Six Flags Great Adventure (SFGAdv) Discussion Thread

[JonnyRCT3]

^I think they would want to open up and utilize the uniqueness of the lake, rather than close it off and use it for one attraction that severely limits expansion.

[DevilsFlight]

^The seaport has been like that forever. They're not expanding it

[StarWars]

Maybe they'll extend the park past where Rolling Thunder was over towards Hurricane Harbor. That way all 3 parks would be interconnected and (if they so wish) they could make Hurricane Harbor part of the admission to the park (which now includes the Safari section).

[DevilsFlight]

^That's one hell of a hike from nitro to the water park

[Vault Boy]

Nitro is back open and running perfect! Sat in the back row of train B and to my surprise no rattle... at all!

Also, I think two new coasters for 2015 would be a great step forward for the park. As mentioned before, they haven't been spending too much money on major attractions, so maybe we are in for a surprise! I would love to see a Mack launched coaster similar to Helix in The Chiller's old location, and a more family oriented GCI that follows the lake in between skull mountain and the rapids. Would really revitalize the area very well.

[jetsplumber]

when is GA going to tear down the decrepit lake grandstand where they used to do all the water shows yrs ago. what a disgusting area of the park. so filthy. the need to really clean up their act. the whole old country area is decaying too(closed). what is the parks plan. they need to add some smaller rides to try and combat the huge lines.

[Password121]

when is GA going to tear down the decrepit lake grandstand where they used to do all the water shows yrs ago. what a disgusting area of the park. so filthy. the need to really clean up their act. the whole old country area is decaying too(closed). what is the parks plan. they need to add some smaller rides to try and combat the huge lines.

Great Adventure added about 25 attractions back in '99, but it was mostly a failure and they have been slowly removed since then. In recent years, however, Six Flags has been investing in the flat and family ride lineup at the park, particularly in 2012 and 2013 with SORA. As for Old Country and the Great Lake Grandstand, there are rumors that revitalizing Old Country is in the works for the near future, possibly as soon as next year. For a company that has historically been financially unstable, they have been improving in recent years and I think we should we should cut them some slack for now. They've made some great strides. Haven't heard anything about removing the Grandstands, but it's not cheap to put on shows year in and year out in every theater, so I wouldn't bet on that being utilized or removed immediately, but we'll see. Lines come with being one of the better amusement parks on the east coast, but I agree, some more flat rides could help.

Edit: spelling

[larrygator]

but it's not cheap to put on shows year in and year out in every theater, so I wouldn't bet on that being utilized or removed immediately, but we'll see.

 

But it is wasteful to have 4 shows buildings/arenas that go unused on a near permanent basis

[YoshiFan]

Even with the Jason Derulo concert today, the park wasn't very crowded. Other than a 20 minute wait for Batman, everything else was 10 minutes or less with most rides being walk ons or a station wait.

[Password121]

Even with the Jason Derulo concert today, the park wasn't very crowded. Other than a 20 minute wait for Batman, everything else was 10 minutes or less with most rides being walk ons or a station wait.

Ahh! I wish the same could be said for last Monday. I went betting on an afternoon of walk ona, and I get hundreds of screaming teenage girls clogging the midways. Oh well...

[YoshiFan]

I don't think anyone was expecting that to happen last Monday. It should have not been crowded Monday if it wasn't for them there. I saw pictures and it looked horrible with them blocking the entrances to rides trying to get pictures of the Magcon guys (I never even heard of Magcon until Monday night).

[Ccron10]

Went on Friday and was kind of surprised at how full it was. Spent 45 minutes in line (the configuration seemed to somewhat make sense as I got my card at the ticket gate and just needed to get my parking processed). Runaway Mine Train was also around 45 minutes as my parents decided to come along and went and rode it while I was doing this. Spent 90 minutes waiting for El Toro (the Looney Tunes cartoons made it seem shorter), 20 for Nitro (it was closed when I got to the park around 2pm, but it re-opened around 5pm), 15 for Batman which was riding in top-form, 10 for Dark Knight, walk-on for SkyScreamer and Skull Mountain, and waited 5 minutes for Superman at closing.

As for Zoomanjaro, construction crews were busy working on the top of the tower with the crane for most of the day.

I will say that Nitro looks worse and worse each year and I am kind of sad to see it in the shape that it is in. The yellow paint is pretty faded with track lube and dirt making it even worse, some of the drive tires in the station and just before the lift are either missing or don't work and the queue and station look pretty rundown. I think the only new thing I've seen on the ride were the lapbars.

[yankeeman311]

^I have to agree about Nitro. I don't view it in the same way I did 2-3 years ago. The rattling on Train C is very concerning. It's still a good ride but now I don't view it close to El Toro anymore. I just think it's no longer a great ride and can fall down in my personal rankings eventually. It's a sad day to think about the possibility of Nitro being out of its prime.

[coasterbill]

I really don't think the rattling is a big deal. I feel like Nitro is just as good as it ever was... but it was never on the same level as El Toro.

[coasterfreak101]

^Agreed. Could use some fresh paint, for sure. And I'm always hoping for B:TR to get repainted to a non-Nitro color.

[DevilsFlight]

When I went on Nitro I sat on the back on train B and felt a lot of airtime near the end. Also, the helix didn't seem as forceful as last year. Still Nitro ranks as one of my favorites and I dont think the GP is concerned if paint is fading. But it definitely needs a new paint job

[rcjp]

Last summer I got four rides on nitro (two + two, thanks to flash pass platinum) and while I didn't notice if they were on the same train, I did notice some nasty rattle at the bottom of the first drop but that was it. Apart from that, it was still pretty awesome.

[coasterbill]

I don't think Nitro will ever be painted because of how far away it is from the rest of the park. They might do something really lazy like just paint the brake run, pre-lift turnaround and lift hill but I'm not counting on them painting anything else.

 

They did paint the queue rails though which would have been nice if they had dried by opening day... but since they didn't everyone had purple hands.

[coasterkid124]

^I never got why parks paint railings so close to opening day. The paint they use, oil based, takes longer to dry on cooler days. At least they got around to it though. Last time I visited the park I remember them being scraped up pretty badly.

[Ccron10]

When I went on Nitro I sat on the back on train B and felt a lot of airtime near the end. Also, the helix didn't seem as forceful as last year. Still Nitro ranks as one of my favorites and I dont think the GP is concerned if paint is fading. But it definitely needs a new paint job

I beg to differ. I personally think that a person would look at a nicely painted coaster and think that it is taken care of better and safer than one that looks faded, dirty, and hardly cared for. I'm sure it is safe, but I think the GP would go for a cleaner looking ride first and think higher of it than something that has tons of track lube and bird crap caked on it.

[rcjp]

^Has Nitro never received a paint job since it opened?

[Brassinthegrass]

I don't believe so...

 

It's interesting, the more we all line up what is/has been happening, I find it inevitable to see a large facelift to the west side of the park in the near future... We could see Nitro getting a touch up paint job, batman getting a new paint job (so it stops blending in, because that was a terrible move) a new coaster and a rebuild of the north section of the Ferris wheel.

 

 

Let's keep praying to the amusement gods for their help!

[Diamondbacker27]

To Six Flags standards, if it runs, leave it alone. For most of the time anyways.

[jetsplumber]

maybe its just me, but great adventure seems to be getting more run down every year. like they do nothing in the offseason. I think the park is in a very decrepit state right now.

[Nitro1118]

maybe its just me, but great adventure seems to be getting more run down every year. like they do nothing in the offseason. I think the park is in a very decrepit state right now.

 

I know I brought up the Movietown rebuild like 10 pages back, but while certain areas have been left to rot, overall the park has made dramatic improvements the last decade. 10 years ago BBL was awful, the Boardwalk looked stale and beat up, closed rides everywhere, the RT/Viper area was neglected and straight-up ugly, etc...

 

Since they added 2 of the chain's most well-themed areas (GK and PDC), added 2 of the world's most exciting coasters, added an indoor family coaster, gave Medusa a makeover, spruced up the Boardwalk and gave it a solid B&M, and created an extremely popular safari ride from a drive-thru attraction that had a decaying reputation. They also added 2 much-needed major flats.

 

I'm very critical of how the park let certain areas decay, but overall the park is in a better space than it was in 2004.