Six Flags New England (SFNE) Discussion Thread

[abovethesink]

Good addition if true. Sounds like a straddle coaster. Would have preferred a thrill coaster as a coaster nerd, of course, but the park needs a launch and family coasters are always welcome. 

[Zand]

I would be pleasantly surprised if they went with a coaster over a waterpark addition next year. Maybe they'll both so they can recycle that "one wet, one wild" thing they used to do back in the day.

If they go with the family coaster hopefully it's something with decent capacity. The last two family coasters added have been mouse and spinning mouse. A straddle coaster at SFNE would have a throughout of about 18 riders per hour.

 

Edit: Randomly checked queue times for no reason and...I hope everyone in line now enjoys riding Batman on Thursday!

 

[abovethesink]

Do you think the wild mouse is worth a 57.5 hour wait? I mean 48 hours, sure. But standing in the queue for two days for a wild mouse is my limit, personally. 

[BobloLives]

I know there was a town planning meeting scheduled -- is this site confirmed for new stuff? Anyone know? I've been sincerely hoping for them to do something along the trees running from the former Kontiki through the former Fireball and using the former(?) Thomas the Tank Engine track and "land." That's a ton of linear space.

[michaellynn4]

Plans have leaked, you can find them elsewhere on the internet. Not gonna post them here out of respect for the rules and the Alveys' relationship with the parks.

[Zand]

I hope that people in the 3 day line for Batman can get off the ride in time to go to the town meeting.

As to the rumor above, the last time that Six Flags worked with Intamin (outside of that disasterous free spin at Magic Mountain) was El Toro. So not sure if I buy it, but I guess we'll know more Thursday night or whenever that meeting is.

[abovethesink]

1 hour ago, michaellynn4 said:

Plans have leaked, you can find them elsewhere on the internet. Not gonna post them here out of respect for the rules and the Alveys' park relationships.

Should I not have posted the tweet that I did with the speculated layout? Apologies if not and please delete, whoever the mods are around here. 

[CaptainUnknown]

That mouse queue better include a meet and greet with Christian Bale in full costume as Batman.

[Zand]

Looks like we'll find out on 8/15. It's Steampunk so that pretty much confirms something will be going in Goliath's spot and they'll be retheming Crackaxle.

[A.J.]

Six Flags has announced Quantum Accelerator, a new Intamin family coaster, will debut at Six Flags New England in 2025!

https://www.sixflags.com/newengland/attractions/quantum-accelerator

Launching through space and time in 2025 is Quantum Accelerator, New England’s first dual-launch straddle coaster. Quantum Accelerator is a family-friendly thrill ride with two exciting launches, twists and turns, 11 moments of airtime, and speeds up to 45 miles per hour.

[abovethesink]

I am very pleased with this. While the nerd in me will always want the next great thrill coaster, this fills a nice gap for SFNE in terms of having a launch. I think this will be a pretty popular attraction in the park for sure.

[Zand]

I'm kind of terrified of the capacity of this thing especially considering the park it's in. The Darkoaster line crawls at BGW, in all likelihood the ops here will be even slower, and hourly throughout with 18 passenger trains will probably be 300-400 per hour. Pandemonium and Thunderbolt often have the longest lines in the park for coasters due to their family nature and poor capacity. This thing will probably be incredibly popular and that is frightening to me.

[Zand]

Hit the park for a few hours this afternoon to set up my season Flash Pass which came in handy as the park was pretty busy by Tuesday standards. Weather was gorgeous in the upper 60s and it's definitely starting to feel fall-like! 

If I had no Flash Pass today I would've just lapped Superman as it was a walk on the whole afternoon. Everything else I rode (Pandemonium, Skyscreamer, Harley Quinn, Riddler, Joker, Batman) had waits of 30 mins to 1 hour. Everything that could was running two trains but the dispatches on most of the rides we're definitely on the slow side. Skyscreamer was rotating about 270 degrees at the top with a pretty solid breeze! Meanwhile, on one of my rides on Superman they were dispatching us just as the next train was hitting the 2nd helix and that crew was flying the whole night. 

Wicked Cyclone had some breakdown problems as I encountered the line being dumped two separate times as I walked up. 3rd time I finally got on in row 2. Usually ride this in the back, so it was nice to get a different perspective. Always a great time, but when the train got back to the brakes they hadn't even opened the air gates for the next train. Kind of marched right back to Superman after seeing those kind of operations. 

Checked out that new (maybe? I honestly have no f*cking idea if it's actually new) bar under the Superman lift hill which had a really good selection of beers and I settled on a Del's Summer Shandy which is probably coming up on the end of its season. 

It was nice to actually spend some time in the park as my last few trips have been very brief. Good to see them running pretty much at 100% (other than Scream only running 1 tower) with nothing closed as far as I could tell (except some stuff in the waterpark apparently).

Nothing new happening in the Quantum spot yet, hopefully they get going on time and don't follow the Great Adventure construction schedule!

Also...how long have the M&M ads on the steps been gone?

[prozach626]

Seeing that dude wearing a hooded sweatshirt is depressing to me. I'm not ready to give up the high summer temperatures.

[Zand]

1 minute ago, prozach626 said:

Seeing that dude wearing a hooded sweatshirt is depressing to me. I'm not ready to give up the high summer temperatures.

I mean I see people with hooded sweatshirts at parks when it's in the 90s but I see your point ..

Honestly the summer heat doesn't really bother me that much anymore but I still can't stand those stretches when it won't go below 75 at night. Glad to have these 45 degree mornings back and humidity gone (for a few days anyway). I love fall.

[abovethesink]

Live in the mountains. The 40 degree nights never go away for long. We have them on and off all summer still.