State of the Park
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Most of the rides were down a couple times today. Nitro got stuck on the hill and closed for 2 hours. Caught it on the reopen with about a thousand other people. Still running three trains. Skyscreamer got stuck at the top briefly. Wonder Woman went down for a bit. El Toro went down late in the afternoon for an hour or two. We caught it right before the park closed and, damned if it wasn't one of the fastest rides I've ever had on it. And coldest. Dunno if it was the cold or if they tweaked something with it, but man was it moving!
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Continued progress on shoreline pier/boardwalk area
Funnel Cake factory new paint job to match with Mainstreet pub
Photo station in main street also new paint job
Spring Break celebration stage gone.
Medusa queue fixed to close shortcut
The bumper car game stand got a glowup
New stage in front of the DareDevil dive plot with a new show "Sweep the Beat"
new Fastlane kiosk in front of Nitro
Bugaboo 50th anniversary sign
New concrete under Batmobile
He didn't note the finished work on the Batman/Nitro queue and work on-going inside Batman. Also, new seal on Movietown blacktop and El Toro second train soon to be back in service after refurbishment like the running car.
The photo booth for Medusa was fixed up neatly too. It was in really rough shape last season.
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Honestly, I’m shocked they haven’t just removed it at this point. What was the last time that photo booth was actually in use? Had to have been like…in the middle of its time as Bizzaro at the latest.
Technically, it's still "Open" for ride photos! No employee inside though - just the TVs displaying watermarked photos with reference numbers that you can use to buy them. I can't remember the exact time they adopted that system, but it's probably been at least a few years since they had workers in any of the booths.
I didn’t know they had even done that much with it. Every time I rode it, the booth was just shuttered.
In case anyone hasn't already seen this, Park Manager Mike Fehnel was given the reactivated title of Park President as part of the wave of president's being appointed by corporate this week. The key thing to me is that they've identified 10 core ("key") parks as part of the company's focus moving forward, and that includes Great Adventure. There are a couple parks that aren't a part of the list of 10 that are surprising. For those who worried about whether GAdv was "core" or on shaky long-term ground last fall during the closure announcements, I think this puts that to bed.
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If KD and Dorney somehow get sold, expect Cedar Flags to go all in on making GAdv the thrill capital of the northeast
As it once was and always should have been. No park is more perfectly primed to draw from two of the biggest metros in the country, and that potential was wasted for many years.
I did read some reaction to the company news that argued that parks with presidents may be regional anchors, in which nearby parks without presidents would be overseen by the other. Similar to how they've already created regional groupings of parks for pass purposes. So like in our case, Dorney not getting a prez doesn't necessarily mean CF is looking to offload the park. Just that Mike would handle the overall in cooperation with their manager and report to corporate on Dorney's behalf for the Mid-Atlantic, I guess. Maybe he or Carowinds are taking on president-less Kings Dominion. Just an alternative to the rapid speculation this means any park in the company that isn't among the 10 is headed for sale sooner than later. I wouldn't think their ultimate plan is to shrink the park portfolio down to just 10.
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New easter egg at the "Bank" on Main street
More freshly painted buildings at Main street
Batman still closed for the foreseeable future
Fastlane kiosks turned on now (screens are upside down)
Former Jersey Devil BBQ has a new sign
Skull Mountain jaw painted on to black tarp
Fence near Houdini painted
Game stalls in the boardwalk repainted
Rita's fresh paint
Log Flume started to be refilled with water
Misc other small updates
Absolutely better than nothing for Skull Mountain’s jaw. Shows that they’re aware it’s an issue and almost certainly intend to fix it.
Pretty sure it's just standard language in such surveys, but I did just get and complete a survey from the park and one of the questions was 'if rides or attractions had to be removed, which would you choose and why?' I gave 'em the list. 
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It is standard language. The one I got "post-visit" from Dorney included that question too.
please say slingshot, we need the remaining upcharge attraction to go
Coliwood mentioned in his update video today that all the skyway towers are now being removed.
