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Postby Viper 88 on March 25th, 2014, 10:10 am
Left may be a little faster in terms of possible bolting through without much foot traffic. But right is more of a straight line right to Goliath. My advice especially if open on opening day would be go to the left because of pass processing, The train may also be faster especially if there are crowds sit in the second or third car closest to the station platform and you can shoot right off and into Goliath's line.
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on March 25th, 2014, 11:55 am
Viper 88 wrote:Left may be a little faster in terms of possible bolting through without much foot traffic. But right is more of a straight line right to Goliath. My advice especially if open on opening day would be go to the left because of pass processing, The train may also be faster especially if there are crowds sit in the second or third car closest to the station platform and you can shoot right off and into Goliath's line.


"Left may be a little faster in terms of possible bolting through without much foot traffic."
If you get there a few hours early, and are able to get through the security checkpoint fast enough, and if you're like one of the first people waiting at the chain/rope under the train bridge. A good FAST walk could get you to Goliath at say 10:45am.

The first hour or so after 10:30am, the left side from the Mardi Gras section to Yukon Territory is pretty much clear of heavy traffic. I could easily get through on that side to Goliath.

"But right is more of a straight line right to Goliath."
I wouldn't call the right side "more of a straight line", the right side tends to curve a little longer around. If taking the right side, you have to go through almost all of County Fair just to get to Goliath, but on the left side, you only have to go through a small section of County Fair to get to Goliath.

I will have to time both the left and right sides. Also, I wouldn't take the train just to get to the back of the park. I can walk faster than that thing!
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Postby DeathbyDinn on March 31st, 2014, 7:04 pm
Viper 88 wrote:The train may also be faster especially if there are crowds sit in the second or third car closest to the station platform and you can shoot right off and into Goliath's line.


There's no way the train is faster. With how long it takes to load and how slow it moves, you would get there way faster on foot.
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Postby CoasterCale on March 31st, 2014, 9:57 pm
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Viper 88 wrote:The train may also be faster especially if there are crowds sit in the second or third car closest to the station platform and you can shoot right off and into Goliath's line.


There's no way the train is faster. With how long it takes to load and how slow it moves, you would get there way faster on foot.


Yeah, especially if there aren't any security guards in your route.
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on April 2nd, 2014, 9:15 am
CoasterCale wrote:
DeathbyDinn wrote:
Viper 88 wrote:The train may also be faster especially if there are crowds sit in the second or third car closest to the station platform and you can shoot right off and into Goliath's line.


There's no way the train is faster. With how long it takes to load and how slow it moves, you would get there way faster on foot.


Yeah, especially if there aren't any security guards in your route.


There's always at least one you pass by on your route. But if you start running, then they'd tell you to walk, right?
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Postby CoasterCale on April 2nd, 2014, 3:33 pm
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DeathbyDinn wrote:
Viper 88 wrote:The train may also be faster especially if there are crowds sit in the second or third car closest to the station platform and you can shoot right off and into Goliath's line.




Yeah, especially if there aren't any security guards in your route.


There's always at least one you pass by on your route. But if you start running, then they'd tell you to walk, right?


Yeah but it means having to slow down. I was surprised that on Opening day of FF this year, there was a mad rush to RB and guards nor game operators tell any one to slow down.
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Postby BURTONxBLUNT on April 7th, 2014, 9:04 pm
^I was one of the fools to run to rb at fright fests opening day and I got told to walk by some random supervisor I've never scene before......but usually I run anyways if they tell me to stop I just jog and run again once I'm out of site of them
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Postby CoasterCale on April 8th, 2014, 5:56 pm
BURTONxBLUNT wrote:^I was one of the fools to run to rb at fright fests opening day and I got told to walk by some random supervisor I've never scene before......but usually I run anyways if they tell me to stop I just jog and run again once I'm out of site of them


I usually don't. I was expecting the usually speed walk but the rest just bolted. So I went with thew flow. I was able to run all the way there and nobody told me otherwise. The game attendees just watched.
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Postby CoasterNick3157 on April 22nd, 2014, 12:38 pm
We went totally off topic here.
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Postby CoasterCale on April 22nd, 2014, 4:15 pm
CoasterNick3157 wrote:We went totally off topic here.


While we did get off about our longest waits, we discussed how we could avoid one of the possibly longest wait in the near future. But point taken.
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Postby RollingCoasting on June 20th, 2014, 5:47 pm
Today, I waited 4 and 1/2 hours for Goliath.
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Postby onyxhotel08 on June 20th, 2014, 9:49 pm
RollingCoasting wrote:Today, I waited 4 and 1/2 hours for Goliath.


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Postby RollingCoasting on June 20th, 2014, 9:54 pm
onyxhotel08 wrote:
RollingCoasting wrote:Today, I waited 4 and 1/2 hours for Goliath.


Did you read a book? Call Europe? Play Sudoku? Did you get a tan?


Haha, no but I got a sunburn if that counts! :lol:
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Postby RaceBoarder on July 8th, 2014, 1:13 pm
I'm relatively new to the theme park game, so I've only had to wait a max. of about 2 hours 45 minutes for Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point... Line was only 90 minutes at the time, but once we got about 3/4 of the way through the line, TTD started having it's infamous mechanical issues... There were a couple of shorter (10-15 minute) waits while in line, then we got to the station and loaded... Then once we got in the train, we sat there in the station for about 20 minutes... Then we were told to unload... Had to go back and sit in the que for about 30 minutes before they let us re-load... At that point, I had enough time devoted that I wasn't gonna budge :lol: :oops:
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Postby JaminOut on August 18th, 2015, 9:37 pm
3.5 hours for Raging Bull. You have to love storms and waiting for "the phone call"...


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Postby CoasterCale on August 19th, 2015, 1:46 am
If we're counting rain delays, I waited 3.5 hours for X-Flight on Monday. It wasn't rain or weather, the whole day was odd. Not sure why but the delays were way longer than they needed to be.
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Postby JaminOut on August 19th, 2015, 10:54 am
They were, but apparently there was some pretty bad stuff northeast of the park


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Postby Dan The Coaster Man on August 19th, 2015, 6:59 pm
I waited for Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom for 3 hours in the single rider line (and I actually was alone) about 2 weeks after it debuted. Totally worth it, I rode it long after the sun was gone.
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Postby BCarroll on August 29th, 2015, 12:04 pm
I waited about 3 1/2 - 4 hours for GateKeeper on it inaugural year! Totally NOT worth it!
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Postby CoasterCale on August 29th, 2015, 2:58 pm
Lol. The only time I've been to CP was on a Sunday in June 2013. I didn't wait anything longer than the stairs going into the station.
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Postby hoju74 on August 31st, 2015, 1:21 pm
In one of the first years it was open I waited 2-1/2 hours for Splashwater Falls. It was brutally hot and I was willing to suffer in order to cool off.
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Postby stockboy300 on September 14th, 2015, 4:18 pm
Gatekeeper opening season 3.5 hrs. Was only running 2 trains. Then decided to put the 3rd train in operation. Which took for ever and then of course had to run it empty for awhile.
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Postby CoasterCale on September 14th, 2015, 5:29 pm
It didn't get longer than 20 minutes when I visited in June 2013. :roll: :lol:
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It seems like the other side always wins on American Eagle :?
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Postby Necropolis on January 30th, 2016, 1:57 am
CoasterCale wrote:3 hours for Raging Bull-FF 2012


Me too!! Raging Bull during Frightfest that year had an insane wait time. I don't know when you went but I went the last weekend of Frightfest. Boy, I learned me lesson. NEVER attend FF on it's final weekend unless you and your party can afford a flash pass. Overall, ALL the MAJOR coasters had insane wait times, our party decided to ride only flats that day. We only waited that long because it was all our favorite's coaster and the only time we went to the park that season and we were determined to get a major coaster in. After all that wait, a minute flew by and we were like, lets go again!....oh wait....that horrendous line! :shock:
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Postby Tardis1972 on January 30th, 2016, 2:19 am
4+ hour wait for Raging Bull during Fright Fest a few years ago. Waited in both overflow lines. In fact the line was long that it almost stretched out into Hometown Square.
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