Are all SF parks like this?
From a personal standpoint, in the big picture I've seen attendance at my local Six Flags drop fairly steadily over the past ten years. Compare 1992 #'s with 2002 #'s and it sure seems like Six Flags is paying for their crime now.
SFGA is my home park and I love its coaster line up.
But it all comes down to one thing MONEY!
Around here the acronyms are as follows SFGRADV=SF Great Adventure while SFGRAM =SF Great America,& I do agree that the low capacity might be a way to market fastlane.
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Honestly, there's no park outside of FL that I feel as comfortable at.....but then again, if I had YOUR selection of parks, I'd probably feel the same as you...nothing "homey" about SoCal....;)
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Mamoosh said:
coastertigger sez: "We waited about 25 minutes to get on Chang at SFKK"OMG! 25 minutes? That's horrible! What did you do to fill all that time so you weren't so bored?
Moosh - yeah, that was sarcasm
On a day like that, and with a crowd like that 25 minutes is stupid. Especially for a coaster that could be running 3 trains. I understand long lines on crowded days, and have waited in plenty. Thanks for the sarcasm Moosh!
Sorry, but in my opinion complaining about having to wait 25 minutes for ANY coaster on ANY day is what's stupid. Considering some people are not healthy enough or don't have a means to get to a park and ride I think we should consider ourselves lucky that we can enjoy our hobby.
Moosh - and no, that was *not* sarcasm.
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gator said:
Besides, there's more to love at GAm than there is at GAdv...*ducks head*...
With that comment I'm putting you ON MY LIST!!!
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I too feel lucky that I can ride coasters, and feel bad for those who can't, or never will, and I'm not sure why that even got brought up. Listen, I only wanted too know why some SF parks only ran 1 train on some days, and there have been a lot of Excellent replies to this( thanks coasterbzz members). So why bring in the sarcasm?
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People complain about clones, yet can't even come up with original conversation, which is ten times worse.
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1) Million dollar trains? If they are million $ trains on million $ tracks, owned by million $ companies, then where is the million dollars going for maintainance. If they are worried about wear & tear, why are they on the track in the first place? Motto: save your million dollars for guest relations that are brutally upset about waiting 60 minutes for a ride when there are only 1000 people in the park.
2) Past experience? After visiting 5 SF parks, 2 CF, PKI, and various family owned parks (HP, HW, KW, CLP, IB, IW) in the last 3 summers, Six Flags owns the worst capacity of all mentioned. Why they single-train with low numbers in the park has been a mystery to all of us at the Buzz, 3 years running.
3) Sarcasm? And this is directed more at Moosh than anyone, but 25 minutes on Chang? Yes, Chang is a grand coaster, but 25 minutes with one train on a slow day? The day we spent at SFKK should have tabulated 3 rides per coaster in 5 hours, but left mifted when we rode everything once, that's all time allowed. And that, my friend, is ridiculous. 5 coasters, 5 hours? Something does not add up. I'm praying SFoG is managed more completely a week from today.
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edit: 'Tuan...I'm FROM the Garden State...but there's NO good wood at the SF park...and early indications are that the rumored rehab on RT was mostly *just that*...rumor...;)
And to paraphrase Jeff...."I don't give a rat's arse about YOUR staffing problem"....
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PKD, PKI, Knott's, Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, D/MGM, BGT, BGW, Dorney, Lake Compounce, Great Esape(pre Premier too), HersheyPark, and I know there are others. I first noticed this back in '92, just before we became enthusiast, when we visit Williamsburg for a week. We had three day passes at BGW. Sunday was a good day, sorta busy, but lines moved. However, the two weekdays we went the lines were worse and there were far fewer people in the park. All because Busch thought it would be nice to run 1-2 trains on the coasters. They created nice lines on BBW and LNM. Funny, but I remember Drachen Fire have 2-3 trains and running well. I've seen PKD do it more lately then they used too. Disney does it too. Saw it happen on SM at MK. Both sides open early on...then later only one side and line was sorta long. Later in the day, they decided to open both sides again. I was told by some people that the side was just down, however I asked a CM and on said they didn't have enough guests to open both sides! Yeah right. I saw it at Matterhorn too during slower times. It is very annoying when you have a slow crew running one train on a coaster, making a 5 minute wait into a 20 min. wait. It was like this at BGT a few times too, especially on Montu and Gwazi. Ditto for many SF parks. It seems all the parks are worried about the bottom line more than making the guests happy. DD at IoA is very annoying when they have 1 train per side, with super slow crew. Makes a 2 minute wait more like 15, it gets old very fast. Parks can make any excuse they like, but the fact is that this is very poor operations no matter how you cut it.
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