading them on the truck to dispose of them

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$20 to add one SF park for this season.

Cix Flags? Cuda Falls

Everyone = DarienLaker The only thing that was removed that might someday be refurbished and re-assembled is UFO. And given the passage of time, i doubt it. I dont recall how long it was before Scrambler was brought back.

As far as I can tell, Heave Ho and Pirate have been closed all season so far. Corn Popper was closed today too.

That is Coaster Through the Clouds at a Wanda Park in Xinjian China. Those are Intamins newest restraints, they also feature them on their new 10 inversion coasters. Also THANK GOD those things are gone! When did they remove them? I thought the awful state of NY required them like Mass does. When they got the new train. Heave Ho, Big Kahuna and Pirate closed today. Tantrum currently down

ROS doesnt have shin guards anymore

The concert + the holiday weekend = mob. And im sure Post Malone brought the trashy crowd out.

Gotta think that season pass prices are gonna go up next year. As a family of four not really looking forward to that.

A bit more info from the Buffalo News: Six Flags to operate Darien Lake theme park resort ... again By Dale Anderson | Published May 22, 2018 | Updated May 22, 2018 Darien Lake theme park resort is going back under the Six Flags banner. Six Flags Entertainment Corp., which owned and operated the amusement park and campground near Corfu from 1999 to 2007, announced Tuesday that it had an agreement with EPR Properties of Kansas City, Mo., to acquire the lease rights to operate Darien Lake and four other attractions. The others are in Houston, Phoenix and Oklahoma City. EPR will continue to own the property. There was no immediate indication whether the name would become Six Flags Darien Lake again. In a news release on its website, Six Flags said it expected the lease arrangement to close in June. The five new parks will expand the number of Six Flags-affiliated parks in North America to 25. “These are all fantastic properties that complement our existing portfolio and provide tremendous added value and cross-visitation opportunities for our extensive Membership and Season Pass base,” Six Flags chairman, CEO and president Jim Reid-Anderson, declared in the announcement. Darien Lake was opened in the 1960s by Buffalo investor Paul Snyder as a campground and picnic area. He expanded it into an amusement park in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Premier Parks Inc., which bought Darien Lake in 1995, acquired the Six Flags chain from Time Warner Inc. in 1998. It changed the name to Six Flags Darien Lake for the 1999 season. A heavy debt load forced Six Flags to sell Darien Lake and six other parks in 2007. It has undergone three changes in management of day-to-day operations since then – PARC Management from 2007 to 2010, Herschend Family Entertainment, which also operated Dollywood, from 2011 to 2014; and Premier Parks since 2015. EPR acquired Darien Lake and several other amusement parks in 2016 from CNL Income Properties. CNL had purchased Darien Lake and other parks from PARC Management in 2007 and then leased them back for PARC to operate.

Probably not structurally sound anymore. I hate that its closed though because it was a shorter route to the campground.

Theres still six flagpoles in front of the park. I dont see why they wouldnt rebrand it. You can still see the Six Flags logo on some garbage cans.

So am I reading this correctly... they bought the leases from Premier, so SF will be the operator and EPR will still own the property?

On the link from Kiss 98.5, it states that Tantrum’s grand opening party is also on June 1st, though. There's soft openings and grand openings. Not saying it wont be the first time its open, just saying to pump the brakes until DL themselves say its June 1st.

Note that it says "one of the first" not "the" first. It can open Memorial Day weekend and youd still be "one of the first" the following week. Until its official from the park, take a chill pill.

They were cannibalized... in other words, if a part failed on one train, Maintenance just took the part off of the other train and never replaced it, leaving the second train incomplete. In Ride of Steel's case, the park only bought one new train for it. Viper had two working trains as recently as 2015. Predator allegedly did too.

That wind was ridiculous