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2011 Schedule Posted. Opening Day May 7th, 2011

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Postby Cole on May 1st, 2011, 11:00 am
Since it is Mothers Days Weekend and this 19.81 ticket, anyone else think the park could be super crowded?


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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 1st, 2011, 11:12 am
^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.
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Postby stockboy300 on May 1st, 2011, 4:51 pm
Just ordered my season passes online, I'm going both. Days rain or shine!!
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Postby MollysMomma on May 1st, 2011, 5:20 pm
Does anyone know if county fair will still be opening at 11:00, instead of with the rest of the park?
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Postby Necropolis on May 2nd, 2011, 6:13 pm
^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?
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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 2nd, 2011, 6:53 pm
^ 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.
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Postby Necropolis on May 3rd, 2011, 11:54 pm
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.
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Postby monsterfan99 on May 4th, 2011, 12:29 am
I know this is off topic, but has the weather been 50's-60's this spring regularly near the park?
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Postby Necropolis on May 4th, 2011, 1:19 am
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.
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Postby skitz on May 4th, 2011, 6:21 am
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.
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Postby 6Flags4Evr on May 4th, 2011, 4:31 pm
Every single time I check the forecast, it keeps changing. This is starting to get me really anxious :? .
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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 6th, 2011, 8:03 am
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.
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Postby 6Flags4Evr on May 6th, 2011, 4:35 pm
^How long will AE Blue side be down?
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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 6th, 2011, 4:40 pm
^ Probably late May at the earliest. They are finally doing the long overdue full retracking of the final helix.
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Postby Cole on May 6th, 2011, 5:04 pm
^Where did you hear that? And is it with Topper Track?


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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 6th, 2011, 5:13 pm
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.
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Postby Cole on May 6th, 2011, 6:15 pm
I dont know, blue and red topper track could look really cool.


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Postby FParker185 on May 6th, 2011, 6:30 pm
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.
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Postby 6Flags4Evr on May 6th, 2011, 6:33 pm
Nice to know that they are finally fixing the helix. It will make AE even better than it was before.
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Postby 6Flags4Evr on May 6th, 2011, 6:46 pm
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?
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Postby skitz on May 6th, 2011, 6:56 pm
Nice to see down to 30% chance of rain now. Just got into the area can't wait for tomorrow. It's gonna be hard sleeping tonight.
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Postby Danhockey04 on May 6th, 2011, 8:25 pm
/\ 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.
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Postby 6Flags4Evr on May 6th, 2011, 8:33 pm
^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.
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Postby tribar on May 6th, 2011, 8:48 pm
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
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Postby Necropolis on May 7th, 2011, 1:25 am
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.
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