Author Topic: 4/19 - Trip Report - Perfect Day (Read 7003 times)

Ogolo · « **on:** April 19, 2006, 07:29:10 PM »

I'm going to keep this short...but the park gets a 10/10 today.
Weather was perfect, staff was extremely friendly, park was very clean!

Kingda Ka was running great... 15 minute wait in morning and about a 60 minute wait at noon time.
Every other ride in the park was walk on or a most 5 minutes.

At 2:00 PM we had more than a days worth of roller coasters.
I sure can't ride them non-stop like I did many years ago!!.
We headed over to the Safari to watch all the animals enjoying the beautiful day...

Was it really spring break?? We just couldn't believe it.

The only thing the would have pushed it to a Spinal Tap 11 was if El Toro was open! Ahh...I have to have a reason to go back again....

PcMan · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2006, 07:57:27 PM »

Cool !
I hope with half the kids back in school it made it less packed.
I will be there in the 80 degree sunny weather. I also hope with no crowds Kingda ka will be the same for me

Was there a running for the bulls to KK like normally ?
Also, when you got to KK was it running ?

sfgadvfreak · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2006, 09:03:51 PM »

I wish I had off this week instead of last because I would be at the park every single day. It's great to hear that you rode so many coasters that you could not ride any more! That means that the lines were short!! Great to know that the friendly staff is still there a mere 3 weeks into the season.

coastermom · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2006, 09:05:12 PM »

Hope friday is just as good but a little cooler weather wise

Ogolo · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2006, 09:34:52 PM »

Running of the bulls...It seems they kept the crowd in order. I didn't see anyone running. We just walked over there and only had a short wait. And yes it was open as soon as we got over there.

ChuckR · « **Reply #5 on:** April 19, 2006, 11:17:44 PM »

Was Batman side of Chiller running?

PcMan · « **Reply #6 on:** April 20, 2006, 12:05:43 AM »

cool
I have a few first time KK riders with me
they will love it

Cyclonic · « **Reply #7 on:** April 20, 2006, 12:13:12 AM »

No, no Batman side yet. I'll write something more complete later, but let me just say, El Toro is looking awesome:

PcMan · « **Reply #8 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:09:23 AM »

That picture shows how nice of a day you had
it almost looks fake
the sky is so perfect

Bubba Z · « **Reply #9 on:** April 20, 2006, 11:30:05 AM »

Wouldn't that be better if all three trains were in it.

stew560 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 20, 2006, 12:54:58 PM »

Hopefully, by June, that should be true! That would be an even better pic!

CoasterPete · « **Reply #11 on:** April 20, 2006, 01:42:50 PM »

I am still so amazed at how that picture and many others taken along the lake look exactly as the animation showed it would be.

Pete

stew560 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2006, 04:00:24 PM »

That really is a compliment to the 3dVIP guys that did the renderings. They really did a great job! I have on my cubicle wall the CGI and Real Life pics from across the lake, and it is amazing how close they are!

David Jr · « **Reply #13 on:** April 20, 2006, 06:43:34 PM »

Cyclonic's pic taken from the skyride will be THE pic of the year once El Toro is running

PcMan · « **Reply #14 on:** April 21, 2006, 12:37:13 PM »

I went to the park on THursday 82 degrees very nice.
I will post about 50 pics and a trip report and my am 3 hour kk breakdown wait (when it would have only been a 15 minute wait)
25 million and they still can't fix KK
the perosn in charge (Intamin) of this should be fired or try to get his head out of his/her ass.

I never seen a most unreliable ride in my life and on the day I go
the line wasn't even long only a little past the lockers when I got there.
I fill sorry for Six Flags for the $ they spent on this and can't keep it running.
this will make people NOT want to come back to the park (thats waht I was thinking the time I was 4 people away from the front seat for 2 hours.
(I have a season pass and will be back but for others it was not a GREAT ADVENTURE !! )
They should just close KK until they get it fixed the way it should be
I also talked to another group later in the day they waited 4 hours.
DON't get me wrong I love KK and the front seat was awesome as always. but I only got one ride on it all day so I'm stuck at 76 (tried to match chucks) WHen you only here the horn once every ten minutes
ok I'm ok now

will post later today or tonight
got some good pics and ET is looking awesome

ChuckR · « **Reply #15 on:** April 21, 2006, 04:37:13 PM »

Yeah, Ka was down most of the day yesterday. But on Monday-Wendesday it was running awesome.

PcMan · « **Reply #16 on:** April 21, 2006, 06:28:11 PM »

yep
first time I was on KK since last AUgust and the same thing
waited for the front seat when the park opened and a 20 minutes line turns into 2-3 hours
I was sure I could reach your 80 but no dice

Ogolo · « **Reply #17 on:** April 21, 2006, 07:02:09 PM »

Sorry to hear Thursday didn't turn out so good for you and your friends. At least you got your ride.

It seems like Ka is runing really good one day or and then really bad the next.

And if you are like me you don't even want to contimplate walking away from the ride when you are that close to getting on.....

On both my two rides on wednesday people let me go before them because they wanted to ride in the same train as someone else. Wow! Don't they know you should never do that...Get on as fast as you can before it breaks down!

ChuckR · « **Reply #18 on:** April 21, 2006, 07:07:08 PM »

It seems like yesterday, alot of the power grids were going.

PcMan · « **Reply #19 on:** April 21, 2006, 08:17:59 PM »

yep
I was thinking the 2nd row (really nobody waits for it) which would have got me out of there almost 2 hours earlier, next time
I just fell sorry for the people that can only get to the park once this year from far away

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