^Mother's Day itself is historically one of the least crowded days. It is usually EMPTY. But with the $19.81 tickets, I have no idea what to expect. The current forcast is 55 Saturday and 58 Sunday with 40% chance of showers both days.
^Why would county fair open later than the rest of the park? The whole park is opening at 10am on Saturday. Ive never heard of one area of the park opening at a later time than the park opening time. Where did you hear that by the way?
^ It has been that way since 2008 with County Fair opening at 11. In 2009 they started opening the County Fair coasters at 10:30. If I remember correctly though, this year everything will open at 10:00 again.
Oooof. Ugh. Oh well. Looks like opening weekend looks kinds sketchy. 55 degrees both Saturday and Sunday with a 60% chance of rain saturday and 30% chance on sunday. Well. it may actually be kinda dead this weekend if the weather discourages enough people.
We had a weird warm day early April. It was 80 degress. Then the weather kept fluctuating from warm to chill and it was raining almost everyday the past 2 weeks. Right now it's a bit chilly here still but during the day its warm enough to wear at least a long sleeve shirt. With a short sleeve you'd get chilly within an hour or 2. I think it was warmer this time last year honestly.
I haven't been to the park in over 15 years. Yes, it sucks but got season passes this year have to make up for lost time. We're planning on visiting both days this weekend, who knows the weather has already changed in the forecast once maybe it will for the better this time.
If anyone wants to ride Superman: Ultimate Flight, American Eagle, or Whizzer (weather permitting), I suggest getting there early. It is likely that these three coasters will only have 1 train available, and for Eagle I mean 1 red train with blue side completely closed for track work.
No idea what kind of track, but the purist in me hopes it is traditional wood tracking. As of the buyout weekend, they still had tarps over everything.
I would guess any Topper track would be blue like the rest of the track on the ride, but if the 1/3 of the ride that already has steel track is any indication, it should hold it's color a heck of a lot longer than the wooden track. Also perhaps with the sturdier topper track they can finally turn down or remove all together the damn trims and really let the ride fly.
Also anyone know if they are doing anything in the barrel, the part that was retracked in 1997 has been pretty awful for the past few seasons, which BTW, is the last 1/2 or so of the barrel.
Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
DejaVu2001 wrote: "Superman: Ultimate Flight, American Eagle, or Whizzer (weather permitting), I suggest getting there early. It is likely that these three coasters will only have 1 train available, and for Eagle I mean 1 red train."
This gets me pretty upset. The park had a longer offseason this year than it usually does and still can't manage to have all the coaster trains (with the exception of Bull, Demon, Whizzer since 3 trains) ready for opening day? That just doesn't make any sense to me. I mean come on.....Superman is one of, if not the most popular coaster in the park and they know that and yet they only manage to have one train ready for opening day?
/\ Clearly you have not been in a tech services position in a theme park. Even with a seasonal park, they have to do their annuals on every train in the park, repaint the parts while it is in pieces, order new pieces and get the riderships for all the trains. Now doing every train or ride vehicle for every coaster and flat ride during the off-season is quite a task. The parks in Orlando have extra trains so one train is usually always is annual and that there ever won't be a missing train for too long. Having every ride open is a huge plus even with one train, they could just have it closed instead and not bother; at least it is open.
Universal Orlando Mechanical Engineer Marathon down, Goofy to go.
^Believe me, I know what the park has to go through in order to get everything up and running again for the season. I guess I should have been more specific in saying that the more popular attractions should be on the task list first during the off season maintenance to insure less waiting in line for the bigger and more popular attractions by the time on opening day rolls around.
Another thing that could contruibute to the crowds on Saturday is Music in the Parks. I know someone said something about busses and you will see those tomorrow
Take your hoods and light jackets folks and maybe an umbrella if desired. According to the weather right now (1:25AM) it will be in the mid 50's with a 40% chance of rain in the morning then 30% chance of rain after mid-day. I will def bring my heavy hood along.