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Postby momlovescoasters on May 14th, 2018, 1:07 pm
When you click on the calendar from that park hours link it shows open Wednesday just like the app. I’m hoping the “Thursday-Sun” was a typo.
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Postby benneluke on May 14th, 2018, 4:19 pm
Ilovthevu' wrote:Train fire at Six Flags Over Georgia - might affect our train opening on time over here.


I doubt it. It looks like the one in Georgia is a converted steam engine. Ours was built as a diesel locomotive and is basically a tractor. There is probably enough differences that ours wont be affected.
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Postby benneluke on May 14th, 2018, 4:22 pm
SFGAM_Hog wrote:I heard that inside the stage is set with different gears and a steampunk-like theme...


Rumor is, there's going to be a magic show this year. That would be sweet. I remember there was a magic show in the Theater Royale when I was a kid.
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Postby staticshadows on May 17th, 2018, 9:05 am
The 2017 Attendance Report is out, the park had a 3% increase over 2016. 3,039,000 visitors in 2017.

http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_268_653730_180517.pdf
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Postby Sven18 on May 17th, 2018, 9:47 am
staticshadows wrote:The 2017 Attendance Report is out, the park had a 3% increase over 2016. 3,039,000 visitors in 2017.

http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_268_653730_180517.pdf


Take TEA with a grain of salt. They reported SF chain attendance at 30.78M and SF in their annual report reported 30.42M. The year over year increase from annual reports is 313K(TEA claim 689K). The 313K is the worst for SF since being flat 2010 to 2011.
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Postby _FuryBull_330_ on May 17th, 2018, 12:40 pm
Sven18 wrote:
staticshadows wrote:The 2017 Attendance Report is out, the park had a 3% increase over 2016. 3,039,000 visitors in 2017.

http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_268_653730_180517.pdf


Take TEA with a grain of salt. They reported SF chain attendance at 30.78M and SF in their annual report reported 30.42M. The year over year increase from annual reports is 313K(TEA claim 689K). The 313K is the worst for SF since being flat 2010 to 2011.

On the bright side we got more attendance than Cedar Fair :lol: .
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Postby Sven18 on May 17th, 2018, 3:42 pm
_FuryBull_330_ wrote:
Sven18 wrote:
staticshadows wrote:The 2017 Attendance Report is out, the park had a 3% increase over 2016. 3,039,000 visitors in 2017.

http://www.teaconnect.org/images/files/TEA_268_653730_180517.pdf


Take TEA with a grain of salt. They reported SF chain attendance at 30.78M and SF in their annual report reported 30.42M. The year over year increase from annual reports is 313K(TEA claim 689K). The 313K is the worst for SF since being flat 2010 to 2011.

On the bright side we got more attendance than Cedar Fair :lol: .


CF increased by by 600K to 25.7M and admission revenue was 734M. SF admission revenue 741M on 30.4M visitors. 4.7M less visitors but just 7M less revenue. For SF letting people in for free will give you higher attendance, with a ton of bring a friend for free day.

SF's concern is attendance increases are going to be harder as they have most of the paying customers, those that buy passes(63% of all visitors). Would be interesting if SF would ever answer questions about the bring a friend visitor number, they skirt the topic when mentioned on conf calls. Lower attendance growth has been several years running 500K, now 300K. Hence, SF are seeking the need to try to get more money from the paying customers with memberships that cost more than passes. The question is how many people will they lose at a higher price point. SF's related attendance concern is food and merchandise revenue. It increased by just 4M after increasing by 40 and 20M the 2 previous years,another downward trend despite SF heavily pushing dining options and drink bottles.
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Postby Jodon on May 18th, 2018, 7:55 pm
Whizzer was testing today.


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Postby _FuryBull_330_ on May 18th, 2018, 10:03 pm
^ Hmm I wonder if it will be open tomorrow on my visit to Great America for Music In The Parks. If you see a guy with a bright blue shirt and a gray and orangish strip bag with jeans then that's me and help me from my GP friends :roll: .
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Postby RollingCoasting on May 19th, 2018, 1:19 pm
Apparently Whizzer is open today
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Postby _FuryBull_330_ on May 19th, 2018, 2:39 pm
RollingCoasting wrote:Apparently Whizzer is open today

Yeah the ride was actually pretty smooth and I was one of the first riders.
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Postby RollingCoasting on May 19th, 2018, 6:07 pm
Updates courtesy of Jiggidy's Facebook

-Park now has WiFi
-Big Lou's got some nice interior decor
-Yukon Territory bridge got a new sign
-Sprint Experience is open

Pics can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/JiggidyNDG/
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Postby Whizzer Whiz Kid on May 19th, 2018, 6:24 pm
I'm pretty sure the WiFi is just at the front of the park right now. Hopefully it becomes park wide in the near future though.
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Postby CoasterNick3157 on May 20th, 2018, 12:04 am
Sounds like those two immature, stupid, and obviously no life people that need the last ride on bull. It's been 8 years since that post they haven't grown up yet lol.
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Postby AirTimeDaz on May 20th, 2018, 3:34 pm
RollingCoasting wrote:Updates courtesy of Jiggidy's Facebook

-Park now has WiFi
-Big Lou's got some nice interior decor
-Yukon Territory bridge got a new sign
-Sprint Experience is open

Pics can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/JiggidyNDG/


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Postby _FuryBull_330_ on May 20th, 2018, 4:16 pm
CoasterNick3157 wrote:Sounds like those two immature, stupid, and obviously no life people that need the last ride on bull. It's been 8 years since that post they haven't grown up yet lol.

Ugh... they keep on ruining my last ride on Bull :( .
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on May 20th, 2018, 9:22 pm
Just to clear something up, the wifi is only available at the front gate to help people get to the SF website/app to get to their tickets/passes. The rest of the park is still without wifi.
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Postby B&MGuy35 on May 20th, 2018, 9:24 pm
Guy_With_A_Stick wrote:Just to clear something up, the wifi is only available at the front gate to help people get to the SF website/app to get to their tickets/passes. The rest of the park is still without wifi.


I have noticed that the cell signal for AT&T is much stronger this year. I always have at least 4 bars now where last year I would put my phone in airplane mode as not to drain battery constantly looking for a cell signal.


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Postby _FuryBull_330_ on May 21st, 2018, 12:22 pm
^ Hmm... it seems like the T-Mobile service got weaker too. But if there is Wi-fi at the front of the park I'm going to spend most of my time there. Also it seems like Whizzer is only running two trains :? .
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Postby B&MGuy35 on May 21st, 2018, 2:37 pm
_FuryBull_330_ wrote:^ Hmm... it seems like the T-Mobile service got weaker too. But if there is Wi-fi at the front of the park I'm going to spend most of my time there. Also it seems like Whizzer is only running two trains :? .


Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m sure whizzer has only run 2 trains for a few years now.


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Postby coasterkidd100 on May 21st, 2018, 3:44 pm
I feel like for the majority of each season Whizzer only runs two trains but I could be wrong about that.
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Postby Whizzer Whiz Kid on May 21st, 2018, 4:40 pm
Once the season gets going, Whizzer runs 3 trains pretty often, much more than Demon.
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Postby coasterkidd100 on May 21st, 2018, 5:40 pm
Does Demon even run three trains during Fright Fest anymore?
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Postby _FuryBull_330_ on May 21st, 2018, 5:45 pm
coasterkidd100 wrote:Does Demon even run three trains during Fright Fest anymore?

Nope, it never does even on the crowded days. But with a bad ride like Demon no need for 3 trains or a Flash Pass :lol: .
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Postby coasterfanatic on May 22nd, 2018, 11:59 am
Whizzer will definitely run three trains when needed.

I don't believe they run three trains on Demon. The third train does not really increase capacity of the ride. Due to relatively short nature of the other ride, a train is always stacked in the break run.

It's not necessary to run three trains on Whizzer right now.
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