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Friday Poll!
Aug. 17th, 2007 12:26 amAfter our trip to Six Flags, this week's Friday Poll couldn't help but be about amusement parks, could it?
[Poll #1040551]
Incidentally: SIX FLAGS WAS MADE OF AWESOME. We got there only by about 1:30 pm all told, and we still did a hundred rides in that time. Because we bought the Flash Pass (which worked a lot faster than the guy dressed up did). When you get the tickets as 2-for-1, the extra the Flash Pass adds to it only brings it up to what the full-price admission was. Believe me, it's worth it, especially at this park where people are miserable, lines are out in the sun almost always, and it's crowded as nuts even on Tuesday. Basically, it lets you book a time for a ride, come back then and get on, with the delay dependent on the estimated time for getting on people who would be waiting on line would have. So, if it was an hour for Kingda Ka, you still wait an hour, you just don't do so on the line.
Except that, for some reason, our passes totally got us onto everything within about half an hour to forty-five minutes of arriving at the station to book the rides. And there wasn't a one that we went on, not even the unpopular ones, that didn't have a line longer than that when we got there. We're not sure if we magically got upgraded to the Gold Flash Pass, which supposedly cut down on wait times and let you not have to do your waiting on the line. I don't think that could be possible, though. Our wait times between rides (you could book up to twelve and they would just count down after you finished each one) were so short you could barely get to and from the lines themselves to check in. And the Gold Flash Pass was easily twice as expensive as the other...if I get that bill, I crack skulls.
But yeah. I can never go to that park again without the Flash Pass. Because it is so nice not to wait on line and the wait was definitely shorter than experienced by line-dwellers. Really, it's that much nicer not to wait on line alone, and the shorter lines are like some crazy bonus that the cost just never even mattered. Didn't bother me again from the first ride. I highly recommend it.
I also highly recommend that everyone does the Superman: Ultimate Flight ride. It's not just a gimmick to have you on your belly going over a roller coaster. It really adds a lot more thrill to a fairly usual, ordinary roller coaster, and was so much fun. After that, Nitro and El Toro were awesome. Kingda Ka was thrillingly TERRIFYING, but not worth any of the waits you'd face without a Flash Pass, I'll say that. The Batman ride was good, as always, though it made me a little queasy. I will warn everyone I know AGAIN to never, not even if you have a gun to your head, to ride the Great American Scream Machine. The screams are screams of intense pain.. That's why I banged my head hard enough to remain nauseated through yesterday evening. And if you have to ride Medusa, be careful to keep your head back or you'll lose it there too.
[Poll #1040551]
Incidentally: SIX FLAGS WAS MADE OF AWESOME. We got there only by about 1:30 pm all told, and we still did a hundred rides in that time. Because we bought the Flash Pass (which worked a lot faster than the guy dressed up did). When you get the tickets as 2-for-1, the extra the Flash Pass adds to it only brings it up to what the full-price admission was. Believe me, it's worth it, especially at this park where people are miserable, lines are out in the sun almost always, and it's crowded as nuts even on Tuesday. Basically, it lets you book a time for a ride, come back then and get on, with the delay dependent on the estimated time for getting on people who would be waiting on line would have. So, if it was an hour for Kingda Ka, you still wait an hour, you just don't do so on the line.
Except that, for some reason, our passes totally got us onto everything within about half an hour to forty-five minutes of arriving at the station to book the rides. And there wasn't a one that we went on, not even the unpopular ones, that didn't have a line longer than that when we got there. We're not sure if we magically got upgraded to the Gold Flash Pass, which supposedly cut down on wait times and let you not have to do your waiting on the line. I don't think that could be possible, though. Our wait times between rides (you could book up to twelve and they would just count down after you finished each one) were so short you could barely get to and from the lines themselves to check in. And the Gold Flash Pass was easily twice as expensive as the other...if I get that bill, I crack skulls.
But yeah. I can never go to that park again without the Flash Pass. Because it is so nice not to wait on line and the wait was definitely shorter than experienced by line-dwellers. Really, it's that much nicer not to wait on line alone, and the shorter lines are like some crazy bonus that the cost just never even mattered. Didn't bother me again from the first ride. I highly recommend it.
I also highly recommend that everyone does the Superman: Ultimate Flight ride. It's not just a gimmick to have you on your belly going over a roller coaster. It really adds a lot more thrill to a fairly usual, ordinary roller coaster, and was so much fun. After that, Nitro and El Toro were awesome. Kingda Ka was thrillingly TERRIFYING, but not worth any of the waits you'd face without a Flash Pass, I'll say that. The Batman ride was good, as always, though it made me a little queasy. I will warn everyone I know AGAIN to never, not even if you have a gun to your head, to ride the Great American Scream Machine. The screams are screams of intense pain.. That's why I banged my head hard enough to remain nauseated through yesterday evening. And if you have to ride Medusa, be careful to keep your head back or you'll lose it there too.
