You have alot to learn....

[jarmor]

Well, I this weekend was the week for my shoot my DVD for sfa and man was I in for a shock. Now I have heard the rumors from some of you about how horrible the park is but I went there with a clear mind and not thinking about others prospective. to my suprise, and I dont know why it was soo suprising, it was some kinda kids day at the park. I figured I wasnt gonna let that bother me just get my footage and wait for them to leave becuse it was fri and I knew that probbly had to be back at school. Somehow I manage to either sit my digital camera somewhere ir something but bottom line I dont have it anymore. So I went to guest service and they were pretty nice about things. SO already mins in my day im a tad bit upset.

 

Now here is where im strting to look at the park w/ a rised eyebrow. on every coaster the dispatch time was about minutes, and im giving them that. I dont see the need to have to stack trains like that when it wasnt that busy in the first place. Granted the employees were semi-people oriented (they did let me get footage on all of the costers) they just wern't nice like people who are interacting with the public should be. Its like that didnt care about havng your business.

 

For example, at S:ROS one of the crew members must have did something wrong and mantaince came and politely told him that he couldnt call on something because that is what caused the problem. As the gentleman was walking away, the crew menber said,in a not so quiet manner, "you f*ckin' F*ggot". I was like whoaaa. Then I was just watching the rotoshake ride getting redy to operate and talking to another park guest and she was like when her kids saw the ride it was no line but they are taking soo long to start the ride she know they have been waiting for atleast minutes. I saw a "red shirt" just standing around and I politely asked him what was wrong with the ride. He barely looked up from his paper just to say...., "I dunno" and kept doing what he was doing.

 

By this time im really loosing hope in the park Also here it is in the beginning of the season. Now correct me if im wrong but i would think rides would be having extensive down time later in the season not the beninning. Well several rides were down and some open in the afternoon of the day. Now what really took the cake was the fact about how six flags made it known that they were gonna have more security in the parks, WRONG! I didnt see any park security walking the park and what makes matters worst they few rides that had someone on guard were very incoherent and act as if they didnt wanna be there.

 

What really made me ready to leave the park was when I was at batwing (and yes they were running one train operation) appraently someone's wallet fell out right beneath the exit oof the vertical loop. The kids in front of me ere tlking about jumping the fence and getting it but someone they decided not to. It wasnt like any security guards were 1000 yards in the area. well now im at the staris to the station and what do I see, a kid jumping th fence and snatching up the wallet. I was like WTF, but I guess he knew the next train wasnt comming out the station for atleast another 10 minutes. I guess a female from his school saw him and she called him over. I didnt know what she was saying but from the looks of it she wasnt happy w/ what he did. I guess he got nervous and decided to leave the que, but on his way out I stopped him and was like I hope he plans on turning that wallet in. He lookedat me and kept walking. Right then I knew I wasnt gonna get my camera back.

 

ANd lets not talk about the music...instead if hearing the vega boys "we like to party" I was hearing 50 cent "hate it or love it" T.I.'s "bring him out" and other stuff that I personally feel doesnt belong in a theme park. (for the record I am balck and I listen to some of it but just dont wanna hear it in a family enviroment). Even in the gift stores they were playing the local radio station. As I was checking out I was talking to the employee, who happen to be the best employee there. She was nice and courteous and seemed to enjoy her job. I was like, "why is this park soo ghetto"? She kinda smiled and was like, "we're not ghetto" and right after she said that one of the other chicks she work with came in dancing and shaking her boo-tae. I I start laughing and was thinking how unbelivable this place is.

 

But on a good note all the coaters were running wonderfully! I found out mind eraser isnt not as rough as some say it is (geeze guys its a roller coaster not a rocking chair!). It was actually quite enjoyable. Rough is what you would call Ninja at SFoG. Roar was very smooth as well as twoface. I did get a faborite woodie out of this trip, wildone. That is an AWESOME coaster! It never lets up and the air on it is just undescrible!!

 

I also manage to get one of those six flags coaster kids for like 20 bucks and a mr. six teashirt for 10 dollars.

 

I could go on and on about things like not hacing lettuce or tomatoes for the burgers and the girl telling me I didnt need those for the burger and they its good without it. but im gonna save that for my letter to somebody who calls the shots.

 

I wonder if they ever do a park walk around??

dorry is some words re misspelled. Contas are out and its 12 something )went back to sfa today to get more footage and then went to pkd to finish the day out!)

[Zoltan_Kodaly]

I can't wait to someday visit the Eastern states, because I just can't fathom the Eastern "ghetto"ism that seems to be running so rampantly these days! Sure, I've seen plenty of ghetto in LA, but that's "real" ghetto; the Eastern states looks kind of try-hard ghetto, "Aaaw man we are such bad@$$es and we are so ghetto, yo..." Which I find incredibly annoying, yet incredibly funny. You crazy Americans and your crazy ghetto trash! (Of course, my hometown is infested with redneck trash, much much worse in my opinion.)

[Mind Eraser]

Jarmor wrote:

Somehow I manage to either sit my digital camera somewhere ir something but bottom line I dont have it anymore.

 

Wait, are you admitting that you possibly just... lost your camera? Well, regardless of whether it was stolen or you lost it, you really should know better than to leave an expensive camera lying around. I'm not justifying someone stealing your camera, but you gotta have some sense of street smarts.

 

So, basically, you're camera is gone, you're pissed off, and you have the rest of the day to spend at SFA. Your report is obviously slanted. If you're pissed at the park, all you're gonna see is negative all day. I go to SFA about once a week, and while yes, it IS bad sometimes, it's not AS bad as you're making it out to be.

 

One thing, Jarmor, I do agree with - the game stands should not be playing rap music. A family park has no business exposing little kids to hip hop. Parents go to Six Flags in attempts to getaway with their family, and I feel they are sorta "sucker-punched" when they walk in and hear this degrading music playing.

 

And Zoltan, hate to burst your bubble, but I've lived between Baltimore and DC for 15 years, and lemme tell you, when you go INTO the cities, you will be shocked. Baltimore is a small city, but it has roughly ONE MURDER PER DAY. Baltimore also has a rampant heroin epidemic. Not that any of this is positive, but you are far off in thinking that the East Coast "tries" to be ghetto. East Coast has nice suburbs, but the innercities can be horrible.

 

 

-kip-

[Zoltan_Kodaly]

^Yikes! That's no fun! Oh well, though my bubble is bursted, I'm still really interested in seeing these real ghetto(ites?), but I guess mainly just the whole Eastern States. It seems like they would have a totally different "feel" and pace than the West.

 

I knew New Jersey and New York were hardcore ghetto, but I honestly didn't realize the rest did too! Up here in Calgary, it is very much a "classic rock" city, it's all either white trash or rich suburban kids who trash busstops and write graffiti all over their nice neighbourhood, it's pathetic. There's no official hip-hop radio station anymore even!

[Homey G.]

SFA... one of the best SF coaster parks with the worst SF park experiences.

[Coasters 4 ever]

I have heard "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem playing for a game in AMITYVILLE at USF! I was totally shocked that they would play that in a "family park"! Don't they know that EVERY one of his songs has at least 3 or 4 cusses in it! Only about maybe 2 or 3 of those don't have the F word in them!

[BarryH]

I thought SFA was an OK Six Flags park. It just had too many clones for my taste. I nicknamed the park "Attack of the Clones!" The Wild One was pretty fun, though.

[jarmor]

Jarmor wrote:

Somehow I manage to either sit my digital camera somewhere ir something but bottom line I dont have it anymore.

 

Wait, are you admitting that you possibly just... lost your camera? Well, regardless of whether it was stolen or you lost it, you really should know better than to leave an expensive camera lying around. I'm not justifying someone stealing your camera, but you gotta have some sense of street smarts.

 

So, basically, you're camera is gone, you're pissed off, and you have the rest of the day to spend at SFA. Your report is obviously slanted. If you're pissed at the park, all you're gonna see is negative all day. I go to SFA about once a week, and while yes, it IS bad sometimes, it's not AS bad as you're making it out to be.

 

One thing, Jarmor, I do agree with - the game stands should not be playing rap music. A family park has no business exposing little kids to hip hop. Parents go to Six Flags in attempts to getaway with their family, and I feel they are sorta "sucker-punched" when they walk in and hear this degrading music playing.

 

And Zoltan, hate to burst your bubble, but I've lived between Baltimore and DC for 15 years, and lemme tell you, when you go INTO the cities, you will be shocked. Baltimore is a small city, but it has roughly ONE MURDER PER DAY. Baltimore also has a rampant heroin epidemic. Not that any of this is positive, but you are far off in thinking that the East Coast "tries" to be ghetto. East Coast has nice suburbs, but the innercities can be horrible.

 

 

-kip-

 

I admitted I dont know what happen to my camera but I was saying after seeing some of the stuff the kids were doing I knew I wasnt gonna get it back. I didnt say the park was soo horrible I enjoyed the park. I dont need to have "street smarts" at all im in a theme park not a dark alley. I would think that someone w/ some dignity would turn it in (like I see at virtually every park I visit when someone looses something). You must have missed the parts when I was talking about how good the coasters ran (when they were running ) and how there were some nice employees. And How I stated how guest services was nice. I was just saying that it seems like they are letting the employees run the park. What I mean about that is that it seems that everyone was doing their own thing. Would I go back any time soon, probably not. Why, because I live in south carolina and I didnt have that "man I gotta get back there soon" experience like I get from parks like IOA, but if im in the area and Im planning on being in the area I would try to squeeze it in...

 

Would I recommend the park, of course! Me loosing my camera didnt effect my day. I had an extra camera.

 

I guess im just use to the exceptional service Paramount's Carowinds gives and expected across the theme park chain....

[PhishyBrewer]

SIX SIX SIX FLAGS

[Jonathan]

Damn... Sorry you had such a rough day, Jarvis. Luckily, my visits up there have been fairly pleasant and uneventful, but this certainly isn't the first time I've heard the horror stories. It wasn't your new camcorder that got stolen, was it?

[jarmor]

noooo my digital camera lol lol. I would have shut the park down of it was my camcorder!! The funny thing about it is I was really looking into replacing it because while the quality was pretty good I wanted something better. Now I have no choice!

 

Hopefully I will have better luck at BGT this fri...

[maeryk]

I can't wait to someday visit the Eastern states, because I just can't fathom the Eastern "ghetto"ism that seems to be running so rampantly these days! Sure, I've seen plenty of ghetto in LA, but that's "real" ghetto; the Eastern states looks kind of try-hard ghetto, "Aaaw man we are such bad@$$es and we are so ghetto, yo..." Which I find incredibly annoying, yet incredibly funny. You crazy Americans and your crazy ghetto trash! (Of course, my hometown is infested with redneck trash, much much worse in my opinion.)

 

Gotta tell you man, it's not the parks themselves that are ghetto, it is the guests.

 

Dorney is a totally different experience depending on what clientele you have there for the day. If it is a midseason day, midweek, they (the ride ops, and the guests) are the nicest people you ever want to meet. Everyone smiles and is friendly, the rides run on time, and theres no line jumping and stupidity.

 

If it is one of those days where they are bussing kids in from NYC or Camden NJ, etc, then the park is ghetto as all get out. Loud cursing, inappropriate clothing, the ride ops get screamed at by the guests, and then the ride ops get surly. No one even seems to notice the trash cans (which Dorney is legendary for having.. every where you look you see at least three of them) they just throw junk on the ground, spit off the rides, etc.

 

I'll be going to Paramount: Canada's Wonderland this summer in Toronto, and I'm very interested to see the difference between say, Six Flags Great Adventure (which can be an EXTREMELY ghetto park), and a park in "friendly" Toronto. (and I know Toronto pretty well, and the difference between that and say, Philadelphia or Baltimore is staggering).

 

Honestly, I don't think parks try to be ghetto. I do, however, think as they open more and more of these 15 to 20 million dollar rides, they need to get their money back, and that means dragging in every soul they can. As long as they keep offering discount rates to schools and such in the inner citys, they are going to contine to get that kind of clientele.

 

I know if I head for Dorney and see the upper lot full of busses, I will just turn around and head home. It's simply not worth it to me to get banged into by people walking four abreast who will not move out of lock step, or get gum in my hair from idiots spitting it off rides. Not to mention the brain-crushing "thumpa thumpa" of those stupid basketballs you can win.

 

Maeryk