Turned out that it was 3, it just didn’t have a line for once in its seven year history. That could either mean two things I thought: 1. Now while ascending the lift on GASM, I noticed that there was no line for Superman: Ultimate Flight. I still had fun though, it’s tough not to have fun on GASM with its wild vertical/lateral Gs, stupid fast first half, and hang time filled second. No amount of defensive riding tactics can counter white train, car 7’s wrath. Once again I took a backseat ride, but paid for it this time around as I failed to remember that the last car on the white train fishtails and bounces along the track at a furious rate. Yeah, I’ll pass!Īfter taking in that spectacle, I decided that Scream Machine was up next the wait was a total “air gate wait.” A combination of people fearing it’s roughness and the fact that the ride ops churn trains out like crazy typically makes for a nice quick wait on GASM. The cycle is probably just over a minute with the loading process taking about five minutes. It flips like once and then proceeds to piss fart around a bit, doing nothing exciting while applying the screechy brake too much. Twister used to be a respectable Top Spin, but it’s cycle now would probably make a German fairgoer cry…and not for joy either. There I contemplated riding Twister, a Huss Top Spin, but opted to watch it instead. Here’s some Nitro and Batman photos…Īfter Batman I walked, walked, walked over to the Boardwalk. The ride was great though! Batman seems to have gotten more and more intense over the years with the loops, turns and even corkscrews plowing riders with G force. In total I queued for about 15 minutes plus a quick puke cleanup to accent the terrible wait. Who the hell brings a marker to an amusement park anyway? The stairs themselves are enclosed with corrugated steel and inside it’s humid, smelly and decorated with petrified ABC gum (already been chewed that is) and marker drawn graffiti. In back of Dark Knight construction was still going on with Xploratorium, an attraction being built in Batman and Robin: the Chiller’s old observatory feature.Īfter getting my fill of fun construction, I got in line for Batman: the Ride only to be trapped by a stairway wait…damn! Nitro’s stairway wait is totally acceptable Batman’s on the other hand is not at all! First of all it’s about a 15 minute wait from the base of the stairs with a good 8 minutes of the wait occurring on the stairs. Instead I passed up Dark Knight for some more funstruction. Next I eyed Dark Knight, which had a small line but had also just closed the pre-show doors meaning at least a 15 minute wait right there. Nitro was running pretty nice on Saturday with a lot of floater air over the final set of bunny hops. All in all I waited about 10 minutes before hopping into the back car. The sprayers on this flume are pretty bad, dumping a nice robust stream of water right into the log I didn’t really want to risk my camera with those.Īfterwards I walked through The Lakefront, into Movietown and got in line for Nitro which had a wait starting just before the stairway into the station. Of course I’m referring to those sprayers that cost a quarter or so to use. I thought about riding until I saw the steady stream of people using the “a-hole devices” next to the flume. Next I walked through Frontier Adventures and saw that the Saw Mill log flume was open an original attraction at Great Adventure. Six with the word Funstruction screamed out next to him. There really wasn’t a whole heck of a lot to see over by Bizarro I was hoping to see maybe a test train, or some workers, or maybe even Lex Luthor himself. Towards the end of last year the bridge was closed for repairs, resulting in a dead ends by El Toro and Medusa. Instead of bull riding, I walked over by Bizarro via the re-opened bridge route, over the stagnant creek that runs through Frontier Adventures. That’s not too bad of a line, but I decided to pass as I knew it would be less later on. Upon arriving at The Bull, I noticed that it had a line that took up the entire far switchback and into the closest one. The first order of business would usually be to get my season pass validated, but I had the piece of plastic all ready to go so instead I made a beeline to El Toro. I was partially right, they were kind of annoying but they didn’t over run the place. I had heard around that May 2nd was cheerleader day or something like that and feared that there would be throngs of annoying cheerleaders around. I got to the park at around 2:00pm and found that the lot wasn’t too full (yay!) As I walked in, a song with the lyrics “It’s gonna be a good day” (or something similar) played over the speakers foreshadowing maybe? I took a solo trip to Six Flags Great Adventure on a cloudy Saturday, May 2nd so that I could do whatever I pleased and stop for as many photos as I saw fit.
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