Brandy524 Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 My husband and I went to SFOG last Friday. Crowds were pretty light in the morning, but got heavier as the day progressed. It was miserably hot but we expected as much. This was the first time we'd used a flash pass. In the morning, with the light crowds, we thought we'd wasted our money but in the afternoon when the lines got longer we were so glad we'd gotten it! The pictures are in the order I took them, so coaster pictures are scattered throughout and not grouped by like coaster. Enjoy! View walking toward the entrance. Danny and some Cyclone track. Okay, prepare yourself for a series of Monster Mansion photos. We had not been in it since the refurb. Outside the entrance to the mansion. It's blurry, I know. It was at this point I switched my camera to "sport" mode for moving objects. We couldn't figure these guys out. Are they peeing? I don't get it! Monster frog? She's always been one of my favorites! Stay out of the marsh! Scream Machine going up! Folks about to fly. I don't think I could ever do this! Superman. We didn't ride it at this point in the day because the locker nazi got me and we didn't have any dollars to rent a locker at the time. We did come back later, though. I should have posed inside the phone booth, but I was too mad at the locker nazi. They let two cars stay empty during our turn. And those two cars got bumped and proceed to turn parallel to the oncoming cars and completely blocked the path resulting in a huge pile-up that no one could get past. Balloons. We didn't ride them. Boat, which we didn't ride, either. Riverview Carousel. Closer view of the carousel. We rode the Hanson cars because Danny had never ridden them before. Hanson POV! Mine train from the Hanson cars. Canyon Blaster. Goliath's lift from the station. Standing under Goliath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 More photos... Fiesta Bugs? Why is he dressed like this? Batman track. How long has it been blue? I can't remember if it was blue when I went in 2008. Batmobile. I think they need to update Gotham City. Danny said they should style it more like the comics rather than the movies. Brace yourself for that ending! Mindbender entrance. This is a really hard coaster to photograph. We went back to Superman when we had some dollars to rent a locker. Splash! Marvin the Martian. It was very obviously a girl. Danny kept saying, "Marvin has boobs. Why does Marvin have boobs? Couldn't they have gotten a guy?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 (edited) Still more... Goliath's helix as seen from Scorcher's station. Train POV! Mine train as seen from the regular train. Ninja from the train. Believe it or not, we rode it twice and didn't die! It didn't even give me a headache. I searched TPR for the "magic seat" before we went. Whoever discovered it is brilliant. First seat of the last car. You won't die! Wheelie from the train. Us on the train! Thomas Town. We didn't get a chance to go in and take pictures. There was "inclement weather" and everything shut down. After the rain stopped, Thomas Town was still closed. Thunder River. A friend of mine used to do the gun fight show and he hadn't seen the area since they redid it after the flood, so I took some pictures for him. New gun fight stage. Mindbender loop from the train. Again, this coaster is really hard to photograph. This is the best I got! Look very closely...there's a Mindbender train through the trees! Log goes up... Log comes down! Goliath and Scorcher. Goliath track. It's everywhere throughout the park. Cyclone from the train. Danny and his new friends. On our way back to the car I wanted to try the zoom on my camera, so we waited for a train to come by. I was happy with how close I could get, especially for a point-and-shoot. I just wish I could've gotten their faces. I wasn't fast enough or at the right angle to get the front view. And finally, check out what the sun did to our parking receipt that was in the window! Anyway, that's all guys! Hope you enjoyed! Edited June 22, 2010 by Brandy524 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 I'm jealous of the Chick-Fil-A cups in your car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hang And Bang Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Great pics!I really love the uphill shot of GASM. Batman was painted blue this year. Personally I prefer black or "Magic Mountain grey" on BTR but the blue isn't horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 I'm jealous of the Chick-Fil-A cups in your car. Those were left over from that morning. Chick-Fil-A has the best breakfast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 Great pics!I really love the uphill shot of GASM. Batman was painted blue this year. Personally I prefer black or "Magic Mountain grey" on BTR but the blue isn't horrible. Thanks! I didn't think it was blue before, but I wasn't sure. The blue isn't bad, but I didn't get the connection. Batman doesn't wear/drive/carry anything blue, does he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcg19 Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 (edited) Deleted by user Edited December 29, 2010 by rcg19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razor12 Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 SFOG is great this year! Everything is running awesome. Glad to hear you had a good time. Can't wait for Tony Hawk's Big Spin next year (crosses fingers haha). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattnz Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Very nice TR. I last visited in 2008 and things are looking pretty good. Glad to see the train running (it wasn't when I last visited) - gives you some interesting angles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hang And Bang Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Great pics!I really love the uphill shot of GASM. Batman was painted blue this year. Personally I prefer black or "Magic Mountain grey" on BTR but the blue isn't horrible. Thanks! I didn't think it was blue before, but I wasn't sure. The blue isn't bad, but I didn't get the connection. Batman doesn't wear/drive/carry anything blue, does he? Nope! I'm gonna go with rcg19 and guess it's just leftover from the Bizarro repaints. It doesn't fit Batman but at least the parks are going to the trouble to actually keep the coasters looking fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 Thanks for the comments, Everyone! The train does give you some views of the rides that you can't get walking around. I took most of my pictures from the train. Are they really getting a new coaster next year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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