8/8

[Coastermonkey61]

First time in a few years I've been able to make the trip out there, buddy of mine and I went. Got to the park about 10:30, pretty crowded. Lots of Read to Succeed kids. Got a Gold Flash Pass, arguably the greatest invention since electricity. Barely waited for everything, which turned out to be a life saver with the rain in the afternoon. Some specifics:

-Viper was slower than I remember, as was Demon. Viper is always quality, but boy was Demon boring. Also, they should really not try and do a horrible job directing you to Viper's flash pass entrance. It was like the Scarecrow made that signage.
-American Eagle didn't open until 11:30ish, and that was only Red. Blue opened around 12:30, and it created about an hour wait. Really need to get Flash Pass on that thing. It's unnecessarily on BB and Revolution, should probably put it on the only coaster you don't have it on, and the one you're promoting heavily over the next month. Could just be nitpicking since I didn't wait for a damn thing the rest of the day, but still. Even Red was filling up. Give Blue a huge line and people will eventually just bail and go to Red, which is what happened.
-Eagle seemed to pack a little extra punch today. The helix was nearly out-of-control. That being said, I think I preferred forwards over backwards.
-Superman is too short and overrated, but it's a deceptive little beast. More fun than I give it credit for.
-We literally loaded into V2 before they told us to get back in line due to rain. Waited it out for about an hour. Rain cleared out a ton of people though except for the lines for Superman, Bull and Eagle.
-Rode Dark Knight for the first time ever. Flash Pass gave me a ten minute wait, which was roughly eight minutes too long. I knew it would be boring, and it didn't disappoint.
-Didn't grey out on Batman for the first time in years. High five!
-Last ride of Iron Wolf ever. Thank God. In future visits I will replace my IW ride experience by slamming my head into a brick wall a few times. What a miserable piece of crap.
-Whizzer and Ragin' Cajun both shut down for the day after the rain it seemed, unless one of them re-opened unbeknownst to me.

Ride Count:
-Giant Drop: 1
-Raging Bull: 3
-Viper: 2
-Demon: 1
-American Eagle: 2 (1 each side)
-Iron Wolf: 1 awful ride
-V2: 3
-Batman: 1
-Dark Knight: 1
-Superman: 2
-Whizzer: 1

-One last thing...what adjectives would apply to having a Six Flags day?

[ragingbull1331]

-Whizzer and Ragin' Cajun both shut down for the day after the rain it seemed, unless one of them re-opened unbeknownst to me.

They never reopened even though it stopped raining, it really pissed me off that the ride ops were too lazy to reopen the ride even though it stopped raining. Unless there was a special problem with both of them I'd think they'd reopen it, and it seemed like the ride ops on whizzer just left instead of fixing the ride.

[DejaVu2001]

^ Ride ops do not decide whether or not to reopen the ride. They also do not decide when the ride is closed for the rest of the night due to rain. That is a decision made by Rides management. So next time maybe think a little bit before calling the ride crews lazy. What, did you think every coaster has a radar screen in the control booth? Also really don't get the end of your post either. For one, Ride Ops don't fix anything, maintenance does. And two, the rides were down for weather, nothing was broke. I don't know what time it actually stopped raining because I left at 7:30, but Whizzer and Ragin' Cajun really aren't coasters that can just open right up the minute it stops raining.

[Patch]

Geez a lot of you guys were at the park on 8/8 I see. My friends (and one of them happens to be on sfgamworld) and I got some good rides in too.

RIDE COUNT:
American Eagle: 4 times (2 forward 2 backward)
Batman The Ride: 3 times
V2: 1 time
Iron Wolf: 1 time
Viper: 3 times
Raging Bull: 1 time
Gaint Drop: 1 time
King Chaos: 1 time
Orbit: 2 times
Chubascco: 1 time
Buccanear battle (Yea I know, we don't know why we did it either): 1 time

[ragingbull1331]

^ Ride ops do not decide whether or not to reopen the ride. They also do not decide when the ride is closed for the rest of the night due to rain. That is a decision made by Rides management. So next time maybe think a little bit before calling the ride crews lazy. What, did you think every coaster has a radar screen in the control booth? Also really don't get the end of your post either. For one, Ride Ops don't fix anything, maintenance does. And two, the rides were down for weather, nothing was broke. I don't know what time it actually stopped raining because I left at 7:30, but Whizzer and Ragin' Cajun really aren't coasters that can just open right up the minute it stops raining.

Sorry, I just thought it was weird that they didn't open it, I guess I don't understand all the mechanics of the ride so I wouldn't know why they closed it. It seemed Ragin' Cajun the mechanics were working on the ride and tried to fix it while Whizzer they left the station.

[BP317]

When Whizzer runs after a long period of rain when the train is going up the lift sparks all over the place which may or may not cause a forest fire. Of course they could run it anyway like Test Track where the car goes by you see the big WHOOSH and water goes everywhere...

[Ilovthevu']

Ragin Cajun won't run in the rain is because it has a lot of small drive tires, and with a lot of cars, it's not a good idea to run it. And rain hurts the traction with all those tires. Plus, the station has no covering like Iron Wolf for instance that has drive tires! Demon has drive tires, but it also has brakes in the station. Demon has the drive tires to get from brakes to more brakes where is Ragin Cajun has brakes, but the station is all small drive tires I believe.

[DejaVu2001]

Drive tires is also the reason Whizzer goes down. No brakes in the station. Sometimes the train will lose traction and stall on the lift too, but usually the drive tires become an issue before the lift.