palmer
08-30-2010, 12:59 AM
So, after a month-before planned idea, we didn't let our plan to fall through and I met up with my cousins from Long Island at the park. We arrived at 11 am, but my brother had to renew his pass (yes, he hasn't went yet this year until today) and by the time we met with our cousins, they already ate and rode TDK.
Usually, might initially start the day off at Houdini or GASM, but GASM, as you may know, is literally half a lift and a loop, and nobody thought abut doing Houdini. Well, we started with Nitro. I'm not complaining.
Nitro was literally a walk on. Walked onto the 7th row, rode twice with getting off. That made my day. We went to B:TR right after it. We got on line and stopped at the big fan. We heard the test horn. We didn't move for about 10 minutes, couple trains were tested and good to go. We got on in about 30 minutes for row 5.
Afterwards, we got some lunch at Carnegie Deli, which I haven't been to before. After lunch, we took a ride on Houdini. It was a one cycle wait. I really never realized how extremely themed the ride is. I'm proud of GADV for that.
We went to S:UF. As you may know, S:UF loads and dispatches as fast as a snail. So what a normal B&M half queue, 25 minute wait became a long, not right for a B&M, 45 minute wait. Yet, on the ride, you do see a lot of GASM's inside area. Sadly, for the sake of my phone and my visits at the park, I did not take a picture. All the scrap is gone. Along with the queue. Not on part of the queue, excluding the station that still remains in the front with the "Under Funstruction" wooden fence. Also, there is a lot of stones in the area. Maybe dugged up, maybefor the ride. I'm not quite sure.
After GASM, we went straight to Bizarro. It was about a stair wait for back row. And of course, back row is amazing on Bizarro. You might have your own opinion, but you get an experience like no other part of the ride, nor on any other B&M Floorless. Anyway we went to El Toro right after Bizarro.
El Toro was one full switchback, and waited 20 minutes for 2nd to last row. The back car was amazing. I'm use to the middle cars, where you don't get the overhang, but you don't get the feeling like the back row. Personally, I might only go on El Toro for the back row/car.
After El Toro, went straight to Kingda Ka. We saw the line was basically empty. We got to the station, and the right side looked some what filled. So the attendent said to go on the other side, it will be much shorter. Literally walked to an empty row 3 in the second train. As the first train pulled in, it stopped at the curved track which changes to allow cars go to other sides of the station. They pulled the other train back to the first set, and the second train went to us (which was the old Karate Kid train, which is now the Got2b sticker slapped). After "minor technically difficulties that we aren't sure what it is", which lasted about 10 minutes, we finally got on.
We went towards Skull Mountain after Kingda Ka, but we stopped at Twister beforehand. One cycle wait, but only got the 3-flip round. No happy. We went to Skull Mountain, which was a walk on. Went straight to the back row and we could have gone for more, but most of the group didn't want to.
Well, everything was basically done. So we just took a look at Nitro, saw a stair wait, and did it to end our day. Nitro was forceful in the morning, but sadly, the trims seemed more used in the afternoon. It didn't matter anyway. 3 rides on Nitro made me happy. We left around 5:30.
Ride Count:
Nitro x3
B:TR x1
S:UF x1
Houdini x1
Bizarro x1
El Toro x1
Skull Mountain x1
Kingda Ka x1
Twister x1
Usually, might initially start the day off at Houdini or GASM, but GASM, as you may know, is literally half a lift and a loop, and nobody thought abut doing Houdini. Well, we started with Nitro. I'm not complaining.
Nitro was literally a walk on. Walked onto the 7th row, rode twice with getting off. That made my day. We went to B:TR right after it. We got on line and stopped at the big fan. We heard the test horn. We didn't move for about 10 minutes, couple trains were tested and good to go. We got on in about 30 minutes for row 5.
Afterwards, we got some lunch at Carnegie Deli, which I haven't been to before. After lunch, we took a ride on Houdini. It was a one cycle wait. I really never realized how extremely themed the ride is. I'm proud of GADV for that.
We went to S:UF. As you may know, S:UF loads and dispatches as fast as a snail. So what a normal B&M half queue, 25 minute wait became a long, not right for a B&M, 45 minute wait. Yet, on the ride, you do see a lot of GASM's inside area. Sadly, for the sake of my phone and my visits at the park, I did not take a picture. All the scrap is gone. Along with the queue. Not on part of the queue, excluding the station that still remains in the front with the "Under Funstruction" wooden fence. Also, there is a lot of stones in the area. Maybe dugged up, maybefor the ride. I'm not quite sure.
After GASM, we went straight to Bizarro. It was about a stair wait for back row. And of course, back row is amazing on Bizarro. You might have your own opinion, but you get an experience like no other part of the ride, nor on any other B&M Floorless. Anyway we went to El Toro right after Bizarro.
El Toro was one full switchback, and waited 20 minutes for 2nd to last row. The back car was amazing. I'm use to the middle cars, where you don't get the overhang, but you don't get the feeling like the back row. Personally, I might only go on El Toro for the back row/car.
After El Toro, went straight to Kingda Ka. We saw the line was basically empty. We got to the station, and the right side looked some what filled. So the attendent said to go on the other side, it will be much shorter. Literally walked to an empty row 3 in the second train. As the first train pulled in, it stopped at the curved track which changes to allow cars go to other sides of the station. They pulled the other train back to the first set, and the second train went to us (which was the old Karate Kid train, which is now the Got2b sticker slapped). After "minor technically difficulties that we aren't sure what it is", which lasted about 10 minutes, we finally got on.
We went towards Skull Mountain after Kingda Ka, but we stopped at Twister beforehand. One cycle wait, but only got the 3-flip round. No happy. We went to Skull Mountain, which was a walk on. Went straight to the back row and we could have gone for more, but most of the group didn't want to.
Well, everything was basically done. So we just took a look at Nitro, saw a stair wait, and did it to end our day. Nitro was forceful in the morning, but sadly, the trims seemed more used in the afternoon. It didn't matter anyway. 3 rides on Nitro made me happy. We left around 5:30.
Ride Count:
Nitro x3
B:TR x1
S:UF x1
Houdini x1
Bizarro x1
El Toro x1
Skull Mountain x1
Kingda Ka x1
Twister x1