Six Flags America will retire Skull Mountain for 2012 attraction

Perhaps my reputation precedes me?

I've done very well at SFA over the past 7-8 years. I recall a couple visits in the '01-'03 era that were less-than-spectacular (including a nightmarish SP fiasco the first time around where Jill and I, pre-paid, spent almost an hour and a half getting our vouchers straightened out).

My absence from SFA in the last few years only has to do with my disinterest in going there in favor of other parks, and is no longer rooted in disgust from lousy operations. I've actually considered going back, but with Dominion, Busch and Hershey nearby, it's too easy to change my mind. And lately, with a 4 year old, Dominion seems like the best choice overall. It's closer and has one of the best kids' areas around.

Gonch I think they have your picture hanging in the ticket booth and a big alert emergency button right below it :-)

I've also had decent to good experiences with the park myself so it isn't just Gonch. To me, SFA, SFMM, and SFGADv have the mist potential to be great parks if caught on a good day with the park running well and cleaned up.

Hey the park wants to suck! That land is worth a mint and it could the worst park in the SF chain..

Huh?

I really hate the dead-end back of the park. I wish they would work on developing that instead of taking away Typhoon Sea Coaster. They should take the dead end path and extend it around to connect between TSC and Roar.

Maybe one reason for getting rid of Skull Mountain is to wrap a path around to the back. Judging by a satellite image of the park, the ride's enclosed turnaround looks to be in the way of such an expansion. It doesn't look to be enough room between Roar and that tunnel for a walkway to fit without causing a bottleneck.

I'd love to see expansion between Batman and Superman, with a path connecting Batman to the area between Roar and Wild One's turnaround. Doing something like that would help the park not seem like it was designed by a six-year-old playing RCT2.

I know that there is not enough room between the hang and bang and the rapids ride, but somehow building a new path to connect that area to Batman's dead end would be ideal.

The biggest problem with any of these funny ideas is placing attractions in these new areas to fill up the empty space. Most SF parks seem to have enough trouble staffing and operating the stuff that they have, as it is already, so that might prove to be too challenging for them.

Is it too late in the thread to start asking for a bathroom back by Batwing and Supes? A dozen years and counting.... ;)

Speaking of bathrooms, my biggest memory of the park is walking into a bathroom and finding poo smeared all over the walls, then walking into it again 6 hours later and finding the poo still there. One of the several reasons I hated that park.

Can't quite relate to the poo story... but I did find the park dirty (trash / food on the grounds and in the queues, over flowing trash cans, a sea of soda cups in the woods behind the station of Mind Eraser)... and the maintenance and operations to be a bit on the poor side. My first visit in 2001 was the worst... my latest visit in around 2006 things had improved, but still the worst in any of the parks in the chain that I've encountered. Only thing SFA is good for... local cheap season passes if planning on doing other six flags parks in the season, and to pad the count (if they ever would add a new coaster).

Shame too. Superman, Wild One and Roar deserve a much better home than what they have.