| SFOG 6/27-28 & Dollywood 7/1 First SFOG used my six flags pass and entered the park at 5:30 friday and was only planning on getting a couple of rides in but to my surprise the lines were not full this was my first visit at sfog walked through the gates and headed over to the scorcher area wasnt planning on riding it today but changed my mind when the line was short.
GEORGIA SCORCHER- Good ride a little short though kind of lacks a big first drop but almost as good as Riddler in SFMM
Wait Time- 5 min
Rating- 6/10
We headed over to the gotham city area kind of went down a dead end on the way but we found are way and went to mindbender convinced my parents to go on it.
MINDBENDER- Fun ride I loved the lap bar restraints seemed to run well even though its a fairly old ride. Side notes- when we returned to the station all the lights were off kind of strange.
Wait Time- 8 min (1 train)
Rating- 7/10
Headed over to batman for another ride on this clone
BATMAN- Pretty much the same as all the others but the wait was extremely slow because of only one train running Side note- almost lost my shoe forgot to tie them up tight so i was more focused on that then the ride.
Wait- 10 min (1 train they should know not to do this more to come later)
Rating- 5/10 same old ride but still fun
Left the ride and realized you have to back track through the entrance you came through because it dead ends seems stupid because they could easily cut a path back to the main walkway. Walked over to Deja Vu and no one would ride with me but it was OPEN so we skipped it and i thought i could ride it the next day went over to ninja-gasm area and decided to go on ninja though i wasnt expecting anything special
NINJA- Actually somewhat smooth of a ride compared to other vekomas the restraints were the problem with the ride seemed like the train barely made it over the hill this was the only ride i actually ducked for because i thought i was going to hit my head numerous times.
Wait- none(even though only 1 train)
Thought we could hit superman before we left waited inline then a big storm came through said the ride was temporairly closed due to lightining more problems for this ride on saturday this was the longest wait we had with out riding it.
LEFT PARK AT 7:30
Entered Park at 9:30 with a bunch of other people
Came back to SFOG the next day early in the morning watched the flag raising the park had a bunch of miltary people there today idk why but they had a bunch throughout the park the people were divided in half by the different walkways we went to the right because it looked fastest to SUPERMAN raced to superman we were right by the entrance rope and got to superman with 3 people in front of us.
SUPERMAN(1)- Got in line for the front the first train went through the track and boy did it look fun the train got back they made a announcement that the ride would be temporairly closed when we were just buckled in the seat when it happened walked back to the gates and waited while the mechanic came and sounded off the alarm i guess its a manual meneuver to get the train moving into the station got on the "good train" front row went up the lift totally different experience preztel loop was incredible but between the preztel loop and corkscrew i thought it was kind of dull but still fun.
Wait Time-10 min (due to technical difficulties)
SUPERMAN(2)- rentered the line now with a wait and once again the train that we werent on had problems this time they took it to the second station and worked on it for a bit and then sent it through the track this time it seemed to work right then ran it through again then they opened the second station to the park guests to the actuall ride rode in the back this time totally different experience felt like it halled out still like the front better because u couldnt see the people in front of you.
Wait Time- 20 min (10 min due to technical difficulties)
RATING front 10/10
RATING back 9/10
Walked over to GASM got inline looked like 10 min got waited about 10 min and we were inline for the back and we realized that the gates werent opening for this one train and i saw some people wearing ACE shirts and we asked what they were doing and they were celebrating GASM 30 anniversary by about 20 enthusiasts riding for 30 hours
these people rode it through the rain and lightning
GASM- Pretty good ride but a little shaky but tons of airtime pretty simple design but still a good ride.
Wait time- 20 min (due to 1 train occupied by ACE)
RATING- 6/10
Walked out of the american area and walked by deja vu saw that it was closed then thought we would do monster plantation to waste some time
MONSTER PLANTATION- What can i say very boring ride but ive been on worse black light stuff was ok but this ride would be really cool if it had a drop.
Left the park because the line for cyclone was out the building and we didnt have that much time to use
LEFT PARK AT 12:30
Drove to the smoky mountains spent some days in gatlinburg only 5 miles away from dollywood convinced my parents that it would be fun to dollywood
DOLLYWOOD
ENTERED- at 1:00 on a rainy tuesday due to hurricane bill or w/e it called
Me and my parents split up and i headed to the rollercoasters while they did shows.
Walked to the back of the park straight to Tennesee Tornado to find no wait walked straight to the second row and got on.
TENNESEE TORNADO(3 times but dont need to go through all of them)- This ride lacks a big first drop but its still fun but kind of short seemed like it really hauled out through the tunnel the ride was basically a tunnel and 3 loops but i still liked it smoothest arrow looper ive been on.
Wait Time- none
Rating- 7/10
Walked over to blazing fury to find a fairly good line for this one probably because ti was raining and its a family ride
got in line for the front
BLAZING FURY (2 times front and back)- Starts off extremely slow this ride could be great with a redo on some of the scenes and sound but easily could be a big hit with some modifications last part of the ride was fun but the beginning is to dull got pretty wet in the front.
Wait Time- 15 min
Rating- 4/10 could use some modifications
im getting tired of typing so ill just give the rides now
DAREDEVIL FALLS- one hit wonder ride would be a lot better with 2 drops but still one of the faster logrides ive been on.
Wait Time- none
Rating- 6/10 very fast
SIDEWINDER- this ride was one of a kind i got soaked on this one pretty fast and very good banking on the sides only downside was getting into the rafts
Wait Time- none but took 5 min to walk up the hill
Rating- 7/10 very wet ride but the bobsleds or w/e they are a little hard to get into.
CF FALLS- one of the worst log rides ive been on idk why they have 2 log rides but this one stunk
Wait Time- 3 min
Rating- 1/10 very bad and rough drop was small and didnt get wet
6 Person raft ride forgot name- good raft ride got more wet with the little rapids thought i was going to soaked with that sheet of water before the end but it shuts off right before u hit it this is the only kind ive seen like this.
Wait- NONE
Rating- 6/10
Left Park at 6:00 got all the rides done in the park couldnt see the sight of the new roller coaster
side note- anyone notice all the go cart places around pigeon forge i think i counted 10! and the old race world coaster was completely removed. |