@@DoswarePictures it did contribute to it, as the ride volleyed because if high winds. Alton towers should not have been operating it. I reccemond watching GP to Enthusiast's video about it if you want to learn more
Bruh I had to clean the subs of iron while this shit was happening and roadrunner. People were yelling at me that I suck and I should quit because I wouldn’t let them ride because of the winds.
Klara although probably as not as noteworthy as the shows at Over Texas, considering Kelly Clarkson and a few others got their start performing at SFOT.
I don’t hear a lot of stories of people dying because of Ferris wheels or the people operating it (but then again I didn’t know about a few of the incidents talked about on the channel)
@@DoswarePictures also touche. Though Thunderhawk is a standard SLC clone; no one craps on it as much as other SLC's (Mind Eraser or Kong). Also, which woodie do you like better at MA? Wolverine Wildcat or Shivering Timbers?
Max Theme Parks maybe it’s because everyone had high expectations. Maybe I should lower my expectations to hopefully have a better experience if I do go
Max Theme Parks I went the first week of November, and I absolutely loved it! Got all the credits, and even got a credit I wasn’t expecting to get! (Boomerang was listed as closed on their website but ended up being open). It’s by far my favorite six flags park, and is in my top 5 parks overall
Other than crappy nachos, no Mexican food there. One would think that it would be a great place for Mexican food, but, Nope. Doesn't exist there. Go figure!
This is my home park and it's not normally like this. Usually every ride is open and lines are only this long in the summer or holidays. Just had some bad luck I guess
Yeah, I was sad to see this video, as I've been going to Fiesta before it was even Six Flags, and never had a bad experience, though I totally understand frustration with so many closures.
Better safe than sorry though. I can see why people would be upset but can't really blame the park for trying to keep people safe (and avoiding potential millionaire lawsuits)
My family took a big trip to Cedar Point this summer, but I couldn't go because I had to work. It was my 10 year old brother's first trip to the park and he is a huge roller coaster fan and was so so excited. They got to the park, rope-dropped Steel Vengeance, but still had to wait in a two hour line. They were standing on the loading station, next in line for it, when a thunderstorm popped up and they had to close the ride. They waited an hour on the loading station, and then the ride operators kicked everyone out of line, so they lost their spot. Everything was closed and there were power surges, so nothing opened in the whole park until 5 pm that day. Steel Vengeance never reopened, Dragster never reopened. They managed to ride Millenium Force and a couple of flat rides but didn't get any other big credits the entire day. It was such a bad day that when my dad went to customer service, they gave him free tickets and free parking for a return trip. I was able to go for the return trip, and it was on a crazy busy Saturday during Halloweekends (we never go to parks on weekends but it was the only time we could fit the 8 hour round trip in). When we went to exchange our vouchers for the tickets, they also gave us free fast passes. The park was near capacity, but we managed to ride everything two or three times on a gorgeous fall day. In the end, it was completely worth it (especially for me who didn't have to deal with the first trip!).
Airtime Thrills Trust me, you DO NOT want to. Halloweekends this year was beyond terrible. Packed to the brim, half of the rides were down off and on because of weather. When you spend $170 on fast lane plus, you generally expect to get on more than 9 rides, but that’s what I got on one Saturday. When there’s a 45 minute wait for rougarou with fast lane, yeah...
jonathan manning Anymore, it seems to be that way. It used to be that the most popular rides had an hour or two wait then you had rides like magnum that were walk on, not now though. I mean, I’m happy for the revenue boost but it’s gonna backfire when nobody wants to go anymore in fear of insane crowds.
I'm a current employee there and I apologise greatly for your experience. We are just very cautious with any risks of danger to our guests and we want to keep our park as safe as possible. Once again, I apologise for the inconveniences this has caused you. If there's anything we can do to make it up to you, let us know! Thank you and have a great day!
I personally completely understand. I went yesterday and all the rides were closed in the morning due to the first cold front of the season. Towards the end of the day they opened the Superman due to pressure from guests. The tests went fine and I was on the second ride. The group right behind me got stuck on the tracks and they had to close it immediately again. You guys were quick to act on getting everyone down safely and everyone stuck was off the ride on the ground again within twenty to thirty minutes. Good job. I had a great time. It was my first time on a roller coaster and I loved it.
I personally completely understand. I went yesterday and all the rides were closed in the morning due to the first cold front of the season. Towards the end of the day they opened the Superman due to pressure from guests. The tests went fine and I was on the second ride. The group right behind me got stuck on the tracks and they had to close it immediately again. You guys were quick to act on getting everyone down safely and everyone stuck was off the ride on the ground again within twenty to thirty minutes. Good job. I had a great time. It was my first time on a roller coaster and I loved it.
I personally completely understand. I went yesterday and all the rides were closed in the morning due to the first cold front of the season. Towards the end of the day they opened the Superman due to pressure from guests. The tests went fine and I was on the second ride. The group right behind me got stuck on the tracks and they had to close it immediately again. You guys were quick to act on getting everyone down safely and everyone stuck was off the ride on the ground again within twenty to thirty minutes. Good job. I had a great time. It was my first time on a roller coaster and I loved it.
I personally completely understand. I went yesterday and all the rides were closed in the morning due to the first cold front of the season. Towards the end of the day they opened the Superman due to pressure from guests. The tests went fine and I was on the second ride. The group right behind me got stuck on the tracks and they had to close it immediately again. You guys were quick to act on getting everyone down safely and everyone stuck was off the ride on the ground again within twenty to thirty minutes. Good job. I had a great time. It was my first time on a roller coaster and I loved it.
Isabella Genova yep, but it lost to “You’ll Be in my Heart” by Phil Collins from Tarzan. While Trey and Matt didn’t expect a win, they were surprised (and supposedly offended) when Phil won, so they made fun of him in a future South Park episode and made him hold an Oscar.
La Ronde is a nice six flag park to be honest, I live far from Montreal but I can say that La Ronde is alright if you have school activities, but for christ sake it is expensive, The Goliath is very nice, The Monster is a very nice wooden coaster, the Vampire is alright, the Cobra is my favorite, the Ednor I still haven't ride it, the Boomerang (I think it is called like that) is rough but has nice loops, I don't remember the others but it is honestly very nice, most of them were open and I still enjoyed my times I go there, so depending on a theme to the other, blame the ride's quality if they have too many issue to be fixed. Edit: Forgot to mentioned, the wait is horrendously long because it is Montreal
Even the "best" Six Flags parks suffer from their horrible corporate mismanagement. They just seem to take no pride in their parks. I understand why they might not shell out for giga coasters and B&M's when they could just buy equally great rides like RMC's Maxx Force, but honestly I'd rather they just spend that money to make their parks not look like shitholes plastered with advertisements everywhere.
I went to fiesta texas before they opened wonder woman's lasso and iron rattler so it was already a pretty eh experience since I had ridden 3 of their rides already at six flags st. louis. sorry it was such a bitch for you lol
Been there over 200 times and ive literally never seen anything closed by wind, nor have i ever seen multiple major rides closed at once for any reason
@@gogy4 AGREED like maybe six flags could plant some trees to break up the wind or something.. but the max wind speed for a ride is set by the manufacture, not the park. most rides will actually worn the ride ops that a gust has been read over the maxim safe speed and cannot be safely operated. no park WANTS a ride to go down. and further more (at least with the park I work for BGT) if one ride measures a gust over the thresh hold of another ride then that other ride must shut down, even if its on the opposite side of the park. so for example if Sheikra gets a reading of 42mph but Montu is only reading 20mph then Montu will still shut down for weather. all "class 1 rides" at BGT shut down at 40mph so everthing besides the carousel and the train. i didn't mean to type so much but oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
CoasterKing I would say it’s not a problem at all from what I can tell I went four times this year and each time there weren’t any problems like this. He just caught it on a bad day 😔
Fiesta Texas sits in a bowel because it’s an old quarry, so it can get breezy in there and there’s not much they can do about it. There is shopping centers and parking lots around the grounds
Crazycoasterfan 123 magic mountain is the only park that you can get a guaranteed good time. That’s because it’s a number game, magic mountain has 19 coasters so even if half of the park is closed you can get 9-10 rides done. Fiesta Texas has under 10 rides and that includes the kiddy coasters. So if even a couple are down it feels like the whole park is closed.
Garret Barber great adventure is good bc toro rarely breaks the only problem is that on slower days you cant go to the back for the insane airtime, ka is always open when im there but ive heard otherwise and then theres nitro a great b&m hyper. the top 3 are usually open and then you have the clones like the b&m inverts, green lantern, superman, the sns freespin, etc
My worst experience was at six flags America, a operator shoved my blind brother along with me and my friend into the car, never been so pissed In my life
Six Flags Fiesta Texas is actually one of the best parks (maybe because it's my home park I'm a little biased) but the early spring to late fall/winter Fiesta Texas becomes a little worse than what it could be because of the wind
I've been to a dozen or so parks around the US, and I agree. I like Cedar Point a little bit more, but Fiesta is a really strong park, probably my 2nd favorite.
my worst time was at six flags great adventure. I was 10 years old and the night before going my older brother bullied me into taking a large amount of laxatives. the laxatives didn't effect me well into the day. imagine riding intense roller coasters when all of the sudden you are literally about to shit your pants. I spent most of that day in the bathroom but did manage to ride a few rides. I hate my brother for this lol. im 23 now and yes I have gotten revenge.
my worst park experience I've ever had was at Great Adventure (on a marching band field trip). I payed for the flash passes so instead of heading straight for kingda ka, we got them. as we walked up to ka, all our friends had just gotten off of it. spoiler alert, it closed before we got to it. we rode el toro and it was way too hot out to enjoy it, spent an hour trying to look for the lunch pavillion, rode nitro, and at that point the only ride without a 2 hour wait was harley quinn crazy train with a 45 minute wait. for real. in almost eight hours, with the flashpasses, we rode two coasters and a kiddie coaster. edit: i had an infinitely better time at six flags america lmao
Definitely not. SFOT is better by quite a margin. I actually prefer it’s atmosphere more and it’s consistent while SFFT in the other hand is all over the place. I’ve also just had incredible experiences at SFOT everytime
Coaster Fusion Crazycoasterfan 123 magic mountain is the only park that you can get a guaranteed good time. That’s because it’s a number game, magic mountain has 19 coasters so even if half of the park is closed you can get 9-10 rides done. Fiesta Texas has under 10 rides and that includes the kiddy coasters. So if even a couple are down it feels like the whole park is closed.
2019 was probably the worst year for Fiesta Texas. I'm a San Antonio native and go every year. They kept stuff closed for pretty much no reason, took away the original and best fireworks display and replaced it with knockoff disney show, and charged a hell of lot more for simple stuff. One day they legitimately had only 4 rides open in the park.
I was there in June and it wasn't any better. How does a park close two of its headline coasters for a crappy flat ride install? Like Airtime, was visiting from else where in the USA. Wonder women and Superman were offline all day.
It’s not anyone’s fault. So what if airtime or some big RU-vid person went. People are working and it will go on like any other day. He’s not special and does not need that kind of treatment. I did not know who he was and I work at this park until some of my friends showed me this video. Wonder Woman was off that day because it was getting repairs for its single coaster rails and Superman was down for the dangerous winds. I guess y’all wanna die than care about chur own safety.
As a local I’ve never had this problem? I wouldn’t say this isn’t a problem at all just got the park on a bad day. Also that line for Poltergeist was at worst 40 min. Totally doable!!
Chromebot same but only on like spring break! I’ve been on busy days and yet the line only fills up to like the first maybe first and half rows and that’s basically 40 min to an hr max I love that it usually has the shortest line
At six flags over Texas, the whole day rides would randomly “shut down” and people would get off, but we met this kid that was by himself at the park and he said that his brother worked there, and they occasionally shut down rides if the line is piling up, and then re open it once enough people leave. It’s actually true, we were on multiple rides when they shut it down, they literally just stood around talking, and then grabbed the speaker and started it again. Stay in your line, the ride doesn’t break down 5 times in one day and continue to work perfectly.
TIM Glazner But it IS the park’s responsibility to make sure people get what they paid for, so either compensation is required, or they should try building more reliable attractions that don’t require closing during winds.
I went in August and it was terrible. I took us 20 minutes to get on Iron Rattler with flash pass premium. Wonder Woman was closed. It was over 105 degrees and there was only one water ride open. Left park early
One day I worked at Phantasialand, it was one of the hottest days all year and I was standing in front of a closed Talocan from 11:30 to about 17:00 (mostly in 2 hour chunks, with half hour breaks and 1 hour lunch in-between). Main thing I did that day: Telling people that Talocan is closed. At one point someone told me that 4 other main attractions, including Taron and Chiapas, were all down as well and River Quest had between 90-120 minute wait all day. Mamba was also down for half an hour in the afternoon (friend of mine worked there that day and came to talk to me every time he had a break, since I was just standing there all day).
Hell yea last time i went was 2001 an ride of steel was closed, but went back the next day an got to ride an ROAR an batwimg were great back then. Wouldnt mind going back but they def need to add some new or atleazt RMC Roar
@@tinypoolmodelshipyard i was lucky in that 99 to 2005 i travel so much, some magic years lol...i feel old but im only in my 30s, even got 25 rides in one day on hypersonic xlc in 02..just come crazy stuff lol....I'm waiting for jersey devil coaster to open to be my first rmc hahah from what i hear they should rmc roar!! i plan to travel again this year!
This happened to me as well. I went to six flags fiesta Texas, aware of how much they are hated due to constant ride breakdowns and whatnot. Day started off normal, I rode almost every ride before it started going down hill. First, Batman broke on me TWICE, then poltergeist broke down, the new Dr. Diabolical’s Cliffhanger broke down on me, and then Goliath broke down. When I was waiting in line for Goliath to open back up, hoping that I wouldn’t have to leave with boomerang as my last ride, they told me rather rudely “You need to leave right now” like I just committed a crime at the park. There is something totally wrong with the maintenance here, I have never experienced so many breakdowns in one day, even at universal studios. And the weather was perfectly fine that day. It was just cloudy no rain at all.
Star flyers can operate in pretty high winds. SFNE is able to run their 400+ ft star flyer in high winds cause it's all powered and the only thing the wind does is cause the seats to spin a little.
That is my home park. As soon as you said all the kids would be out of school that should have been a clue about the lines. I could hear how bad the wind was from the recording so I'm not surprised everything is closed. The biggest sins you can do when visiting fiesta texas is going on a busy day, going on a bad weather day to include heat/wind/rain, and not commiting to a line. If you line hop all day hoping for the lines to get shorter, you will be disappointed and end up wasting more time than if you had just waited in a line.
Went here the exact same day. This is my home park and I was crazy disappointed with pretty much everything. Most of the time it is a pretty fun park, when everything is open of course.
Reminds me of the time at SFOT when they closed most of the rides due to wind except Texas Skyscreamer, the only ride that’s actually dangerous in high winds. I ended up going on it in the windstorm and thought my life was over.
In la cantera and the rim, the power grid is shit man. I’ve worked here for two seasons and the power shuts down 3-4 times a year here in this section of San Antonio. Everything faults out and I freak out. I remember gully washer draining randomly because of a power outage.
Me and a friend went to Six Flags Great America this past summer. The temperature was 95+ (over 100 with humidity) and the park was dead. We got about 2 to 3 rides on every coaster. We got there at 10am and left at 4:30 (our plan was to stay til 8pm but since we rode every ride that we wanted to enough times we got bored). So, just a tip, if it’s over 100 outside go to an amusement park because it will be dead. That was my first time to a six flags ever. My friend, who had been there a handful of times, said it was the least busy he had ever seen it.
Grant Russell that’s not true at all, at least not for Six Flags Over Georgia....During the summer, it’s always 90+ degrees outside, and the park stays packed, everyday, every hour, every minute, and every second....I’ve noticed if there is a threat for rain in the forecast, or if it’s raining, the park is empty, but most rides close down during the rain.....if you are lucky and it stops raining while you are at the park, the rides re-open shortly after the rain....that is the best time to have the whole park to yourself....
I went here first time it was amazing. Second time was slow operations, none of the rides were open and the ones that were open I didn’t want to go on.
Fiesta Texas is one of six flag's "lesser" parks that continues to get passed up by six flags corporate for major rollercoasters and other attractions that get built at other parks. The only great ride we have is the iron rattler, everything else here kinda sucks.
the worst feeling is going to a six flags and all the rides are closed for the silliest reasons! you trying to be happy tho which is literally adorable
I did a three day weekend in San Antonio this year (President's Day weekend). Sea World was closed. The Houston coasters were closed. I did Dallas like a month later. Did hit up ZDT's and I ended up getting 18 rides on Iron Rattler and 16 on Wonder Women, so I got lucky with Fiesta Texas. Sounds like I was the only one this year. The operations for Over Texas weren't the greatest so it is give and take....
Hi, Texan here! I recommend going to Six Flags in the winter! I know it sounds bad due to the cold, but the cold is actually your friend in this case! Trips to the park during January-March are usually very good as the park is almost fully empty (due to families not wanting to go out in the cold), and wait times go down to 5-10 minutes! (Sometimes even less if you get there when it opens!) Closures are also suprisingly rare during those times! (It stared light raining on my trip but they kept the rides open and safe, so I still got to have fun, albeit a little wet!) I went yesterday (Jan 4th) and was able to ride six coasters (Goliath, Dr. Diobolical, Superman, Batman, Joker, Iron Rattler, Road Runner), almost all of them extreme and/or very popular! (Not including the fact that I rode 3 of those six twice in the same trip, so 9 rides in 4 hours total!) Trips to Six Flags can suck at times (especially during the summer, daammnnn you Dallas...), but if you know when to go, you'll end up having the time of your life there! :)
Honestly, I can strongly agree with this. This year was absolute garbage with almost every ride unexpectedly closing, or just some weird malfunctions. Hopefully next year in 2020 will be better. (I went today; opening to closing time, and it was pretty fun. Not as many rides were closed fortunately)
If winds are over 15mph they can’t run certain rides. You’d think the swing rides would be closed but they aren’t and it’s terrifying to be on those swings! Some roller coaster aren’t made to handle winds and the trains can’t make it up the hills or could completely derail completely due too strong winds
If you visit Cedar Point in the beginning of April, it's like heaven dawned down on you. The weather is perfect, the water park is roaring, All coasters are operating, Hotel Breakers smells nice, and it's just perfect.
I work here and roadrunner was down because I had to call a condition B. Get everyone off and have them fix it because it was having trouble leaving the station because of the wind. Iron rattler was closed because of the wind. Ultimately this was a terrible time for six flags fiesta texas. As a ride operatior in crack axle canon, it was not under our control. The weather this year was a real pain, leaving lots of angry people getting after us for not letting them ride something for their own safety. This is a fact and I am a operator in crack axle canyon. If we ran rattler, it would have condition A. (Riders get stuck) on the lift due to the structure being unstable. Y’all just wanna die, don’t y’all.
