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John
Albany Entertainment:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/albanyent
Yea, it's been the same story since before Memorial Day. Don't get your hopes up. Even when it is ready, don't count on it running. I was there two years ago, BEFORE the accident, and it wasn't running then despite full queues and a line back to the ramp out of Superhero Adventures. I wish S:ROS was at another park where it wasn't going to waste. Great ride in a lousy park if you ask me.
I get to ride Nitro tomorrow and I am pretty psyched!!! :) I'm interested to see if I like it better than S:ROS...
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-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew
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Im the #1 Canobie Lake Park Fan!!!These are my top 3 coasters:
1. S:RoS @ SFNE 2. Yankee Cannonball 3. Cyclone
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Jim Hansen
Number of coasters ridden: 162
o, and the train isn't red. Its silver.
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Formally known as Millenium Force29, Alpengiest is the best!
First off, SFNE is not a lousy park at all. also, SROS ran with two trains before the accident alot of the time. I visited the park numerous times last season, and only on one occasion were both cars not running. and second, Nitro doesnt compare to SROS, but its got a great drop :)
The train was running and has recieved the parts that were needed before memorial day. proper testing has to be done. once completed the red car will be back and running within the next week or so.
They ran it early today with the water dummy's in it. So if there testing it with the dummy's then that says something right there
and Flying Dutchman the train is RED
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John
Albany Entertainment:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/albanyent
*** This post was edited by CalvinJ23 on 6/9/2002. ***
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Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society-Chicago Chapter
yeah, and the ride ops are really slow too (or at least they were friday) it was like 5-6 mins between dispatch (maybee more, i didnt have a watch...it felt like about 10 though)
and the train is RED!!!
it does not have the S loo yet, but the water dummies are straped in.
mike
-will be up there sometime this week drudging through the one train op line.
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-mike
"Ain't no glory in a war"
-Rx Bandits
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Make it to SFNE for S:Ros and BDK!!!!
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Formally known as Millenium Force29, Alpengiest is the best!
Messiah of the DMV - The wait yesturday was about 5 mins. But with one train operation you have to really expect that. It takes time for the people already on there to get out once they train arrives then the new people get in so say a minute there. then its a 2 minute ride. then they have to unload and get the new people in so 5 mins is about right. :(
on the upperhand, all the other coasters were running two trains. and B:TDK was amazing! We waited 15 mins max w/two trains running. Ended up riding that 9 times yesturday. SFNE is really doing an excellent job this year getting people on and off the rides from previous years.
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John
Albany Entertainment:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/albanyent
But this year, with the addition of Batman: Dark Knight, the park has a different feel. And if they ever get two trains running on Superman, it will make you forget the bad old days - SFNE really has become a destination park!
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Flying Dutchman said:
o, and the train isn't red. Its silver.
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Formally known as Millenium Force29, Alpengiest is the best!
I have no idea what coaster you're thinking about, but when I was there, it was definately RED. Wait, arent supermans colors blue and red? Thats what I thought.
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Planned parks: Astroland, Knoebel's, Hersheypark, SFNE, SFGadv,SFGam,CP,PKI,PKD,PCW,HW,Indiana Beach,SFWOA,SFKK,SFDL,SFSTL,Lakemont,DelGrosso's... Need I say more?
I came back from Great Adventure today and I will agree with you, CalvinJ23, that Nitro can't compare. Good ride - definitely, but not in the same league as S:ROS. Of course the Nitro crew was dispatching 3 trains with minimal stacking which was very impressive! I stand by my opinions of SFNE. They could do so much better than they do in terms of guest satisfaction if they ran rides to full capacity (2 trains on Superman and Batman all the time, 3 towers on Scream, etc). People pay big bucks to go in there and they should deliver more than 2 rides in 4 hours regardless of crowd size. Hopefully things will pull together because I'd love to have a quality park closer to home, but from what I saw two weeks ago it hasn't happened yet.
Also, a 5 minute dispatch to dispatch interval is too long even for one train operation. Even if the ride is 2:30, it should take not much more than a minute to ready the next train. They should open those airgates as soon as the train stops and start loading the next one. Under 4 minutes would easily be achievable I think. I didn't see anyone running to check restraints when I was there on Memorial Day.
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-Matt
2001 Magnum Crew
CoasterGuy said:
Some of you people can be so ignorant. Just because that happened before doesn't mean it will happen this year. Let's not forget that so far this season, most if not all of the coasters at SFNE have ran 2 trains where available. Let's also not forget that the park has a new vice president/general manager. He came from SFGAdv and that park knows everything about line movers. Also, evidence is already showing up that they want quicker lines, such as the attedants for SROS sprinting down the sides of the train as they check lap bars very quickly. I'm confident that they want to alleviate that lines from S:RoS (negative publicity) and will use the train as much as they can to their advantage.-----------------
Make it to SFNE for S:Ros and BDK!!!!
Are you kidding, when I went in the middle of May, the ONLY coaster runnig two trains was Batman, and Batman was even closed for about an hour in the middle of the day.
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