Photo TR: Six Flags Great Adventure Off-Season Tour 3/24/08

[Hercules]

 

We are into COASTERS, not 20+ year old flat rides, right? Make due!

 

Welcome to THEMEPARKREVIEW! Although you are into coasters, there are a lot of us on here that enjoy a full park experience - I being one of them. My favorite rides are coasters, but I enjoy a lot of flats and a nice day at a park. Though I'm not knocking you. Whatever you like you like, just don't assume what everyone else likes.

 

However, I have to agree with the poster a few posts up. I think that in a few years everything will settle, we will see exactly what they have planned out of the next 4 or 5 years, and the park will be a much better place without those crappy flats. This year and next year might be a little lacking in the capacity department, but it will just take a little time.

[Legendary]

Ok.. agreed on the fact that the park does need flat rides. But what you are forgetting is.. the park has at least four coasters for the middle of the road kids, plus the water rides, and several flats. Four kiddie areas for the little ones, and plenty of top of the line coasters for the thrillseekers.

 

I'll give you the fact that removing the Space Shuttle, Enterprise, Chaos, Double Trouble, Riptide, Pendulum, Water Effect, Evolution, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Bumper Cars, Music Express, Chiller, Freefall, and the Flying Wave, and two theatres.. hurts. Alot.

 

But you're forgetting how OLD many of those rides are. Rides like the Chaos, Riptide, Music Express are / were nearly twenty years old. Impossible or very expensive to get parts for. Expensive being the key word. It is just cheaper to remove them. Should they have a replacement ready? Sure. Probably. But closing off the Old COuntry and coming out with something MUCH better will benefit everyone in the long run.

 

The atmosphere has improved in the park and is still improving. You're telling me you spent more time on Stuntman's Freefall than El Toro?

[Legendary]

I agree Hercules. Patience is a virtue.. and the possibilites for the Old Country are endless! I know the park is adding boats to both the rapids ride as well as the log flume.. and that should help alleviate the lines with losing Water Effect (which only ran 1/3rd of the time) and Riptide (which ran 1/10th of the time). We still have 10 or 15 other flat rides in the park for people, not including kiddie rides.

 

I think we should be able to manage without for a season or two. Flatrides are important though, and I hope they are replaced with NEW, reliable, HIGH capacity rides.

[Hercules]

And that has been one of my biggest knocks on Great Adventure over the past couple of years - they NEED higher capacity rides. Some days during the summer just get unbarable with the crowds (very very obnoxious crowds that is). They really need big, high capacity rides, not to mention some thrilling flats. I know they are supposed to be going family friendly, but their only real thrills right now are with the coasters. They have plenty of kiddie areas now, and plenty of coasters, now they need to work on the medium size to larger flats for everyone in between in the families that visit the park. Great Adventure has so much potential, and I really hope that potential is met within a few years.

[Legendary]

Agreed. And I believe that it will, hopefully sooner than later. Regardless of whether or not all the ride removals were necessary.. (I believe, having worked for the park and now, it's new ownership for 6 total years -- that they were) the older rides were hurting the park more than helping them (i.e - seeing closed rides is worse than seeing no ride.. people in general have a short memory span and wouldn't remember what was there anyway).

[Jim S.]

I'm just wondering something. How are they going to instal the track with the building almost complete? I would have thought they would build the ride then build the building around it.

 

You would think they would've made it easier on themselves by doing the building last, but still, as coasters go, wild mouse track and supports aren't very bulky. It just looks like a thicker version of a kiddy coaster. (Some of them are even portable, in theory.) They probably haven't done much with the interior of the building yet so there will be room to maneuver the pieces after they get them inside.