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Postby chester016 on August 7th, 2011, 11:02 am
Thinking about going Wednesday....If from up in northern Wisconsin So im wondering if the crowds will be lighter this week or are people still waiting until the last minute to redeem their passes. If there are some locals who could let me know, that would be great.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 7th, 2011, 11:30 am
Weekdays should be light crowds the rest of the year. The reading tickets that have been causing chaos the last 2 weeks expire today.
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Postby Jackluver18 on August 7th, 2011, 3:43 pm
read my TR, it was crazy crowded
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Postby tribar on August 7th, 2011, 5:01 pm
^With Read to Succeed being over though it might not be that bad

Also crowds all depend on the weather
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 7th, 2011, 5:45 pm
I can't guarantee it will be the same this year, but last year the week after Read to Succeed ended was completely dead with all waits under 10 minutes, except Eagle because Blue was closed.
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Postby ragingbull1331 on August 7th, 2011, 5:54 pm
Well tomorrow I hope with some rain forecasted the crowds will be less, then again it is the "opening" of eagle backwards.
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Postby UWW-10 on August 7th, 2011, 8:19 pm
Not to put a damper on your theories or anything...

According to the FB page

Hey Parents – if your child has a Read to Succeed ticket that expired today, we are extending the deadline and accepting all Read to Succeed tickets through August 14. If your child hasn’t had a chance to use their free ticket yet, come on out!
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Postby Ilovthevu' on August 7th, 2011, 8:31 pm
^Yeah, but you have to realize that most people probably don't look at SFGAm facebook page, and most people probably used them already. If you didn't use it, you probably weren't going to go anyway. Though, the American Eagle is going backwards in which they emailed people about it, and Miranda Cosgrove is Tuesday.
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Postby CoasterNick3157 on August 7th, 2011, 8:39 pm
Like UWW said now you'll never know this week if it will be packed or not.
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Postby ilrider on August 7th, 2011, 9:04 pm
CoasterNick3157 wrote:Like UWW said now you'll never know this week if it will be packed or not.


Hopefully a lot of people used them already and it won't cause the park to be as crowded as it was recently. I was bummed to read the announcement.
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Postby chester016 on August 8th, 2011, 12:08 am
Yeah I agree. I saw that and was pretty bummed. If you guys could let me know how it is the next two days...that would be awesome. thanks!
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Postby tribar on August 8th, 2011, 7:51 am
^Its FB. Not even everyone has one and people have already used them. Don't expect Walk on City but i don't think it will be jammed
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 8th, 2011, 3:16 pm
I'm in the Cyber Cafe now. It is packed. Eagle line is to the entrance, Demon line is to the entrance only running 2 trains due to issues with Stride train. Viper is full, Bull is using both queue blocks, Batman is full except the overflow queues, and Whizzer has 3 out of 5 queues filled.

It turns out Read to Succeed was never supposed to be over yesterday. The Illinois tickets were scheduled to expire yesterday, but the Wisconsin tickets were already valid through the 14th.
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Postby Galvan on August 8th, 2011, 3:30 pm
Looks like I'm glad I'm going to Cedar Point this weekend and SFGAm next weekend :D
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Postby ragingbull1331 on August 8th, 2011, 9:25 pm
Today was a weird day for the park, crowds got big and small randomly and the rain closed a lot of rides later on. With the Eagle "opening" backwards today that also brought in some more people to the park. Eagle amazingly reached the entrance today and bull used 1 and a half of the queue houses.
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Postby Jackluver18 on August 8th, 2011, 9:34 pm
checked webcam just now. Park is emptying out
SF trips 09 = 15
SF trips 10= 11
SF trips 11 =7
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 8th, 2011, 9:38 pm
^ I would hope so, considering the park closed at 9:00 :wink:
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Postby chester016 on August 8th, 2011, 10:03 pm
im sure tomorrow will be crazy because of the miranda cosgrove concert.......... What about Wednesday? Forecast is calling for 75 and sunny. I think that might keep people out of the waterpark. Due to the two big things today and tomorrow( opening day of american eagle, and the concert tomorrow)do you think Wednesday might have some lighter crowds?
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Postby Jackluver18 on August 8th, 2011, 11:09 pm
oh I didn't know it closed at 9. I thought it was still 10-10...sorry
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Postby Patch on August 9th, 2011, 7:37 am
ragingbull1331 wrote:Today was a weird day for the park, crowds got big and small randomly and the rain closed a lot of rides later on. With the Eagle "opening" backwards today that also brought in some more people to the park. Eagle amazingly reached the entrance today and bull used 1 and a half of the queue houses.


Another dissapoint that day was revolution. We were about to get on the ride when...suprise suprise...it breaks down. Also another one was the whizzer. It closed down in the rain, and it didn't open the rest of the day. We still managed to get a lot of rides done right? Let me think...

Overall 8/8 was a good day!
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Postby ilrider on August 9th, 2011, 8:41 am
ragingbull1331 wrote:Today was a weird day for the park, crowds got big and small randomly and the rain closed a lot of rides later on. With the Eagle "opening" backwards today that also brought in some more people to the park. Eagle amazingly reached the entrance today and bull used 1 and a half of the queue houses.


I was ticked Eagle was totally down at open yesterday. We got there at open, second in line, just to get the backwards ride in before heading to HH only to be told they didn't know when Eagle would open, and they didn't know which side would be running when it opened. The op said they needed carpentry workers, but they were AWOL. The contest winner to get the "first ride" (which wasn't true anyway) showed up and had to be told to come back later. You'd think having it up and running would have been top priority for the day.

We got on it in the afternoon after a 1/2 hour wait, which wasn't bad.
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Postby UWW-10 on August 9th, 2011, 9:10 am
Eagle (at least the years I worked there) always tended to be the ride that maintenance fooled around with forever and a day up until like 9:30am! (and I was there before the 11am opening procedure for County Fair). It's an easy track walk (but long) and they'd "give" you a side, but then change their mind, or they'd leave without removing their tag outs/lock outs, they'd leave the maintenance enable down, or they'd sign it over to the leads but forget their signature on the checklists and you're not allowed to continue with AM's that pertain to anything ride related unless it was all signed off. Then, would casually walk back up to amend the situation with a "oops....you'll get everything done in 10 minutes" look on their face.
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Postby Ilovthevu' on August 9th, 2011, 11:25 am
^They probably fooled around with it because it's in the back of the park, and it isn't as high of a priority at opening like Raging Bull, Viper, or Superman which are located not at the back.
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Postby UWW-10 on August 9th, 2011, 11:40 am
^Yes, but as rides management....you were still scolded at if you did not have the AM's completed at 10am (or park opening time) regardless of where the ride is located in the park.
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Postby chester016 on August 9th, 2011, 1:20 pm
anybody know what the crowds are like today?
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