So me and my brother got to the park around 10AM and immediately headed towards Superman. What do you know right before the last people in front us were getting ready to go, the ride goes down. We waited 20-25 minutes and then a test run was made. It was so ridiculous since we just got there and had we known that we would have headed towards Bull. Crowds were ok but the big 4 aka Superman, Raging Bull, V2 and Batman were at least a half hour wait to one hour. Bull was full up to the entrance. Instead of Bull, V2 and Batman we caught a few flats and the two running water rides. Yes, Yankee Clipper is still "temporarily closed". No work was being done on it though. We also saw a few people in HH even though it should be closed to everyone.
Great weather and an overall great day. We even caught the short but cool Pictorium show! I bought a shirt/hat combo for about $18 and they look awesome. The parking lot was about 40% full which is not that bad. I also had my first time on Whizzer which was a nice surprise. Even the old Deja Vu posts now have the "Come Ashore with us in 2009" banner. Six Flags is stuck in the 90's cause they kept on playing N'SYNC and Backstreet Boys over and over. Even LFO. Eww the old SWF area is such an eyesore. We left around 4:50 and the park closed at 6 today.
Ride totals: Superman American Eagle Logger's Run Roaring Rapids Viper Whizzer Revolution Whirligig Pictorium Star Trek Tower Condor
Yeah I hated missing Bull but no way would I wait in that hour plus line and I didn't want to spend money on a flash pass this time. That bird poop going up on Superman is nasty.
Last edited by onyxhotel08 on October 6th, 2008, 3:03 pm, edited 5 times in total.
Well I am glad you had fun. To bad that Superman was closed though and the gum on the ride is nasty! I hate it when the line for Bull is long, if it is long I usally don't ride it either. Well you could not go on YC but ya still had Loggers Run and RR. If HH was supposed to be closed today why where there people in it?
I'm thinking workers or people from the park used the opportunity to go in. The water was running but all in all maybe 5-10 people were seen when I got on Viper. RR was so much fun we got soaked. Logger's Run we were fairly dry. Bull was probably a 45-60 minute wait by the time we got to it...around 3 PM. From the looks of it I don't think go karts will fit in the SWF area. If you have not checked out Pictorium now or ever please give it a shot. The movie is short but the 3D was awesome and the place is like an IMAX! Had so much fun I loved Whizzer, the swings and Revolution. The guy kept asking if we wanted to go faster and higher with his accent and I was like "You know it dude!"
The Go Kart track that we have right now probably wouldn't fit in SWF's old spot, but its not like they are just going to dig up the concrete and move it anyway. If they were to move the Go Karts it would include creating a new track for the carts, and that would fit no problem.
Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro Top 5 Steel- 5-Velocicoaster 4- Maverick 3- Fury 325 2-Steel Vengeance 1-X2 Coaster Count: 444
NOOOO the Great American Raceway is a Marriott's ride! It needs to stay! plus I really love it for if I take a girl there, I get to show off my driving skills!!
"The rides are GREAT, The shows are GREAT, the fun is GREAT. At Marriott"s GREAT AMERICA!"
demonbulleagle wrote:NOOOO the Great American Raceway is a Marriott's ride! It needs to stay! plus I really love it for if I take a girl there, I get to show off my driving skills!!
coasterkidd100 wrote:The Great American Raceway is the go cart track right?
haha no great american race way is thos slow moving classical cars that go in a circle around SWF former site (which i love btw)... they must keep them just get rid of the winners circle go carts.. ^^^ does anyone even ride the go karts? out of all the times ive been there i have never once seen someone actually drive them.. they just sit there how much does it even cost to ride them?
^ O, thanks! For some reason I always get the go carts and those slow moving cars be SWF mixed up. I would not care if they took out the go carts but the slow moving cars can stay.
Iron Wolf was almost completely empty Wednesday. By 10 AM Superman and Dark Knight had lines all the way into the sidewalk by the restaurants. What really made it worse was when Superman went down and did not run again until about 10:35. Yeah it was a great day. Lines were tiny at first but by 3 PM every coaster was at least a 30 minute wait. Probably 30-45min. It was a great day for flats and rides like Wolf, American Eagle and Whizzer. Didn't look over by Demon which I am not a fan of but probably 10-15 minutes like Whizzer. It is definitely worth going towards the end of the season. And from now on the park is open weekends and Labor Day/Columbus Day anyway.
Well not everyone has issues, Bull is just perfect. Eagle bites as does Cajun, Viper doesn't like my hips as does Eagle, Demon doesn't like me period at times, SUF hated me at times, so on and so forth