I had my Chemistry final from 10:00-11:30 so I didn't get to SFGAm until 12:30. When I got there, I had to park in the back row of the front lot.
First ride of the day was Sky Trek Tower, nothing interesting. Next up was Firehouse Pizza for lunch.
After that, went on Demon. Line was under the lift hill with no switchbacks. After Demon, I went to Southwest Territory and saw Viper had a long line. Raging Bull was in the second queue house in 2-Train Op.
Instead, I decided to go to Hurricane Harbor to take some pictures. When I got to Skull Island, I immediately noticed it was filled with dirty water. Still had lots of work going on though.
Then I went back in to GAm and went to Eagle. Red was closed and Blue was broken. Continued to Scenic Railroad, which was doing round trips only.
Next, went to Batman which was using all of the switchbacks in the "ghetto" part.
Went around the front of the park again and went back in to Hurricane Harbor because I was tired of lines.
This time, when I was standing by Wahoo Racer, they turned on some of the water effects on Skull Island. After a while, they turned them off again and turned some other ones on. After nothing changed for 20 minutes, I was going to leave, but then they dumped the bucket behind the skull.
At this point, I saw Eagle Red had opened, so I headed over there and waited 30 minutes and rode in the rehabbed train. After that, went to Batman again which had the same wait as before.
After Batman, I went to Demon again which had a station wait. It was 6:30, so I decided to check out Skull Island one more time. This time, everything was off and they had drained it. They had about 15-20 people in there with push-brooms pushing all the dirt out of the pool and 2 more people hosing off the pool deck. I think Skull Island could easily open this week.
After that, I went to Demon which was a walk-on again. Then I went to Bull to finish off the night. Waited 30 minutes for row 9. As I was leaving the station, I saw DejaVu The Ride at the back of the line, so I waited for him once I got off. He got the last train and got a re-ride.
After that, spent about 20 minutes talking in the parking lot, and then left.
Question, were you wearing a purple Superman: Ultimate flight T-Shirt, because if you were, they I definatley saw you. There was someone taking lots of HH pics today.
I was wearing a shirt that said "Insufficient memory at this time" Did anyone see me?
BTW, the slides in skull island are running with water today! The real water for the attraction is ready now and I wouldn't be surprised if it opened later today or tomorrow.
I hope they werent selling fastlane pass's with RB's line in the second house and ONLY a two train operation. If so then it is another example of running a ride less than capacity in order tp gouge the public.
I'm about to rant if you want to skip this post...
Okay, I've applied for a job this season at GAm (Yes, Currently I can still post here) And they told me they would call me back within a week to schedule an interveiw. after two weeks I called them finally found the number for HR and called them. It was after business hours and I figured I'd leave a message and maybe someone would get it.
So It get to this hotline, and all it says is "If this is regarding Business, please hang up and dial 249-whatever the number was, if you would like to hear about our exciting job oppertunities for this season press 1" So, I pressed 1, in the hopes that I could get to a machine or maybe a person. I get "Hello, it's time for fright fest" (Mind you this call was made in May) "If you would like to hear about our Ghoulishly fun fright fest opportunities come to our fright fest job fair on Some date" I'm confused now, so I stay on the line for a minute to see if there are any options.
Suddenly this voice says "Hello, welcome to the Six Flags Great America Human Recources Voice Mail Box: Message one" I'm really confused now!
It played four messages, and I was hoping maybe it would allow me to leave a message (It didn't) but every single message was regarding the same thing I was calling about. They said they would call, and they never did.
At this point i'm super frustrated with the whole Machine thing. and I figured i would wait until the next day during business hours to talk to an actual person.
I do, I call and I get this man telling me he'll leave my name at the front desk, and they will call either within the next hour, or the next morning.
Do they call? No. (Anyone still confused as to why they are so understaffed?)
So I'm going to call again on Monday (Next business day) and try again.
They complain about being understaffed, but they don't exactly have a great system.
2 trains at Bull sucks and all, but sometimes it just has to happen. Staffing was still an issue(as of Friday). But from now on, it should work out pretty well with more than enough staff.
The were not enough staff for Fastlane, the kids that work there still have school. Once school is over, they will sell them everyday and have Bull in 3 trains everyday.
Universal Orlando Mechanical Engineer Marathon down, Goofy to go.
Skull Island OPENED TODAY!!! Around 12 or 1 it hads its opening. only 21 of the slides were open. but it was open, and when it did, people went running
