SFNE (From earlier this summer)

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SFNE is one of my favorite SF parks just for the reason that it has a lot of charector. Its in the middle of a small colonial town in Massachusets, has a hilly terrain, a beautiful entrance plaza, and one of the best steel coasters on earth. Other than SROS theres really no special coasters (unless you count Cyclone for being memorable in all the wrong ways ) but SFNE is a place thats really just fun to walk around.

One of my favorite things about SFNE last time I visited was the awesomely themed admissions area and entrance plaza along with the sweet colonial music. Unfortunately since then SF had done a number on this and draped banners all over the place and replaced the really well themed soundtrack with played pop music (pretty much the same thing they did to SFGAm) and what was once my favorite entrance plaza of any park had lost a lot of its charector.


The good thing is the operations were way faster than in the past, none of the rides were really stacking (whereas in 05 every coaster stacked for at least 5 minutes) plus they added two extremely nice kids areas with Wiggles World and Thomas Town....and of course it still has that whole one of the best steel coasters in the world thing. Onto the pics.



Driving into SFNE you are greeted by Six Flags Mexico's new for 2009 coaster The Dark Knight!



SFNE's parking lot is very far away from the park, you cant even see the park until after the tram ride and walking to the top of the bridge.



Or if you dont want to take a tram you can walk to the park and read all these awesome advertisements.



The bridge that leads to the park.



Believe it or not theres a theme park in the town of Agawam, the only place you can really see it is from this bridge and the road next to Cyclone.



Even though changing the music sucked a lot of life out of this entrance plaza its still pretty nicely themed and this whole area (including inside the park entrance area) has brick midway.



It seems a lot of parks have made the switch to the new, dont have to reserve your ride at the ride, qbots.



A few months earlier this was the site of a huge building frame for the new coaster.

In case youve been living under a rock, SFNE announced TDK last fall and over the winter had a lot of it built until the village of Agawam ordered construction to stop stating SF failed to submit proper permits. SF and the city already had previous disagreements, mainly about parking situations, and after a long battle SF finally killed the project and took the entire building frame down.

So new for 2009 in that spot is the NFL Gridiron Challenge!



The second half of SROS is one of the most intense stretch-runs of any coaster anywhere. Crushing positive g's, ejector air, mist filled tunnell, pretty much anything you could ever want in a hyper coaster.



Is this thing ever open?



The "Hall of Justice" meet & greet building.



These things are awesome.



This is by far the best 3 of the ones ive been on (Geauga Lake, SFGAdv). Has very good landscaping.



This one does 2 cycles unlike GAdv which does 1.



Its amazing that a ride 100 feet shorter than Millennium Force kicks the living crap out of it, burns it down, and pisses on the ashes! Seriosley SROS is amazing.



SFNE had 2 of the nicest kids areas ive seen, Wiggles World was huge.



Its the Yummy Yummy Cafe, wanna fight about it?



Yes they offer a "Family Flash Pass" on their kids/family rides, rides of course that probably never have lines .



One last look at SROS before moving onto other coasters.

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SFNEs Wiggles has some different rides than the other Wiggles Worlds.



To the right we have mediocricy at its finest.
To the left we have DEATH.
And have a happy anniversary at Six Flags!



This is a pretty sweet looking Wave Swinger.



To this date the only floorless coaster ive been on that I really like is Dominator. The other ones just kind of coast and dont have any real forces.



I really like this Batmans color scheme though. The dark purple looks gothic and sweet.



Because of TDK they changed this rides name from "Batman The Dark Knight" to "Batman The Ride," which sucked because they changed the spiel! It used to have a really dramatic "Thank you for riding Batman THE DARK KNIGHT and enjoy the rest of your ride at Six Flags........NEW ENGLAND!!!" spiel and now its just a regular spiel .



One of the best coasters in the world and one of the worst off the shelf coasters in the world.



One last BTR pic for redundancy purposes.



After TDK was cancelled they quickley decided to give the park the Glow in the Park Parade instead, which in my opinion is a much better addition than TDK anyway. It wasnt ready though during our visit.



Its got pre-2005 DejaVu syndrome.

Luckily I already had the SLC credit so I didnt ride it. Actually there were 3 coasters I didnt ride again and got to sit back and enjoy watching everyone elses pain (SLC, Boomerang, and Pandemonium). Pandemoniums not rough but you never know whats going to happen on those crazy Gerstlauer spinners, most of the time theyre nothing but once on MOA's it spun so much I thought I had an anuerysm.



SFNE does have entrance lockers but not on Blizzard River.



This really wasnt as fun as most people say it is, but it was nice to get a break from coasters.



I cant believe this thing still has buzz bars! Overall a great little wooden coaster.



I didnt think any corporate park had the balls to keep buzz bars on coasters with a lot of air. This was nice to see.



This was only running 1 tower
The line wasnt long but probably took forever, luckily we had a pretty big discount on the qbot



Proof I got the kiddie credit. No its not called Rolling Thunder, its called Great Chase.



At this time all the rides of this ride model in the country were closed, including SFGAms.



Its the area of the park that gets me really sick (Pandemonium, Boomerang, and the Vekoma double inverted and SWAT are farther down the midway).



In case you were wondering, this coaster travels the way the track goes.



Um,
NO.
Moving on.



SFNE announced Catapult was being removed after last season then decided to save it at the last minute, here it is broked like it is quite a bit. It did re-open shortly after though.



If you think Son of Beast or Mean Streak is rough this thing will make you think otherwise!



This is the only Skycoaster I know of thats actually "themed" after a charector.
Its called Taz's Daredevil Dive or something
Im not a huge fan of riding triple, felt like I was choking the whole time.



The whole "take out rides and replace them with nothing" thing was not exclusive to SFGAm, SFMM, SFGAdv, and CGA!



By this time Catapult had re-opened, yay?
If this looks familiar to you, it used to be known as SWAT at Six Flags Astroworld.

As far as the actual ride goes, if this isnt near death experience I dont know what is! It was certainly leaps and bounds over the regular inverted swinging ships but sometimes I think Stan Checketts has lost his mind. Make no mistake it was very intense and a solid flat ride but its not something im running around to do again.



I liked this scene much better when hot NFL cheerleaders were rollerblading down the midway in NFL Networks cheerleader playoffs .




I had fun watching my group get their a** raped.



"Maybe since this fence is blocking the bottom of these supports people will notice if we dont paint them eh?"



Houdini was my first Vekoma Madhouse. Its certainly interesting to say the least, not as good of a ride as a lot of people rate it to be but definitley worth a ride.



The preshow area, yes that is a projector and plasma TV.



The Vekoma Madhouse seating arrangement. Basically the walls move giving you the illusion your being flipped upside down. Its basically like ecstacy without the hassle of a peddler.



This made me think of Knotts, which is not a place I want to think of often.



These are probably like $15, so I wouldnt really call them "best value"



They found an interesting way to use the Home Depot signs, by taping a Six Flags logo over the Home Depot logo.



In case you were wondering, this coaster is INSANE.



More SROS.



After a few rides I had to start laying off because it is so intense.



I cant believe they're going to add X2 type fire effects and try to make this ride even better next year! I didnt think that was possible.







Because of its location in the very front of the park, we didnt get into Thomas Town until after the park closed. The S was on holiday.



The whole area was very nice and well done, SFNE, SFDK, SFOG, and SFMM should be happy to have some of the nicest kids areas around.



More giant banners, this time on waterslide complexes.





Carpe diem my friends.

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