I only go to Six Flags Great Adventure only once or twice a year because I live a few hours away and the park has not had a good start flash vertical velocity was suppose to open in summer 2024 and the summer is almost over!!! and the mouth on skull mountain is gone for "Repairs" where the water was suppose to come out of but Roaring Rapids was good at least.
I definitely liked the retro Crazy Mouse better. Too bad they completely gutted that ride silently with no announcement. Although I seen it coming when I noticed Steel Pier removing more and more cars.
It looks very short and tame on video, but I remember being taken completely off guard and being shocked by Verbolten. And the theming was awesome. I really felt like they played a prank on me when you're lazily going along and it suddenly launches.
Kind of gives me Discovery Kingdom vibes, which had a lot closed when I went, and Joker/Medusa were on one train. Magic Mountain has its problems but it's doing better than these parks right now.
It is a sad state of affairs that the park won’t be ready for most of, if not all of its 50 year celebration which goes until the end of August. It’s obvious that Big Wheel and Flash will be open come Fright Fest but what about summer?
@@OfficialEthanStillCodes-9229 ok I can believe that but most days at least one if not more of the major rides are down. It's sad that when I was there at the end of May everything I wanted to ride was open but Zumanjaro. I would have thought the deeper into summer you get the better experience it would be but it's not looking all that good for this season.
WTF is happening to SFGA? I've been going there since 2006 when El Toro was brand new, Kingda Ka was just a year old and of course Batman & Robin The Chiller was still in operation it was the place to be back then and I was very lucky to experience it. Fast forward to 2024 and all I've been seeing is half the rides closed or coasters just running on one train ops. I don't know if it's just short staff or rides and trains braking down and can't run? It's so sad what has been happening to this place the last couple years (my last visit was 2021 and half the rides including El Toro and Nitro were closed) and it just doesn't seem the same park that it was 15-20 years ago. I'm praying that one day someone can make SFGA great again like it once was otherwise it's not worth the trip anymore!
The slow downs are there to sell flash passes. The more they sell...the more money they make. There is absolutely no financial incentive to run frequent trains and to boost the guest experiences. Less people in the park = less staff needed.
@@DrFishstix2 whoever is running this place is doing a horrible job and should be fired! In the theme park industry it should be all about the guest experience not just about selling flash passes so if people can’t get a good enough experience to go back of course attendance is gonna be low. Why spend money on admission and parking plus gas and tolls if the experience isn’t there?
I was originally very understanding of the park when the park didnt open back in march with everything open, but the fact theyve barely made progress on anything is really disappointing, especially after the great year that was 2023. I was planning a visit in august or september, but I might just skip it this year
Wow this is brutal. Park was awesome when i went in 2011. But now it's the same thing with magic mountain. One train ops and random ride closures everyday. Under staffed for certain. What a joke. Get your shit togther aix flags.
When these coasters have like week closures I think they should have backup parts. Of course coasters like Kingda Ka probably have a ton of parts but they should try to have backups of most of them. I don’t know how much it would cost to do that for all the coasters but it feels like they can.
Thank you!! I’m getting tired of coaster tubers saying GA is amazing… this and that. Like it is, I Love GA. It’s my home park too, but stop sugar coating the B.S. double side lockers, hyping up the 50th anniversary for it not living up to expectations. Thank you for not being biased.
I agree GA 50th was way over hyped complete disaster. All the rides GA refurbished had plenty of time to get done. There food sucks, operations suck. The workers are ignorant.
I planned on visiting the park when (if) Flash opens up in August. However, I don’t even know if it’s worth if it if half the rides will be closed or running one train. My home park six flags america is experiencing the same issue. Maybe this cedar fair merger will help them out because…yikes!
I agree with you. Operations need to step it up. Was there on July 1st also and so much closed or broke down during the day. One train on Superman and Medusa is unacceptable. Kingda Ka and Jersey Devil closed for over a week. Log flume nowhere close to ready. Not much positive to say.
Their all-day wristband is crazy expensive. But I went on a weekday 2 years ago, and I see they're still offering what I did. Around $40 for unlimited rides until 7pm. The issue there was that even though the main pier opened at 1pm, the piers with Great Nor'easter & Great White didn't open til 5pm. So I got 3 rides on Nor'easter, got the other 2 credits, then power-walked to Great White, getting there just in time for 3 laps. Even if I needed to pay-per-ride to get on Great White after 7pm, it still would be a much better deal than the all-day thing. I had such a great time with my 6 hours there.
I was at Six Flags over Texas today, very busy, but I have the all-parks flash pass this year. I also get preferred parking with my pass, but I choose not to park in the preferred lot at SFOT for other reasons. Only rich-people cars are tolerated in SFOT's preferred lot. That space around Green Lantern (my # 5 at the park) does look different to me. It looks like they're making great progress with Flash. I'm so much hoping that it'll be open for my visit in mid-August, but I know that could be tight if they don't hurry. I probably won't even use my flash pass at Great Adventure. With their strict locker policy, and with flash pass having to be done over the phone, that seems like a very complicated mess, with far too many locker purchases to book my next flash pass. I'll just leave the phone in the car, or in an all-day locker, and just hope for short lines. That policy probably hurts flash pass sales at that park.
I think flash should be open by 4th of july. Iron menance was at a similar state nd seemed like it opened a few weeks later and theres not much left to construct. Great adventures locker system does suck. Thats the main reason i skip out on joker or even jersey devil because i dont want to pay $2 for a locker.
Iron Menace was very overrated and over hyped. It's a "Meh" coaster for me. Another supporting ride but not the Main Attraction that Dorney still is sorely lacking.
It has a shot at being my favorite in the park, since I have Dr Diabolical's Cliffhanger ranked ahead of Mamba, Steel Force, & Hydra. That seems crazy that they only let you have 1 ride on Iron Menace, since it didn't look very busy.
You had to reserve a time slot in order to ride. If it was longer i would put it above steel force. I just love those last airtime hills on steel force. Since the lift was sped up, you really get pulled down the first drop if you sit in the back
Seems like a typical opening day at parks. The people are ready, the park is not. Speedy parking has been a mess in Texas. I signed up once they made it free. But most people pulling up don't understand what it is, so they just pull up to that window, then they wait for a worker to come over so they can pay for their parking. In other words, the speedy parking lane will take the longest to get through.
