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8-1-06 REALLY good day!!!!! Day of the Walk-ons!

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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on August 2nd, 2006, 12:28 pm
Well this day was one of the best I've ever had at SFGAm, we started out at 7:30 am, and stopped at Jewel-Osco for a few lunch items, then a stop at the gas station for a little extra gas, of which I only pumped $25. We were on the highway by 8 am. It took us only an hour to get to SFGAm, on the way there, my mom started talking about our future with her new husband, and I was like thinking, "Shut up please, I don't want to hear this!." Anyway around 9:30 am we arrived at SFGAm, hardly no traffic on the way there. We were able to get our parking spot quickly, and I got my first souvenir of the day, the giant map(which is hanging on my wall now). We started walking into the park minutes before it opened, I was the guy wearing the white V2 t-shirt and Superman visor hat, drinking the large gallon of Gatorade.

We got in at 10:00, perfect timing, and headed towards Raging Bull, along the way, I picked up 3 Flash Passes, one for me, and my two sisters. Then we hit Raging Bull at 10:15 am. It hardly had any line at all, and we got on it pretty quick, front row(red train). Next we headed over to Viper, again the line wasn't that bad. I saw my mom in the Hurricane Harbor line, as we waited in line for Viper. We got to the front row, because it only had a couple of people in it. I took the front after my sisters did. I sat there in the front, carefully, trying not to get a cramp in my leg. Behind me were two little boys, one who had been on it(Viper) before. They asked the ride op, "Is it okay if I sit on my hat, or put it behind my back?" She was like yea, then I told them "It's better to have a visor, that way you can put it around your neck, and not worry about sitting on it." As we started towards the lift, one of the little kids started to say, "I'm going to die, I'm going to die!" he said it over and over again, before I said "No, you're going to scream!" :) In the end, nobody died, and everybody enjoyed Viper.

By this time it was a little over 11:00am. So I found my sisters waiting for me by the Papa John's pizza place(right by the enterance to Viper). I got em' some water and some for me as well. Then we headed into Hurricane Harbor to cool down.

We quickly changed into our swim attire, and got ready to have a little HH fun. First off, I tried looking for my mom, as she said she be in the same shaded place as last year. Couldn't find her right away, so we sat down somewhere else, I must of called her like 15-20 times, before she finally called back on my sisters phone. She was where we had already looked in the same spot as last year! So, I put my stuff down on my chair, and headed over for Tornado, the line for that thing was insane! But it went really fast, the more annoying part was having to carry those clover-tubes up the stairs. They are so big and cumber-some! But once at the top, I had three others ride with me, we went down a VERY steep drop that fed into the funnel, we went quite high on both sides of the funnel. Water was splashing up EVERYWHERE! Finally, through the waterfall at the end, and another splash after the waterfall as well. DAMN! Tornado was one of the best water slides I had been on in a while! Definatly worth the wait! :D

Then I headed over to the body slides, the concrete in HH was so f*cking HOT! It must had been like 95 that day! Anyway I got to the body slides enterance, and it looked like there was no line, so I quickly got to the stairs, where I saw a little line, meh. I rode on the Paradise Plunge(blue body slide). I raced a little girl, I won of coruse. I then after that headed over to one of the souvenir shops in HH, and looked for some sandals so I wouldn't have to walk on the hot concrete, to my amazement, everything was too expensive. so I walked and headed over to the Wahoo Racers.

As usual, there was a line of people outside the enternace waiting to get their rubber mats for the ride. I found a little puddle of water to stand in while waiting to keep my feet cool. Then I got my mat, and headed up the stairs, the line wasn't too bad. I was able to get to the top in about 10 minutes. I jumped and, although I didn't win the race, the ride itself is just as I remembered it, crazy! :) So it was about 12:45pm, and I decided to head to Skull Island, just to get that large 'bucket' of water dumped on me by the skull itself. A bunch of people were already waiting under the skull as well, so I joined them. After being dumped on, I decided it was time to return to Great America and ride some more roller coasters. I quickly put on my clothes, my visor, etc. Got a cup of water from the Flamingo cafe, and returned to the main park.

I decided that I wanted to ride American Eagle, but just as I was almost out of Southwest Territory, I saw that Deja Vu was open and I said to myself, "Forget the American Eagle, I'm going to ride Deja Vu!" So I started to head in the direction of Deja Vu, and got to it as the line was forming, it was only a 20 minute wait I want to say. By the time I got on the first row(1A) of Vu, it was already like 1:40pm. Awesome ride, the same way I remember it! :) By the time I got off of Deja Vu, I was fricking hungry! So I headed over to Luigi's Pizza and Cheese Bread(by the enterance of American Eagle). I had a large slice of pepperoni pizza, and 3 cheese breads, dipping in red sauce. With a medium HI-C, yum that was good! Now it was about 2:00pm.

Now, I stated over towards American Eagle, thinking oh there will be at least a 30 minute wait, plenty of time for my stomach to settle. No wait what-so-ever. WALK-ON! I had no time for my stomach to settle! I was on the ride in less then 10 minutes! I took the Blue train, front row. I had asked why isn't the Blue train running backwards anymore to one of the ops. She had said, "Because it's a birthday year, they wanted to have it like it was 22 years ago." So the Blue train won anyway, the Red train stood no chance, it fell behind in the helix, as it always does, cause the blue trains just shoots around it soooo fast! :)

So after the Eagle, I headed over to Iron Wolf(it is about 2:25 now), called my mom and see what they were up to, they were still eating in the car. I was troting back and forth in front of the Iron Wolf, I looked over to the rides line as I was on the phone, and thought no line, WALK-ON again! So I casually walked "in-line" for Iron Wolf as I was talking on the phone.

I quickly got to the front row of Iron Wolf, I wasn't in pain at all after the ride, because I have ways of working with the ride. Anyway as I was getting off the Wolf, and walking down it's exit ramp, two black guys in front of me started to get in a fight, at first they were throwing light punchs, then it got serious as one knocked the other to one side of the handrail and the other pushed back to the other handrail, the they fell onto the ramps concrete floor, and started fighting it out there. Heavy punchs now, one guy further up the ramp had to break them up, as I was stepping around them all. I wanted no part in it, I just wanted to have fun. Several people saw this, including a few parents and their children at the end of the ramp. I hope these two black guys were kicked out of the park.

Anyway, now I decided to head over to Vertical Velocity, and along the way I picked up another cup of ice water. When I got to V2, I saw no line once again! WALK-ON! I got to the station of V2 in no time flat. It was about 2:50 by the time I got to the front row of V2. I love this ride! :D
So V2 was over, it was about 3:00 now, and I decided that I needed to use the bathroom, then I headed over to Batman, I was thinking, "If the line is long, I'll use the "Flash-Pass". NO LINE! WALK-ON! on Batman!?!?!
I got to the station of BTR, almost completely empty!!!! I took front row, and again one of SFGAm's great rides! :) What surprised me as when I put my hands up on BTR, that I was able to touch one of the wheel covers! So I kept my hands low. :wink:

It was now around 3:15-3:25pm. I was getting closer and closer to Superman, I walked into the Heros shop to buy a t-shirt, I looked arounf found several cool t-shirts. One had a Superman logo on the top and it said in big black letters underneith it, "Single" I thought that was cool. Then in the back, I found a Flash logo t-shirt and a Green Lantern logo t-shirt. I decided to get the Green Lantern logo shirt in XL. I quickly headed over to the bathroom to change into it. Now, I was wearing a Green Lantern logo t-shirt, with a red Superman visor either on my head or around my neck. With olive green kakhi(sp?) shorts. It was about 3:40 now.

I headed over to Superman, and walked into the Flash Pass enterance, because I saw the sign said a 60 minute wait, the was no line!!!! So I quickly ran out of the Flash Pass enterance, and got into the regular line for SUF. WALK-ON!!! Superman Ultimate WALK-ON!!!! I was on the ride in 20 minutes. Good coaster. fun. :) By the time Superman was done, it was already close to 4:00!

I headed over to Angelo's Pasta and Pizza, and got a green souvenir sports bottle. Had it filled with HI-C. but they had no straws for it. I looked for a straw in a couple of food shops in Orleans Place, finally found a straw in Antonie's Ice Cream parlor. I walked into Carousel Plaza, and sat down behind the Carousel, resting and drinking HI-C. It was about 4:15 now. I decided to head over to Raging Bull, not before taking a pit stop in the Carousel Plaza Gifts shop, looking around for the Batman logo key chain thingy, I couldn't find it.

Now I was on my way towards Raging Bull, I got to the ride at 4:25ish. I thought oh it's probley going to be a walk-on. I was wrong! Although the switch-backs were empty, there was a line of people I couldn't see until I got closer to the station. I should of used my Flash Pass I thought. I got to the Bull's front row around 4:50. I had received the Red trimed train for the second time of the day! RB, such a GREAT ride, I love it! :D

Now it was getting close to 5pm. My legs felt like rubber, and were ready to fall off, I had only taken short breaks in-between coaster ridings...So I decided to go to one of the massage chairs(barrels) in SWT, the one that was right next to the P.J.R. Coolbody store. I put in two quarters got a double massage, I felt good, it was now around 5:10ish. I headed into the Coolbody store in SWT, looked around, nothing much of intrest to me in there, things I already have. So I found that I had an extra quarter on me, and I went back to the same, massage chair for a 3rd massage.

SKIP AHEAD

Now it was getting close to 6:20ish, I went back to Raging Bull again. This time I used the Flash Pass, and avoided most of the line. I got to front row around 6:30ish. Well, what do you know? It's the red train again! :lol: Awesome ride! :) So, after my ride, it was now getting close to 7:00! I called my mom to se where they and my sisters were, it was one hour before the Flash-Passes expired! So I waited for them in front of the Raging Bull. Sitting in the test chair for about 20 minutes or longer it seems. They finally found me in the test chair, at about 7:20ish.

I tried to get my mom to ride with us on Raging Bull, but she was afriad of Bull and had a headache. So I took my sisters on Bull, we used Flash Pass again. By the time we got to the front row of Bull it was like 7:30ish, and we got the Yellow train!!! :) A great ride, we were done with it at 7:45ish, there was not enough time to get to another Flash Pass ride before 8pm, so we re-rode Raging Bull again with Flash Pass. We got to front row at about 8:15ish. This time, we got the Teal train! :D It looks like the teal trians has new restraints? It was nice, brand new! :)
So that was a great day for Raging Bull! FIVE rides in one day!

It was now 8:20, when we finished with Raging Bull. They had to use the bathroom, so we waited for about 5 minutes, then we decided to do another roller-coaster, American Eagle. My younger sister came with me, while my older sister stayed with my mom. I thought there wouldn't be a line, and it would be a walk-on as before. I was wrong! The red side was closed, and the blue side was bearing the brunt! It was like a 30 minute wait! We finally got to the first row of the blue trian, we saw the red train sitting in the station on the other side. It was now, 8:40ish. Let me tell you, the American Eagle looks VERY beautiful at night, with all the lights on it! The white super-structure all lit up! While climbing the lift, we saw a half moon covered up by some clouds, it looked strange.

I wanted to get to Batman for one last ride, but my mom wanted to go home. American Eagle was my last ride of the day. :( As we started walking past, Deja Vu and Demon, fireworks started shooting up in the sky! It was awesome! :) We caught a glimpse of the show as we were walking by, they were singing "Dancing in the Streets." It was getting close to 9pm now. My sister bought me some extra time by going to the bathroom, while I rushed into Flags, and got a few more souvenir's. A nice white mug with pictures of all the coasters on them and their logos, and a 45th Anniversary tall glass cup with a red bottom. I left the park at 9:20ish.

On my way out of the park, I saw all the DC characters on the raised concrete platform, with the 6 flags-poles around them. Good job, Shapiro! :) And the smoke-free park was really good, as I haden't even walked into a single smoke cloud that whole day! :D *claps* Good Job Mr. Shapiro! Well by the time I got to the car, it was already 9:30. We were on the highway by 9:40.

All in all, it was pretty much a day of walk-ons for most rides, the longest wait for me that day was Tornado. But that's to be expected, and it was well worth it! :D

Rides total:
American Eagle: 2 (blue)
Batman The Ride: 1
Deja Vu: 1
Iron Wolf: 1
V2: 1
Superman: 1
Raging Bull: 5
Viper: 1

Tornado: 1
Paradise Plunge: 1
Wahoo Racers: 1
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Postby ragingbullchick on August 2nd, 2006, 12:33 pm
Awesome day! Mine could've been like that, but thigs took a turn for the worse at 11:00! Great job on the TR.
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on August 2nd, 2006, 12:39 pm
ragingbullchick wrote:Awesome day! Mine could've been like that, but thigs took a turn for the worse at 11:00! Great job on the TR.


Thanks, sorry about your day...
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Postby Sedir on August 2nd, 2006, 2:08 pm
Wow, you got a lot of souvenirs. It made me realize how I've never bought anything but food and drinks in the park (in other words I don't have any souvenirs.)
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on August 2nd, 2006, 2:10 pm
Sedir wrote:Wow, you got a lot of souvenirs. It made me realize how I've never bought anything but food and drinks in the park (in other words I don't have any souvenirs.)


I got even more at home, collected over the years, lots of SFGAm t-shirts, mugs and glasses, SFGAmOPOLY, On-Ride photos, etc.
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Postby rb1 on August 2nd, 2006, 3:46 pm
Good day more like HOT day it was so hot it burned your feet in HH how did you stay cool in the park not HH did you ride any water rides? Im sure the line for those where a killer on a hot day like that. Cool TR more like HOT tr you must have good typing fingers really long but really good info. Glad you enjoyed your day. Too bad about you burning your feet.
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on August 2nd, 2006, 3:55 pm
rb1 wrote:Good day more like HOT day it was so hot it burned your feet in HH how did you stay cool in the park not HH did you ride any water rides? Im sure the line for those where a killer on a hot day like that. Cool TR more like HOT tr you must have good typing fingers really long but really good info. Glad you enjoyed your day. Too bad about you burning your feet.


I have various ways of staying cool in the main park, stopping by any bathroom, getting my hair, face, and arms wet, getting cups of water from various food stands, pouring water on myself, SWT's Coolzone, my hat, trying to be under shade as much as possible. I didn't ride any water rides.
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