SFGAdv Concert with Boys Like Girls...etc.

[John C.]

I went to SFGAdv this past Thursday because my girlfriend was nagging at me about the concert. I figured O.K...although I had no interest in seeing it. I thought the park would have the usual amount of people, maybe just a little more since the concert was going on. I ended up not getting to the park until 4:30 since I had to wait to get a ride there as I do not drive and we get to the park. We usually take the shuttle bus but that had a huge group already waiting so we decided to walk.

 

Signs were all over the parking lot and entrance saying that the park would be busy today due to the "popular artists" but I thought nothing of it because they have those signs for FF as well but it never seems crowded when I go then. Waiting in line at Guest Relations we hear that you had to be in line around 2-3 to get into the Norther Star Arena to see the show. Since almost nobody knew this, everyone who showed up at 430ish...which is when the parking lots reached full capacity could not get to the concert which is strictly why they went. Since no one got into the concert lines were ridiculous.

 

We waited about 1 and a half hours for El Toro and didn't even bother to see how long the lines for KK and S:UF were. GASM wasn't bad and was about a 5 min wait. We also rode Rolling Thunder which had a longer line on the right side than the left which I thought was strange. (I guess people don't know that the left is much smoother.) We went on the log flume later on that day to cool off a little and then saw the last few songs from the concert as people starting leaving and seats started freeing up. We left that a few minutes early to beat the rush and went over to Nitro which to my surprise was not running. So we ran to B: TR and were at the 60min point. Lines were moving very fast for that as we only ended up waiting 20 mins. Once we got off that we went to Skull Mountain and got front row walk-on which was nice since I'm more of a back person. Skull mountain was pretty neat front view though.

 

The main point of this story is I learned a very important thing, - Never go during a big concert. - I won't be visiting Six Flags again when an event like this is happening.

 

Was anybody else there? And did you see that stampede as soon as the concert let out? They filled every midway.

[yankees15]

Wow I am glad I did not go. I was supposed to go with a few friends cause they wanted to see the concert but we didn't make. I'm glad we didn't hearing about how it turned out.

[YoshiFan]

I expected the park to be packed since it was heavily advertised on the radio. Now every time I plan to go to the park I check the schedule to see if there was a concert going on.

 

I went to the park on June 8th this year which was when Blondie was there. I didn't know about it but since it was 100 degrees out and it was a school night (Sunday), the park was dead. Even KK was a walk on later in the night and I got to ride Nitro 6 times in a row without leaving the train. The only wait was 30 minutes for the log flume. The arena looked maybe 1/3 full at the most.

[redfoot12]

I actually made my first trip to Six Flags GAdv Thursday and had no idea there was a concert going on. The plan was to get there around 7pm (driving up from Virginia) and ride as many rides possible by park close and then my friend and I were coming back Friday with a Gold Flash Pass. We ran into some DC traffic and didn't end up getting to the park until around after 9pm. That was good enough to get one ride of El Toro in.

Now I had heard stories about how packed this park was but was totally overwhelmed by the crowd "stampede" towards the exit as my friend and I were trying to enter the park. I was kind of dreading the next day because I thought the crowd would be equally bad. I finally realized that a fairly big concert had taken place the day before and the crowds weren't nearly as bad Friday.

[John C.]

Yeah that stampede was absolutely ridiculous. I have been to GAdv on a Thursday before but I'm not sure if they had a concert or not since the concert series isn't every Thursday I believe. Everything was walk on including KK. The line however for the rapids and log flume was quite long as they are the only two water rides included with admission and it was around 95 degrees. Since the park was so empty that day we decided to go on a Tuesday. When we went the park was nuts. Wasn't as bad as this past Thursday but from what I heard it should have been nearly empty. I guess you just have to pick your days.

[John C.]

Also, after my mom dropped us off around 430 94.5 PST was saying there was still room available for the concert. Not sure if Six Flags was paying them to say that so they could get more admissions or if Six Flags just wasn't telling the truth. 94.5 PST sponsored the concert so maybe they figured that more people could fit but Six Flags didn't want to push it. Either that or lack of communication made for a horrible night. Redfoot, how did the line look for S:UF? I didn't even wanna know when I was there.