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Horizons12
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Registered: 8/16/2002
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 7/27/2004 11:59:05 PM
My sister and I arrived at SFGAdv at around 11:00. My sister had a free pass from work and I had a season pass so we bypassed the massive line to get in and went to the season pass gate.
First we went to Movietown and hopped on Batman & Robin: The Chiller. The wait was about 20 minutes. Now, tell me if I'm wrong or not, but once you enter the loading platform your supposed to go to the row you want to ride in. So these people in front of me just stand next to the front row line, blocking the way to the other rows when there was plenty of room near the back of the station. So I see a few others walk by them and I too just go by them and to the row I want to go to. Then one of the guys who was just standing there goes "Can't you see the line?" Now "the line" was him and his stupid family jamming up the platform, so I had to explain to him that once you get onto the station platform you need to move to the row you want to go in so you don't hold up the line. So all that aside, we get on and go. What's there to say about this ride? It's great! Well worth the wait and the stupid people!
Next we meet one of my sisters friends who is apparently a coaster nut like I am. To we all go to Nitro. The wait started by the chain lift and only took about 10 minutes! Now, my sisters friend is a bouncer at the bar my sister works at so he's pretty big. He said to us that he's fit in plenty of times but there's always some confusion amongst the ride ops when they see him in the seat. So he pulls the bar down and it locks one click, which isn't enough I guess. So He tells the guys to just force it in like all the others do and the kid gives it a wimpy push and tells him that he can't ride. Now this is his favorite coaster so he walks off all pissed off and tells him that he's going to write a letter to SF and complain. So my sister and I rode and it was a nice ride, but we felt kinda bad for him. So when we got off my sisters friend goes "Hey remember that fat guy behind us? He got on! They did just what I told them to do to him but not me! This park f'n sucks...," etc., etc.
So we went on Skull Mountain with a one train wait, then the Skyride to Medusa. We waited about 15 minutes for Medusa then went over to Rolling Thunder. The line started under the brake run and they were running only 1 train, so we decided to come back later. We went over to the Great American Scream Machine, my sister and I went on and waited about 10 minutes. Now we walked over to the Movietown side again, and I went on Spinmeister. Then we went on Freefall, and had to listen to my sister scream from the trip up to the brakes at the end...it's really ANNOYING! A thing I really noticed this time while waiting in line for Freefall (about 10 minute wait btw) was that when the car hits the brakes, it sounds like a car accident LOL. We decided to walk back over to Frontier Adventures. Before that I rode that Jolly Roger ride just because there was no line and it looked kinda cool. That ride is very painful! The backs and sides of the seat are pretty low (I guess that's because it's sort of a kiddie ride) and it spins pretty fast. When it started to go fast I thought I was going to fall out of the car because of the low sided cars! It's kinda fun though, you go over the hills pretty fast. We got over to Frontier Adventures and rode Viper. Of course it was an annoying wait with only 1 train running. That ride beats the crap out of everyone but it's fun! Some kids hat came flying off on the first heartline and almost landed on the chainlift, My sisters friend tried to catch it when the train came back down but it was a good 5 feet away from him.
We walked around a bit and then it was time for my sister friend to go home. Now this is where things get interesting. I go on The Twister and then we walked over to Poland Springs Plunge to take a spin on that. We get in line and wait...then we notice that the turntable in the station isn't moving...and the water is almost<
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Animan1
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Registered: 5/14/2003
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 7/28/2004 9:18:34 AM
Sounds like an odd trip to say the least! Glad all in all it was good though, nice TR.
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Gamling
Posts: 880
Registered: 8/6/2003
Rank: Gold Critic
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7/28/2004 9:25:14 AM
wow, Six Flags have really upped thier freebies! I bet it was fun watching the people turn the wheel.
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larrygator
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Registered: 11/7/2002
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7/28/2004 6:08:46 PM
I love the story about B&R:TC. I encounter that all the time. If it is a clueless group of people I generally ask if they are wiating for the front car and when they realize they are on the longest line they move. If it's a group of loud rowdy people who accuse you a cutting the line I just turn around (as i walk to the last car) and tell them there are waiting for the first car, which inevitably caused one or two of them to get into a larger argument amongst themselves.
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