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Arrow Six Flags?

how'd everyone like Six Flags? What was ur favorite ride? Mine would definately have to be greased lightening that was so much fun, and the smallest line ever (on the first day). Any funny stories from Six Flags?
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6 Flags was awesome, we didn't go on many rides but we had fun hanging out. I was there with Tella and Jayson from OakRidge but within the first 5 seconds I was i the park, I ran into my friend David, from 987. Well, this was the most intresting time I had in a park. We went on the ride like Tital Wave, with another team, the guy on there, I didn't know him, but I was liek "I scream loud" and he was liek "I scream louder, and liek a girl!" It was funny to mean to hear a guy demonstrating how a "girl screams"lol.


Not to mention the story of me getting a shirt. After this ride, we were soaked. Well, I wore my baiting suit under my shirt, and my poor friend was drenced, so I gave her my shirt to wear, after drying it under an air vent in the bathroom, lol. Well, in line for food, I asked this guy I didn't even know, from 585, if I could buy his shirt off of him, and he gave it to me....o.O


Also, seeing Heatwave during comp, in comp clothes, then going to 6 flags, and see them all "prep-i-fied" I mean they are going to a theme park mind you, and wearing "a 50 dollar t-shirt", according to the driver Ryan. lol. I mean everyone else wore comp clothes, but they got dressed up for a theme park..odd...It was funny to me, lol.


I also saw Tyler from 783, was funny, jsut everythign beng all clam and cool then you hearing"CANADA!!!" from the middle of a food court, and seeing my friends jump and hearing Tyler yell back, that was cool. Not to mention right after it, we went over to the sky ride, and it broke, and it was so weird. Being stuck up there, I woulda cried :: afraid of heights :: But I got some glow bracelete's from another team in line, so that was cool!
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Hated it.
I'm going to a Rockets or Astros game next year instead.
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VERY disappointing! Or in my wife's terms "pretty pathetic".

We live very near 6-Flags Great Adventure in NJ and have been there many times. We expected at least parity for the Texas venue. But it was like a corner carnival compared to our local 6-Flags. We honestly expected a better park from them since Texas is the native home of the 6-Flags company.

If we do go back to Texas next year perhaps FIRST should look into inviting a variety of teenager friendly attractions to set up on the huge parking lots outside Reliant Center. Let them charge admission but have them open during all the hours of the event so idle kids would have something to do. And PLEASE have reasonable food available!

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I agree that it wasn't that much fun. We weren't there for long enough to really experience anything. I went with a couple of friends and by the time we got there we managed to get on two rides and have a short dinnner before the bus service ended. The second day, with us having to help clean up the pits, all we had time for was dinner. Maybe FIRST should have planned on longer hours for the bus, like 11. I'm sure Six Flags could have been better, but a lot of the good rides were, as I'm sure most of you saw, boarded off.

Anyway, I did like the two rides I went on: Serial Thriller (coaster) and Dungeon Drop (freefall).

During dinner the first night in the park, we did meet up with one of the guys on Purple Assault and collectively teased Mangia...I would have to say, that was the highlight of Six Flags.
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I really liked the Texas Cyclone. It was a big wooden coaster that feltlike it was about to fall apart at every second. The risk of death added to the thrill.
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I personally thought it was disappointing. The lines were the length you would expect from a Disney or Cedar Point, but the rides themselves were nowhere near that caliber. Friday, we went out in a group of four, but only two of us were roller coaster fans, so waited an hour for one ride, and spent the rest of the time just walking around. Saturday, we didn't even ride one ride. We just ate pizza and hung out with part of 47's drive team. Interesting people...hehe...
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6 Flags was pretty cool. On Friday there were like no lines anywhere. My friend Jon and I went on SWAT a lot. The first three times it worked fine. The fourth time, we heard this 'snap' and Jon and I just sorta looked at each other and we were like "oh, crap". The ride then proceeded to stop upside-down for what seemed like 10 minutes. It was pretty funny, because everyone was dead silent except for Jon and I who were having discussions about the pneumatics and motors and stuff that were used to lift us up and spin us. The whole upside-down thing got kinda old after a few minutes, and we all dangled our feet below our heads because our faces were bright red. After we got down, we ran around forever trying to get all the blood out of our heads (or at least most of it). The red and green roller coaster (It's called Mind Eraser at the 6 Flags in Denver) was pretty cool, but I was disappointed with the Batman roller coaster. There was all this hype and then the ride was just marginal. But the rest of the park was fun.
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Thumbs up As expected...

As I predicted, the amount of FIRST people in attendance made the park seem extra full. A normal day here is probably half of what we contributed. I was there on Friday only, and while the lines did get bigger as the night went on, they were never really that bad. Except for Ultra Twister (which I should have gone to first...I never did get to ride it ), but that was because they were only running two of the four cars, which only hold six people each. I thoroughly enjoyed Viper and Texas Cyclone, and wish I would have investigated Greased Ligthning (to find no wait) and XLR8 (to find a half backwards train).

Fortunately, while on Viper, I noticed a very small line for Swat. I had seen it testing earlier in the night, but never saw people on it. I'm glad I went over there (with my Wildstang buddies) because we got on what I believe was the first public ride! It was supposed to open to the public on Saturday (but never did from what I hear) and so Friday night would have been a soft opening. With it test so much before we rode, I'm positive that we got on the first ride. And then probably only a half hour later, it broke down, as mentioned above. I'm just happy to have been the on the first ride of anything, let alone such an intense ride as this! Good job S&S!!!

Overall, I was impressed with the park despite its small size. A comparison to Magic Mountain, Great Adventure, or Great America is not fair, as those are the flagship parks of the company (as well as Over Texas down the road a bit). What I noticed most were the lights. At night, the park was so colorful. Great America has virtually no color at night, other than the rides themselves. This aspect reminded me of Disney I guess. I was satisfied with my three hours, but would have liked to have ridden a lot more for $20. Four coasters and one flat in 3 hours is fairly decent, but I've been known to do 26 coasters in 5 hours before

These are my thoughts...anyone else?

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On a scale of 1-5 I'd have to give six flags about a 2...maybe a 3. I definitely felt that the park was very dirty and the lines for the rides really weren't worth the wait. Granted, I could be spoiled from going to Universal's Islands of Adventure just a couple of weeks before;however, I still expected more out of the park. Also, this six flags could not even compare to the one in Atlanta. Nevertheless, going to the parks after the competition is a great opportunity to hang out with newly made friends and get in some quality time with teammates that you're not going to see possible ever again because of leaving for college
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Thumbs down Six Flags

Overall Six Flags really wasnt that great. The small amount of time and the long lines didn't help much either. Overall I must say that I still had fun ( ), but we didn't have enough time for a "coaster contest" that few of us wanted to have.....oh well.

DJ and I plan on making up for this sometime in the near future by going to Kings Island or Cedar Point.
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that six flags is pretty....horrible. i loved the fact that just about all thier coasters were relocated there from the six flags near me, great adventure. they had lighting loops and all, just renamed. a very disappointing park, and the team dinner was just.... well, you all know how great that dinner was..

we should organize a FIRST trip to Cedar Point
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When I went on the first day, the Dungeon Drop didn't work, one of the rides broke twice, the second time with a loud 'crack,' stopping people upside down for at least five minutes, and the cablecars stopped for 15 minutes. That was interesting. Luckily, I get sick on rides, so I didn't have to experience any of that.
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When I went on the first day, the Dungeon Drop didn't work, one of the rides broke twice, the second time with a loud 'crack,' stopping people upside down for at least five minutes, and the cablecars stopped for 15 minutes. That was interesting. Luckily, I get sick on rides, so I didn't have to experience any of that.
I was there when the SWAT broke with that loud cracking noise. In fact, I was THE NEXT person in line. There was one seat available that I could've sat in, but it would've split my group, so thank god I didn't take it. My teacher was on the other side and she thought that one of us was on the ride when the people were hanging upside down. She was flipping out and looked like she'd have a heartattack. But the worst part was seeing the operators going: "oh sh*t, oh sh*t". Yeah, that definitely can't be good.
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First, a note of history -- Six Flags Great Adventure's Lightnin' Loops was not relocated to Six Flags Astroworld. One half of Lightnin' Loops is in storage besides Six Flags America's Superman: Ride of Steel while the other was relocated to Frontier City in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Greezed Lightnin', which is probably easily confused with Lightnin' Loops, was manufactured in 1978 specifically for Astroworld. They're two different animals.

With that said, I've had the good fortune to visit every Six Flags park on the east coast, and then some --

Six Flags America
Six Flags Astroworld
Six Flags Darien Lake
Six Flags Great Adventure
Six Flags New England
Six Flags over Georgia
Six Flags Worlds of Adventure (near Cleveland, Ohio)


Astroworld, was by far, the worst among them. I wasn't expecting anything better, but it's definitely not a park that's in the same league as most other Six Flags parks; particularly the companies five flagship parks - Six Flags over Texas, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America and Six Flags Magic Mountain.

None of the rides are particularly spectacular, while some are just awful. They certainly don't compare to rides that are available at many other parks around the country, either in their uniqueness or in their performance. I'm usually pretty ease to please, too, as I like to have a good time at whichever park I'm visiting.

Above all else, though, I found that I didn't feel welcomed when I was in the park on Friday night. The employees of the park were surly, slow, and rude. They didn't want to be there, it seemed, and that really showed in how they treated us as guests. When I go to a park, for a special event or as a paying member of the general public, the last thing I expect is to be made to feel like I was a burden on the park.

I guess the highlight of the trip was Greased Lightnin' where I'm concerned. I love Schwarzkopf shuttle loopers a lot, and it was nice to get a shot at riding another one after Six Flags over Georgia's Viper. They're a dying breed.
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