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I think I'm going to plan to stay at Breakers for a few weekdays leading up to Holiday Nights. Gives me a good excuse to go back the next weekend for Coastermania as well. Should be prime time to ride.

Nice update on Scarowinds. How were the ride lines at night? And what were wait times on mazes without fast pass? From pics I saw the park looked crowded for sure.

Nice post and pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Yes. Proceed to the turnstile. They will scan your paper (or app) and give you a physical card. They just scan the card and hand it over to you. Good to go. Any of them can do it. No need to waste time at the windows/customer service/etc.

I think he's asking a quick side question about the Safari at GA with the user above his post. I thought the same thing for a second.

There's at least 1 vlog on youtube from Scarowinds last weekend. From pics I saw it was pretty crowded. Huge crowd was forming 30-60 minutes before gates opened at 7.

GASM breaks my back if I'm in the back half of the train. Last couple times I've done row 3 or 4 and it's been pretty good. No real pain afterwards. Just my experience last few weeks.

Nice pics! I'm jealous of the walk-on day you had. Well done.

Queue-times works

I'm in LA end of Oct. We've been joking around all summer that WCR wont be open. It's not so funny the last couple of weeks now. Not sure when I'll be back and wanted to at least get the credit.

My bad. I thought they had the free FL for that first weekend like the others on new purchases.

Nice. That's saves you a ton of time.

Looks like I'll be able to check it out on Oct 18. Looking forward to it. Probably go ahead and get a new season pass with the Halloween design.

I'm going with YES since it says you can when buying. "Pass card must be picked up at Six Flags Over Georgia or Six Flags White Water..."

That deal was a few weeks ago for new season pass holders. There were a couple weeks you got a free one with purchase.

Goliath, Twisted Cyclone, and Superman don't allow loose articles except drink bottles. Saturday is a members day event as well. If you are a member you can get in at 8:30 to ride Scorcher, Goliath, and DDD until park opens at 10. I would imagine it will be fairly dead. Mornings there are slow. Protip: They rarely ever make you walk around if there are empty seats. You ride Goliath a bunch early in the day without leaving the station a lot of the time.

Had good time this weekend at Carowinds. It was blazing hot but we've gotten used to that at this point. Got an hour of ERT after closing on Fury. We'd stop in the station for 15-20 seconds to reset restraints and swap seats if anyone wanted to move around. Then you'd roll to the bottom of the lift and wait for the train in front to cross the mcb. Had a blast. Got to marathon a bit this morning before leaving town as well. Even at noon there were no lines and we were able to sit on Fury and Intimidator as long as we wanted. Lots of Scarowinds stuff all around. I've never done any Halloween events at a park so we enjoyed seeing all the props and scenes. Made me want to return, but I think we are doing Kings Island instead since we just visited this weekend for the event.

They typically open the park 30 minutes before posted time. They usually have Twisted Cyclone going at that time. YOu can normally get a few in before posted opening time and the rope drop. Then hit Scorcher first on your way to DDD. Both of those can get a line because they are slow dispatches. Be early and you'll have no problems getting in plenty of rides. I think I've ridden TC 20 times this year. All but one of those were during this early 30 minute period on various visits. Single rider line works great on Goliath. At the top of the stairs just go all the way to the front and there's a spot to stand. If it's dead, they rarely make you walk around on any of their rides, so just keep riding or move seats if someone is waiting.

Sunday crowds are typically very light. If you are there before the gates open, you can knock out all the coasters in a couple hours with no lines. Might start getting busy around 1 or 2 but it's also likely to stay dead. Do Twisted Cyclone first. Hit Daredevil. Sit on Goliath for a couple laps since no one will be in line waiting. I usually wait for row 1, then sit on whatever is open when we get back to the station. Knock out Superman, Scream Machine, Blue Hawk. Then get Batman and Mindbender. Kiddie coaster and mine train will round it out. Acrophobia is pretty good. Do Monster Mansion. Good dark ride.

They started. Pics on their blog or twitter.

The most recent track I'm looking at (released at noon eastern) shows it off the coast of Florida on Monday, with the potential track area barely in Georgia. I think you should be fine. Depending on how much lead time you need to adjust plans, keep up-to-date and be ready to adjust up to your deadline. If you're willing to drive to Dollywood on Sunday, why don't you instead swap SFOG and Carowinds (SFOG on Saturday, Carowinds on Sunday)? I like this idea, as carowinds will probably be less likely impacted on Sunday. Guess I’ll cancel my hotels and see what the model is predicting when we take off Friday! Are you talking about Carowinds on 9-7 or 9-8? It might interest you there's an ACE event on the 7th with ERT and behind the scene tours on CS and Fury.

Plenty of Dollywood billboards this year in Cincinnati. They spend some good money there for sure. They also have a bunch in Atlanta. My guess is Time Traveler or a B&M will be announced mid summer to open 2021.

4D is my guess. Not excited about it. I'll buy the season flash pass if they say Raptor. That ride would bring people to the park and make it a destination for a couple years.

Will Flash Pass+ be necessary?

No. Everyone can get in 30 min early. Everyone can ride TC if they have it running early (and they usually do).