Six Flags New England (SFNE) Discussion Thread

[RMC_Hoodie]

I'm going to have to be careful where I sit if what many of the previous posters have been saying is true. *shudders*

[Superbatboy]

I would never go to a flashback ert, that would be awful. I remember last year I went to a 2 hour ert on Pandy and Ness and it was awesome. There was nobody there but it was annoying because they needed at least 12 people to run Ness so towards the end people just left because they wouldn't run it lol. Pandy was insane too, me an my brother sat on the same side with nobody on the other, and it was spinning like crazy lol.

 

Anyway, here is a new pic fresh from the park!! Beautiful!!

 

Wow this ride looks more insane with every update!

[Pyrozooka0]

^^ Alas, poor me is incapable of love, and although I have often found myself sexually involved with many rides (especially super loops for convenience purposes), none have caused me to be attracted and evoked a feeling inside of me to commit, which is why I still remain single, and of course, ready to mingle.

 

2015 TPR Post Of The Year candidate right here!

[coasterbill]

Okay, everyone get ready to act surprised. You ready? You ready?

 

Okay... here goes... Guess what's not even close to being ready to start the season and doesn't even have a train fully assembled yet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(From Twitter)

[Blind Idiot God]

Huh. Maybe they're working on the trains to fix the issues present the first time around.

[C.H.A.C.E]

Maybe... is Mind Eraser open with its new restraints?

[Paradox]

I mean if they went for new trains on Mind Eraser maybe they asked Vekoma for new Goliath trains as well?

[BoulderDash]

Mind Eraser got new restraints, they are not different than the old ones.

 

I can't believe they couldn't get Goliath open on time for it's 4th season. I mean that is unheard of and insane. A ride never opening on opening day for 4 years.

[Password121]

I mean if they went for new trains on Mind Eraser maybe they asked Vekoma for new Goliath trains as well?

Not new trains, new restraints on Mind Eraser is what I heard.

They're not just going to "ask" Vekoma to manufacture another GIB train. Coaster trains run around $1 million each, along with the fact that they have a Vekoma GIB train on hand and just purchased a new one recently.

[timetrial3141592]

Opening Day was a mess. How bad was it? Batman broke down.

[3Mutts]

To be fair, GIBs have a lot of issues and this one has added issues due to the new trains (which is hopefully why its not open and is the issue they are fixing).

[I305forever]

^I hope there are. These horrible premier restraints kill the ride.

[Comeagain?]

GIB's are very difficult to get running in general. Its not really surprising at all that it didn't open with the park. And given the temperature requirements (about 65°) to even try and cycle, there's not really any reason to try and rush to get it open. They've got other things to deal with than try and get a finicky ride that is nearly guaranteed to not open for a while ready. Also apparently Vekoma has been a royal pain to work with on getting parts and that may have something to do with it as well.

[Paradox]

Anyone ride Mind Eraser with the new restraints? I imagine that they didn't solve any issues.

[coasterbill]

They look exactly the same as the old ones so I'm sure it's no better. I know I won't be riding it to find out.

[MagnumFreak25]

If they look exactly the same, are we sure they've even been replaced yet?

[coasterfreak80]

Anyone local to, or a frequent visitor of, this park that might offer some advice? I went to SFNE once, about 13-14 years ago, so I am not that familiar with it.

 

I am planning on taking an impromptu trip up that way as soon as the park officially opens Wicked Cyclone. I am also stopping by Quassy and Lake Compounce on the way; two parks that I've never been to before. If anyone has any tips, tricks or suggestions for either of these 3 parks, please let me know. I'll be visiting the two smaller parks on a Monday and SFNE on a Tuesday. Thank you!

[Blind Idiot God]

Anyone local to, or a frequent visitor of, this park that might offer some advice? I went to SFNE once, about 13-14 years ago, so I am not that familiar with it.

 

I am planning on taking an impromptu trip up that way as soon as the park officially opens Wicked Cyclone. I am also stopping by Quassy and Lake Compounce on the way; two parks that I've never been to before. If anyone has any tips, tricks or suggestions for either of these 3 parks, please let me know. I'll be visiting the two smaller parks on a Monday and SFNE on a Tuesday. Thank you!

 

Can't offer you any help on Quassy, but SFNE is seldom bad on weekdays. Just try to head to Bizarro or Wicked Cyclone ASAP; unless you're hitting the waterpark, however, you can easily hit everything of note within a few hours. As for Lake Compounce, Boulder Dash will have a line for the entire day, but again, you can generally do everything within a few hours.

[CPmillenia94]

If they look exactly the same, are we sure they've even been replaced yet?

 

Right? I think its kind of odd that people are assuming that they have.. It looks like they replaced the foam is all.

[coasterfreak80]

Anyone local to, or a frequent visitor of, this park that might offer some advice? I went to SFNE once, about 13-14 years ago, so I am not that familiar with it.

 

I am planning on taking an impromptu trip up that way as soon as the park officially opens Wicked Cyclone. I am also stopping by Quassy and Lake Compounce on the way; two parks that I've never been to before. If anyone has any tips, tricks or suggestions for either of these 3 parks, please let me know. I'll be visiting the two smaller parks on a Monday and SFNE on a Tuesday. Thank you!

 

Can't offer you any help on Quassy, but SFNE is seldom bad on weekdays. Just try to head to Bizarro or Wicked Cyclone ASAP; unless you're hitting the waterpark, however, you can easily hit everything of note within a few hours. As for Lake Compounce, Boulder Dash will have a line for the entire day, but again, you can generally do everything within a few hours.

 

Thanks! Definitely won't be doing the water park. I was concerned about the crowds at SFNE since the kiddies will all be out of school by the time I go. Flash Passes will be in order if that's the case!

[coasterbill]

Anyone local to, or a frequent visitor of, this park that might offer some advice? I went to SFNE once, about 13-14 years ago, so I am not that familiar with it.

 

I am planning on taking an impromptu trip up that way as soon as the park officially opens Wicked Cyclone. I am also stopping by Quassy and Lake Compounce on the way; two parks that I've never been to before. If anyone has any tips, tricks or suggestions for either of these 3 parks, please let me know. I'll be visiting the two smaller parks on a Monday and SFNE on a Tuesday. Thank you!

 

Can't offer you any help on Quassy, but SFNE is seldom bad on weekdays. Just try to head to Bizarro or Wicked Cyclone ASAP; unless you're hitting the waterpark, however, you can easily hit everything of note within a few hours. As for Lake Compounce, Boulder Dash will have a line for the entire day, but again, you can generally do everything within a few hours.

 

If you're into credits I'd actually head to Goliath first because it has terrible capacity and will break down multiple times throughout the day, sometimes in spectacular fashion so it's best to ride it when it's actually running. If you're not into credits don't ride Goliath at all because it's an awful ride now.

 

My only Quassy advice is to ride Wooden Warrior in the very last row.

[ScreaminNewEngland]

Anyone local to, or a frequent visitor of, this park that might offer some advice? I went to SFNE once, about 13-14 years ago, so I am not that familiar with it.

 

I am planning on taking an impromptu trip up that way as soon as the park officially opens Wicked Cyclone. I am also stopping by Quassy and Lake Compounce on the way; two parks that I've never been to before. If anyone has any tips, tricks or suggestions for either of these 3 parks, please let me know. I'll be visiting the two smaller parks on a Monday and SFNE on a Tuesday. Thank you!

 

Do Quassy in the morning, that will give you plenty of time to hit Wooden Warrior and they're awesome flat line up.

At lunch time drive over to lake compoune (20 minute drive) At this time, hit whatever you want in the water park, then check out the dry park. Boulder Dash is a million times better at night. The rest of the park is just...meh. It consists of two mediocre coasters (Zoomerang and Wildcat), an S&S swing with a very short program, A very fun Enterprise that has an awesome cycle and a couple more flat rides that do not run very well. Their dark house is pretty bad. The flume and rapids ride are very fun. And Down Time is one of the better free falls in New England, so check that out.

 

Go to Wicked Cyclone at opening, that way you can get a couple rides in before it gets out of control. While you are there, hit NESS and Pandemonium, those rides have bad capacity and rack up some mean lines. Flashback and Goliath are a nice 1-2 punch. JB's BBQ is located right next to Goliath, with good food and AC. Houdini is a very fun, Zamperla Madhouse and Tomahawk is their HUSS frisbee, which doesn't run a very good program.

In the middle of the park lies Scream and Thunderbolt, both of which are worth hitting.

Next you can take the stairs down to Bizarro, which IMO is the best steel coaster in the country. You'll want to hit that a lot so I'd suggest a flash pass, as the operations at this park are a shot in the dark.

GCG and Catwomen are OK family coasters and Joker's Wildcard is a piece of crap.

On main street in Rockville, you'll find Kontiki and Buzzsaw, which are two of the best flat rides in the park. Kontiki usually has low lines and runs a good cycle. Buzzsaw has a crowd but it has great capacity, so that will move quick. Both of those are awesome and definitely worth riding.

Over in the South end of the park lies Mind Eraser and Batman. Mind Eraser is a shot in the dark. Most days it has a decent ride but sometimes it can be pretty brutal. It's still one of my favorite rides in the park. Very forceful and fast.

Batman is an average floors coaster. It's a tad bigger than Hydra but kinda forceless. It's worth a couple rides though.

Crimewave and Tea Cups are just average flats that aren't with riding if you are in a rush.

 

Hurricane Harbor is a great Waterpark with a few unique features and an amazing water coaster.

 

If you have time, try to check out Canobie Lake. Great flat ride selection, a fantastic wooden coaster, a euro fighter and some beautiful landscaping. Hands down the nicest park of the four.

[Paradox]

^The Screaming Swing at LC runs the same program that all the others do I believe.

 

I would also recommend riding Zommerang as it is one of the better vekoma boomerangs and isn't as rough as one would think. Skip Flashback at SFNE as it is just your average boomerang with the normal amount of pain.

 

Thunderbolt also gets really crowded as there is only one train.

[coasterfreak80]

Anyone local to, or a frequent visitor of, this park that might offer some advice? I went to SFNE once, about 13-14 years ago, so I am not that familiar with it.

 

I am planning on taking an impromptu trip up that way as soon as the park officially opens Wicked Cyclone. I am also stopping by Quassy and Lake Compounce on the way; two parks that I've never been to before. If anyone has any tips, tricks or suggestions for either of these 3 parks, please let me know. I'll be visiting the two smaller parks on a Monday and SFNE on a Tuesday. Thank you!

 

Can't offer you any help on Quassy, but SFNE is seldom bad on weekdays. Just try to head to Bizarro or Wicked Cyclone ASAP; unless you're hitting the waterpark, however, you can easily hit everything of note within a few hours. As for Lake Compounce, Boulder Dash will have a line for the entire day, but again, you can generally do everything within a few hours.

 

If you're into credits I'd actually head to Goliath first because it has terrible capacity and will break down multiple times throughout the day, sometimes in spectacular fashion so it's best to ride it when it's actually running. If you're not into credits don't ride Goliath at all because it's an awful ride now.

 

My only Quassy advice is to ride Wooden Warrior in the very last row.

 

Both boomerang style coasters will have terrible capacity so I'll be sure to hit those right away.

Wooden Warrior...back row...noted! Thank you!

[coasterfreak80]

Anyone local to, or a frequent visitor of, this park that might offer some advice? I went to SFNE once, about 13-14 years ago, so I am not that familiar with it.

 

I am planning on taking an impromptu trip up that way as soon as the park officially opens Wicked Cyclone. I am also stopping by Quassy and Lake Compounce on the way; two parks that I've never been to before. If anyone has any tips, tricks or suggestions for either of these 3 parks, please let me know. I'll be visiting the two smaller parks on a Monday and SFNE on a Tuesday. Thank you!

 

Do Quassy in the morning, that will give you plenty of time to hit Wooden Warrior and they're awesome flat line up.

At lunch time drive over to lake compoune (20 minute drive) At this time, hit whatever you want in the water park, then check out the dry park. Boulder Dash is a million times better at night. The rest of the park is just...meh. It consists of two mediocre coasters (Zoomerang and Wildcat), an S&S swing with a very short program, A very fun Enterprise that has an awesome cycle and a couple more flat rides that do not run very well. Their dark house is pretty bad. The flume and rapids ride are very fun. And Down Time is one of the better free falls in New England, so check that out.

 

Go to Wicked Cyclone at opening, that way you can get a couple rides in before it gets out of control. While you are there, hit NESS and Pandemonium, those rides have bad capacity and rack up some mean lines. Flashback and Goliath are a nice 1-2 punch. JB's BBQ is located right next to Goliath, with good food and AC. Houdini is a very fun, Zamperla Madhouse and Tomahawk is their HUSS frisbee, which doesn't run a very good program.

In the middle of the park lies Scream and Thunderbolt, both of which are worth hitting.

Next you can take the stairs down to Bizarro, which IMO is the best steel coaster in the country. You'll want to hit that a lot so I'd suggest a flash pass, as the operations at this park are a shot in the dark.

GCG and Catwomen are OK family coasters and Joker's Wildcard is a piece of crap.

On main street in Rockville, you'll find Kontiki and Buzzsaw, which are two of the best flat rides in the park. Kontiki usually has low lines and runs a good cycle. Buzzsaw has a crowd but it has great capacity, so that will move quick. Both of those are awesome and definitely worth riding.

Over in the South end of the park lies Mind Eraser and Batman. Mind Eraser is a shot in the dark. Most days it has a decent ride but sometimes it can be pretty brutal. It's still one of my favorite rides in the park. Very forceful and fast.

Batman is an average floors coaster. It's a tad bigger than Hydra but kinda forceless. It's worth a couple rides though.

Crimewave and Tea Cups are just average flats that aren't with riding if you are in a rush.

 

Hurricane Harbor is a great Waterpark with a few unique features and an amazing water coaster.

 

If you have time, try to check out Canobie Lake. Great flat ride selection, a fantastic wooden coaster, a euro fighter and some beautiful landscaping. Hands down the nicest park of the four.

 

Great advise; thank you!!! Love the honesty about the LC dark ride and SFNE Joker's Wildcard HAHAHAHAHA!

 

I totally agree about Bizzaro; I rode it shortly after it opened as Superman and I still compare all other hypers to it even though that was 13-14 years ago. I've been on the majority of the coasters at SFNE already; I'm only missing a few that have been added since my visit but...I skipped ALL the flat rides due to being rushed. I'll be sure to check out your recommendations above!

 

Not big on water parks but the water coaster peaked my interest and, if it's hot enough, we'll see.

 

I've actually been in Canobie Lake's parking lot during the same trip when I visited SFNE. I was staying in Salem; it was dusk and I was debating whether or not to buy a twilight ticket. I saw the wooden coaster and, at that time not being a huge fan of them, decided to skip it. I wish I could go back but that would add another 4 hours roundtrip drive, another night in a hotel and another day off work. I'll have to circle back around to that park in the future.

 

Again, thanks for all the info! I'm excited!