TR: Six Flags Great Adventure

[yankees15]

Well my sister and I planned this trip at the beginning of summer because she wanted to go to the Smash Mouth concert and I could ride some roller coasters. So anyway, The day started by waking up at 6:30 in the morning, ate some home made waffles, and took a shower. We got ready and we were on the road at about 8:00 am. It took us about 1 hour and 45 minutes to get there. We pull into an empty parking lot and were through the metal detectors by 10. Then we went to the bathroom and we were ready for an amazing day!

 

First ride of the day is Nitro! It was a walk on 8th row. Awesome drop, great floater air over the hills, and the helix was intense. After the first amazing ride we had to ride it again. This time we rode front row with a 4 train wait. Another awesome ride! Now Nitro was running 3 trains with almost no stacking. As soon as the train on the lift went down the first drop the next train was being dispatched. The crew was great!

 

Next ride we went on Batman: The Ride. It was a backrow walk on and there were only 5 people on the train including us! It was just as awesome as it was earlier in the year. But Batman's crew was so slow! The were running about 5 minute intervals.

 

So after Batman my sister wanted to see where the concert was going to be held so we walked over to Northern Star Arena. After I showed her where it was we went on Medusa. Medusa was a walk on backrow. This ride is awesome, so smooth, fast, and long! It's so much better then Hydra.

 

Then we walked across the bridge and got in line for El Toro! My sister got out of line after about 5 minutes because her asthma was getting to her so she sat down near the entrance. It was a full que but only took 45 minutes to get on, not including a 15 minute break down. So after a 60 minute wait I was on backrow on El Toro! This ride is just great! The ride starts by FLYING up the cable lift hill, then down the first drop and I got amazing ejector air . After the amazing drop we go over 2 camelbacks with crazy ejector air on both. The turnaround was awesome as were the next 2 hills. Then you bank almost 90 DEGRESS and get the most insane ejector air ever on the hill over Rolling Thunder. The twister section fast and fun as well. This is now my all time favorite coaster. Too bad the crew was as slow as everyone says it is 4-6 minute intervals.

 

After El Toro we got lunch at Nathan’s, which was really good. Rolling Thunder was next up but after we waited in line for 10 minutes and the line only moved because people were leaving it we left. So we went over to Skull Mountain. We ended up waiting 30 minutes for Skull Mountain. We got last row of the second to last car. The drop was the only good part. We wouldn't have waited that long for it if we new the line was that long, but you can't really see how long the line is.

 

Since Nitro is right around the corner from Skull Mountain we went on that again. The line was right to the switchbacks but they were not being used. It was a 20 minute wait for 4th row. Once again an awesome ride with great airtime.

 

After that I dropped my sister off at the concert because she wanted to be in the front row of it. After I dropped her off I re rode some more rides until 8:30. I then went to the front of the concert to meet my sister, but she told me to go ride what ever and give her a call back when I'm done. A minute after I left the manager of Smash Mouth came out of the concert. My sister recognized him from a message board that she goes on for Smash Mouth. He also recognized her, so he asked her if she wanted to go on the bus with them. So she went on Smash Mouth's bus and got all sorts of autographs and pictures. Then she got to go up the exit for El Toro and got 2 straight rides on it without getting off! After that we met up and she told me this and I couldn't believe it. But I was pissed cause she got 2 exit pass rides on El Toro. This was defiantly a great day though.

 

Notes:

Kingda Ka closed all day with a fence and security guard in front of it.

Freefall closed all day.

Every ride running 2 trains except Nitro with 3 trains.

Nitro's crew was amazing!

Longest line was El Toro 1 hour 45 minutes (including a 25 minute breakdown)

 

Ride Counts:

Nitro x5

El Toro x2

Medusa x2

Batman x1

Skull Mountain x1

SpongeBob x1

[CP_RULES]

If only you would have stayed with your sister and waited... damn that had to have sucked. But still, sounds like a good day at SFGadv, I hope I get to go there next year.

[yankees15]

^ Yea I know!! If i just waited one minute I would've met the group and got 2 backrow rides on El Toro!

[ECZenith]

Oh well, at least you got some rides in on El Toro, I know people who travelled down to NJ earlier this season from Maine and it was closed all day! I consider myself lucky to have been able to ride it during my only trip to GADV this year. Glad you had fun! Too bad Ka was closed!

[Ryan King]

Just to make your trip reports a little more exciting you should maybe post some pictures...thats what always grabs my attention...

 

-Ryan

[yankees15]

^ I wish I could but I don't have the money to buy a quality camera. Maybe for christmas though.