I was at the park yesterday and rode it five times (my first time riding a Raptor and main reason for the trip). It was a walk on and I got to ride in the very front and back (on the last ride I was the only one on the train). They kept having technical difficulties and on my last ride I was stuck baking in the sun for a few minutes and decided I was pushing my luck. Excellent coaster and concept and would make for a great terrain coaster.
Attraction Jersey Devil Coaster
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Yeah that thing is super fun I love just smoothly zipping along that rail. Would love to see a really creative custom one using terrain! I do love Jersey Devils setting and I think that with the local theme will always make me appreciate it more than Wonder Woman Flight of Courage.
Sigh oh Jersey devil I wish this ride was good you know, I really do. But now it’s just plain bad. It’s got multiple potholes, and the forces it has aren’t exciting. It’s just a boring ride. Good layout, has potential but god this ride is garbage. There is no reason it should be this rough 3 years in.
It just seemed to me looking at the design that the track joints would not age well. I have a feeling that the handful of single rail coasters they built will be orphans-- no one else is rushing to build them. SFFT is already replacing the trains on theirs.
It's a chance the parks take on buying prototypes-- it's either the next big thing or it's a piece of junk in a few years.
It's a chance the parks take on buying prototypes-- it's either the next big thing or it's a piece of junk in a few years.
The prototype single rails don't age well at all. Railblazer was already feeling really janky in September. I've ridden coasters 20 years older that were smoother.
Jersey Devil still runs like a dream (at least it did in December). I'll ride it again this weekend to see if its gotten any better or worse.
Jersey Devil still runs like a dream (at least it did in December). I'll ride it again this weekend to see if its gotten any better or worse.
Well this is one of the most absurd and infuriating things I've seen today (which, for the record, is a really high bar nowadays):
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tl;dw: Jersey Devil has disabled multi-move absolutely decimating its capacity to a it-would-be-comical-if-it-weren't-so-damn-sad degree.
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tl;dw: Jersey Devil has disabled multi-move absolutely decimating its capacity to a it-would-be-comical-if-it-weren't-so-damn-sad degree.
This was in effect for the ACE event in August, and it was HORRENDOUS. It made the morning ERT extremely valuable, but at the same time, even the station wait felt like an eternity.
I blame the recently added sponsor of the ride and will be giving a competitor's product to all Trick-Or-Treaters that show up to my house this year... (/s, but worsening ops following a sponsorship is seriously annoying)
I blame the recently added sponsor of the ride and will be giving a competitor's product to all Trick-Or-Treaters that show up to my house this year... (/s, but worsening ops following a sponsorship is seriously annoying)
I'm surprised M&Ms would want to align themselves with Satan.... or New Jersey.
Mars Wrigley is based in New Jersey-- M&Ms are a product of Jersey!
Actually, their parent org Mars Inc is based out of an office in McLean VA. M&Ms are produced in several factories globally though.
Not sure why they'd care specifically about this coaster though.
Interesting they seem to list several “headquarters” for Mars. I knew M&Ms were headquartered in Hackettstown, NJ. I guess they moved the sponsorship from the Skyride to JD.
Mars Inc. - Wikipedia
Interesting they seem to list several “headquarters” for Mars. I knew M&Ms were headquartered in Hackettstown, NJ. I guess they moved the sponsorship from the Skyride to JD.
Mars Inc. - Wikipedia
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There was a whole book on the history of major American candy makers with deep dives into Hershey's, Mars, and (though not strictly American) Nestle.
What stood out was that Milton Hershey did the chocolate thing as a side-quest and really didn't bother to learn the processes of proper mixing and tempering before he gave up on it and handed it over to someone else to run. But the thing was, the recipe and process basically became etched in stone at that point, so every factory upgrade and systems modernization project has to basically walk back from what's considered the correct methods of chocolate making to ensure consistency in the product.
The other thing was Mars, the family, ran the company extremely frugally - they all sat at desks next to their regular staff, nobody had special accommodations or anything, their salaries were not much higher than the regular staff, and there were no major incentives at their level. They randomly showed up to inspect each factory, and would chew out the factory workers and management if they found anything even slightly out of spec (such as a tiny 'pinhole' of missing candy coating on an M&M). There was also the case of them not having ever snacked on their products, because doing so was diverting some really tiny amount of product away from being sold.
Anyways, not really sure what they have to do with the Jersey Devil, or why they'd want to sponsor it specifically.
So, I'm standing in the Flash Pass line and no one is being let through to the station, because queue management is a circus and they aren't using continuous loading. Who needs capacity on a Saturday on October?
EDIT: We just got off and they are actually doing continuous loading and unloading, and then stopping the train and holding it in the station. We watched them stack 3 trains, two of which were fully loaded. But, hey! They used IROC thumbs up!
So. New corporate had taken out several attractions; is showing little interest in replacing most of them; and has made their operations worse with insane procedures. Cool.
EDIT: We just got off and they are actually doing continuous loading and unloading, and then stopping the train and holding it in the station. We watched them stack 3 trains, two of which were fully loaded. But, hey! They used IROC thumbs up!
So. New corporate had taken out several attractions; is showing little interest in replacing most of them; and has made their operations worse with insane procedures. Cool.
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I don't want to go off topic, but maybe the new corporate just disliked New Jersey
If you visit Great Adventure and don’t have flash pass and this ride has a half full to full switchback? It’s brutal. You have to store your items prior to getting in line if you are general standby, then the ratio seems to be very heavy Flash Pass users, not only that but they have special lockers for flash pass users and you will wait for every single one to put their crap away before the attendant will start pulling from the general standby. All while you don’t have your phone (if you’re solo like I was this was torture) and are stuck waiting for this process. This line was significantly slower than it should have been yesterday.