boldikus Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 seems most places are saying chance of rain for this evening but wunderground's forecast is saying no rain til after 10pm. which (hopefully) adds up to a completely empty park for CAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterfreak101 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 ^I've been hit by bugs on Top Thrill Dragster and it wasn't that bad. I mean, it was disgusting but not particularly painful Sometimes I'm sad that Ka doesn't have spotlights, but then I remember hitting that wall of mayflies at the end of the launch and I feel a little better about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcjp Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 ^I've also noticed that, if you sit in the front of TTD, in the end of the launch track you hit a "cloud" of water while on KK you don't. The first time it got me in the eyes and it felt quite unpleasant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterfreak101 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 ^Maybe Intamin came up with a different way to cool the launch cable between Dragster and Ka? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcjp Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 ^Probably. They must have realized that it could be annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamondbacker27 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 bird strike on gatekeeper at cedar point Wow. Was the coaster that bad where even the birds didn't like it? IMO yes, but many others seem to like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiFan Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 They did let passholders in early, I was able to enter the park at 5:00. A lot of schools are still here but its not too bad, Nitro has about a 10 minute wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linearinduction Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 ^Maybe Intamin came up with a different way to cool the launch cable between Dragster and Ka?I thought the water was used as lubricant for the Launch Sled. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeeman311 Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 I was also at Coasters After Dark tonight. This has to rank as one of my best visits ever to the park and this was only 3.5 hours. We got in the park around 5:20 so I was happy to see they were still letting people in the park early. El Toro was our first stop and we marathoned it for about an hour. 1 train wait or a re-ride every time for the back. We rode with a lot of high schoolers that knew each other a few times. They yelled anal and frosty on different rides with one of them shouting "that ass" to a dummy. Some GP crowd eh? Our next ride was Superman and there I saw a guy with a MF shirt so I started talking to him about CP. The guy was from Jersey and said he goes to CP every summer. He was a big MF fanboy and I told him I thought the coaster was overrated and was more of a Maverick fan but we both shared our love for the park and coaster enthusiasm. Me and my friend had a rare next stop. We decided to ride the Carousel since nobody was on it. We had the ride to ourselves and the operator was going through the whole pre-ride schpiel then paused and said you guys don't need to hear all this, you're the only 2 on the ride. I'm glad I got to experience an amusement park classic. The park wouldn't be the same without the carousel entrance with the music playing. We then got a Batman ride all to ourselves in the front row. With that we spent pretty much the rest of the night on that side of the park. Marathoned Nitro a bit, had a violent ride on the Bumper Cars and got the final 2 rides of the night front row on Skull Mountain. Plus we rode Sky Screamer twice and I had fun with the ride op working it. Shared a few jokes with her and I had a feeling I helped her night go by faster. All in all a fantastic night at Great Adventure. This night is seriously one of the biggest reasons I get a season pass. Once again it didn't disappoint! Ride total: El Toro 8x Nitro 4x Superman 2x Sky Screamer 2x Skull Mountain 2x Batman 1x Dark Knight 1x Carousel 1x Bumper Cars 1x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Yeah worked out to be a pretty great night w/ the rain holding off and really light crowds - we were riding for a little under 3 hours. Pulled into the lot about 6:10, got parked settled and hiked over to the gate (Why can't they give us preferred parking for the night? Kinda lame to have to walk through that completely empty part of the parking lot...). Little bit of a hold up at the gate (understaffed?) but we got in fairly quickly and bee-lined through the arcade over to El Toro and walked right on. First time I didn't have to wait at least 20 minutes for it so was suddenly in a state of euphoria/disbelief. Rode great in first seat of last car and then we walked around (halfway, kinda jumped over the fence near the steps to get back up, an employee caught us and laughed) and rode once more in same spot. Tried to get a re-ride in a different seat but wasn't happening so off to Bizarro where we marathoned it three times in a row until on the third ride my stomach decided after the MCBR that I'd had enough. First time in years I felt nausea from a coaster but I guess 21 inversions in 10 minutes might do that. My riding partner was begging for another but I needed a short break. We stopped for food and wandered over to Superman for my first ever ride (due to the fact that the line is always insane). Walked right on in first row. (!!!) My first flying coaster and MUCH better than I expected. Really smooth, restraint was much more comfortable than I imagined and that pretzel loop is just plain NUTS. Awesome ride. Now I want to ride the more highly ranked flyers like Tatsu! SO fun! After we headed for what is imo the parks crowd jewel - Nitro. On our walk over we felt drizzle. Bummer. No lightning though so lets do it! At this point it was completely dark and I have had yet to do Nitro in the dark. By the time we got up the steps the drizzle stopped. Walked right on and sat in middle. No wait at all. Fantastic ride. It's really dark back there! No way to stay on when we pulled back in so we walked around for ride two. Walked on front row. First time in front and was awesome! Delicious wind burn on my face! Jumped in a different seat for our third run but were kicked off due to folks walking up to our row and had to walk around, so we did. Waited 2 minutes for back row (my fave) and rode it two times without getting up. On that fourth go around I had the bizarro stomach things again on the bunny hops at the end so I said I was done. But then the operator announced it would be the last train of the night so what the hell, let's do it! Exactly at 9:15pm, just as we were walking out of the main gate, did it start to rain. PERFECT. So happy we didn't let that deter us and got a great night of riding in a short period of time! Slightly bummed we didn't get a few more runs on El Toro, but its my only small complaint about the entire evening. El Toro 2x Bizarro 3x Superman 1x Nitro 5x I didn't have camera or phone on me so no pics but but my buddy tweeted these of the queues while waiting for Superman/Nitro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Password121 Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Looks like a great night for a ton of riding. Why can't all Six Flags parks do this as a "Thank You" to their pass holders? SFA has none of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolandmammoth Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 I was able to make it down to the park for about an hour and a half for coasters after dark. Was able to get 4 Rides on El Toro, 1 on SUF, and 2 on nitro. Only time I waited was when they decided to transfer off a train on El Toro.... 8minutes before the park closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RideofSteel Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I was kinda disappointed with Great Adventure this morning. The El Toro crew at opening was terrible... Stacking for a long time every cycle. It also seemed that every single cycle they had to recheck at least one car. The Bizarro crew was just as bad. I do not understand why they start the ride every day with three trains even though it never has a line for the first couple hours and always double stacks. This morning they were filling the trains less than half full about an hour after opening. Why not take a train or two off so that the trains don't stack for as long? I also saw drugs being used in one of the bathrooms... Classy. On a positive note, Batman was running amazing as usual. It's hard to believe that ride is 21 years old. Zumanjaro is looking great! A path leading to the ride has been poured. The entrance is right by the Kingda Ka entrance and the path runs right along where Rolling Thunder's return run used to be. You can see it while riding El Toro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiFan Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Last night they were running 2 trains on Bizarro with no stacking. I thought that worked much better than the 3 trains since when all 3 trains are running I have never seen them not stack at least one train and many times both trains are stacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Agreed last night was the most efficient I've seen the Bizarro crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal1br3tto Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I rarely hear bad news about the El Toro crew...sometimes they're almost scary good. Hope it all gets worked out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsplumber Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I was kinda disappointed with Great Adventure this morning. The El Toro crew at opening was terrible... Stacking for a long time every cycle. It also seemed that every single cycle they had to recheck at least one car. The Bizarro crew was just as bad. I do not understand why they start the ride every day with three trains even though it never has a line for the first couple hours and always double stacks. This morning they were filling the trains less than half full about an hour after opening. Why not take a train or two off so that the trains don't stack for as long? I also saw drugs being used in one of the bathrooms... Classy. On a positive note, Batman was running amazing as usual. It's hard to believe that ride is 21 years old. Zumanjaro is looking great! A path leading to the ride has been poured. The entrance is right by the Kingda Ka entrance and the path runs right along where Rolling Thunder's return run used to be. You can see it while riding El Toro. drugs being used in the bathrooms of great adventure has been going on since ive been going since the 80's. nothing new Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Password121 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I was kinda disappointed with Great Adventure this morning. The El Toro crew at opening was terrible... Stacking for a long time every cycle. It also seemed that every single cycle they had to recheck at least one car. The Bizarro crew was just as bad. I do not understand why they start the ride every day with three trains even though it never has a line for the first couple hours and always double stacks. This morning they were filling the trains less than half full about an hour after opening. Why not take a train or two off so that the trains don't stack for as long? I also saw drugs being used in one of the bathrooms... Classy. On a positive note, Batman was running amazing as usual. It's hard to believe that ride is 21 years old. Zumanjaro is looking great! A path leading to the ride has been poured. The entrance is right by the Kingda Ka entrance and the path runs right along where Rolling Thunder's return run used to be. You can see it while riding El Toro. drugs being used in the bathrooms of great adventure has been going on since ive been going since the 80's. nothing new The stresses of witnessing stacking on El Toro were too great to handle, so they resorted to drugs. Happens all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilsFlight Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I'm a little curious... when will the cars for zumanjaro be ready for installation? Or is electrical stuff still going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitro1118 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 At the park now. Wanted to get in for early entry but the biometric scanners were giving people major difficulty. Walked to Toro first, waited 10min for the front, then the back was a walk-on. I've always considered Toro a back row ride, but the front row was fantastic. Then we walked onto front row of Bizarro, which gave me a bit of a headache because of the bad rattle exiting the cobra roll. Oh, and prepare to see stacking at ET, every train seemed to have issues with the lap bars not going all the way down for heavier riders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBrylczyk Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 ^ 'MURICA! Let me get out of my ECV and into the ride! I'LL FIT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Password121 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 ^ 'MURICA! Let me get out of my ECV and into the ride! I'LL FIT! I don't understand why larger visitors that know they may not fit easily don't use the test seat before waiting. It can save them the embarrassment and the time they spent waiting and slowing down dispatches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KBrylczyk Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 ^ Because they're not too fat! The danged seat is too small! They can fit, dagnabbit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsplumber Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 being that America is full of obese people, coaster manufacturers should build the rides for bigger riders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Password121 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 being that America is full of obese people, coaster manufacturers should build the rides for bigger riders. Or the obese people can stop being unhealthy to fit in a train that is designed for people to fit in. Not trying to be mean, but not fitting in a seat that everyone easily can should be a wake up call. Also, B&M does this on many coasters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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