TR: Six Flags America 6/16 (I know it's late)

[frozenflames]

My family and I decided to make the 45-minute trip along the DC beltway to go to SFA, so we left the house early (to deal with traffic) and arrived in the parking lot by 9:45. AFter some er... difficulty at the ticket window (which was beign run by a woman who did not know the meaning of the words "fast operation") we finally made it into the park. I wasn't concerned with the closed rides list, as all the rides stated were flat rides that I don't ride anyway.

 

As soon as we entered, we headed over to the waterpark to see the new changes (and also go on the slides). After securing lockers for our belongings, we went onto the new Bahama Blast, which was very fun, and had no wait at all. The only problem was the trek up the stars with those heavy cloverleaf tubes, and the fact that the op was very incompetent, as are most SF ride ops. We had just begun climbing into our tube, and she said in this very ghetto voice "put your butt in the hole," but because of her ghetto-ness, it came out more like "put chur butt in da ho." The woman then started pushing the tube into the tunnel, while my mom and sister were still partially standing, with their feet wedged underneath. After that, we managed to have a good time on the ride.

 

The next stop was the former Tahiti Twister, now Reef Runner and Paradise Plunge. A quick whirl on each led to the decision that Paradise Plunge (the orange side) was the better of the two.

 

My mom and sister bugged out of trying Tornado, mainly because my sister doesn't like drops on anything, and my mom wasn't feeling well. That left my best friend and myself to fend against this massive slide. On the way up, we got stuck behind a group of small children trying to get their tube up by themselves (another "positive" about SFA-they didn't check rider heights once, and kids that were way too small were riding things that they shouldn't). The ride itself was fairly decent, except I felt like I was about to fall out of the funnel, and that my best friend said the ride "hurt so much that it smushed his butt bones."

 

After a short wait for Hammerhead, we decided to cath our breath in the lazy river. This was the first time that it lived up to it's name, as the current in the trench was moving so slowly, it was almost at a standstill. It took nearly half an hour to make one circuit.

 

We spent some time in the wave pool, and then got food before heading out into the main park. My best friend and I branched from my mom and sister, so we could all enjoy what we wanted.

 

Our fist stop was ROAR, one of my favorite coasters. There was only a two-train wait, which is really decent. We then headed over to the Coyote Creek section of the park, where we laughed at oursleves for making the Tilt-a-Whirl op run the ride with only us two on it. We then proceeded to SFA's resident torture device, Mind Eraser, aka a Vekoma SLC (also known as "owch"). When we were loading the orange/teal train (the old pain was still visible underneath the new paint), the ride ops were being stupid and pressing all the restraints down very forcefully, while adding "izzle" to every thing they said. In the middle of the ride I actually let out a very loud "STUPID VEKOMA!!!" scream. I had to laugh though... my best friend and I left puddles in the seats because our shorts were wet from the rapids ride. I'd love to see the reaction of the riders after us.

 

After another ride on ROAR, we went into Gotham City. It had begun raining when we were in line for Joker's Jinx, and right before my train launched, it began pouring. That ride is fun, but it's really painful whenyou're getting pelted by raindrops from every direction. The ops then decided to take their sweet time loading the next train, so we were stuck on the brake run in the pouring rain.

 

Once the rain eased up a bit, we made our way over to Superman: Ride of Steel, only to find that it was on one-train operation, and stuck on the brake run, with people. We decided to bypass it, and headed over to Batwing, my first-ever flyer. After about a half-hour wait, due to stupidity of the ride ops, as usual, we finally rode, with my almost hyperventilating because I was "slightly" scared, and the ride ops' speed, or lack of it, was making my anticipation mount, as I had never ridden it before then. The ride was fun, but I decided I wasn't in a hurry to ride again.

 

When we got off Batwing, we noticed Superman was running again, so we hopped in line, anxioous for a turn, as it was another first for me, only to see it get stucj again in the station. After about ten minutes, they began testing, and once they started letting riders on, I was on the fourth train out of the station. That was our last ride of the day, as my mom had called us and said the heat was beginning to get to my sister, so she wasn't feeling well, and wanted to go home.

 

Overall the day wasn't too bad, but there definitely were some negatives.

 

Good things:

-fairly short wait times for all rides (except Batwing and Superman)

-predominantly good weather

-got two more credits, and also two firsts/fears of mine were taken care of (flyers and hypers)

-the new paint on everything looked really nice from far away

-the waterpark was much better than it had been in previous years

 

Bad things:

-stupid, incompetent ride ops

-slow loading times for Batwing

-all the new paint in thw water park was already peeling off

[Coasters 4 ever]

Great TR. Sounds like you had fun despite all those ride ops. I wouldn't know what it's like to go on a ride with dumb ride ops becuase the ones at Hershey, Dorney, Universal Orlando, and WDW are all very nice.

[tingleness]

What a lovely trip. Hehe I had fun with you though, even though the ghetto staff didn't actually do their jobs. I'd be thrilled to work at a theme park! They suck.

Oh well... I guess that's okay because people on the East Coast, especially Maryland, tend to be much more mean than they are on the West Coast. I'm not saying that people in Phoenix are awesome, but they're much nicer than they are in Maryland...

You need to move away... Haha you're way too nice and awesome for them.

But yes, awesome TR. I enjoyed reading it/having you read it aloud to me. Even though I was there. Fun stuff.

It wasn't the park that made this trip fun.. it was the people.. /you. 8)