dougdrummer

true, but Met fans had to endure the Phillies recent run of success.....now they are the worst team in baseball.....yikes

Not to get political, but NJ is a typical overtly liberal state in the northeast that loves its over-regulation.

that old simulator building is a blight

I worked for the same company for 25 years and it was employee owned. Then it was bought out by a publicly-traded company, and EVERYTHING changed.

Drivers who cut me off and then give ME the finger....

but I love those coaster colors, representing my NY Mets! LOL

he hasn't come back from the dead??

It escaped from the Safari!

Maybe Tesla can donate some autonomous driving vehicles to replace the cars on the Speedway.

I'm not sure if there would be much additional benefit by adding another coaster, unless it were a smaller woodie. Now the question is what flat ride and where??

I never really thought about that. Very interesting. When I visited SFNE they definitely had some coasters towards the middle. And my wife watched me ride several of them. When they built Nitro, which has a massive footprint, did they use some land that was never developed before? That ride extends way out to the fringes of the park, where there certainly is no access for patrons to watch.

that is her primary duty when we go to the park....LOL

I think that's the primary issue with pre-shows. They get outdated much faster than the ride itself.

I was never a fan of this kind of coaster, but those cars were cool looking! What an awesome stroll down memory lane! I was a freshman in college in 1980. Weird to see the Sky Ride cars painted all white....

Is there a reason SFGA built KK this way, or it was just the available land they had to construct it on.

You can't really argue with the logic that driving cars of the past in Tomorrowland doesn't make sense.

I like this post on there: "Great Adventure wasn't on the map until this Coaster came around. Great Adventure wouldn't be the Largest Amusement Park in the World if The Great American Scream Machine never came around."

Even if I wanted to pull out my cell phone during a coaster ride, most of the restraint systems make it impossible to reach into my pocket and grab a phone. To think of something like a cell phone coming loose at a very high rate of speed makes me cringe at what kind of damage it could do.

Perhaps I am wrong, but like Conga Rapids, there really is no place to sit and observe KK from elsewhere in the park, within relatively close proximity. It seems the ride is very physically isolated, even hidden. Which is strange, considering how massive the ride is. You can barely see portions of the queue line, to even check what the wait is like.

I would think single rider lines would help the efficiency of most rider, and help the staff trying to fill ride vehicles to their capacity (instead of having to call out for single riders). I don't know why more parks and rides don't implement them. Is it because it requires separate queues and signing? Or because less people would buy fast passes? Ironically I was at SFNE last month and after waiting a while in line, the operator told me next time to just use the single rider line, which I had not even noticed because I wasn't looking for it.

I would think it would be a deal breaker too.....but I'm still married 30 years later.....LOL

I wonder if SF even cares if that happens. More people waiting for lockers = less people in the ride line = more revenue from the lockers. Then again, waiting in long lines anywhere prevents patrons from spending money elsewhere. And there's that whole issue of customer satisfaction....

An interesting twist on cause and effect between ticket prices and ride wait times: Disneyland raised prices to shorten waits. Here are the results. Los Angeles Times, Jul 12 2017 12:15 PM Like scores of other Disneyland fans, Craig Yoshihara has developed his own time-tested technique for avoiding long wait times for rides in the park. The pastor from Dinuba, California, who visits at least once a month, rushes in as soon as the gates open and quickly heads to Space Mountain and Star Tours before hitting other popular rides. He walks in a counterclockwise direction around the park — against the tide of visitors — and avoids the queues between lunch and dinner time, when the park is most crowded. "I don’t think most people spend the time looking at flow patterns in the park," Yoshihara, an annual pass holder for nine years, said of his strategy. "It’s really good to do your research first." There is good reason for such efforts. Average wait times at the Disneyland Resort have been on the rise over the past few years, despite efforts by the park to ease crowding by raising ticket prices on peak demand days and expanding a ride reservation system, among other changes. In fact, Disney has faced queuing problems for so long that it has become a pioneer in line management, dating back to the early days of the park when it used stanchions and tape to create switchbacks that are now widely used at airports and theme parks worldwide. A Times analysis found that the average wait time for the resort’s most popular rides in the first six months of the year was 24.4 minutes, a 28% increase over the same period in 2015 when the park drew record-high attendance numbers. In the first six months of the year, the ride with the longest average wait time at Disneyland was Space Mountain, at 65 minutes, up from 48 minutes in the same period in 2015. At adjacent California Adventure Park, Radiator Springs Racers had the longest average wait time, 86 minutes, up from 73 minutes in the first six months of 2015. Even higher ticket prices to visit the “Happiest Place on Earth” have not dissuaded the Disney faithful — many of whom visit the park dozens of times throughout the year and contribute to the crush. One-day ticket prices have jumped by nearly 70% at Disneyland since 2007, to $124. An annual pass with no blackout dates now sells for just over $1,000. Prices are so high that the resort began a few years ago to offer California residents a monthly payment plan for annual passes. And sales of some passes have been temporarily cut off at times to help thin the crowds. Despite the rising cost, attendance at Disneyland has jumped 20% since 2007, to nearly 18 million visitors in 2016, according to an estimate by the Los Angeles consulting firm Aecom. New attractions, as expected, draw the biggest crowds, at least until the novelty of the ride wears off. At California Adventure Park, the drop-tower ride known as Twilight Zone Tower of Terror was revamped this year to feature Marvel superheroes and was renamed Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout. During the first month after it opened, the new Guardians attraction had an average wait time of 93 minutes, with the maximum wait time climbing to five hours. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneyland-wait-times-20170712-htmlstory.html

Lightning Loops Johnny Rockets or Metro Grill?

It is the same way in the civil engineering field, because maintenance and improvements to our critical infrastructure are constantly deferred as budgets are cut. Unfortunately it takes a major catastrophe like a bridge collapse before we pay attention to these issues. Then they spend a year reinspecting all the bridges and patch up the worst ones. Then after that it goes back cutting funding and deferring maintenance. Ugh.