Six Flags America (SFA) Discussion Thread

[coasterfreak101Gimme Some Candy!]

^I must say that,judging by the video it looks like they did a good job designing the queue layout by not just using a generic SF style series of switchbacks as done on previous rides.I'll wait a few years to see what further improvements may be made to the park before making a decision on wether or not to return so I can check the ride out.

Hopefully by then I'll be able to drive so I'd need to do less convincing of friends to go back as they've decided that the park jusst isn't worth it right now.

My life dream is that every one of your posts in this thread isn't this exact thing over and over again. The park has been improving for years now. We all know you aren't coming back. Fine by me, I'll take the shorter lines.

[airtimeMacaroni and Donkey]

SF and SFA has done a really nice job with Apocalypse. However, I think it's also important to note the park has done some other things to the Skull Island area:

- Refurbished the bathrooms
- Painted the "Roar" sign in front of Roar
- Replaced Johnny Rockets with Aviator Grill, painted that part of the food court and introduced new menu items like a Veggie Burger and Turkey Burger
- Painted Pirates Flight and added a nice sized monument sign. Pirates Flight is one of the oldest flat rides in the park.
- Painted High Seas
- Painted the train station
- Worked on a 3 tier landscaping in a few areas but notable around Panda Express and High Seas
- Expanded the midway and moved the Top Glow water gun game from Coyote Creek to Skull Island

Hopefully, if Apocalypse is a big success, we will see refurbishment and new rides in other areas.

[bubalaI'll drink donkey urine before I'll drink a Pepsi.]

Are the black bars intentionally shaking? Or is it from a camera stabilization effect or something of the sort?

The shaking black bars are something that YouTube did. When I posted the video to YouTube, I received a message that said something like 'your video appears to be shaky, would you like YouTube to fix it?' I said yes. I love how smooth the 'fix' made the video, but a side effect of the smoothness is the shaky bars.

[bubalaI'll drink donkey urine before I'll drink a Pepsi.]

@Jason......awesome video. Great job on all the queue and off ride footage and putting it all together. Looking forward to viewing more of your work in the future.

Thanks!

[coasterfreak101Gimme Some Candy!]

Something interesting (or maybe completely meaningless)...

After our visit to the park on Saturday, my boyfriend got an email from the park asking him to complete a survey. He had to check off each ride we rode that day (basically the entire park's worth) and then another page popped up with each of those rides, asking him to rank his experiences on each one. Rides like the rapids and the drop tower were there, but there was one notable ride missing - Batwing. We were just talking about it on Saturday, actually - one of the overbank supports has a large and visible gash in it from rust damage, and a lot of supports look as though they've been sanded down for a better look at their interiors. I don't know if there have been rumors about the demise of Batwing, and I don't know that this survey is a sign, but it certainly doesn't pull lines anymore even with its terrible operation, and the park has never put much work into it to keep it running at capacity.

The survey also asked him to become a member of some sort of advisory board, made up of guests, to discuss things about the park either via email, social media, or even in-park. Do all parks do this, or is this a new thing they're trying out to make sure they're making the best changes they can?

[IronWolfmanI'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

They've been doing it for a while....

[CoasterRollinBeware of the Magic Donkey at Lotte World!]

Yeah they have, but maybe it's relatively new for SFA (I don't know for sure). When I bought my 2011 season pass torwards the end of 2010 I signed up for the newsletter and I've been getting surveys from them every now and then.

[coasterfreak101Gimme Some Candy!]

I'm not asking about the surveys, I'm asking about forming an advisory board. I've just never heard of that before.

[deathbydinnI eat bugs.]

The "advisory board" is really just a fancy way of saying getting more surveys. It just means instead of only getting a survey right after you visit or go to the site, you'll get them for things like season food passes, upcoming rides, how much you would pay for stuff, etc.

[larrygatorObsessive Overlord of the TPR Park Index]

The chocolate chip cookies at Apocalypse Media Day are awesome. I can't stop eating them. Full report on media day coming tonight.