arrowfanman Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Hey everybody! Well, tonight my sister and I decided to head over to SFMM to catch the fireworks show to celebrate the 4th of July. We called Mike and he joined us too! This was basically our short night! In the interest of time, I'm doing the PTR "traditional style". Enjoy! -Jahan And that final ride on Goliath concludes our night at SFMM! Thanks for joining me for this short PTR! Bye! We had a bad upstop wheel or something, as the entire ride felt like we were riding on a square-wheel or something. Always heard of "bad wheels"--never experienced one until then. After the fireworks, we had about 9 minutes left before the park closed and decided to speed-walk over to Goliath. Why Goliath do you ask? Well, it was approximately around this time last year that Elissa rode Goliath as her last-ride-before-KT! We wanted to honor that! Love you Elissa! Dont kill me. ...and NOW we're done with fireworks. Not a "OMFG my head's gonna esplode!" finale, but a good, long one, none-the-less. Unfortunately, the firework audio kept fading in, back and forth across the plaza, for some strange reason! It would literally be audible and then, clearly present, but not loud enough, and then audible again! Weird and lame! Is an upside-down smile a frown? ...and on that cue, the fireworks FINALLY started! Yay! Everyone loves confetti! Yay! Despite being late, I'm happy to say that the parade was surprisingly very coordinated! Holy sweet inflatable Gossemer! Yay! The parade is FINALLY here! SFMM's plan was to conclude the parade at the entrance with a grand finale which transitioned into the firework show. Unfortunately, they were 10 minutes late today. At least they had this guy trying to maintain crowd-energy. Awww...doesn't it look purdy? After Rev, it was time to line up for the fireworks! Yay! ...too bad it raped me. ...in the ears, too. Being that it's Independance Day and all, we all figured it would be fitting to ride the Great American Revolution. Vault Icees are coming BACK! :b Robb, I have a treat for you. Must be a Sea-Man's Semen. BTW...our ride sucked. The crew let people wander around the platform, fighting for their own boat, the attendant on lift 1 was smoking and the attendant before the drop was on a cell phone. SFMM, we rode at 8:50. Since Mike missed out on Log Jammer, we thought we'd treat him to some Arrow-flume action on Jet Stream! But it does still look pretty damn sweet at this time of the evening! *sigh* Exactly 1 year later and it still just says "Revenge". =( Although this was cool! A broken sprinkler pipe spraying out where the train flys by! It felt REALLY good as it was still reasonably warm outside! Unfortunately what should have been a 3-5 minute wait turned into a 13-15 minute wait. They stopped boarding, didn't speil why, and didn't resume operation for another 7-8 minutes. And the crew flat out sucked, as well. Now it's time to try our luck at Batman! BIFF! Here's me and my ride-op friend! Here's Mike. He finally showed up. Everybody applaud Mike for finding his way to Magic Mountain. Yay Mike! A random shot of the skater-show. The new skater-show was blasting rock music, so Bugs, Daffy, and I rocked out! Of course, I still look like I wet myself. =/ Awwww...Superman ACTUALLY looks purdy this time of day. Unfortunately I came out looking like I pissed myself! Being as late as it was, I dont think I ever dried, either! =/ I dont know what came over me, but I felt like riding Log Jammer, which is pretty much the AWESOMEST ride ever, BTW. For some reason, it looks like they paper-mached an "S" onto the SkyTower. I dont know why. It looks really tacky and as if it is being held up by masking tape. You have also never seen THIS photo before either! Yay...now the PTR can OFFICIALLY begin! You have never seen this photo before! If you say otherwise, I will kill you! We pulled up to the park around 7:00. It actually didn't appear to crowded for being the 4th!
Bubba83 Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Awesome little Photo TR. I love SFMM, probably more than Cedar Point even though everyone scoffs at me for saying it. I guess terrible ride operations don't deter me much from the overall quality of the rides in the park. Wish I was down there right now... Thanks for the update Jahan, and Happy 5th of July!!!
phazan Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Wow, I didn't know it would be so empty for 4th of July!! I remember the log ride there...the water is absulutely discusting!! Haha, I love SFMM, cool TR! ...Nice pictures by the way, you seem to be able to hold the camera very still in those night pictures!
HCONerd Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 I went there for the first time last week, I love it. Goliath is amazing! It looks like you had fun, also. I'm pretty surpised though that it was that empty on the Fourth of July. Well, anyways, I love the picture with Superman, Colossus, and Goliath in it. It's awesome.
SLUSHIE Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Sucks the ridders sign doesn't work still... but it does look cool. It looks like it says revenge 7 with the bottom of the question mark and revenge forming the 7. Or maybe not... idk.
trcg721 Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 It's true that Batman crew could of been better. look at what happened when I wasn't at Batman.
gk Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Nice TR. I liked your Stephen Colbert-esque pose with your "ride op friend"
Homer Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Great TR, Jahan! You need Depends, maybe Huggies, but if you do wear diapers, don't drive cross-country to stalk some chick.
Airtime&Gravity Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Great TR Jahan, and many of the night photos were great. Batman looks like one of the better ones, but too bad the ride ops didn't know what they were doing.
arrowfanman Posted July 5, 2007 Author Posted July 5, 2007 Thanks for all the great comments guys. On the night photos: Trust me--those are like the 5 that actually came out! I literally took about 150 photos last night and what you see is what came out! Nice TR. I liked your Stephen Colbert-esque pose with your "ride op friend" I'm glad someone picked up on that! It's true that Batman crew could of been better. look at what happened when I wasn't at Batman. Awww....dont blame yourself. -Jahan
trcg721 Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Nice TR. I liked your Stephen Colbert-esque pose with your "ride op friend" I am that guy in the picture with Jahan. I heard that when I went to to go to lunch the ride went a bit crazy when I left.
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