strz Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Seems like a "perfect" weather forecast today (Saturday) for those who are local.....may pop in tonight around 7pm. Now back to the 2017 speculation....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterkid124 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 And Kingda Ka doesn't run ever. Fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 ^ Today is gonna be perfect. Forecast now calls for no rain until noon, no thunderstorms til 3. Forcecast calls for lots of airtime this morning. Leaving to head over in a minute. OLE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strz Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 ^ Today is gonna be perfect. Forecast now calls for no rain until noon, no thunderstorms til 3. Forcecast calls for lots of airtime this morning. Leaving to head over in a minute. OLE! Enjoy! looking forward to your update...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoinItForTheFame Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 And Kingda Ka doesn't run ever. Fixed That's accurate. I'd actually be really curious to find out which coaster really does have more down time KK, or TTD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grsupercity Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 GIB at sfne and Stinger at Dorney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyRCT3 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Nothing will have more downtime than the Windseekers. Or uptime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Hero Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 KK once broke down 8 times in 5 hours, which I completely waited out. I'm pretty sure it's the most unreliable thing ever built I won't be surprised if TTD is down less, CP definitely can run their Strata Coaster better than we can with ours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willh51 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 ^TTD breaks down a lot, too. No sign of Jersey letting Six Flags run Ka and Zumanjaro at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strz Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 ^TTD breaks down a lot, too. No sign of Jersey letting Six Flags run Ka and Zumanjaro at the same time? Nope..... No signs of that happening- I doubt it is still a discussion amongst SF/NJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanreich Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 ^TTD breaks down a lot, too. No sign of Jersey letting Six Flags run Ka and Zumanjaro at the same time? Nope..... No signs of that happening- I doubt it is still a discussion amongst SF/NJ. I guess I'm late to the discussion, but why doesn't NJ let them run both at the same time? I love the shaking on Lex Luthor when Superman trains come up the tower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Hero Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 ^For whatever reason they're concerned loose objects from Kingda Ka could fall on riders on Zumanjaro... even though that's impossible because there are freaking metal roofs on each of the Gondolas and a retractable roof over the station. NJ logic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tylerthecreator Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 ^For whatever reason they're concerned loose objects from Kingda Ka could fall on riders on Zumanjaro... even though that's impossible because there are freaking metal roofs on each of the Gondolas and a retractable roof over the station. NJ logic bruh NJ residents should complain to local senators about this BS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brassinthegrass Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Chris Christie will fix the problem! Complete with adding fat seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcoaster Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Chris Christie will fix the problem! Complete with adding fat seats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Hero Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 To anyone who went to the park yesterday, how are the crowds? I'm guessing non-existent because it's September but I wanted to be sure. I'm planning on going today and marathoning a couple coasters if it's dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiFan Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Supposedly it was crowded. There was a race, concert, enthusiast event and it was bring a friend free. I think it will be crowded today too. Nice weather, and bring a friend free is still valid. Maybe with the first full day of the NFL season and no events at the park today will keep some people away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boldikus Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Well while it wasn't PACKED yesterday the threat of rain didn't really keep the crowds away. I guess between the 5K inflatable race, the christian rock concert, and the BAFF special, it was inevitable even though I'd hoped for the opposite. There was also the ACE annual 'Riding of the Bull' event. To be fair, it didn't really rain much at all so good for the park that they were able to make some $$$ even with the threat of a potential washout. As I said I went up w/ my buddy Ant who has never been to Great Adventure. He's done Hershey, Dorney, the Florida parks, and a few in China (including his favorite Ocean Park) etc but for whatever reason not GreatAdv. I was excited to take him on the big dogs, and even though I tend to avoid it, especially wanted to get him on Kingda Ka. I just love first time riders reactions to that insanity. I didn't have a camera with me so Ant took a few photos he told me to share here. We arrived to the park around 11am to major backups getting into the lot and a moderate wait to get in the gates. No season pass lines open. Lametown. Felt very busy at the entrance plaza and generally while getting in. I was praying for a quick downpour in hopes it would clear it out a bit LOL. Once we did got in we noticed a ton of fright fest decorations up including the skeletons around the fountain and a new giant pumpkin headed monster thing in the center of the fountain, looked great. No red dye to complete the blood fountain just yet but it will look great once they do it. I asked Ant what he wanted to do to which he responded "just take me where you want to go" so of course we headed straight for El Toro and were lucky to walk right on. This was the only ride my buddy was leery of, he told me he gets beat up by wood coasters so as we boarded I explained what Intamin prefabs were and how smooth of a ride it is, etc etc. The Bull was running nicely and we had a great ride, and of course we have a new convert. After he said it was in the top 5 coasters he's ever done. I figured Bizarro would be dead and we headed there and walked right onto the front row with another couple and the rest of the train was empty. Only one of the fire cannons were working which made me LOL. We also saw one of the ACE ROTB tours in their orange vests on the infield of Bizarro as we rode. Ant said it reminded him of Hair Raiser @ Ocean Park, only not on the side of a mountain. From here we jumped on the Skyway where I mentioned that Coasterbill would shit himself that they were running both sides (we even took a picture for you but apparently it didnt take or was deleted because we couldn't find it) and were actually cranking through the lines. At first we were going to do Skull Mountain but then we decided to head to Nitro where the line was back at the 60 minute sign but they had all three trains running and we waited about 15. For whatever reason I didn't even think to look at which train we got on but whichever it was it was smooth as butter. Namtab was only running one train and from watching in line for Nitro it seemed they were sending out trains about every 4 minutes. I didn't even bother to look at the line, so we headed to Skull and walked right into the station, waited about 3 cycles for the backrow. Air conditioning was pumping even though it wasn't really hot outside. Great drop, death metal cranked, ridiculous as always. Haters gonna hate, but I love this ride. It was time for some beer so we walked across the park, stopping at Liberty Pub and had some issues getting what we wanted. Some of the beer was coming out warm and foamy, then another ran out mid pour. Ugh, I normally love this place. We eventually got sorted and downed those quickly before setting off for Zumanjaro. Noticed Ka had a full queue but we waited about 10 minutes in the standby line for Zum. Ant liked this but he didn't seem blown away by it. I knew we were making a mistake trying to ride Ka, but he wanted to do it and I wanted him to do it. So we got in line. Of course they were barely dispatching trains and of course it started to rain after we had waited 40 minutes, only getting though a third a queue when it then seemed to shut down completely. So we said screw it and got out of line. We were hungry and decided to get some food at the new eatery near Toro, Macho Nacho. Upon heading out of the Golden Kingdom we noticed Safari Discoveries was open and we asked the girl standing at the entrance if the entire path was open and she said Yes! WOOT! So we were able to avoid going all the way around the boardwalk and cut over there in 2 minutes, stopping for a second to check out the seals and baby otters. Awwwww I had tried Macho Nacho earlier this season and just had some drinks. I'd heard the food was good and the place was jumping so we placed our food order and went into the bar and had a seat. Our bartender was very much on top of his game while we waited a long time for our food. Once it did come out it was hot and fresh - he tried the avocado burger and I had the loaded nachos. We both enjoyed our food and the beers were nice and cold. I recommend checking this place out if you haven't yet. Having Toro roar past you every few minutes is the icing on the cake - the bartop literally shakes each time. Pretty cool. Since we were in the area we checked out El Toro's line and both switchbacks were full but since we just ate we decided to just wait and digest but good timing because they were absolutely cranking out trains and we got through both switchbacks and into the station in under 20 minutes. Once we were in my suspicions were confirmed - this crew was hauling ass. Always lovely to see. Kudos to the Toro crew yesterday. Absolutely fantastic. As usual the ride was faster and even better than our first ride this morning. It was just a little after 6pm and we decided to head out as we were both getting tired and wanted to go out on a high note. Bummer I didn't get him on Ka but its a reason to get him back. He also had been interested in Sky Screamer but the line was ridiculous anytime we passed. We never even bothered with S:UF or Green Lantern. I asked him what were his favorites of the day to which he responded "El Toro. That's probably my favorite coaster that I've ever been on". Toro 2x Nitro 1x Skull Mountain 1x Bizarro 1x Zumanjaro 1x Skyway 1x Beginning to feel a lot like Fright Fest Ole! Again, I didn't have a camera so Ant snapped a few with his phone. Bummed we lost that skyride photo of both sides going. Had a Six Flags Day! Laterz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 From here we jumped on the Skyway where I mentioned that Coasterbill would poo-poo himself that they were running both sides (we even took a picture for you but apparently it didnt take or was deleted because we couldn't find it) and were actually cranking through the lines. I had tried Macho Nacho earlier this season and just had some drinks. I'd heard the food was good and the place was jumping so we placed our food order and went into the bar and had a seat. Our bartender was very much on top of his game while we waited a long time for our food. Once it did come out it was hot and fresh - he tried the avocado burger and I had the loaded nachos. We both enjoyed our food and the beers were nice and cold. I recommend checking this place out if you haven't yet. FYI - both sides of Skyway were running on Labor Day, I included a picture a few pages back Semi-agree about Macho Nacho food, because my fresh hot food got to me very quickly. With a Gold Dining Pass this will probably be my go to place next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tylerthecreator Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Hopefully Total Mayhem makes the lines for SMOF manageable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoasterCarl Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 We arrived to the park around 11am to major backups getting into the lot and a moderate wait to get in the gates. No season pass lines open. Lametown. Felt very busy at the entrance plaza and generally while getting in. I was praying for a quick downpour in hopes it would clear it out a bit LOL. Once we did got in we noticed a ton of fright fest decorations up including the skeletons around the fountain and a new giant pumpkin headed monster thing in the center of the fountain, looked great. No red dye to complete the blood fountain just yet but it will look great once they do it. I asked Ant what he wanted to do to which he responded "just take me where you want to go" so of course we headed straight for El Toro and were lucky to walk right on. This was the only ride my buddy was leery of, he told me he gets beat up by wood coasters so as we boarded I explained what Intamin prefabs were and how smooth of a ride it is, etc etc. The Bull was running nicely and we had a great ride, and of course we have a new convert. After he said it was in the top 5 coasters he's ever done. Its funny, I had almost the same exact day as you! Arrived at 11am to the backups, went straight to Toro and did the same loop. I even went to that new restaurant you were at! I went alone and on my first ride on El Toro, some random guy sat next to me who I found out was at the park alone too. He turned out to be a fellow enthusiast (not with TPR or ACE). So it was great meeting another friendly enthusiast. Overall a great day in the park with the lines getting long around 2 or 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vonni Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 ^TTD breaks down a lot, too. No sign of Jersey letting Six Flags run Ka and Zumanjaro at the same time? Nope..... No signs of that happening- I doubt it is still a discussion amongst SF/NJ. Was Six Flags aware of this problem while planning Zumanjaro or did this not come about until construction had been completed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiFan Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I think they didn't find out until afterwards. The ride opened later than expected because they had to reprogram the rides to not be able to run together. The park is very crowded today. Batman had a reported 90 minute line. Skull Mountain had almost a full queue. Bizarro's line was to the entrance without the 3rd set of switchbacks used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 ^TTD breaks down a lot, too. No sign of Jersey letting Six Flags run Ka and Zumanjaro at the same time? Nope..... No signs of that happening- I doubt it is still a discussion amongst SF/NJ. Was Six Flags aware of this problem while planning Zumanjaro or did this not come about until construction had been completed? The full truth is unlikely to ever be known. Speculation is that Six Flags was very confident they get approval to operate the rides simultaneously (before committing so much money this logically makes sense) and then the state asked for addition assurances and requirements which Six Flags tried to follow (adding the retractable roof) but the state still wouldn't budge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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