SFNE Opening day

[asr]

Thanks everyone for you're help, I ended up getting to SFNE for opening day today. The weather was great, alittle chilly later on, but warm most of the time I was there. I woke up at 6 AM to go, and got out the door at 8:30 with my dad, arriving just after opening.

 

We headed straight for Superman, but unfortunatly it was closed, and already had a half hour, 45 minute line outside the entrance, so we headed over to the south end, and did Batman twice, and then Mind Eraser once, and headed back over towards Superman, where the ride had opened, but my dad thought that the line would be shorter later on, so we skipped it.

 

After that, we rode Nightwing, which was a walk-on, and headed over to the North End, riding the Turbo Drop side of Scream (All three sides where running, one of which was the combo mode, but the combo mode tower was testing only).

 

We passed on Flashback because I didn't feel like getting beaten to a bloody pulp, and Pandemonium (Which has lost it's Mr. Six cut-outs) becauase for some reason the staff now thinks that the single rider line is for single riders with Flashpass only. After that, we rode Time Warp, then Catapult, and went to Cyclone, but it stalled on the lift, and they shut it down.

 

After that, we headed down to Crackaxle Canyon, but Tomahawk wasn't running. I saw Cyclone testing, so we ran back down to the North End and rode it, then headed back down to Superman. To my horror, the line had only gotten longer, but since it would be stupid to miss out on it, we got in line.

 

However, only one train was running, so the line was moving very slow, and then it broke down, but 15-30 minutes later, it was back up. Still just as great as last season, but I wish it was a little longer. After that, we decided not to stay till 7 like we planned, and headed back down to the North End, and hit Mind Eraser again, then went to ride Batman.

 

We waited for the front row, but then the ride op said I had to ride in the fourth row, for reasons I cannot comprehend (They where going to let my dad ride, but if it was a size thing, me and him are about the same size). I ended up riding, but he mis-interpreted them as saying that no-one could ride in the front row and sat it out.

 

The ride had gotten slightly smoother since morning, but to my disapointment, the trim before the Zero-G Roll was on (It was turned off that morning). We headed back to get our season passes processed, and I checked if Tomahawk was running, but it wasn't, so we finished up and left. Somewhat annoyingly, Tomahawk opened up right after we left at around 3:30.

 

Total Ride Count;

 

Batman: 3

Mind Eraser: 2

Superman: 1

Cyclone: 1

Catapult: 1

Time Warp: 1

Nightwing: 1

Scream: 1

 

And some observations about changes since last season;

 

*As rumored, Wave Swinger has moved to right across from Batman, and been rethemed and named as "Gotham City Crime Wave"

 

*Poison Ivy's Tangled Train is now Catwoman's Whip, but the theming and most of the signage hasn't changed any

 

*Wiggles World looks terrible compared to Tiny Timber Town, lots of trees where taken out, and it lacks alot of the character it used to have

 

The new Hall of Justice-ish attraction is called "Legion of Evil", will take the spot the Batman Thrill Show, and opens Memorial Day Weekend

[Gnome]

Wow, those are some bad names. Catwoman's whip? Whoever thought of that should be fired.