TR: SFMM, 3/24/07

[Xtreme-me]

well, my school planned a trip to Six Flags for Sadie Hawkins this year and I was really excited to go with all of my friends.

 

We left from my school about and hour late and arrived at the park around 11. After we managed to get into the park, we tried to get on Revolution but the line was rather large and I deemed it "not worthy to wait" so we took the Orient Express up the mountain to Ninja, which was also closed because it was rather windy yesterday. I had my friends wait by the entrance to Ninja while I ran to check out Tatsu's line. The line went through all the switchbacks and down the mountain a little ways so we decided to wait untill later. After that we headed down the mountain to Superman, which is was also closed because it broke down, so we headed to Riddler's. Bingo! walked up into the station (which was packed and amazingly clean but we managed to get on in four trains with two train operation and loved it. One of my best friends loved it because it was so "unusual" in his opinion. He never thought about how wierd it would be riding a coaster standing up and he loved it. After that we tried to get on freefall but it was closed so we headed over to Batman. Not to bad of a wait, about five-ten minutes with two train operation. After that we made a quick DDR pit-stop and spent our money wisely! While in the Arcade, some friends from my school came in and told us that Goliath had only a five minute wait. We hightaled it over there and to my surprise, found THREE trains operaiting with extremely minimal stacking. Even though it seemed to be running fine right then, I told the people in my group to mark my words that Goliath would be having major problems later in the day. Goliath was fun with some rapid loading and unloading and amazing operation.

 

One of the people in our group loves wooden coasters so, naturally, our next stop was colossus. The line seemed longer than usual and it was. All in all it had about a fifteen minute wait witch really wasnt too bad. The guy who likes wooden roller coasters loved it (and the trains ), however, he Did make sure that we knew Ghostrider at Knott's was way better. Some it was now about two and we decided it was time to eat (I protested because scream had almost no line and claimed it would probably build one but no one really listened to me and I had to go with them) and we walked to the Colossus cookery. Very good service, extremely decent park food, etc. After we spent a long time eating, we walked to Scream. GUESS WHAT? it had a gigantic line for which I gloated about for a little while and then we left. The next stop was Yosemite Sam's Sierra Falls. For being an almost completely unknown ride in the park, it was really fun. Not too long but it got you wet enough to cool you down.

 

Then, came the biggie. It was time for X. Some of the people in our group chickened out, and some claimed to be sick, so out of a group of about 12 people, 3 of us went and waited. While waiting in line for X, I have to say I was UNDENIABLY and EXTREMELY impressed. Dispatch times were at an all time low, 2 minutes was one of the longest dispatches. The shortest was, get this, (I timed it) about One minute from unload to load and Dispatch. Also, inside the station on both sides, they had people directing people to rows instead of letting them flood the station which was extremely good because there wasnt an exponential wait inside that station. We where assigned row three, right side. Now, people have been complaining alot that X is rough, and I Honestly have to say I have no idea what they are talking about because my ride yesterday was the smoothest ride I have ever had on X. (out of 18 total rides) It was a little Jerky on the last raven turn but other than that it was amazingly "smooth" (smooth for X that is). In total, with two train operation, we waited about an hour and a half. Not bad at all. My best friend who was right next to me loved the ride. When we were going down the drop, I heard him say "oh SHIT" (this wouldnt except that hes one of those almost perfect guys who has never cussed in his life) He loved the ride and couldnt wait to come back and go on it again.

 

After that, went on Viper. It was just your normal Viper. Rather fun, nice and flippy and long. Waited two or three minutes.

 

We had about 45 minutes left till dinner started so we tried to go back to Goliath. On our way over there, we ran into the silly stupid parade. it was truely Six Flags style. (three floats, one car) It was kinda stupid. So we walk into the line for goliath, guess what? it broke down at around three, and built up a huge line because they didnt block off the entrance and so the que just filled up. It made me angry but I couldnt do anything about it. So we headed back to the "grande oak pavilion" thing and ate then headed up to get in line for Tatsu.

 

I have to say I was extremely unimpressed with the operations of Tatsu. early in the day, they took off a train and had one train one station operation. with a line of three hours. Ouch. Earlier in the day, it had about a thirty five minute wait for the front row. So they decided to go down to one train. It didn't work out to well because it was terrible operation and it took forever. The line supposedly built back up in about an hour to a three hour line. When we got in line it was down to about an hour and a half because they put the second train back on. It really wasnt too bad. we were up in the station at 9:00 (we got in line at 7:00) and disaster struck. Station one broke down. To our luck, they split us and sent us to station two. It made me happy. It was dark when we finally rode and I have to say, it was absolutely amazing. Tatsu is so much fun in the dark. I love it.

 

After that we hit up Viper with no line twice and Revolution once and then called it quits. It was Fun. Everyone had a good time and I earned myself a new nickname "tour-guide Teddy" and had an amazing time.

 

Also, while we were waiting on the bus, we were informed that a Train on goliath had gotten suck on the chain lift with the top two cars over the top. Get this, the train was completely full of students from my school. The lift hill had been overworked and it died. It was funny (to me) because I said something would happen to it later in the day. (as I wrote earlier)

 

Im sorry this is so long and there are no pictures. I never remembered to take out my camera untill the end when it was dark. There arent very many important things right now that are going on so I didnt know what to take pics of. Thanks for Reading if you made it this far! Comments Please!

[Top Thrill Dragster]

I just got back from SFMM and I can tell you that Tatsu's crew is pretty awful today as well. They had 2 train 2 station operation and if that was not enough they dispatching around 5-7 mins per train. Every thing else was operating 2 trains (except Revolution and Gold Rusher) and with Very good dispatch times.

[vjgx]

Glad to see you had fun...

 

I was at SFMM yesterday, and you're right... X was running ridiculously smooth (for X) this weekend. I actually shouted out "X ISN'T ALLOWED TO BE THIS SMOOTH!" on the inside raven turn... I even had a headache when I got on, and felt fine after the ride.

 

Viper, on the other hand, was insanely rough yesterday... I don't know if it was just my headache, the fact that I was getting sick (because I'm home sick right now), or whatever... But it wasn't at all pleasant this time. Normally I like the ride, but this time was just plain wrong.

 

Otherwise, the lines weren't too bad yesterday either, and X was having great operations. Not quite one-minute dispatches, but still faster than Tatsu's... And the grouper inside the station really helped with the wait time.