Pass Member Appreciation Weekend 2012

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Disappointed, I was almost positive the resort was going to be announced. Oh well, we can't be all right all the time. That festival was definitely a surprise announcement. I do agree that they don't necessarily have to announce it now. Perhaps in their Spring 2013 announcements? That give them a year and some change to build it, if they decide to build after announcing it.
 
Only thing I can draw together from what we know is that WCUSA's expansion, the new resort, and that rumored country are all going to be starting around the same time. So when we start hearing murmurs about construction in both parks at the same time, it's going to be announced at some point.
 
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Just to let everyone know, Movie Maker (yes, I know, I use Movie Maker) isn't taking kindly to being given about 11GB of video. Anyway, I'm working on it. If I can't get it to work tonight before I go to bed, I'll upload the raw video in parts. Sorry about the wait. :(
 
No problem. I'm glad it turned out OK. It was my first time using a tripod with that camera.
 
We went yesterday and it didn't feel like Pass Member Appreciation Days from the past, when you might be tapped for a little giveaway if you had your pass visible on your person, and there were merchandise discounts in pretty much all the shops. We didn't encounter any perks for its being Pass Member Appreciation Day, but we could easily have missed them. Were the shops offering discounts? I did remember to ask when we made one purchase, but just got the regular discount, but I didn't think of it again.

Mach Tower had a really brief shutdown (as in it was open, closed a few minutes, and open again before we finished eating) while we were having Best Pretzels and Beer (DH was very unhappy that the taps were reportedly "frozen" and he had to have the bottled stuff -- he thought that was really quite lame. I'm not as into beer so it didn't bother me) but otherwise I never noticed it not running while we were there, but I didn't see VBolt running at all. EitA closed for HOS but otherwise I didn't notice any other ride shutdowns.

The weather was beautiful and the crowd was light, light, light. Staff at 2 of the 3 stations of the sky ride were so busy flirting with each other that they didn't even speak to us as we loaded and unloaded -- very unusual. They were efficient certainly, but usually they are friendly and acknowledge you and wish you a good day, etc. Griffon staff were "on" and sharing banter with the crowd.

Not a lot of HOS decorations yet -- some suspended jack o'lanterns over the path crossroads where you turn to go to Italy or Scotland, some suspended ghosts, rats in France/Aquitaine. Fun-looking ghouls in Ireland though, complete with character profiles.

I hope the park brings its A game to HOS. Hopefully the staff were just enjoying some downtime before the big event starts next weekend. Park had a "meh" feeling even though we certainly liked the lack of long lines for the rides! We even rode some of the flats that we skip if there's a line at all, like Battering Ram and so forth.

Oh, but I have to give kudos to the Animal Encounter folks -- they seemed extra enthusiastic, very chatty when they had their animals on display, they were definitely "on" -- saw the gyrfalcon, red-tailed hawk, prehensile-tailed skink, and of course the wolf pups.
 
Shafor said:
No direct discounts, but you got a voucher for a free Christmas Town ticket for a purchase of $50 or more in merchandise.
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While Gen Pop is offered tickets for $5. Stick it to the loyals!
 
So if verbolten is open during ct, would that be along with either griffon or alpengeist? Or would it be the only coaster open?
 
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