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Postby Jackluver18 on October 25th, 2016, 10:36 pm
I understand what you guys are saying, I'm just saying that people ignore the signs and the announcement, well that's on them. Not the scareactors fault. They're doing their job and if you get scared easily or don't like being scared, then stay home..that's all there is to it.
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on October 26th, 2016, 2:09 pm
Jackluver18 wrote:I have a rant and it has to do with Fright Fest. Why are there guests coming to the park with anxiety issues? If you are scared then why the heck are you putting yourself through torment? The character batteries I hear about are getting ridiculous. One of my friends whose a clown had her shoulder dislocated due to a guest, one of the other clowns had a man hit him, another clown had someone poke him Friday night and last night one of the pirates had a guests grab his pirate hat and run away with it. So many of my friends that work have had something happen to them. It's Fright Fest, if you're so scared and don't like it when someone scares you, do everyone a huge favor and stay home. One of my friends had a guest go after her and she couldn't see them coming so two of her "family" members stepped in to protect her. The boyfriend yelled at her because his gf was scared and had anxiety problems. Then why the heck did you make her stay for 6 hours during the time the scareactors were out? She had several chances to go home before they came out and yet stayed till the end. It wasn't the scareactors that forced her to stay and guests get mad when they get scared. What the heck is the matter with this world? Can someone explain that to me? (retorical question at the end there)


Jack, thanks for sharing this information. It's good to see things from the other people's (ie. the scareactors) point of view. Personally I actually just go to the park during Fright Fest to go on the rides and because I have to go to validate the next year's season pass. I don't do any of the haunted houses and I try to avoid contact or engagement with the actors because I see them as something slowing me down to get to the next ride. But I treat them with respect and certainly don't harm them. I just don't stop and engage them.
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Postby Jackluver18 on October 26th, 2016, 4:26 pm
I can honestly say I hate being scared too but it's my friends that are scaring me and I would never retailate against them. I go to FF for the haunts, the houses and the scareactors as I am friends with quite a bit of them. I hate hearing something bad happened to my friends. It's common sense and people don't use it. It's Fright Fest. You spend 60.00 to get in and you know you have issues and don't like people scaring you and begging the scareactors to leave you alone? Yeah that makes a lot of sense to me. Now accidently bumping into them as they're scaring you, that's different from turning around after the scareactor left and go and hit them. I have done it several times and I apologize feeling bad that I bumped them, nudged them, stepped on their foot, whatever the case may be . They know that I am not going to hurt them. But I am sick and tired of people going in and acting like jerks towards the scareactors taunting them, poking them, bothering them. That only ticks the scareactors off and they tell their escort and then those people get made to leave the area. Do not touch the scareactors and let them do their job and if you can't do that, then go away.
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Postby RollingCoasting on October 26th, 2016, 4:33 pm
Jackluver18 wrote:if you get scared easily or don't like being scared, then stay home..that's all there is to it.


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Postby CoasterCale on November 29th, 2016, 9:48 am
Culinary Employees are the unsung heroes of the park if you ask me. They work the longest hours and stay well after the park is closed to clean their units. Not that the guests would notice but the park takes cleanliness very seriously. I'm sorry about that funnel cake incident.
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Postby RollingCoasting on January 2nd, 2017, 12:29 am
I can't stand the misusing of Superman's single rider line

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This was from back in Fright Fest. I passed up a 2 hour queue and waited behind only 4 people in the SRL for a 5 minute on-and-off ride on S:UF, and when I got off for a re-ride, I saw that the whole SRL queue was full. And yes, about half of these people were in groups of 5 or more. I don't even want to imagine how long that line was, considering how long the SRL's take to empty. I think there should be an attendant at the SRL entrance making absolute sure that the person is a single rider. That's how SRL abuse is avoided at Goliath
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on January 2nd, 2017, 1:14 am
The point of the SRQ isn't to give single riders an 'advantage', it's to fill empty seats. It says on the sign 'Your group will be split up'. Yes, it can be annoying when an excess of groups use the SRQ, but the park won't stop it.

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Postby Re-Check 9 on January 2nd, 2017, 11:09 am
RollingCoasting wrote:I can't stand the misusing of Superman's single rider line

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This was from back in Fright Fest. I passed up a 2 hour queue and waited behind only 4 people in the SRL for a 5 minute on-and-off ride on S:UF, and when I got off for a re-ride, I saw that the whole SRL queue was full. And yes, about half of these people were in groups of 5 or more. I don't even want to imagine how long that line was, considering how long the SRL's take to empty. I think there should be an attendant at the SRL entrance making absolute sure that the person is a single rider. That's how SRL abuse is avoided at Goliath


There should be a grouper in the station whenever the SRL is open. Last season, many times there either wasn't a grouper or the grouper was doing a very poor job and not paying attention. I don't see what good it would do to have an employee at the entrance to the SRL, since "groups" are allowed to use the line as long as they know they'll get split up on the ride, and groups who want to abuse the SRL and sit together will simply lie to the employee at the line entrance.
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Postby Goku1910 on January 4th, 2017, 7:01 pm
RollingCoasting wrote:That's how SRL abuse is avoided at Goliath


Wait, it's avoided at Goliath? No way. Last two times I went the SRL was down to the 2nd level of stairs and it was mostly groups. This makes me really glad Flash Pass got moved to merge in instead....Makes me wonder if I'm the only one to go to guest relations to complain about the SRL and FP sharing the line because it was changed shortly after my complaint.
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Postby RollingCoasting on January 4th, 2017, 7:27 pm
I've seen groups as small as 2 people denied access to the single rider line at Goliath as well as groups as large as ten granted entry. The whole system is pretty confusing in my opinion, and it really shouldn't be
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Postby anewman35 on January 4th, 2017, 10:01 pm
1. There's no reason groups should be banned from the single rider line, as long as everybody (including the park attendent) follows the rules.

2. Nobody should get upset if the SRL line is too long, the point of the SRL isn't to be some magic line that benefits single people in the know. As long as it's being used the proper way, you have no right to complain if it takes as long (or even longer!) than the regular line, it's the gamble you take.

3. The rules should be consistent and followed the same way by all operators, so there's no confusion or favoritism.

4. Flash Pass is the worst thing that ever happened to the park and I have no sympathy to anything that ever happens to anybody using it.

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Postby Wisco Woody on January 6th, 2017, 12:49 pm
Goliath's SRL doesn't really bother me if groups use it, because then there are less groups and less people adding to the main line, and it's easy enough for me to tell which line will take longer, especially with only the 2 across seating. But to me, Superman's SRL is more important and should have better enforcement against obvious large groups (4 or 5+) and line cutters. Without the SRL, my friends and I would have just avoided Superman at Fright Fest, so yes we were a group of 3 using the SRL. But SUF's wait time is just ridiculous, nearly as poor capacity as V2 thanks to a subpar crew. The SRL really redeems the ride thanks to how quickly it moves due to 4 across B&M seating.
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Postby Goku1910 on January 6th, 2017, 12:53 pm
Groups getting into the SRL is one thing, groups in SRL getting on together is what really ticks me off.

If you're going to abuse it, it should be taken away.
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on January 6th, 2017, 3:28 pm
^ Agreed. Groups are NOT supposed to be seated together if using the SRL. Personally I think Superman's SRL is one of the best kept secrets and helps to fill otherwise empty seats.
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Postby RollingCoasting on March 4th, 2017, 8:27 pm
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This is hilariously stupid :lol: I hope they were kicked out after the ride
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Postby JaminOut on March 4th, 2017, 9:06 pm
CoasterRiderSC wrote:^ Agreed. Groups are NOT supposed to be seated together if using the SRL. Personally I think Superman's SRL is one of the best kept secrets and helps to fill otherwise empty seats.


One time I went to use SUF's SRL and it was a two hour wait. The regular line was about 90 minutes...
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Postby tribar on March 8th, 2017, 2:53 pm
Viper 88 wrote:Getting the names of the rides wrong when you have a damn map Racing Rapids was a waterpark in Dundee Illinois not a ride at SFGAm.

Mosquitos.


There is no town named Dundee, Illinois. There is West Dundee and East Dundee. It's kind of ironic how you rip someone for using an incorrect name, yet you then use one yourself.

Also, what do you suppose the park does about mosquitoes? Be thankful that SFGAm doesn't have as bad of a bug problem as Cedar Point.
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Postby Whizzer Whiz Kid on March 8th, 2017, 5:04 pm
Or Valleyfair. You ride Renegade, Wild Thing, or Excalibur after 8 and you come back with black specs everywhere!
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Postby JaminOut on March 9th, 2017, 8:05 am
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Postby Viper 88 on March 10th, 2017, 3:49 pm
tribar wrote:
Viper 88 wrote:Getting the names of the rides wrong when you have a damn map Racing Rapids was a waterpark in Dundee Illinois not a ride at SFGAm.

Mosquitos.


There is no town named Dundee, Illinois. There is West Dundee and East Dundee. It's kind of ironic how you rip someone for using an incorrect name, yet you then use one yourself.

Also, what do you suppose the park does about mosquitoes? Be thankful that SFGAm doesn't have as bad of a bug problem as Cedar Point.


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Postby Viper 88 on March 10th, 2017, 3:52 pm
RollingCoasting wrote:Image

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This is hilariously stupid :lol: I hope they were kicked out after the ride


This is the kind of crap that irks the ever loving pi$$ out of me! If I know these dweebs they are talking to each other. What do you think is happening? Why can't you find out about it the next day?! I wonder if they would even notice if the ride was moving or not?
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Postby Goku1910 on March 11th, 2017, 11:25 am
If mosquitoes are on your list of biggest concerns about the park, I can only imagine what your thoughts are on park ambiance.

My biggest complaint year-over-year is the park's overall ambiance. Good example is compare hometown square now to how it was before Ignite was initially installed.
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Postby Viper 88 on March 11th, 2017, 9:04 pm
I hate the ambiance its too sterile. Just bland and too cookie cutter. I don't like what the park is becoming, sure upgrade the food stands but don't have them stand out wildly ie Coke in HTS. The music doesn't bother me too much, but I would definitely bring back the themed music to the areas as well as costumes for different areas.
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Postby Goku1910 on March 11th, 2017, 9:15 pm
It's the small things I like. Cedar Point has some really stellar up-keep in some areas.

String lights across midways, the lights in trees, grass in areas where there would normally be gravel, etc. The best looking area in the park currently is still Carousel Plaza in my opinion.
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Postby staticshadows on June 8th, 2017, 10:06 am
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