Opening Weekend

[hoju74]

First time going to opening day

. Same here. My son hit 48", so he's excited about the new rides he can go on.

[RollerCoasterFavRide]

Your son will have so much fun! My kid just squeaked in at 48" last year and she loved all of the rides. We probably have a couple more years until we hit 54", but I'm looking forward to it! The taller they get the more options they get!

[Dan The Coaster Man]

Heading for the park tomorrow. Could someone that went today update me on the coasters? Any running with less trains that normal? Don't want to wait in the wrong line.

[coasterkidd100]

X Flight ran with one train all day today. It took me forever to get through the line so you might want to avoid the coaster if the line is longer.

[X-Flight2012]

Raging Bull was running great! I was back row, far left of the yellow train and it was amazing. I actually got a few pops of ejector air towards the end and lots of floater air (even with the nasty trim). It was really running great! It moved up a few spots in my rankings!

Viper is also running very good. I found it to be a bit shaky, but it was tolerable throughout the ride. There was lots of great airtime on that too.

Lastly, Demon was doing pretty good. Even though I was in my "demon position", where I put my head in front of the OTSRs, it seemed pretty fun. Pretty forceful in the loops. (I loved the new fence paint, and sign.)

[hoju74]

Had a fantastic time on opening day, and it seemed the crowds didn't get bad until 3. As expected, the food service was pretty bad. My sister-in-law waited 40 minutes to refill our sports bottles and get funnel cakes. Can't wait to go back. I'm going to try for a Friday in May before Memorial Day.

Rides in chronological order:

Goliath (great way to start my 2016 season)
American Eagle (we were the first train of the season )
Revolution
Loggers Run
V2
Viper
Giant Drop
Demon
Superman
Sky Trek Tower

[anewman35]

One thing that really annoyed me yesterday: we got there just as the front lot was filling up at about 11:30. They sent us thst direction, even though it was immediately clear that there were no spots left. The problem is they were basically doing nothing to control traffic/people to allow all the front lot cars to cross over. There were quite a few cars (including mine) stuck there for about a half-hour, and it could have been fixed in a minute if they just directed the traffic correctly. Very frustrating start to the season (especially since you'd think this situation must happen every day, do they have no plan?)

[CoasterCale]

Raging Bull was running great! I was back row, far left of the yellow train and it was amazing. I actually got a few pops of ejector air towards the end and lots of floater air (even with the nasty trim). It was really running great! It moved up a few spots in my rankings!

You wanna see a nasty trim? Go to Kings Island and Observe Diamondback. Even with that trim it's my new Number One Steel coaster.

[Jodon]

Did anyone who went opening weekend catch how much the season pass upgrades are with a regular admission ticket? If so, how much was a regular season pass upgrade, and how much was the gold pass upgrade for one person?