SFGAm, Thurs. July 28, PACKED!!!!!

[Chitown]

Decided that my daughter and myself would make the trip up to the park after I got off of work.

Arrived at 6 pm, and saw a 3/4 full backlot. Uh, oh, business has picked up.

Anyway, both the waterpark and ride park were crowded. Every ride had a substantial line. We pretty much walked around, ate, played some games, and left. Still had fun.

Updates:
Demon is open again (so stop the removal crap)
Sky Trek Tower is open again.
V2 is still down.

Thanks for reading.

[Raging_Bull]

Yeah Demon opened up yesterday afternoon. Yesterday was terrible too...same amount of people but barely anyone went to the waterpark.

[danieln84]

Why was V2 closed, i was upset, we went on King Chaos first ride of the day at 4:30 and got stuck on it. it never made it all the way back down to stop. 30 min wait. got another ride even though the other was finishing, so all in all, from 4:30-10 we went on King Chaos, Vipor, Raging bull 2 times.....thats it. lines were longer then hell. even demon had a line

[w00dland]

Nobody knows exactly whats wrong with V2, but nobody seemed to optimistic about it.

[Timmy179]

Im assuming its just parts or something of that manner....


Wheres BOB_O to tell me How bad the park is and that Six Flags should have had the needed parts ordered before they broke.

[Chitown]

Wow Timmy.

You have Bob O's responses down to a science like I do.

[Andrew]

How long has V2 been closed for?

[Timmy179]

Bout a week.


Weather (power) related.

[EagleFan344]

Its just too bad someones day didnt end with a missing hamburger

[RBull4life]

I drove past the park yeasterday morning around 10:30, and traffic was backed up on the Grand Ave exit for about 1/2 - 1 mile onto 94. So much for the weekdays being less crowded.

[rct2wizard360]

It indeed was...in other news from yesterday,

-Vu opened really late.
-We saw another person stuck in an IMS boat.
-I think the Washington Street exit is open again.
-Sky Trek opened.
-The crane by Demon is now in the employee parking lot.
-Bull was using two queue houses but second was not full.
-Suf was still running at around 11.

[Raging_Bull]

Second Bull queue house was full and overflowing all day Wednesday

[sfgam05]

my birthday was july 28! i was there the 27th

[Chitown]

Yeah, as mentioned, the Washington st. access road is now open to exit during the evening hours.

That is a freakin blessing.

[w00dland]

Hm, now that it's open I'll probably be taking that exit so can anybody tell me how to get back onto 41 from there?

[Chitown]

Go left on Washington St. out of the park exit.

First light go left on Milwaukee Ave. (Rte 21)

Take that until it ends at Rt. 41 and go left.

[Bob O]

Having extra parts on site for when a ride breaks down or plans so the parts can be flown in asap would be signs of a well run theme park.
Now when rides open late into eh season like Condor, are closed as mush as they are open DeJaVue or down for over a week during prime summer peak season arent signs of good management.
Of course the SF apologists will some how make these out as postives and how they enhance our theme park experience.

[Chitown]

Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just MAYBE, the part they are waiting on from Intamin is a custom made part that isn't readily stocked?

The park I am sure stocks normal wear and tear parts for all their rides.

Why in god's name must you be so negative all the time? For your information, the park was waiting on a part from Huss to open Condor. But I guess none of that matters to you. Six Flags should just pull parts out of their asses to please the guests, right?

You are one very negative individual. I actually feel sorry for you if you have this attitude in every day life.

And since you are such a huge Disney fan, explain all the accidents that have happened recently, especially the one with Big Thunder Mountain Railroad which was found to be because of poor maintenance.

Care to explain that one or is Disney just put on a freakin pedastal and no matter what happens with them is just fine.

[Ilovthevu']

I'm okay with D Vu' being down as much as it has because it's the ride itself. For V2, it probably got fried, and they didn't have enough LIMs to replace the old ones. These I totally understand.

However, for Condor and Triple Play, there is NO excuse. They stripped that ride down in October before the park even closed. And they couldn't see what they needed for refurbishment a little earlier??? The thing that probably happened is that they put it back together, and suddenly realized that they needed something for both rides. Since May is a deader month, they probably thought that they don't need to rush on it. So, its time to blame it on Huss being so far away, and that they are making a special part just for this ride.

[twixmix0303]

Oh, I know. Six Flags just waited a little too long to run out to Target and pick up that missing bolt. Seriously, they were waiting on Huss for parts, but it was taking Huss longer than expected to manufacture and ship them. How do you know they forgot to order something?

[maneuverman]

How do you guys go from disscusing a trip report to argueing about rides and maintence?

[SFGAm Shock Wave]

^ Because Bob O had to come in here and use V2 being closed as an excuse to get on his stupid little soap-box about how Six Flags sucks because a ride broke down.

Isn't it nice how one moron can derail a whole topic

[Aero737]

V2 is a very expensive ride, a lot of the parts cost A LOT of money. Electronics are difficult to keep running when it comes to extreme conditions (rain, lighting, temperature extremes) which Six Flags experienced around the time of the ride closing. Now, do you expect Six Flags to have every single part in a warehouse just waiting for something to go wrong? In that case, why doesn't six flags just buy two of every rollercoaster. They don't because it's EXPENSIVE. Why buy what you don't need. And having plans to have something flown in? Do you know that Six Flags doesn't have plans in place allready? You know, it takes TIME to ship an item. Things just don't magically move from one place to another..

And God forbid that a ride experiences downtime? V2 has been running, what, like every single day (staff pending) this year? God forbid that something will eventually go wrong. It's not Six Flag's fault that this happened.