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Sunday, June 29th

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Postby Goku1910 on June 30th, 2008, 4:20 pm
It was a great day.....with some twists and turns.

Well, We missed our pace bus so we had top go by car, loads of traffic so we got there a little passed 11:00 AM....

First thing we did was go to Get the Flash Pass Gold. It WAS REALLY CROWDED!

After that, we thought we'd head to bull since it was close, we rode that front row, while in line we Reserved TDK. After a short 20 Minute wait for the reservation, we headed there and went on. It was pretty much a walk-on after the Pre-show. While in line for that, we reserved Superman: Ultimate Flight and rode that front seat. Reserved V2, went there and it began to rain heavily while in the station....they gave us trivia while we waited....After a few test runs, the alarm went off I'm guessing and V2's train went up and it never came back....Then I noticed it's near the end of the LIM's. We had to wait a while before the train could come back. Something like 90 Seconds according to the operator. (Emergency Stop??) This was my first ride on V2, so I don't know. After my fist ride on V2, I wanted to ride Batman the Ride. We rode that also in the front... We reserved Bull again but decided to go on American Eagle Red. Short wait, went on the front. When we finally went to bull we rode it in the front seat and then decided to get something to eat. While we ate, we reserved Bull again! 3rd time today. After that, we headed to SUF again. It began raining again while we were in line, we got one anyway....It actually hurt. Superman going fast while rain droplets hit your head actually hurts. We went on TDK again...not much info on that. After getting off TDK, we found out that the power is out!?!? No coasters in the park had power. Since the power was out, I decided to ride Triple play and I liked it. When I finally see Bull running, I said to Dave: "Check the Flash Pass, does it say V2 is open?" And it was so we headed for V2 again.....but this time sat in the back. We headed to American Eagle Again....Same car, same train, same thrill. Here is where the record breaker comes in. We went on bull Four more times in the front! We were going to make it four but on our seventh ride, Someone threw up on the second row....and it smelled so bad.....We were in line for #4 ride and the announced that there was a brake Malfunction....Wonder why, someone only threw up on it. So we headed to Demon to end our day. Returned Flash Passes and went to catch the bus.

pictures coming soon, Superman got me more wet then the Yankee clipper!

Ride Count:

Raging Bull: 7
The Dark Knight: 2
Superman Ultimate Flight: 2
V2: 2
Batman the Ride: 1
American Eagle: 2
Demon: 1
Triple Play: 1

We missed out on Viper :(
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Postby onyxhotel08 on June 30th, 2008, 4:58 pm
No love for Viper or iron Wolf? Can't say I blame you...too bad it rained for ya. That sucks. yeah, the gold flash pass is the love of my life. I paid June 24th for me and my brother. He says he will pay next time. I'll probably get it next time I go by myself too just to avoid waiting. Bull, Superman and BTR are the best with the flash pass. V2 too. I hate you actually have to wait for AE and Viper.
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Postby Goku1910 on June 30th, 2008, 5:06 pm
yeah, That's part of the reason we didn't go on them that much.

But I'm not mad about the rain at all, it only rained twice and it lasted about 10-15 minutes.

But what about V2? You know anything about that weird stop at the end of the LIM's?

It was my first time, so I don't really know.
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Postby wishman35 on June 30th, 2008, 5:07 pm
onyxhotel08 wrote:No love for Viper or iron Wolf? Can't say I blame you...too bad it rained for ya. That sucks. yeah, the gold flash pass is the love of my life. I paid June 24th for me and my brother. He says he will pay next time. I'll probably get it next time I go by myself too just to avoid waiting. Bull, Superman and BTR are the best with the flash pass. V2 too. I hate you actually have to wait for AE and Viper.


BTR flash pass spot is probably the worst of all of them. If i had to rank them it would be as follows.

1.) V2: Straight to the platform, skipping such a slow line
2.) SUF: straight to platform, skipping a huge line
3.) Iron Wolf: Straight to platform
4.) Whizzer: Straight to platform
5.) Raging Bull: To bottom of stairs, decent but still about a 5-10 minute wait from entry, usually able to reserve Bull again right away and get on after ride, about a 15 minute swing.
6.) Dark Knight: Funniest line skipping because you skip the whole inside, but still go through show and rest of line.
7.) Batman: Only to entrance of sewer, still have to wait through whole sewer and both flights of stairs, regardless of how fast it moves...its the least convenient.

Water rides are excluded from this.
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Postby Goku1910 on June 30th, 2008, 5:10 pm
I agree with those rankings 100%
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Postby onyxhotel08 on June 30th, 2008, 6:20 pm
I waited about 2 minutes for each of the rides. yeah that sewer is smelly and warm but it was only about a 5 minute wait. We were there on a weekday so that helped. I saw the line anyway reach the entrance and was barely moving. RB goes by a lot faster. Iron Wolf quick. V2 and Demon were the longest in my book because our startup itself was delayed by the operator talking with one of the riders about something on V2. Demon and the rest of the rides need a flash pass entrance. I can't even imagine how bad it is on Fright Fest. Have to go on a weekday again. Columbus Day maybe. I have a free coupon but not sure which days exactly.
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Postby raginbullrider on June 30th, 2008, 6:54 pm
I am Dave and was with Goku1910The pwer outage occured earlier when we got off of bull and went to eat remember. We took a few pictures too i dk if you wanted to post them i haven't downloaded them to the computer yet
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Postby Goku1910 on June 30th, 2008, 8:15 pm
ohh ok dave, thanks for the update on my wrong info....

Yep, e-mail those pics...I want them on photobucket to post here.
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