nicman Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 There is no park busier than Canada's Wonderland! It is the most visited seasonal amusement park in North America. A Fast Lane ticket is a must if you go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Have they announced what rides are returning to the park next summer for the anniversary? I remember hearing about them, but don't recall what the rides are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon29060 Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 ^ Yes they did. They are: -Tots Livery Surrey Carriage -Lady Bugs -Red Baron Airplanes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrider Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 So all 3 are kiddie rides? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBoarder Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 So all 3 are kiddie rides? Yea, they are all kiddie rides... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Wolf 90-11 Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Well that is what Hometown Park used to look like, So I would expect it to look quite similar in 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sfgamnamtab Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 So what does every one think the park will be empty friday the 31st Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBoarder Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 So what does every one think the park will be empty friday the 31st We did have snow roll through the area around 7:30-8am this morning... Winds are still blowing 20+mph... It should be dead... Weather isn't your friend for sure tonight... Gonna give the park a go tomorrow night or Sunday... No one has a Flash Pass voucher they are willing to sell on the cheap would they Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batmanfan80 Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Checked Great Adventure's recent Yelp reviews, same problems with overcrowding and all here. Is it considered line jumping when people save spots for a bunch of their friends? I see that a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJeXeL Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Is it considered line jumping when people save spots for a bunch of their friends? Sure is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Wolf 90-11 Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 They closed 2 hours early since there were only 1,500 guests at the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodon Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 ^do you know if they were running all the rides this evening? I'm planning on going Sunday and curious if any of the coasters won't like the cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beni_Rodriguez Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 I'm heading out to Great America tomorrow. Hopefully there will be only 1,500 people again with all the rides operating. That would be awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batmanfan80 Posted November 2, 2014 Share Posted November 2, 2014 Just got back after arriving at 5:30. It might be safe to attend now. I say might because almost every coaster we went on had been having operational issues before we got there. Make sure you wear clothes for weather significantly colder than 35 degrees and very high winds. All my rides were severely compromised by the fact that the wind slowed down muscles throughout my body, especially when it came to my face and throat. East River Crawler ran great with full rotation still. Batman was the first coaster. Unfortunately I wanted off as soon as I got on. Huge doses of cold wind going down my throat made it near impossible to breathe throughout the ride. It had been stuck on the lift with an almost full queue that lost about 50% of its occupants. Flash passers turned around too. Lined moved really fast once it was operational again. They put in bins that don't lock accompanied by signs warning about being arrested and prosecuted for theft. Stopped at moosejaw. About 50 people in the line, went pretty fast. A lot better than JB's. Eagle red was next, line was to where the stairs end right before the blue side, say maybe 25 min of waiting. Awesome ride. Not violent, great airtime, great speed. Trims didn't bug me since I needed a break from the wind. X Flight had a line that would normally be 40-45 min, but with flash passers could be 80. So we skipped onto Demon. Line was back to maybe the first loop, where you first turn the corner and see the ride. Operational issues caused lots of people to leave, just put us by the metal railings. Took about 15 min to resume operations. Ran great. Tucking your chin on the loops helps a lot. The corkscrews are some of my fav inversions on any coaster. Yellow train. Wind was less of an issue here but still causing a lot of discomfort. Went over to Southwest. RB had a full queue using up all the insides. With Flash passers that's a 90 min wait minimum. Skipped onto Viper. More operational issues. Lots of people left. Normally from where this line ended it'd be a 15-20 min wait. Started testing immediately once we got there. Crew took a long time to get trains moving and reserved middle rows for some reason. Not sure all the waiting was their fault. Ride ran great. Wife went on Giant Drop. Basically a walk up. Same with Richochet. The cold weather is really taking a toll on me and making me work harder and harder to breathe well. Headed over to Whizzer. More operational issues. Testing resumed after they transferred a train to a side track. Felt smoother than last time I rode it. Still much more intense than most of the Busch Gardens stuff. I think people underrate the intensity here. No line for Condor and they seemed to give us two ride cycles. Pretzelman had a line just to the Supergirl sign(at 5:30 it was overflowing). This was a little after 11. Wife rode it by herself as I didn't think that as much as I like the pretzel loop that I would have any fun gasping for breath the whole time. The cold was getting to her too so we left around 11:30 instead of going for X Flight or RB. Not much of a yolo crowd. There were a very small number of thug looking people, maybe saw 20 the whole time. A group of em was swearing out loud a lot and joking about dropping their phone on Pretzelman I heard. One Giant Drop ride op was telling people over the PA "watch the language please, this is a family park". Lot of guys who look like they're fans of wrestlers like CM Punk and Edge. Plenty of rural looking Wisconsin people. Middle aged hard living types who resembled those I saw at a Kiss concert. Seemed like every middle and high school had their entire student bodies there. Hard to say if I prefer Batman over Montu. Batman just kills it from beginning to end whereas Montu has way better theming and more variety. If we go back tomorrow maybe I will be able to tolerate the weather better. Shame I had to pass up front row Batman at 11:30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollercoaster Rider Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 (edited) For the location of the kids rides (Sorry if this was already posted) 1-2 are going to go where the Sky climbing area is 1 is going in the Buccaneer Battle Overflow Queue Edited February 17, 2015 by Rollercoaster Rider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterchitchat Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 For the location of the kids rides (Sorry if this was already posted) 1-2 are going to go where the Sky climbing area is 1 is going in the Buccaneer Battle Overflow Queue And something is going where Ragin Cajun was in 2015. Thanks for letting us know. I think 2 are going in the old rope course area by Demon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batmanfan80 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Got to go again Sunday, arriving at 3:38. Lot was about half full again, in the back. Plenty of spaces in the front like Saturday, even in the 4th or 5th row. Think there was only one time where we had to park in the back lot this year. The crowd is like a mix of Wal-Mart shoppers from Countryside, Addison, and Gurnee rolled into one. Didn't really spot any rowdy or out of control behavior, it's a lot tamer than what I read about other Six Flags parks. Only 3 buses and a couple RVs, there was like 15 buses Sat. Definitely a lot more yolo and thug types Sunday, but still a small minority of the overall crowd. Pretzelman had an overflowing line around 4. Balloons had maybe 15 people. Batman's line was maybe 3-4 rows deep inside when we walked by it. No time to ride it unfortunately. Whirley gig was like 15 people ahead of us. Whizzer line was 3 or 4 rows deep under the station. We couldn't hit that bc we wanted to see Love at first fright. Better show than the last couple years. I think they use the same witch, little frankenstein, and dracula every year. The mini Frankenstein was the highlight in a lot of scenes and he highfived everyone leaving the side door we left out of. Lot of the food places were closed apparently and Aunt Martha's was out of pulled pork around 6 and out of everything like ten minutes later. Lines at the open food places were maybe 15-20 people deep. Bunch of security escorted some dude outta there for some reason. Their food was really cold. Had to walk down to County Fair food court. Primo's actually had some warm pizza. They have JB's there too and a couple other places that take the dining pass. Next we went to Susan Rosen. Was a pretty good show. Felt a lot shorter than it was even though we were in there 7:15-8:08. She brought up double the amount of people onstage. Guess she has a show around here on the 8th. Couldn't tell you much about Viper and Demon lines. They weren't overflowing. Giant Drop looked like a walk up. RB had one of their lines that's back to the test seat with the paper batman passes being handed out, but they weren't using the interior queue and the line kept moving so we waited maybe ten minutes. Some non-teen Asian lady seemed to be running the operations and they got those trains outta there like clockwork. For some reason on this one and Viper on Saturday they wouldn't let people board one of the middle rows. But the trains weren't going out with empty seats so I'm not sure who they were saving them for. Think I spotted one flash pass group on RB. We made X Flight before they closed, walk up. Rode Left row 4, which I think is the first time we'd done the left side in two years. Similar quality ride to the right but definitely different. Luckily the warmer temps enabled me to breathe on the rides and ride them pretty normally. Coulda been the headsock covering my mouth though too. Guess we coulda gone on Demon even though it was after 9, I didn't get the vibe that they were in a hurry to close. We ended up going through the stores, the one nearest hometown square was a mad house. Got some glasses, magnets, and key chains for next to nothing. Can't say for sure whether attending again the last week of Fright Fest would be good or not next year. Lines were probably an issue most of the day but weren't an issue when we were there. If crowds are similar next year, then we'd be buying a season pass for I'm not sure what. May and June could be ok, they could be horrible. It took a month of Goliath being open for the place to be worse than ever. The delay may have been due to kids making up snow days, I don't know. Let's say crowds are horrible all next season. You're essentially buying a pass for the ERT days and the last days of Fright Fest. Or the occasional day when rains scares everyone away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beni_Rodriguez Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Can't say for sure whether attending again the last week of Fright Fest would be good or not next year. Lines were probably an issue most of the day but weren't an issue when we were there. If crowds are similar next year, then we'd be buying a season pass for I'm not sure what. May and June could be ok, they could be horrible. It took a month of Goliath being open for the place to be worse than ever. The delay may have been due to kids making up snow days, I don't know. Let's say crowds are horrible all next season. You're essentially buying a pass for the ERT days and the last days of Fright Fest. Or the occasional day when rains scares everyone away. I couldn't agree with you more! The crowds were always outrageous when we went this year. SFGA involves too much walking and too much waiting. You must chose the days carefully as you mentioned. I'll be getting a Cedar Point season pass to check out their parks next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBoarder Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Given that SFGAm was giving away season passes for the same price as a single visit, why not get a season pass? If it's crowded, I can ditch the park without hesitation and all I am out is the gas I used to get to the park... I can also just head up on a whim if it's a case where most of the Chicago area is getting drenched, but there isn't a drop up at SFGAm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewman35 Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 For the location of the kids rides (Sorry if this was already posted) 1-2 are going to go where the Sky climbing area is 1 is going in the Buccaneer Battle Overflow Queue And something is going where Ragin Cajun was in 2015. Just curious where you're getting this info (or is it just speculation?) because I haven't seen it anywhere else, and it's not really the most logical thing - it's certainly possible that it's what they're doing, but it makes way more sense to resurrect Hometown Park instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VF15 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Just wondering, do the rest of you think they will continue to use the Goliath boarding passes in 2015? Since it's inaugural season is over, it might not be as busy next year, but then again, I visited the park on a Monday and there was a 3-hour wait time . I think it was a good way to curb line jumping, but at the same time, it could have ruined some innocent guest's day if there happened to be an accidental line/ticket mixup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBoarder Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Just wondering, do the rest of you think they will continue to use the Goliath boarding passes in 2015? Since it's inaugural season is over, it might not be as busy next year, but then again, I visited the park on a Monday and there was a 3-hour wait time . I think it was a good way to curb line jumping, but at the same time, it could have ruined some innocent guest's day if there happened to be an accidental line/ticket mixup. I think it's a good policy to have in place for Goliath and Raging Bull... It's very inexpensive and acts as a very visual deterrent to line jumping... I don't think it would ruin someone's day if something went wrong either... I had an indecent happen in front of me back in June and the staff was very professional and quick in getting things figured out... As we were walking up to Goliath, we had a group of 12-15 people get in line just ahead of us... They all knew each other and were obviously from the same group... Over the course of the 1:15 in line (Line was only 1:15-1:30 most of this day due to heavy rain everywhere in Chicago except Six Flags), the group would just mingle and talk amongst themselves... By the time they got to the ticket taker at the stairs, the first two kids in the group were the last ones to get the passes... The staff member confronted them about this, but was very professional... She was quick to realize no one was upset over this and figured out that they were all one group... A couple of quick questions got them back in order and everything was back moving in just a few moments... Just curious, what happens at other parks with line jumping? Do people sneak into the que in the middle of the line? Do you have people who just walk through the line and no one says anything? I've honestly never seen anything that made me upset or want to bring the hammer down on someone in my visits to SFGAm... (Well other than a fat, obnoxious 15/16 year old throwing a temper tantrum because Raging Bull was delayed 30 minutes in opening one morning... We were lined up in the walkway since the que wasn't open for business yet and the kid went over to ride Giant Drop while his mother and other kids in their group stayed in RB's line... Before he left and after he returned all he did was bitch and moan about everything under the sun regarding Six Flags and RB... Most of the people around this kid wanted to deck him... I thought about bringing up the fact that he had left the line and needed to go to the back, but passed because I don't need to be arguing with a teen and/or his family...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntaminLove Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Just wondering, do the rest of you think they will continue to use the Goliath boarding passes in 2015? Since it's inaugural season is over, it might not be as busy next year, but then again, I visited the park on a Monday and there was a 3-hour wait time . I think it was a good way to curb line jumping, but at the same time, it could have ruined some innocent guest's day if there happened to be an accidental line/ticket mixup. It's very likely that both Goliath and Deja Vu boarding passes will be used . I think Goliath's popularity will remain the same next year. Instead of waiting 3 hours just go in the single rider line. If your group goes in the single rider line it's still much quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jray21 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Do they cut off the single rider line at a certain point in the day, or not open it until later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntaminLove Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 ^ I only went to the park at opening once this year. I headed straight for Goliath and the main queue was open as soon as I got there. The switchbacks weren't open so the end of the line was at Camp Cartoon Network. I walked over to the single rider line and was told to wait in line that was forming. Once I got back back to the ride entrance then I could go in the single rider line. This didn't make much sense to me, but I went along. After my wait a family walked in front of me for the single rider line and they were given badges. I was a bit mad that I had to wait in line and they just walked up. I didn't complain because I was going to ride faster than most people in the main queue. So I'm not sure when exactly the single rider line is supposed to open. I guess the ride ops at the Goliath entrance decide when to open the single rider line. The single rider line is the best way to go. The latest I have gone to ride Goliath was a half hour before closing and I was able to go in the single rider line. I got off about 15 minutes before closing and the single rider line was still open. I assume the single rider line closes when the main queue closes for the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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