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Postby anewman35 on August 17th, 2016, 7:44 pm
My kids in the northwest suburbs started today too.
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Postby maxwellt on August 17th, 2016, 8:21 pm
When you don't start until the 30th...

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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on August 17th, 2016, 8:50 pm
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love 'ya, tomorrow...

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Postby RollingCoasting on August 17th, 2016, 8:50 pm
JaminOut wrote:Pertaining to your question about next week, it's bring a friend free days. The park will be packed and lines will be long. I suggest going Monday because that is the first day of school for Illinois (certain areas). Arrive around 9:30. Once the park opens, run to Goliath. After that I would gage the crowds to see if a regular (100% wait) or gold (50% wait) flash pass is necessary. Enjoy!


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Are you kidding me? Next week is BAFF too?? Wtf. I was planning on going after school on Wednesday. :cry:
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Postby Tardis1972 on August 17th, 2016, 8:52 pm
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure this week is the last of the BAFF days.
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on August 17th, 2016, 8:53 pm
Yeah, I think Ben just got the dates mixed up. This week is BAFF.
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 17th, 2016, 8:54 pm
Thank goodness. I hear the last weekdays of August are generally never packed, so I'm pretty excited.
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Postby Dan The Coaster Man on August 17th, 2016, 8:55 pm
I think it's next week as well.
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Postby Tardis1972 on August 17th, 2016, 8:56 pm
And tomorrow is the last day of it. Kinda odd that it's only Monday-Thursday and not Friday. Oh I wanted ask how were crowds yesterday and today? Better or worse than Monday.
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 17th, 2016, 9:09 pm
Not sure about the crowds this week, but I'm actually really glad it's not on Friday. I'm planning on going, and there's ERT!
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Postby JaminOut on August 17th, 2016, 9:45 pm
Guy_With_A_Stick wrote:Yeah, I think Ben just got the dates mixed up. This week is BAFF.


My bad, the guy at Guest Relations told me BAFF was pliable next week too.
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on August 18th, 2016, 12:33 pm
It's this week AND next week for BAFF
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 18th, 2016, 2:09 pm
^ Nope. Look here:
https://www.sixflags.com/america/plan-y ... pass-perks

And great, Columbus Day weekend is BAFF too. I was planning on going then. :x
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Postby Tardis1972 on August 18th, 2016, 2:20 pm
I think it's true. I got a email on August 4th that said pass holders and members can bring a friend for free on August 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25. But the pass holder guide only has August 15-18. The days next week should of been on it.
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 18th, 2016, 2:31 pm
Well it'd be on the site then most likely. So it's probably not happening.
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Postby Tardis1972 on August 18th, 2016, 2:36 pm
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 18th, 2016, 2:38 pm
Seriously? The one time I was planning on visiting the park the last week of August? :evil:

At least Columbus Day Weekend isn't BAFF.
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Postby batmanfan80 on August 18th, 2016, 11:16 pm
I've been checking those queue sites most every day since they were posted on this forum and our park consistently has the most long lines out of just about every park listed. Fiesta Texas was up there one day. But you look at Magic Mountain, SFOT, and Great Adventure and the Batman line is always a walk up for the most part while our's reads 55 min on a daily basis(15 min has generally been a walk up in my experience at our park). The other Pretzelman clones also have short lines at other parks. At these other parks it's only the one or two star attractions that have lines over half an hour like Twisted Colossus, X2, Nitro, things like that(and I haven't seen any of them go over 70 min). Eagle keeps listing at 15 min. Demon was 85 the other day. X-Flight is always up around 70. Viper around 30. I'm guessing this is without them factoring in all the flash passers? Goliath has actually been listing around 30-60 minutes a lot of the time. I think there was a 120 in there one day. Justice League is averaging 100+. Pretzelman usually the same as Batman. Raging Trimbrake 35-55. Roaring Rapids has been over an hour a few times. V2 has been hovering around 30 mins. Cedar Point's lines have been much more reasonable than our's except when half the rides are closed. The longest I saw one day was Millenium Force at 60. Sea World Orlando's coasters have been steady at around 15 min. Busch Gardens coasters are like that too except for Cheetah Hunt and Sheikra around 30-45. Scorpion was 30 min the other day which seems odd. The family stuff at the Florida parks would have lines double or triple the length of the coasters.

So it seems these horrible lines are somewhat unique to our park, rendering it pretty useless from mid-July til the end of the season unless you're willing to spend for Flash passes. However, there was the one person who tweeted SFGA and said how they had a day with awesome weather and short lines a couple weeks back. I think it was on a weekend too. Hopefully I can get another good day in this month and a couple good FF days, but I'm not very optimistic.
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Postby momlovescoasters on August 19th, 2016, 9:36 am
Thank you for the feedback! Regarding BAFF....My Six Flags app listed it this week and next week. This morning, I checked the app again and they removed it for next week. I know it was there yesterday. Now it shows Bring a Friend for $14.99. Hopefully this is not as popular and will help with crowds next week.
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Postby Tardis1972 on August 19th, 2016, 10:01 am
So they changed it then? Because in the website it still says August 22-25 are BAFF. That needs to be change to BAF 14.99. I don't expect the park to be very busy. Hurricane Hurbor won't be open until the weekend.
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Postby Re-Check 9 on August 19th, 2016, 10:06 am
Just checked the app. I see BAFF 8/22-8/25 showing up. When checking the app choose current and future benefits, not just current.
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Postby momlovescoasters on August 21st, 2016, 4:55 pm
If anyone is headed to the park tomorrow, can you let us know how the crowds/lines were? Thanks!
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Postby Re-Check 9 on August 21st, 2016, 5:04 pm
momlovescoasters wrote:If anyone is headed to the park tomorrow, can you let us know how the crowds/lines were? Thanks!


If it's anything like last Monday, lines and crowds will be brutal. Last Monday was a Bring A friend Free day, as is tomorrow. Tomorrow is supposed to be 79 and sunny.
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Postby JaminOut on August 21st, 2016, 5:27 pm
...and guess who went last Monday and will be going again tomorrow? :/


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Postby Tardis1972 on August 21st, 2016, 5:47 pm
Me. No really I went last Monday and I'm going tomorrow. I don't think it's going to be anything like last Monday.
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