Photo TR: Six Flags Great Adventure

What a great trip to SFGA today! The weather report was terrible, but I had faith the weathermen would be wrong, as usual…and they were! Drove to the park in the rain, but right after we paid for parking, it stopped raining. Went with my wife for our first day off from caring for our 7 week old twins Nathan & Gracie.

Parked ALL the way up in the row right outside the preferred parking. Get this! Then we got out and headed towards the gates. A shuttle driver drove up to us and said they weren’t charging for preferred park today, so we could move our car up if we wanted. I said, “Hells yes!” and we moved up to the very first row! Thanks safari shuttle driver!!! Now onto the park.

Arrived about 10:10am (10 minutes past opening) and headed straight for Nitro. Well, we weren’t the only ones with that idea as a following pic will show. But the wait was minimal. Nitro was running 2 trains and smooth as butter! After Nitro, we headed to Batman: The Ride and it wasn’t open yet. The Op said b/c the track is so old, they really have to grease up the wheels to get it to run smooth. And when the track gets wet, the grease drips down onto the riders (yuck!). So we had to come back later. Headed to the Chiller which only Robin side running today. Great ride and no wait time at all.

Next, we tried to take the sky ride over to Frontier Adventures, but they said it was too windy to open yet, so we had to hoof it…argh! Walked over to the Runaway “Pain” Train and experienced some nice back trauma and knee-bruising fun (my legs are long)! Then, on to “The Deus” as I refer to her! No lines for “The Deus” so we rode twice, once in the front. Second ride she banged me around too much, so I’ve kinda fallen out of love with her, preferring Nitro’s ride much better today.

Took a walk over to El Toro area and peeked over the gate by the bull, but couldn’t see nuthin’! Then headed to KK area and it was also all blocked off. So while there, we took in the Tiger show which was pretty cool BTW and got some lunch.

After lunch (which was funnel cake & dippin’ dots), it was on to Superman & the Great American “Scream from back & head trauma” Machine. Man, I never remembered it being so rough before (that’s what she said!)! Liberty (white train) and Freedom (red train) were running. I think we rode Freedom, but the short-term memory loss from multiple mini-concussions kind of clouds things. After that, we were kings of the world bow-riding on Superman. Great ride except for that dang pretzel loop! That thing truly hurts. They should call it the ACEr loop, because it feels like an ACEr is sitting on your chest!!!

After Superman, we took 2 more rides on Nitro (my new love) and headed home. It was an A+ day due to the morning rain and weekday keeping the crowds to virtually empty! The sun even showed most of the afternoon.

Now, on to the pics…

NOTE: My pics are in reverse order b/c this is my first Photo TR and I don't know what I'm doing...sorry.

This was the line to get in line for Nitro! No worries, it opened shortly after this. Check out the chick in white hoodie strolling up to the front of the line. Is it considered line jumping if you’re not really in line yet…hmm???

My new love, Nitro, look gloomy…for now.

Met up with some fellow TPR lovers! Said they have trouble typing on the forums though…

Shot of Batman’s 1st Zero G from the exit ramp.

Another shot of Batman whippin’ past the exit ramp. Just keeps you wanting to come back for more!

El Toro looms in the distance ready to pounce on SFGA like my cat on a wadded up McDonald’s cheeseburger wrapper!

TPR is fully endorsed by Big Bird (I know, I know…Foghorn Leghorn!)

S: UF’s brutal “ACEr Loop!” (see explanation above)

Unbelievable to all weathermen, the day turns spectacular. By the way, Skull Mountain is trying to eat Batman in this pic!

Nitro stands proudly and gleams above all others! She is my queen!

This was about 3pm. Guess no one else wanted to have fun today…GOOD!

Another shot of the emptiness…Mmmm emptiness…!

I saw the same sign outside a club down in Daytona…inside was an entirely different atmosphere…

This is what we call “Gmoney’s End of the Day Coaster Hair!” Check me out…*sigh*

I give S: UF two thumbs up! Our parking spot was about 10 ft from me!

As we were leaving, I pulled over and snapped some pics of “The Bull” from a distance. Check out that drop!

Took this to show the cranes tending to KK…*sigh*

As we left, Scream Machine bid us farewell with a pleasant smile.

WOW, El Toro's drop looks so steep from that angle! That looks so awsome! Nice PTR, looks like you hit a good day to hit the park.

Really good report!

El Toro's first drop looks steep from any angle - especially since it is 75 degrees It's incredible.

Gee, Hercules, I know you're excited about El Toro, but you don't have to tell us 3 times!

It was a great day to hit the park! No lines and lots of afternoon sun. Only Kingda Ka would've made it a A+ day...