State of the Park
- Thread starter GASM
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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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After:
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.