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Thanks again for sharing with us! 

Thank you so much for posting these! I'm looking forward to seeing it in person in a few weeks. 

12 hours ago, harry2004 said:

I told them, this is why village roadshow should takeover six flags instead of having six flags merged with cedar fair

The merger hasn't happened yet, so this is a purely Six Flags decision nothing to do with Cedar Fair. 

I'm guessing attendance has been below expectations and revenue is down. They'll be posting their quarterly numbers soon and we'll know more. 

5 hours ago, Flyin Phil said:

Below is a link to Aerial Photos I shot on Thursday (5/2) of FLASH's construction progress...It's coming along nicely !

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cyQ4tYrr0LYqFuAwB0SZ9OwuIWaFz-qs?usp=sharing

 

Enjoy !

Thank you so much for sharing with us Phil! It's great to see the park from above like this. 

1 hour ago, harry2004 said:

so, the area for medusa & safari off road adventure is closed for repairs, and also, have you seen the markers on the trees in the safari off road adventure road

I've been seeing a lot of speculation about that area being redeveloped, but my feeling is it may be more about reconfiguring the Safari road than anything. I just have a feeling there's a lot of stuff "up in the air" right now with the merger and any plans they may have made could quickly change post merger in a month or so. 

I got a surprise in the mail today, and I have no idea who to thank for it:

Looking forward to visiting in a few weeks to see it and the other bricks for Harry in person. 

I think I'm most interested in the fried Krimpets the restaurant there will be selling-- the MOST Pennsylvania thing ever. 

It ran its first test run on Saturday and has begun testing. 

Flash finally has gone vertical:

He was planning on purchasing one for Great Adventure History, I'm not sure if he did or not. I'd guess he did since he was planning it when they went on sale. 

13 hours ago, Great Adventurer said:

From all accounts it looks like Iron Menace enjoyed a wonderful media day/soft opening.

 

Look at those awesome ride ops uniforms!

 

 

 

I wonder if those are the actual uniforms are were they just for the media event?

I know they SHOULD have more trains running on the coasters, but unless they purchase additional trains for some of them, there will have to be single train operations at some points with such a short off-season. They used to have 5 months of downtime, but since they started Holiday in the Park and chose to open earlier in the year than they used to, there just isn't enough downtime for the rebuilds/preventative maintenance. They SHOULD purchase additional trains for Superman and Batman so they each have two in operation with a third getting maintenance at all times (SFFT did this with their dive coaster), but not all parks have the budget for that, especially with Kingda Ka and El Toro eating up so much of the maintenance budget each year. We could have better operations (like Dorney) but have a season that runs May to October instead of March to January... 

I saw someone said they placed the last track piece yesterday. This will be fairly quick to get up and running.

They seem to be one of the few things S&S makes that people (parks and guests) like. 

I just saw that the new restaurant being added with Iron Menace is going to have fried Butterscotch Krimpets-- the most Pennsylvania thing ever...

While I am hopeful that Great Adventure's current park president is a good fit and lasts, I always hope that Jeff Seibert can make his way to Great Adventure as GM one day. He does so much great stuff with that park. 

It was kind of disappointing here in Orlando-- we had ~70% coverage and it really wasn't much to see. 

Yes, they'll still be holding media days, and the site should still receive invitations to them. I'm 1000 miles away so I may not be able to attend, but I'm hoping I can send someone to cover them for the website if I can't be there. 

Apparently it happened as the park opened and they held guests at the Fountain. They quickly went over the rides to assure there was no damage and opened them as they completed inspections. 

Thank you for posting, great to be able to see it all. 

It looks like many positive changes happening around the park-- progress, even if it's slow is still progress. 

Very happy to learn the Roaring Rapids name is back this year and there is a suggestion that it may have received some needed TLC as well... 

Very happy to see the Skyride was spared, at least for anther year. There were rumors it was being removed, but it is still listed on the 2024 maps that were just released. 

Everything that exists here SHOULD be archived soon. 

Really hoping Cedar Fair takes the lead on all parks after the merger. Rides should be ready at the start of the season, not mid-summer. I like that their parks have been embracing their uniqueness and moving away from cookie cutter additions, and I hope as combined company this continues. 

Wow-- I never heard of it before. There were so many little parks like this that were a "big deal" then just faded away between the depression and the ride of bigger, regional parks.