Heads up: this video was made before the Fiesta Texas announcement BUT that doesn’t solve the whole problem. A lot of what I think the problem is more of SF being cheap with the park appearance and operations. I just used the additions because it was the easiest way to represent the way SF treated the park
All Six Flags parks have similar issues to SFGAd... They need to benchmark themselves to Cedar Fair....who charges more, but is better value with rides like B and M gigas, Steel Vengance, Maverick etc.
@@mmocken They need to upkeep their parks like Cedar Fair, but Six Flags does well with most parks and additions. No average person is traveling from NJ to IL to CA to complain about cloned rides. What Six Flags is terrible with is the budget cutting of theming, the removal of perfectly good coasters and a can of paint.
This is my home park, and I agree that certain areas other than the rides could use improvement. While the ride operations are usually efficient, the food operations are hit or miss at best. I have a particularly negative experience in which I waited nearly two hours at Johnny Rocket’s. The park also looks beaten up in certain places, with faded paint and cracked pavement.
yeah this is also my home park i mean heck like 3 hours ago as i just went there but i did not know they removed so many rides during there history i mean idk how expensive it would be to bring some of them back i mean they have like 2200 acres of land cause American scream machine looked like a amazing ride
If six flags great adventure was like dorney park and Hershey park with the water park and theme park being connected, it would be elite especially if they add hotels themed as looney tunes or DC.
Six Flags as a whole falls short of what they could be. Every park they own has at least one section that seems rundown or bare, and that really does come down to how they threw numerous rides in without letting the parks grow naturally and actually make the parks look good. Thankfully it seems now they want to refocus their attention on these finer details, because that’s what people notice the most.
New Jersey laws are very strict and Six Flags would need a permit for any rework on the rides, they been trying to Repaint Nitro for the last 7 years it's still pending with the state, however this year the rides ops were pretty rude this, The State of New Jersey is the biggest factor in blocking most of Great adventures stuff, the state is the biggest hindrance, I work at smaller boardwalk part and they been trying open a roller coaster for the last 2 months but the State of New Jersey will not let them open it, Jackson loves Great Adventure its the state
@@amusementscape the problem isn’t height… the state is run by morons who like to have control over everything. That usually means projects are at the whim of every little Napoleon in office. They either sit on it for spite, put it low on priority list, or have personal vendetta against the owners. A lot of this has to do with taxes. Considering the size of park, they have been fighting against rising land taxes in NJ, politicians don’t like people taking away from their pay raises so they hold the park hostage from expansion and growth to change their tune
So you're saying Six Flags couldn't repaint Nitro in over 20 years because of the state??... despite repainting Superman, Bizarro, Mine Train, Batman two times now? I think it's more them not caring enough about how a ride looks that goes way out to the woods. In other words, bare minimum.
Yep. The state of NJ is super weird. Apparently great adventure wasn't allowed to build a giga coaster, but they were allowed to build a 400 ft one for some reason 💀
@@NJFlyer606 it probably has to due with the fact that its a giga and to repaint the lift and hills you need large cranes for painters to go on. that's probably where the problem lays
it was great in the late 1970’s-1980’s. high dive and dolphin shows, concerts, arcades, and the safari. It was far and away much better back then. Plus it didn’t cost an arm and a leg for food.
I think that Great adventure is doing a whole sweep of revamping the park... the area by Justice League, Superman getting painted, JDC getting added, and now the Kids area by Nitro is getting repainted... I expect to see Batman get painted very soon following up with Nitro, Bizarro and finally Kingda Ka. I didnt mention Mine train because I do eventually seeing that ride being torn down and having a modern family coaster be put in it's place. Hopefully more concrete replaced since some concrete in the park is smashed to bits. Maybe a Mach Power splash can be added where Congo rapids is now and maybe seeing a new type of B&M come to the park where the Go karts are... and for the love of God please remove Green Lantern and put a dive coaster like what SFFT is getting.
I hope they tear down the go carts and would love to see boardwalk area connect with the dc area with an over pass, overlooking the entrance! Also having Superman and green lantern in that area is just plain weird
I think that they should’ve kept Rolling Thunder, most people who don’t like rollercoasters go to this park and see the hyper, absolutely mental el toro, and literally the tallest rollercoaster in the world. They’re scared, they won’t ride anything. Rolling thunder looked SMALL next to El toro and Ka, something that it definitely wasn’t lol. It was a nice coaster, though rough in its later years, and really appealed to the younger audience. It was the first true big roller that I had ridden, and it was a lot of fun! Removing it in my opinion was a mistake, they could’ve totally put drop of doom’s que line somewhere else, maybe the parking lot. I can’t believe they kept the que line there and put that loop thing there, using the old que line. The entrance now just sits there, waiting for whatever else it will be used for.
This is going to be long but I kinda disagree with this. Over past 7 years they have really improved the flat ride collection. I don’t think anyone really cares that a flat ride is a clone. A coaster yes but for flat I don’t believe it matters because there not as important and how many flat rides are out there that haven’t been used anywhere? Probably not a big list. In 2012 they had 10 flats. Now it’s 17 which is a huge improvement. Also I think El Diablo was removed by jersey state law. I know the ride didn’t have a big attendance but I don’t think that was the reason. If it was I feel like it would have left more six flags parks. Another thing to note is that since it was removed nothing has been put there. They most likely had plans for Wonder Woman already. As for the coasters I agree. A indoor wild mouse, a relocated stand up, and a sns free spin is awful. I don’t find the free spin a bad ride but its a big let down for not being unique and it wasn’t a big ride like we were all hoping. They just got jersey devil which I think is amazing. I like it more then maverick. I just hope they keep that trend going but I don’t know. Because that whole thing with magic mountain supposed to get this the same year devil opened is concerning. West coast racers really helped them lmao. I’m not sure what you call it when two of the same coasters open around the same time. Are they both original or clones? It’s a little confusing. So anyway when I hear one of these videos about great adventure I’m usually in the middle. I get that in the 2000s and early 2010s they had more shows, a parade, fireworks everyday, more signs and looked better. They really only do most of that stuff during the holidays now which I hope changes. I do understand all of that but they really boosted there flat ride collection over the past few years which I think was necessary. I love this park a lot I’ve been going for a very long time. I just hope they pump more unique coasters into the mix.
doesn’t need a hotel because people either travel the short distance from philly or new york or they’re already staying close at some beach hotel on the jersey shore. who would stay right by six flags when the ocean is like 30 minutes away???
I'm one of many people who have travel up from Maryland and it would be nice to have a hotel close by. The last two times I've visited, I've gotten a hotel rather than make the horrible drive down the Jersey Turnpike after a long day at the park. Since I've been on a budget, I've gotten a motel near the Air Force Base.
@@cpe1704tks The one that I've stayed at is about 20 minutes from the park in Wrightstown, which is not far from Macguire Air Force Base. It's advertised at $60/night and I think that's what I've paid or slight less.
I haven't been to Great Adventure yet, but I'd love to get here soon (after Toro opens). El Toro, I hear, is amazing, and I can't wait to get on another flyer.
Got to Great Adventure for the first time this year, and luckily the day before Toro derailed. Ride front row first of the day then ride the back row until you tap out, it's so worth it! Oh and JDC is awesome, seems like a great family coaster but very re-ridable (if not for the terrible raptor trains, but no deal breaker). Hope you get out and get to ride Toro when she's back up and running, no way you'll be disapponted!!! 👍🤘
I was planning on visiting for the first time this year but after El Toro closed, I'm pushing it off till it opens again. Really hope it doesn't get slowed down with trims. Also, is Jersey Devil still closed?
I would repaint every single rollor coaster here. This includes Kingda Ka, Bizzaro, Green Lantern, NITRO, and Batman. This would make the parks collection of coasters more vibrant. This would be done with renovations over time. Offer trams that take guests from the farthest parts of the park to the parks main gate. Hershey Park and Six Flags New England (parks that are considered neighboors) already have this. The past trip I went to great Adventure it took 15 minutes to get from where Kingda Ka is to the main gate. And I got sick eventually during the end of the day so it was not funny walking back. I would have two stations. One by the by the tolls and the other one by the back of the parking lot. I would renovate the Movie Town area and make it all DC universe. This will complete the area stretching from Batman the ride to Cyborg Cyberspin. The renovation would include alot of metropolis theming/dc universe. I would add new vendor spots such as smallviles frozen lemonade, alot of cool facades and even reuse the Batman stunt theater again to offer incredible shows with amazing choreography and alot of other batman stuff. With this, I will also bring Superhero meet and greets with Superman, Batman, Wonder Women etc. This can add an extra touch and give memories for generations to come. I would also use the backlot eating area and retheme it to smallvilles corner eats of smth like that. -adding onto the renovation I would also demolish the dark knight coaster and make an indoor family themed coaster to the flash. The coaster would be flash themed and a launch. -I would also repaint Batman during this time Moving on from the dc universe area I would demolish both of the parks kiddie areas. I would replace the Safari Kids themed area with a timber town themed area. Perfectly in touch with the lil devil coaster and jersey devil coaster. For the kiddie area in frontier adventures I'd theme it to Bugs Bunny Boomtown (a more modern version ofc). These new areas would offer a brand collection of kids attractions for kids to enjoy. I would also repaint and renovate other areas such as the boardwalk area. Coasters: Along with reprints I would also refurbish alot of coasters at Great Adventure to give excellent new appearances . *Green Lantern*- I would add LED lights on the coasters trains. This would make the rides trains look amazing at nighttime. Green lED lightning would also shine on the tracks at night. Audio would return on the lifthill such as the green lanterns oath. I would also retrack this coaster to make it run smoother. *Kingda Ka* would get brand new lap bar trains and onboard audio. Before the train launches an African type dance music would play and as the train is about to launch a voice would say smth similar to storm runner at hershey park. *Bizzaro*- I would bring back the onboard audio trains. *Batman*- I would add speakers to the lifthill and play the Batman theme song. Adding a nice little quirk. *Nitro*- definitely a repaint ofc. *JDC*- This ride is good for what it is for now. But I would add nightly fire effects like what Bizzaro has along with theming on the ride layout. *RMT* I would take down this minetrain ride and replace with a more modern minetrain. The layout would be similar to the old ride to pay omege. *Park atmosphere*- I would add park entertainers and many shows similar to Fiesta texas. -more outdoor dancing shows in the plaza and not the genetic ones with bugs bunny I mean like really good ones like MTV etc. -I would reuse many of the parks abandoned theatres and bring back the aqua show that's by Bizzaro, animal exhibit shows - a nice stage in the place of el diablo can offer amazing hispanic dancing and much more In the plaza de carnival. The same could go for the golden kingdom. Employees would be trained to treat guests formally and to be as helpful as ever. More looney tunes meet and greets would take place around the park. Repaint many old buildings and facades and facilities. Offer foods for the different areas. Like for example, the Gk would offer its respective themes of foods while the plaza de carnival would offer theirs. Frontier Adventures could offer steaks, the boardwalk can offer thee generic burgers, fries, buttercorndogs, etc. Fixing alot of the cracked concrete around the park. Adding more shades. Repainting the sky rides gondolas. I would also add onboard ride cameras on each of the parks major rollor coasters. On the back of each row a ride camera would film your ride experiencd and you can take it home with you as a memory, this can be an upcharge of course from the regular onride photo print. I would redo the parks entrance and the parking lot entrance you see on Monmouth road and the parking tollbooths. All three of them need a more modern refresher tbh. Getting rid of the parks park advertisements shoved around the park can also do wonders. *other stuff* I would add hotel. The name would be "Great Adventure Getaway!" It would offer value, Moderate and Deluxe rooms. The resort would offer restaurants, game rooms, and walk through attractions and any other hotel thing. There would be an attraction would take riders through the history of Six Flags Great Adventure. The rooms on the top of the hotel would offer astonishing views of the safari, the water park and most of all, the mainpark. The hotel would be located right behind the safari. The road that leads into the parking tolls for both the safari and the regular theme park and the water park would have another road that branches off into the resort property. The hotel would offer a pool the shape of the six flags logo and a regular sized pool and a hot tub with a few slide structures. The hotel would also offer an animal viewing area where they can see animals upclose and personal with information about each animal. Aswell as an indoor waterpark Most of all the hotel would offer a monorail that will connect from the hotel, to the water park to the actual theme park, and back again. Amenities include- -Extra hours after park closes. -3 skip the ride passes on any ride they want Overall stuff: With the hot I would offer ticket packages for guests who wanna experience the theme park, the waterpark and the safari during their stay. A regular ticket package is you a 3 day multi park hopper ticket for all 3 parks. This means guests can park hop to any experience they want on the same day for 3 days. Then there would be a week long park hopper ticket that works the same way as the 3 day but this time for an entire week. There will also be the regular day ticket for each park and a 1 day park hopper ticket. This is all from a CE mindset and I wish this all could happen tbh. Edit: Park hopper tickets can also be bought for guests who arent staying on property. New coaster options: Option 1: I would expand the parks collection of the rollor coasters by adding a wave Breaker type ride that runs along the lake. The coaster would consist of intense g force crushing turns and great airtime along with graceful hills and turns that give amazing views of great adventures. Option 2: same thing as option 1 but a mach multi launch. Training ride attents more efficiently for better ride ops. Add a pathway that leads directly from Kingda ka to Plaza de carnival. Expand the Golden kingdom by moving down the launch track and relocated Zumanjaros entrance more far down therefore it getting more attraction. (although I do like how you can get practically walk on here)
A complete new paint scheme for nitro would be way nicer, the paint just screams 90s and early 2000s but it’s faded, same goes with Goliath at Six flags over Georgia, it needs an entire new paint scheme just like Georgia Scorcher did
This is honestly such a good plan!!! I was totally thinking the same thing with the kids areas. I have a list of the specific rides and names for both kiddie sections if someone wants to see it lol. For timber town i think tango could be moved in but rethemed for one of the timber town characters (specially the name should be spruce’s wilderness bus tour) and the ride could be rethemed to look like a bus. Timber town will also get a lot more rides. For bugs bunny boomtown they could get a vekoma family coaster and name it road runner railway and many more rides. Also for bugs bunny boomtown they could expand it into the path area right next to it that’s right by the lake. They could even move the teacups and carousel to expand it even more. If they moved the carousel and teacups they could add it into the area where the rapids ride is now after they removed the rapids ride. They could also add a nice swing ride (maybe named wave swinger) and a tilt a whirl (maybe named jinx). They could also add jolly rodger but rethemed to this fairytale area. This whole area could be fairytale themed (like it is now with the candy and stuff) and it would be updated and look a lot better. Dark knight coaster needs to definitely get removed because it looks awful and is not that fun. In my opinion skull mountain should get removed too and replaced with a pandemonium spinning coaster (named pandemonium). Dark knight coaster could be replaced with a premier rides multilaunch (maybe themed to mr. freeze and a possible name could be Mr. Freeze Chiller Blast). Also the log flume and rapids ride could get removed. Log flume area could get replaced with a steam punk section that could have a super air race (maybe named chaos flying machines) and a dive coaster (named dr diabolical cliffhanger coaster) and some other stuff (like in fiesta texas). A mack power splash (maybe named aquaman power wave) could be the newer water ride added to the park after the removal of the log flume and rapids although i don’t know where it would go (maybe another dc area by bizarro that they could make). i didn’t hate el diablo and thought it fit the area with el toro very well so perhaps a larsen super loop could come back and they could name it fireball or something. The old buildings behind the go carts and sling shot could get removed and replaced with Disk’O coaster by zamperila (maybe called crazanity). a mack twist n splash (maybe named the penguin blizzard spinsanity) could go in the spot where air jumbo is and air jumbo could get removed from the park. a funtime booster (named catwoman whip) would be nice at the park and could be placed right next to where the pirate ship is now. A retheme of the scrambler named deja vu into poison ivy toxic spin (which would be moved to the spot where jolly rodger is now and would leave more room for the premier rides multilaunch) and swashbuckler to the riddler revenge would work well. I think a possible two face ride could be in the spot where the pirate ship is and the pirate ship could get moved to an area by jersey devil coaster at it would fit the adventure seaport area well. They would all work well since they are all around the area with joker and harley quinn so it would be all the gotham villains together. In my opinion they need to remove the movietown arena cause it looks worn down and old and replace with a chance freestyle themed to night wing and a possible other flat ride themed to robin. The path from cyborg cyber spin to the area by the front entrance could have a zamperila endeavor named supergirl star flyer as well as a top scan themed to shazam. these additions would really round out the whole dc area. the twister should get a retheme and be named lex luther vomatron. the ride is close to superman which works thematically and it would give the ride new life. the parachute ride could also get removed and replaced with a flying scooters ride (i don’t really know a name yet). they could also remove the go carts and replace it with another ride or even a chance rides family coaster. nitro should get repainted another color because the yellow and pink it has does not look good and it’s confusing when it’s right next to batman which is also yellow. i think a nice silver and blue would look nice because it would match the sign and stand out. a nebulaz by zamperila would be nice but six flags hasn’t added any yet. if they did add one i think it being themed to robin would be nice and it would be placed next to the nightwing ride. maybe a break dance or the skywarp from discovery kingdom could come and a two face theme would be nice. i don’t know about the skywarp because it has a lot of issues and the break dance would have to be relocated from somewhere else. a coaster could be in the spot roller thunder is. some ideas include a dueling gci or dueling rmc hybrid and depending on which one is dueling the other one would not be dueling if that makes sense. a wing coaster as well as a giga coaster (preferably made by intamin cause they have a b and m hyper already) would work. a s and s looping coaster or if they ever work with gurslaur again then an infinity coaster would work well. all these coaster types should be added to the park tho in different places just once can be in the spot where rolling thunder was. also the removal of the old water play area form balin jungle land will leave more room for the coaster that replaces rolling thunder. a chance rides family coaster would be nice as well if it is not added where the go carts are now. I think an s and s axis or a air launch themed to the flash could be nice and it could be in the second dc area by bizzaro and hopefully aquaman power wave. for general park improvements mostly everything you mentioned in your comment is perfect and like i mentioned before the only coaster that needs to get repainted a different color is nitro but all the coasters need a repaint. i know this is an unpopular opinion but i think green lantern should stay but be revamped a little to make it a little nicer like you mentioned in your comment. a monerail would be perfect at the park and a hotel would be wonderful as well. they also got to work on operations and staff training. for kingda ka lap bars would be amazing as well as an area to watch the launch, like what they have on top thrill dragster. this could also come with an update to the golden kingdom as it needs some updating. every section of the park needs some work tho. overall i love great adventure and i have put a lot of thought into ways to improve it so these are my ideas that add onto yours. sorry it was so long i’m kinda passionate about this because great adventure is my home park and i want to see it grow and thrive. i hope that this happens because six flags needs to realize how much potential this park has.
@Jose V.I love some of the ideas you put here. The only thing is six flags has been removing there old arrow water flumes so i think it’s highly likely that the log flume is getting removed. Also the rapids was one of the first rapids rides to ever be built and it’s getting very old now so i think it could also get removed. It’s so sad that nj is being strict with great adventure (especially with kingda ka and the lap bars it should get). Also i really like the bizarro theme but i see your point about it not working with the frontier section. If they kept it bizarro perhaps they could make it part of a new land with a flash and aqua man coaster. the frontier section would still be there with the runaway mine train as well as the bugs bunny boomtown and they would probably add another ride or two to the area. I really like the dc themes at six flags parks 😭😭 I also hope they don’t remove green lantern 😭😭 And with skull mountain and dark knight i just feel like they are worn down now and not that fun. Also with dark knight i hear people confuse it with batman the ride all the time so I just feel that two batman rides are redundant. I really like a lot of your ideas though and I really hope six flags will really start to invest in the park and see the potential it has!
This is my home park for 27 years.. I agree with your points, the lineup & atmosphere are perfect, however the morale is completely gone. This was a very well rounded video 👌🏽
This is prob the biggest example of a top park only because of their coasters. Literally this park without el toro drops it out of six flags top 3 or maybe even 5 parks. It’s very annoying that the park is so gross and run so poorly. I would be fine with no ride additions for a year or two if they just made improvements like repaint rides especially nitros gross ass station and get better food
Actually, Great Adventure started in the 70's, it was just a Main Street, the Carousel, the Octopus (gone now), and mostly great stroll with small rides, no roller coasters until later years. The best food in the park used to be "Best of the West", with actual barbecued meats, now they are not allowed to BBQ, so meats had to be put into ovens, UGH!! Too many roller coasters, people really liked the smaller rides that were removed to make room for these coasters, which dropped its popularity. I used to be season pass holder, but when they changed, ignoring and removing the smaller rides people enjoyed. They should have remade the horror house by making it a horror ride, like other parks. GA needs to go back to its roots and bring back some of the smaller successful rides. The Yum Yum Palace is an original restraint as is the ever present fountain. So GA did not start in the 80's as this guy suggests, he probably wasn't even born when this park first opened, but he does hit the nail on the head about the supposed bigger rides taking away the charm of what it once was. As for putting up hotels, to open this park all year long would first require a dome all around the park to include the parking lot. New Jersey does have winters, and yes snow storms and such, talk about expensive beyond belief, along with a massive heating bill to keep customers warm and happy, at that alone we are looking at a massive price increase not just for parking, but admission, with those kind of prices, who will be able to afford a hotel room. Sleep in your car, it's cheaper, that is what people from NY and Penn did when the park first opened and was opened until 2am, families slept in their vehicle's. So, say what you will about GA (Great Adventure), if they go back to basics, they will be just fine. Oh, they also had a small coaster called the "Cat and Mouse" that my friends and loved riding, they need to bring that back too, not the one mentioned in this video, a totally different one. The Big Wheel ferris wheel is also an original ride, if I recall, that marked the end of the park in that direction, and of course the arena in the other direction, the little park area, the little shops on the way in and out. The gaming area came later and the park expanded from there when sold. That is Great Adventure's humble beginnings. They need to go back to being allowed to BBQ, loved the food at the Best of the West, corn on the cob, pork n beans, choice of BBQ ribs, chicken, pulled pork and chicken, I can't remember some of the other stuff on the menu, but yummy! The best burger in the park was the across the arena next to the giant Teepee, a lesser known burger place in the park, so they ended up cooking to order, always a juicy burger there. Don't know if either of them are still there, if not, huge loss and shame on them. So, who is going to build a dome around the park and parking lot and heat it in the winter? The upside is employee's would be able to work full-time all year long. Xoxo
This has been the park we've gone to since I was a kid myself. Now I'm taking my own kid. And I can confirm that it seemed they were trying to get on track to be a big time go-to park. But as I like to say, they put in too many big things with big problems. So not only did the ride cost a lot, but cost a lot in repairs, such as chiller, superman, etc. They're also so poorly understaffed, that they can hardly keep up with crowds. Though some lines have been long the two times I went this year (going again tomorrow actually, blood test for the kiddo warranted another use of our season pass as a reward) it hasn't been THAT crowded. But the lines can really back up because there's usually only one or two employees per ride. The theming has indeed been neglected, though I will say I'm impressed with the justice league ride, I haven't been here for a while so that was a nice surprise to see this summer. Food is also very hard to order mobile wise. It just wouldn't work for me and the food line was waaaay too long. This was mainly an issue at the water park. My MAIN issue with the park now, is SAFETY! There is a whole other kind of person coming to the park and not just that, but in the surrounding areas. Basically, be mindful of leaving things visible in your car or other ways people rob you. My car was LOCKED and I came out to a slightly propped door with signs that someone tried to break in my car. Silly me though, I brought my small town habits of leaving the phones in the cupholders and a brand name purse visible, plus God knows what else they know is valuable and I guess it tempted them. Wawa did not care either. Happened at the one right outside the park, looks nice and new I thought, but be wary. There's low lives in the area. Sad. My brother used to take me here the week before school started, sometimes the DAY before school and I just loved it. We'd ride so much that I felt wobbly on the car ride home because my body still felt like it was on a roller coaster because I was in motion like I was all day I suppose. Ahh. Good times. Nice video. Novel over.
They should have never took down the Scream Machine and Rolling Thunder. I love El Toro though. Too bad it’s not located near Atlantic City. That would help solve the hotel issue.
Makes me happy to hear great adventure is one of your top fav parks. I loved going every year growing up. It was an hour and a half drive so it was a fun daycation Everytime. Nitro all day! My buddy threw up when we pulled into the station and we got everyone cheering his name 😄 he was so embarrassed
I agree with everything except I think jersey devil fits just fine! The only way it kinda sticks out is it still looker newer unlike the rest of the park lol I still wanna go one day but I’m there for the coaster not some as you said “cheap gimmicky flat ride” that honestly doesnt even look that fun lol
Accurate review, thanks. Here now and it seems even worse than what it was last year. At least a dozen rides not operating. I'd take Cedar Point over this place any day.
This video was great! I don’t know sometimes it feels like when u live In a place where there isn’t a amusement park u would take something like this any day of the week if it was near u. I would love to go too this park for sure!
I dunno, maybe I'm spoiled because Cedar Point has been my go to park for the last 40 years; but, this place seems dirty. Like poor upkeep, county fair dirty. Perhaps that's just a fluke, but who knows
When I went the experience was absolutely horrible I think they should remember to 6 Poles because the laziness that the employees have is horrible that they couldn't even put up the flags themselves the ride ops being horrendous
Even some of the oldest things in this park are great. It is rich and complex. The skyline from the middle of the skyride is just jaw-dropping. I like what Six Flags has been doing because it makes sure to survive. It must be protected. Sure I'd like more top coasters. SF will eventually have to replace some of their major attractions to keep it going, but for now they utilize their past excesses, which are incredible. My biggest problem with Great Adventure is the crowds, since I can get many great rides closer by with much less standing and no fastpass. But they do have some of the best and I have managed some great days there.
jersey devil was closed when i went yesterday, so was super man and el toro. i knew about el toro but i was kinda sad that superman and jersey devil were closed
six flags great adventure is so so overhated speically by enthusiasts every park this year has had fights line jumping and ride issues parks arent gonna build major thrill rides every year simply not how business works SF is the most overhated company and parks ever some CF parks are way way worse you dont just make parks deastion parks they need to make profit SFNJ simply doesnt everyone goes to hershey
Adding to this I just find it annoying how SFGA can never get aunique ride like before now all they got was clones and now we get a unique ride and it just gets cloned and put in the west cost. With SFMM and SFGA as a top 2 six flags park SFGA ends up getting the sad end of the stick. And you can't even say it's because SF MM is more popular cause they bring in almost the same Attendance. And the theory of JDC probably being clone of wonder women would make sense but it's just another example of SFGA getting clones and them getting the shorter end of the stick. King da ka, el toro and nitro are the only original coaster they have that don't have clones of the same ride somewhere else. They only good things that’s happening here is them finally getting there mini “resort” next the park with two hotels and more places to eat, which I don’t think any other sf park has. I hope with the new CEO they continue to improve the park and start making it better than it is. With the attendance it brings in they could really make it a destination park for many.
It seemed like many theme parks built in the 1970s had plans for more than just a theme park, I guess to rival Disney World and its many other features than the main parks.
Great Adventure is a highly overrated park. Horrible layout, bad ride ops and their holy grail, El Toro is ruined by horrible lap bars that tend to close in tighter when you pop up on the air time hills. It’s not in the Top 25 for me out of the over 540 coasters I’ve ridden. Kingda Ka’s restraints ruin the experience, unlike TTD. Nitro is a great B&M Hyper, haven’t ridden JD yet.
Six Flags just kind of stopped trying to improve the park after their bankruptcy in the late 2000s. Their additions from 2008-2019 were mostly filler, and other stuff like operations (outside of Nitro) remained mediocre.
Great Adventure is my home park. What they need to do is have more rides in the Wild West section of the park. That area always seems bare. The only ride I go on in that area is Runaway Mine Train. If not for that ride, I wouldn’t even bother visiting that section.
That area used to be the true “theme park” section, with a giant teepee, Conestoga wagon, along with the fort and the Great Arena. It felt complete at the time. Now with the addition of Medusa and Bugs Bunny National Park, it seems more empty with the other removals.
I stopped going to Six Flags Great Adventure back in July 2021 because of the fact that I do not like when everything is too expensive and the claw machines in the arcades being rigged like crazy (which means they were probably doing that on purpose to make up for the money they lost during the temporary COVID-19 Pandemic lockdowns). I will not be going back there anymore and I probably never will again.
If i could i would open a hotel near this park and then they don't have to waste the money on it and spend that money on the TLC needed. (FYI I haven't been to this park so I'm just going off what you said in the video.)
in my option the park got bad when they stopped enforcing rules and kids come to the park and run amuck causing chaos ......the drug use in this park is rampant and causes families to spend there money in better places !!!
Grew up and ended up working at Great Adventure, it definitely was close to reaching something great in 2016-2017 but everything fell short and fundings got cut. They lost 75% of entertainment affecting it now in 2023 and I personally feel like that was one of the biggest budget cuts to be made back then.
I used to work there when I was a teenager. I hated it so much, at the time I was making 6.50 an hour, without over time. (even though I worked overtime). I thought it was so cool to work there when I started, but after three years of working there on season (May 30-October 31). When the old guy and the red bus was the theme song. I started to really hate it. The ride training they give you is so criminal; I would tell customers "Good luck." Because half the time the rides would break down. leaving people hanging upside down in the hot sun for hours. I used to test Nitro before the ride opened for the day. I also operated Roaring Rapids and would see drunk people take off their seatbelts and jump into the water, causing the ride to be shut down and flood unto the dock where people waiting to get on the ride and not to reopen for 4 hours. Batman and Robin caught fire four times as the breaks melted to the tracks. After I worked there, I would not recommend anyone to this place , even for a cheap thrill. that all for now. if you have concerns, please reach out.
In the 1980s, I played saxophone in a mini-parade with my school's band in the Illinois 6-Flags...It was "6 Flags Great AMERICA!" What is this "Great Adventure" nonsense?!
I visited the park in June 2021 (first time in a long time) and I absolutely agree with the comments expressed in the video. Like Six Flags over Georgia, Great Adventure has so much potential. The advertising on rides and coasters is too much. You would never see that at a Cedar Fair park. I also agree that theming is minimal and there are a lot of employees going through the motions. As I commented in a video about Six Flags over Georgia in this channel, maybe it’s time to give Six Flags Great Adventure some Cedar Fair love. Think about it - Cedar Fair having two of the fastest and tallest coasters! Yes, Dorney Park isn’t that far away, but look at Cedar Point and King’s Island. Those two siblings are doing just fine.
@@mr.intamin1081 True they are. Look at Carowinds, has the best coaster plus it's not their best park attendance wise. Not their bread and butter. SFGA is sf bread and butter, NY metro provides massive funds.
I think it’s all six flags cause even great America has become crap and is so ran down everywhere. A lot of rides are usually not running and like 50% of the smaller games and extras are never open
Thank you for making this video. This is my home park and this year I wanted to bring my son. But honestly, with the mishaps and traffic, i feel like it's not even worth going. Especially if eltoro is down. 😔
The problems I have the with the park is that there a lot of just flat abandoned areas like you can tell where old flat rides used to be .The place is run down I was waiting in line for nitro the metal pipes used for the queue line where falling down due to cracked concrete . a plastic bag by the lift hill of Batman (B&M) .Example of areas where flat old flat rides can be seen where Chaos used to be fill it in with something new .
This is the general problem with Six Flags, isn't it? Some of their parks are still up there with Cedar Fair with the best collections of thrill rides in the US, possibly in the world. But they don't make much effort to go beyond that with the parks themselves. Little family-owned parks are often better places to visit.
I live 20 minutes from this park. I haven't been since 2016. It's not the place I remember from the 80s too many scumbags, gang members it's not family friendly I have several friends that are Jackson police officers and they tell me all the time just how much scum get arrested there every day. Not good
The log flume ride was closed when I went. A kid I was with got the whole story on the water squirters. They were working but kept breaking, people wasted their money for tokens. But the squirters barely worked, they then closed it. He asked me why the ride closed, I told him because it went off track and stopped right in front of us. I saw it on the news something went wrong. He was very excited about the trip but I told him to keep in mind an accident can happen when on a ride. He said it was good that he stuck to the smaller rides. He would not be in the air or worse on the bigger rides. It is in the news look up NJ six flags log flume accident. A few rides were closed down, and the Harley ride I feel has more down time because of many people using it. The ride is going to go bust quicker, it is new. But, more experienced people need to be hired as ride operators. The young people just run the rides into the ground. Two rides were smoking because they kept sending people. The place could be better if it was not temporary young people.
Six flags just came out and said that they would renew some outdated restaurants, and just other park improvements. Also Medusa is coming back let’s go!
I feel like Six flags is changing but will take time. I went to the park in 2018 and was great but I feel . Like it has more potential. Six flags needs to stop using dc named go something original or non dc
Completely agree. I grew up going to this park and loved it. But after every recent visit it does seem sadder and sadder to be there, with the neglect and cutting corners that you mentioned. One thing I will disagree with you is that the food is trash at six flags. lol.
Yeah, the six flags New Jersey complex needs a hotel! This place is worth 2 days. If u want beach shore, drive 45 minutes East on I-195. This shore is cool to swim at but u have to worry about sharks. This thrill does not exist at cedar point beach.
@@amusementscape I'll try finding some sources to send you on Instagram. Basically, they bought a bunch of land behind the hill by Racer. They were going to build a hotel, indoor waterpark, and they were going to expand the park and that would've included a new "signature attraction". The project was delayed a bunch by Kennywood Entertainment Company, but Palace cancelled the project when they bought the park.
Another park that I am unsure if you have visited here.. is Dreamworld Australia… it’s amazing themeing mostly in the front… then it’s just trees. And they only have 1 coaster and one still being built.. It was very popular around 2014 and it was booming.. unfortunately they had 4 deaths on one of their water rides… and it’s really really gone down..
So a 450 foot launch coaster that nearly does 130 mph with a 400 foot drop tower attached, 4 B&Ms the world’s greatest wooden coaster a recently opened biggest single coaster isn’t good enough? This park looks like it stomps ANY cedar fair park except maybe Cedar Point.
You should take a look at Six Flags Great Escape. A theme park Six Flags has all but abandoned. Most people don't know this, but Great Escape is one of the parks that Walt Disney visited when he was planning Disneyland. Now? The food sucks (most of it either pizza that tastes like cardboard, or salads that look like they were pulled from the garbage), the park rarely smells like anything BUT vomit, the staff are under trained and actually kind of rude, and on top of that, the rides are aging and their safety is questionable. Remember the accident where the 14 year old girl fell a Gondola ride at an Amusement Park? Ya, that was Great Escape. And NOTHING has changed. At this point, the park is more famous for being dirty and basically abandoned then anything else. I mean if you stand under the portion of the toboggan ride that crosses over the pathway and watch as a train passes overhead, you will literally see the ENTIRE TRACK shake and shift a good 4-6 inches (not to mention the fact that ALL of the struts are covered in rust). Which is truly NOT ok. It's like they're asking for an accident.
Same thing could be said for Magic Mountain and Great America, there is no good reason for the three biggest markets in the USA to have such crappy ran parks.
Heads up: this video was made before the Fiesta Texas announcement BUT that doesn’t solve the whole problem. A lot of what I think the problem is more of SF being cheap with the park appearance and operations. I just used the additions because it was the easiest way to represent the way SF treated the park
All Six Flags parks have similar issues to SFGAd... They need to benchmark themselves to Cedar Fair....who charges more, but is better value with rides like B and M gigas, Steel Vengance, Maverick etc.
@@mmocken They need to upkeep their parks like Cedar Fair, but Six Flags does well with most parks and additions. No average person is traveling from NJ to IL to CA to complain about cloned rides. What Six Flags is terrible with is the budget cutting of theming, the removal of perfectly good coasters and a can of paint.
This is my home park, and I agree that certain areas other than the rides could use improvement. While the ride operations are usually efficient, the food operations are hit or miss at best. I have a particularly negative experience in which I waited nearly two hours at Johnny Rocket’s. The park also looks beaten up in certain places, with faded paint and cracked pavement.
six flags doesnt spend money on paint second there is cracked walkways at all parks parks are short staffed so expect longer waits then usually
yeah this is also my home park i mean heck like 3 hours ago as i just went there but i did not know they removed so many rides during there history i mean idk how expensive it would be to bring some of them back i mean they have like 2200 acres of land cause American scream machine looked like a amazing ride
Actually they repainted three coasters in the off season
Thats what makes it feel like Great Adventure though 😅
If six flags great adventure was like dorney park and Hershey park with the water park and theme park being connected, it would be elite especially if they add hotels themed as looney tunes or DC.
They’re adding hotels. Hilton and Marriott
They were actually planning to add a hotel to great adventure, but six flags went bankrupt before they did it.
Six Flags as a whole falls short of what they could be. Every park they own has at least one section that seems rundown or bare, and that really does come down to how they threw numerous rides in without letting the parks grow naturally and actually make the parks look good.
Thankfully it seems now they want to refocus their attention on these finer details, because that’s what people notice the most.
Yeah I agree the future looks better
SFNJ is one of the best parks around literally doesnt have any bad spots enthuists just expact way too much
New Jersey laws are very strict and Six Flags would need a permit for any rework on the rides, they been trying to Repaint Nitro for the last 7 years it's still pending with the state, however this year the rides ops were pretty rude this, The State of New Jersey is the biggest factor in blocking most of Great adventures stuff, the state is the biggest hindrance, I work at smaller boardwalk part and they been trying open a roller coaster for the last 2 months but the State of New Jersey will not let them open it, Jackson loves Great Adventure its the state
That’s really tough. It looks like laws are changing in their favor at least with Ka and Zumanjaro
@@amusementscape the problem isn’t height… the state is run by morons who like to have control over everything. That usually means projects are at the whim of every little Napoleon in office. They either sit on it for spite, put it low on priority list, or have personal vendetta against the owners. A lot of this has to do with taxes. Considering the size of park, they have been fighting against rising land taxes in NJ, politicians don’t like people taking away from their pay raises so they hold the park hostage from expansion and growth to change their tune
So you're saying Six Flags couldn't repaint Nitro in over 20 years because of the state??... despite repainting Superman, Bizarro, Mine Train, Batman two times now? I think it's more them not caring enough about how a ride looks that goes way out to the woods. In other words, bare minimum.
Yep. The state of NJ is super weird. Apparently great adventure wasn't allowed to build a giga coaster, but they were allowed to build a 400 ft one for some reason 💀
@@NJFlyer606 it probably has to due with the fact that its a giga and to repaint the lift and hills you need large cranes for painters to go on. that's probably where the problem lays
it was great in the late 1970’s-1980’s. high dive and dolphin shows, concerts, arcades, and the safari. It was far and away much better back then. Plus it didn’t cost an arm and a leg for food.
Still, a Shame that Rolling Thunder never got RMCed
Yeah that would’ve been so sweeet
didn't it have a lot of structural issues to be RMC'd?
@@markvolpe2305 i dont believe so thats the first i ever heard of RT having this issue
I think that Great adventure is doing a whole sweep of revamping the park... the area by Justice League, Superman getting painted, JDC getting added, and now the Kids area by Nitro is getting repainted... I expect to see Batman get painted very soon following up with Nitro, Bizarro and finally Kingda Ka. I didnt mention Mine train because I do eventually seeing that ride being torn down and having a modern family coaster be put in it's place. Hopefully more concrete replaced since some concrete in the park is smashed to bits. Maybe a Mach Power splash can be added where Congo rapids is now and maybe seeing a new type of B&M come to the park where the Go karts are... and for the love of God please remove Green Lantern and put a dive coaster like what SFFT is getting.
I hope they tear down the go carts and would love to see boardwalk area connect with the dc area with an over pass, overlooking the entrance! Also having Superman and green lantern in that area is just plain weird
I think that they should’ve kept Rolling Thunder, most people who don’t like rollercoasters go to this park and see the hyper, absolutely mental el toro, and literally the tallest rollercoaster in the world. They’re scared, they won’t ride anything. Rolling thunder looked SMALL next to El toro and Ka, something that it definitely wasn’t lol. It was a nice coaster, though rough in its later years, and really appealed to the younger audience. It was the first true big roller that I had ridden, and it was a lot of fun! Removing it in my opinion was a mistake, they could’ve totally put drop of doom’s que line somewhere else, maybe the parking lot. I can’t believe they kept the que line there and put that loop thing there, using the old que line. The entrance now just sits there, waiting for whatever else it will be used for.
This is going to be long but I kinda disagree with this. Over past 7 years they have really improved the flat ride collection. I don’t think anyone really cares that a flat ride is a clone. A coaster yes but for flat I don’t believe it matters because there not as important and how many flat rides are out there that haven’t been used anywhere? Probably not a big list. In 2012 they had 10 flats. Now it’s 17 which is a huge improvement. Also I think El Diablo was removed by jersey state law. I know the ride didn’t have a big attendance but I don’t think that was the reason. If it was I feel like it would have left more six flags parks. Another thing to note is that since it was removed nothing has been put there. They most likely had plans for Wonder Woman already. As for the coasters I agree. A indoor wild mouse, a relocated stand up, and a sns free spin is awful. I don’t find the free spin a bad ride but its a big let down for not being unique and it wasn’t a big ride like we were all hoping. They just got jersey devil which I think is amazing. I like it more then maverick. I just hope they keep that trend going but I don’t know. Because that whole thing with magic mountain supposed to get this the same year devil opened is concerning. West coast racers really helped them lmao. I’m not sure what you call it when two of the same coasters open around the same time. Are they both original or clones? It’s a little confusing. So anyway when I hear one of these videos about great adventure I’m usually in the middle. I get that in the 2000s and early 2010s they had more shows, a parade, fireworks everyday, more signs and looked better. They really only do most of that stuff during the holidays now which I hope changes. I do understand all of that but they really boosted there flat ride collection over the past few years which I think was necessary. I love this park a lot I’ve been going for a very long time. I just hope they pump more unique coasters into the mix.
update:they are making a hotel not to far from there
doesn’t need a hotel because people either travel the short distance from philly or new york or they’re already staying close at some beach hotel on the jersey shore. who would stay right by six flags when the ocean is like 30 minutes away???
I'm one of many people who have travel up from Maryland and it would be nice to have a hotel close by. The last two times I've visited, I've gotten a hotel rather than make the horrible drive down the Jersey Turnpike after a long day at the park. Since I've been on a budget, I've gotten a motel near the Air Force Base.
@@RY30DM there are probably about 60 hotels within a 20 minute drive of the park. i really don't understand what you're talking about.
@@cpe1704tks The one that I've stayed at is about 20 minutes from the park in Wrightstown, which is not far from Macguire Air Force Base. It's advertised at $60/night and I think that's what I've paid or slight less.
I haven't been to Great Adventure yet, but I'd love to get here soon (after Toro opens). El Toro, I hear, is amazing, and I can't wait to get on another flyer.
Yeah it’s really fun
Hate to disappoint you but el torro Won’t be open until next season.
@@benchmarkcentral932 I probably won't get here for a few years though
Got to Great Adventure for the first time this year, and luckily the day before Toro derailed. Ride front row first of the day then ride the back row until you tap out, it's so worth it! Oh and JDC is awesome, seems like a great family coaster but very re-ridable (if not for the terrible raptor trains, but no deal breaker). Hope you get out and get to ride Toro when she's back up and running, no way you'll be disapponted!!! 👍🤘
I was planning on visiting for the first time this year but after El Toro closed, I'm pushing it off till it opens again. Really hope it doesn't get slowed down with trims. Also, is Jersey Devil still closed?
I would repaint every single rollor coaster here. This includes Kingda Ka, Bizzaro, Green Lantern, NITRO, and Batman. This would make the parks collection of coasters more vibrant. This would be done with renovations over time.
Offer trams that take guests from the farthest parts of the park to the parks main gate. Hershey Park and Six Flags New England (parks that are considered neighboors) already have this. The past trip I went to great Adventure it took 15 minutes to get from where Kingda Ka is to the main gate. And I got sick eventually during the end of the day so it was not funny walking back. I would have two stations. One by the by the tolls and the other one by the back of the parking lot.
I would renovate the Movie Town area and make it all DC universe. This will complete the area stretching from Batman the ride to Cyborg Cyberspin. The renovation would include alot of metropolis theming/dc universe. I would add new vendor spots such as smallviles frozen lemonade, alot of cool facades and even reuse the Batman stunt theater again to offer incredible shows with amazing choreography and alot of other batman stuff. With this, I will also bring Superhero meet and greets with Superman, Batman, Wonder Women etc. This can add an extra touch and give memories for generations to come. I would also use the backlot eating area and retheme it to smallvilles corner eats of smth like that.
-adding onto the renovation I would also demolish the dark knight coaster and make an indoor family themed coaster to the flash. The coaster would be flash themed and a launch.
-I would also repaint Batman during this time
Moving on from the dc universe area I would demolish both of the parks kiddie areas. I would replace the Safari Kids themed area with a timber town themed area. Perfectly in touch with the lil devil coaster and jersey devil coaster. For the kiddie area in frontier adventures I'd theme it to Bugs Bunny Boomtown (a more modern version ofc). These new areas would offer a brand collection of kids attractions for kids to enjoy.
I would also repaint and renovate other areas such as the boardwalk area.
Coasters:
Along with reprints I would also refurbish alot of coasters at Great Adventure to give excellent new appearances .
*Green Lantern*- I would add LED lights on the coasters trains. This would make the rides trains look amazing at nighttime. Green lED lightning would also shine on the tracks at night.
Audio would return on the lifthill such as the green lanterns oath.
I would also retrack this coaster to make it run smoother.
*Kingda Ka* would get brand new lap bar trains and onboard audio. Before the train launches an African type dance music would play and as the train is about to launch a voice would say smth similar to storm runner at hershey park.
*Bizzaro*- I would bring back the onboard audio trains.
*Batman*- I would add speakers to the lifthill and play the Batman theme song. Adding a nice little quirk.
*Nitro*- definitely a repaint ofc.
*JDC*- This ride is good for what it is for now. But I would add nightly fire effects like what Bizzaro has along with theming on the ride layout.
*RMT* I would take down this minetrain ride and replace with a more modern minetrain. The layout would be similar to the old ride to pay omege.
*Park atmosphere*- I would add park entertainers and many shows similar to Fiesta texas.
-more outdoor dancing shows in the plaza and not the genetic ones with bugs bunny I mean like really good ones like MTV etc.
-I would reuse many of the parks abandoned theatres and bring back the aqua show that's by Bizzaro, animal exhibit shows
- a nice stage in the place of el diablo can offer amazing hispanic dancing and much more In the plaza de carnival. The same could go for the golden kingdom.
Employees would be trained to treat guests formally and to be as helpful as ever.
More looney tunes meet and greets would take place around the park.
Repaint many old buildings and facades and facilities.
Offer foods for the different areas. Like for example, the Gk would offer its respective themes of foods while the plaza de carnival would offer theirs. Frontier Adventures could offer steaks, the boardwalk can offer thee generic burgers, fries, buttercorndogs, etc.
Fixing alot of the cracked concrete around the park.
Adding more shades.
Repainting the sky rides gondolas.
I would also add onboard ride cameras on each of the parks major rollor coasters. On the back of each row a ride camera would film your ride experiencd and you can take it home with you as a memory, this can be an upcharge of course from the regular onride photo print.
I would redo the parks entrance and the parking lot entrance you see on Monmouth road and the parking tollbooths. All three of them need a more modern refresher tbh.
Getting rid of the parks park advertisements shoved around the park can also do wonders.
*other stuff*
I would add hotel. The name would be "Great Adventure Getaway!" It would offer value, Moderate and Deluxe rooms. The resort would offer restaurants, game rooms, and walk through attractions and any other hotel thing. There would be an attraction would take riders through the history of Six Flags Great Adventure. The rooms on the top of the hotel would offer astonishing views of the safari, the water park and most of all, the mainpark.
The hotel would be located right behind the safari. The road that leads into the parking tolls for both the safari and the regular theme park and the water park would have another road that branches off into the resort property.
The hotel would offer a pool the shape of the six flags logo and a regular sized pool and a hot tub with a few slide structures.
The hotel would also offer an animal viewing area where they can see animals upclose and personal with information about each animal. Aswell as an indoor waterpark
Most of all the hotel would offer a monorail that will connect from the hotel, to the water park to the actual theme park, and back again.
Amenities include-
-Extra hours after park closes.
-3 skip the ride passes on any ride they want
Overall stuff:
With the hot I would offer ticket packages for guests who wanna experience the theme park, the waterpark and the safari during their stay.
A regular ticket package is you a 3 day multi park hopper ticket for all 3 parks. This means guests can park hop to any experience they want on the same day for 3 days.
Then there would be a week long park hopper ticket that works the same way as the 3 day but this time for an entire week.
There will also be the regular day ticket for each park and a 1 day park hopper ticket.
This is all from a CE mindset and I wish this all could happen tbh.
Edit: Park hopper tickets can also be bought for guests who arent staying on property.
New coaster options:
Option 1: I would expand the parks collection of the rollor coasters by adding a wave Breaker type ride that runs along the lake. The coaster would consist of intense g force crushing turns and great airtime along with graceful hills and turns that give amazing views of great adventures.
Option 2: same thing as option 1 but a mach multi launch.
Training ride attents more efficiently for better ride ops.
Add a pathway that leads directly from Kingda ka to Plaza de carnival.
Expand the Golden kingdom by moving down the launch track and relocated Zumanjaros entrance more far down therefore it getting more attraction. (although I do like how you can get practically walk on here)
Permits that take 5 months to complete
A complete new paint scheme for nitro would be way nicer, the paint just screams 90s and early 2000s but it’s faded, same goes with Goliath at Six flags over Georgia, it needs an entire new paint scheme just like Georgia Scorcher did
@Jose V. How is Medusa frontier theme and not Greek Mythology?
This is honestly such a good plan!!! I was totally thinking the same thing with the kids areas. I have a list of the specific rides and names for both kiddie sections if someone wants to see it lol. For timber town i think tango could be moved in but rethemed for one of the timber town characters (specially the name should be spruce’s wilderness bus tour) and the ride could be rethemed to look like a bus. Timber town will also get a lot more rides. For bugs bunny boomtown they could get a vekoma family coaster and name it road runner railway and many more rides. Also for bugs bunny boomtown they could expand it into the path area right next to it that’s right by the lake. They could even move the teacups and carousel to expand it even more. If they moved the carousel and teacups they could add it into the area where the rapids ride is now after they removed the rapids ride. They could also add a nice swing ride (maybe named wave swinger) and a tilt a whirl (maybe named jinx). They could also add jolly rodger but rethemed to this fairytale area. This whole area could be fairytale themed (like it is now with the candy and stuff) and it would be updated and look a lot better. Dark knight coaster needs to definitely get removed because it looks awful and is not that fun. In my opinion skull mountain should get removed too and replaced with a pandemonium spinning coaster (named pandemonium). Dark knight coaster could be replaced with a premier rides multilaunch (maybe themed to mr. freeze and a possible name could be Mr. Freeze Chiller Blast). Also the log flume and rapids ride could get removed. Log flume area could get replaced with a steam punk section that could have a super air race (maybe named chaos flying machines) and a dive coaster (named dr diabolical cliffhanger coaster) and some other stuff (like in fiesta texas). A mack power splash (maybe named aquaman power wave) could be the newer water ride added to the park after the removal of the log flume and rapids although i don’t know where it would go (maybe another dc area by bizarro that they could make). i didn’t hate el diablo and thought it fit the area with el toro very well so perhaps a larsen super loop could come back and they could name it fireball or something. The old buildings behind the go carts and sling shot could get removed and replaced with Disk’O coaster by zamperila (maybe called crazanity). a mack twist n splash (maybe named the penguin blizzard spinsanity) could go in the spot where air jumbo is and air jumbo could get removed from the park. a funtime booster (named catwoman whip) would be nice at the park and could be placed right next to where the pirate ship is now. A retheme of the scrambler named deja vu into poison ivy toxic spin (which would be moved to the spot where jolly rodger is now and would leave more room for the premier rides multilaunch) and swashbuckler to the riddler revenge would work well. I think a possible two face ride could be in the spot where the pirate ship is and the pirate ship could get moved to an area by jersey devil coaster at it would fit the adventure seaport area well. They would all work well since they are all around the area with joker and harley quinn so it would be all the gotham villains together. In my opinion they need to remove the movietown arena cause it looks worn down and old and replace with a chance freestyle themed to night wing and a possible other flat ride themed to robin. The path from cyborg cyber spin to the area by the front entrance could have a zamperila endeavor named supergirl star flyer as well as a top scan themed to shazam. these additions would really round out the whole dc area. the twister should get a retheme and be named lex luther vomatron. the ride is close to superman which works thematically and it would give the ride new life. the parachute ride could also get removed and replaced with a flying scooters ride (i don’t really know a name yet). they could also remove the go carts and replace it with another ride or even a chance rides family coaster. nitro should get repainted another color because the yellow and pink it has does not look good and it’s confusing when it’s right next to batman which is also yellow. i think a nice silver and blue would look nice because it would match the sign and stand out. a nebulaz by zamperila would be nice but six flags hasn’t added any yet. if they did add one i think it being themed to robin would be nice and it would be placed next to the nightwing ride. maybe a break dance or the skywarp from discovery kingdom could come and a two face theme would be nice. i don’t know about the skywarp because it has a lot of issues and the break dance would have to be relocated from somewhere else. a coaster could be in the spot roller thunder is. some ideas include a dueling gci or dueling rmc hybrid and depending on which one is dueling the other one would not be dueling if that makes sense. a wing coaster as well as a giga coaster (preferably made by intamin cause they have a b and m hyper already) would work. a s and s looping coaster or if they ever work with gurslaur again then an infinity coaster would work well. all these coaster types should be added to the park tho in different places just once can be in the spot where rolling thunder was. also the removal of the old water play area form balin jungle land will leave more room for the coaster that replaces rolling thunder. a chance rides family coaster would be nice as well if it is not added where the go carts are now. I think an s and s axis or a air launch themed to the flash could be nice and it could be in the second dc area by bizzaro and hopefully aquaman power wave. for general park improvements mostly everything you mentioned in your comment is perfect and like i mentioned before the only coaster that needs to get repainted a different color is nitro but all the coasters need a repaint. i know this is an unpopular opinion but i think green lantern should stay but be revamped a little to make it a little nicer like you mentioned in your comment. a monerail would be perfect at the park and a hotel would be wonderful as well. they also got to work on operations and staff training. for kingda ka lap bars would be amazing as well as an area to watch the launch, like what they have on top thrill dragster. this could also come with an update to the golden kingdom as it needs some updating. every section of the park needs some work tho. overall i love great adventure and i have put a lot of thought into ways to improve it so these are my ideas that add onto yours. sorry it was so long i’m kinda passionate about this because great adventure is my home park and i want to see it grow and thrive. i hope that this happens because six flags needs to realize how much potential this park has.
@Jose V.I love some of the ideas you put here. The only thing is six flags has been removing there old arrow water flumes so i think it’s highly likely that the log flume is getting removed. Also the rapids was one of the first rapids rides to ever be built and it’s getting very old now so i think it could also get removed. It’s so sad that nj is being strict with great adventure (especially with kingda ka and the lap bars it should get). Also i really like the bizarro theme but i see your point about it not working with the frontier section. If they kept it bizarro perhaps they could make it part of a new land with a flash and aqua man coaster. the frontier section would still be there with the runaway mine train as well as the bugs bunny boomtown and they would probably add another ride or two to the area. I really like the dc themes at six flags parks 😭😭 I also hope they don’t remove green lantern 😭😭 And with skull mountain and dark knight i just feel like they are worn down now and not that fun. Also with dark knight i hear people confuse it with batman the ride all the time so I just feel that two batman rides are redundant. I really like a lot of your ideas though and I really hope six flags will really start to invest in the park and see the potential it has!
This is my home park for 27 years.. I agree with your points, the lineup & atmosphere are perfect, however the morale is completely gone. This was a very well rounded video 👌🏽
Thank you! I think that corporate changes have really done the park in
@@amusementscape definitely. Keep it up WNY🥃
2006 was the greatest year of this parks history. Ka, el toro, free fall, the chiller, enterprise, scream machine, rolling thunder. ETC
Yeah last time I witnessed that YT fist fight and that was it for me .. to many punks
WNY Coasters: "I know you're about to go bankrupt but could you stop cutting corners?"
I dunno bro, I don't think that's gonna happen.
Everything you said in the intro pretty much goes for Six Flags Great America too
They’ve been a little bette off imo but yes!
I feel like I could run six flags great adventure better than whoever is currently in charge
Easier said then done
ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME!!!!!! I COULD DESTORY YOU!!!!
Great adventure still needs a hotel
The new sports complex is bringing hotels in with it.
The removal of Rolling Thunder was such a loss.
This is prob the biggest example of a top park only because of their coasters. Literally this park without el toro drops it out of six flags top 3 or maybe even 5 parks. It’s very annoying that the park is so gross and run so poorly. I would be fine with no ride additions for a year or two if they just made improvements like repaint rides especially nitros gross ass station and get better food
Actually, Great Adventure started in the 70's, it was just a Main Street, the Carousel, the Octopus (gone now), and mostly great stroll with small rides, no roller coasters until later years. The best food in the park used to be "Best of the West", with actual barbecued meats, now they are not allowed to BBQ, so meats had to be put into ovens, UGH!! Too many roller coasters, people really liked the smaller rides that were removed to make room for these coasters, which dropped its popularity. I used to be season pass holder, but when they changed, ignoring and removing the smaller rides people enjoyed. They should have remade the horror house by making it a horror ride, like other parks. GA needs to go back to its roots and bring back some of the smaller successful rides. The Yum Yum Palace is an original restraint as is the ever present fountain. So GA did not start in the 80's as this guy suggests, he probably wasn't even born when this park first opened, but he does hit the nail on the head about the supposed bigger rides taking away the charm of what it once was. As for putting up hotels, to open this park all year long would first require a dome all around the park to include the parking lot. New Jersey does have winters, and yes snow storms and such, talk about expensive beyond belief, along with a massive heating bill to keep customers warm and happy, at that alone we are looking at a massive price increase not just for parking, but admission, with those kind of prices, who will be able to afford a hotel room. Sleep in your car, it's cheaper, that is what people from NY and Penn did when the park first opened and was opened until 2am, families slept in their vehicle's. So, say what you will about GA (Great Adventure), if they go back to basics, they will be just fine. Oh, they also had a small coaster called the "Cat and Mouse" that my friends and loved riding, they need to bring that back too, not the one mentioned in this video, a totally different one. The Big Wheel ferris wheel is also an original ride, if I recall, that marked the end of the park in that direction, and of course the arena in the other direction, the little park area, the little shops on the way in and out. The gaming area came later and the park expanded from there when sold. That is Great Adventure's humble beginnings. They need to go back to being allowed to BBQ, loved the food at the Best of the West, corn on the cob, pork n beans, choice of BBQ ribs, chicken, pulled pork and chicken, I can't remember some of the other stuff on the menu, but yummy! The best burger in the park was the across the arena next to the giant Teepee, a lesser known burger place in the park, so they ended up cooking to order, always a juicy burger there. Don't know if either of them are still there, if not, huge loss and shame on them. So, who is going to build a dome around the park and parking lot and heat it in the winter? The upside is employee's would be able to work full-time all year long. Xoxo
This has been the park we've gone to since I was a kid myself. Now I'm taking my own kid. And I can confirm that it seemed they were trying to get on track to be a big time go-to park. But as I like to say, they put in too many big things with big problems. So not only did the ride cost a lot, but cost a lot in repairs, such as chiller, superman, etc. They're also so poorly understaffed, that they can hardly keep up with crowds. Though some lines have been long the two times I went this year (going again tomorrow actually, blood test for the kiddo warranted another use of our season pass as a reward) it hasn't been THAT crowded. But the lines can really back up because there's usually only one or two employees per ride. The theming has indeed been neglected, though I will say I'm impressed with the justice league ride, I haven't been here for a while so that was a nice surprise to see this summer. Food is also very hard to order mobile wise. It just wouldn't work for me and the food line was waaaay too long. This was mainly an issue at the water park. My MAIN issue with the park now, is SAFETY! There is a whole other kind of person coming to the park and not just that, but in the surrounding areas. Basically, be mindful of leaving things visible in your car or other ways people rob you. My car was LOCKED and I came out to a slightly propped door with signs that someone tried to break in my car. Silly me though, I brought my small town habits of leaving the phones in the cupholders and a brand name purse visible, plus God knows what else they know is valuable and I guess it tempted them. Wawa did not care either. Happened at the one right outside the park, looks nice and new I thought, but be wary. There's low lives in the area. Sad. My brother used to take me here the week before school started, sometimes the DAY before school and I just loved it. We'd ride so much that I felt wobbly on the car ride home because my body still felt like it was on a roller coaster because I was in motion like I was all day I suppose. Ahh. Good times. Nice video. Novel over.
They should have never took down the Scream Machine and Rolling Thunder. I love El Toro though. Too bad it’s not located near Atlantic City. That would help solve the hotel issue.
Makes me happy to hear great adventure is one of your top fav parks. I loved going every year growing up. It was an hour and a half drive so it was a fun daycation Everytime. Nitro all day! My buddy threw up when we pulled into the station and we got everyone cheering his name 😄 he was so embarrassed
Right this park is close to me and just in general a fun park! AND YES NITRO ALL DAY EVERTYDAY!
@@lloveyy6904 that first drop with that huuuge turn over the landscape. I could sit up there all day !
I agree with everything except I think jersey devil fits just fine! The only way it kinda sticks out is it still looker newer unlike the rest of the park lol I still wanna go one day but I’m there for the coaster not some as you said “cheap gimmicky flat ride” that honestly doesnt even look that fun lol
Accurate review, thanks. Here now and it seems even worse than what it was last year. At least a dozen rides not operating. I'd take Cedar Point over this place any day.
Yeah there’s always at least one major ride closed for an extended period of time
This video was great! I don’t know sometimes it feels like when u live In a place where there isn’t a amusement park u would take something like this any day of the week if it was near u. I would love to go too this park for sure!
Thank you and I agree!
The food places are absolute TRASH. They look dingy and dirty its gross
wonder what the krusty krab would look like if they didn't have a cheap ass crab running it
I dunno, maybe I'm spoiled because Cedar Point has been my go to park for the last 40 years; but, this place seems dirty. Like poor upkeep, county fair dirty. Perhaps that's just a fluke, but who knows
When I went the experience was absolutely horrible I think they should remember to 6 Poles because the laziness that the employees have is horrible that they couldn't even put up the flags themselves the ride ops being horrendous
Even some of the oldest things in this park are great. It is rich and complex. The skyline from the middle of the skyride is just jaw-dropping. I like what Six Flags has been doing because it makes sure to survive. It must be protected. Sure I'd like more top coasters. SF will eventually have to replace some of their major attractions to keep it going, but for now they utilize their past excesses, which are incredible.
My biggest problem with Great Adventure is the crowds, since I can get many great rides closer by with much less standing and no fastpass. But they do have some of the best and I have managed some great days there.
They’ve definitely done a lot of great things I’ll say that!
jersey devil was closed when i went yesterday, so was super man and el toro. i knew about el toro but i was kinda sad that superman and jersey devil were closed
six flags great adventure is so so overhated speically by enthusiasts every park this year has had fights line jumping and ride issues parks arent gonna build major thrill rides every year simply not how business works SF is the most overhated company and parks ever some CF parks are way way worse you dont just make parks deastion parks they need to make profit SFNJ simply doesnt everyone goes to hershey
Yes your right. It's kind of a shame to be honest, but I doubt they'll be improving. I just care about the world-class collection of rides.
Yeah I get that for sure
Adding to this I just find it annoying how SFGA can never get aunique ride like before now all they got was clones and now we get a unique ride and it just gets cloned and put in the west cost. With SFMM and SFGA as a top 2 six flags park SFGA ends up getting the sad end of the stick. And you can't even say it's because SF MM is more popular cause they bring in almost the same Attendance.
And the theory of JDC probably being clone
of wonder women would make sense but it's
just another example of SFGA getting clones and
them getting the shorter end of the stick. King da
ka, el toro and nitro are the only original coaster
they have that don't have clones of the same ride
somewhere else. They only good things that’s happening here is them finally getting there mini “resort” next the park with two hotels and more places to eat, which I don’t think any other sf park has.
I hope with the new CEO they continue to improve the park and start making it better than it is. With the attendance it brings in they could really make it a destination park for many.
I agree. I would like to see something original here as well.
Great Adventure NEEDS TO RESURRECT Rolling Thunder as an already RMC'd coaster
Six flags Great Adventure is getting a hotel right next door
Bare minimum is a good way to describe great adventure lol
-"There are no nearby hotels"-
Me- no way that's true...looks it up on Google maps... yea, wow nothing close at all!
I’m happy to say this is my Homepark and it’s only a 40 minute drive for me!
Same
In Maryland
It’s 3 hours for me
It seemed like many theme parks built in the 1970s had plans for more than just a theme park, I guess to rival Disney World and its many other features than the main parks.
When i went in july, nitro was down and the sky tran got stuck.. great adventure definitely needs some tlc
Great Adventure is a highly overrated park. Horrible layout, bad ride ops and their holy grail, El Toro is ruined by horrible lap bars that tend to close in tighter when you pop up on the air time hills. It’s not in the Top 25 for me out of the over 540 coasters I’ve ridden. Kingda Ka’s restraints ruin the experience, unlike TTD. Nitro is a great B&M Hyper, haven’t ridden JD yet.
Six Flags just kind of stopped trying to improve the park after their bankruptcy in the late 2000s. Their additions from 2008-2019 were mostly filler, and other stuff like operations (outside of Nitro) remained mediocre.
Very true
The best thing that could happen to Great Adventure would be for Six Flags to sell it off to a company that actually cares about theme parks.
Fear not, the park is going to be getting tlc and park improvements with the new ceo. He is not cheaping out like the old ceo.
The food is garbage lol, the best food in the park is from those food trucks they let in. Twisted Steaks slaps
Yeah I actual went there… Really good!
Chop six and jersey devil bbq are pretty good
Great points! I agree with most of what you had to say! Great perspectives
Thank you!
Well, the fact that they had a few deaths over the years from roller coasters doesn't help
And the Haunted Castle fire
I really wish Great adventure would get bought by cedar fair i feel like they would use its full potential
Just got home from power hours, gg 💨
Hey just be lucky your home park isn't the one in MA. Absolutely awful.
Great Adventure is my home park. What they need to do is have more rides in the Wild West section of the park. That area always seems bare. The only ride I go on in that area is Runaway Mine Train. If not for that ride, I wouldn’t even bother visiting that section.
That area used to be the true “theme park” section, with a giant teepee, Conestoga wagon, along with the fort and the Great Arena. It felt complete at the time. Now with the addition of Medusa and Bugs Bunny National Park, it seems more empty with the other removals.
I stopped going to Six Flags Great Adventure back in July 2021 because of the fact that I do not like when everything is too expensive and the claw machines in the arcades being rigged like crazy (which means they were probably doing that on purpose to make up for the money they lost during the temporary COVID-19 Pandemic lockdowns). I will not be going back there anymore and I probably never will again.
Great video. Spot on
I love that park but more theming & better food would help. I still go to it multiple times a year because it’s the closest park to me
If i could i would open a hotel near this park and then they don't have to waste the money on it and spend that money on the TLC needed. (FYI I haven't been to this park so I'm just going off what you said in the video.)
Definitely! I agree with that!
video idea: the sad truth about kings dominion
in my option the park got bad when they stopped enforcing rules and kids come to the park and run amuck causing chaos ......the drug use in this park is rampant and causes families to spend there money in better places !!!
Yeah they need to crack down on that
This is my favorite place and my favorite ride is Wonder Woman
Grew up and ended up working at Great Adventure, it definitely was close to reaching something great in 2016-2017 but everything fell short and fundings got cut. They lost 75% of entertainment affecting it now in 2023 and I personally feel like that was one of the biggest budget cuts to be made back then.
I used to work there when I was a teenager. I hated it so much, at the time I was making 6.50 an hour, without over time. (even though I worked overtime). I thought it was so cool to work there when I started, but after three years of working there on season (May 30-October 31). When the old guy and the red bus was the theme song. I started to really hate it. The ride training they give you is so criminal; I would tell customers "Good luck." Because half the time the rides would break down. leaving people hanging upside down in the hot sun for hours. I used to test Nitro before the ride opened for the day. I also operated Roaring Rapids and would see drunk people take off their seatbelts and jump into the water, causing the ride to be shut down and flood unto the dock where people waiting to get on the ride and not to reopen for 4 hours. Batman and Robin caught fire four times as the breaks melted to the tracks. After I worked there, I would not recommend anyone to this place , even for a cheap thrill. that all for now. if you have concerns, please reach out.
Do a video like this about kennywood
In the 1980s, I played saxophone in a mini-parade with my school's band in the Illinois 6-Flags...It was "6 Flags Great AMERICA!" What is this "Great Adventure" nonsense?!
I visited the park in June 2021 (first time in a long time) and I absolutely agree with the comments expressed in the video.
Like Six Flags over Georgia, Great Adventure has so much potential. The advertising on rides and coasters is too much. You would never see that at a Cedar Fair park.
I also agree that theming is minimal and there are a lot of employees going through the motions.
As I commented in a video about Six Flags over Georgia in this channel, maybe it’s time to give Six Flags Great Adventure some Cedar Fair love.
Think about it - Cedar Fair having two of the fastest and tallest coasters!
Yes, Dorney Park isn’t that far away, but look at Cedar Point and King’s Island. Those two siblings are doing just fine.
SFNJ is way overhated and CF parks are overrated speically cedar point has had more maintence issues this year then any SF park
My mom actually use to work at six flags
This is my home park, and agree with everything. I wished it was sold to Cedar Fair.
Cedar fair is the king of theme parks.
@@mr.intamin1081 True they are. Look at Carowinds, has the best coaster plus it's not their best park attendance wise. Not their bread and butter. SFGA is sf bread and butter, NY metro provides massive funds.
@@mr.intamin1081 nice joke, lol cedar fair is just as bad as six flags
I think it’s all six flags cause even great America has become crap and is so ran down everywhere. A lot of rides are usually not running and like 50% of the smaller games and extras are never open
Thank you for making this video. This is my home park and this year I wanted to bring my son. But honestly, with the mishaps and traffic, i feel like it's not even worth going. Especially if eltoro is down. 😔
No problem! I agree!
The problems I have the with the park is that there a lot of just flat abandoned areas like you can tell where old flat rides used to be .The place is run down I was waiting in line for nitro the metal pipes used for the queue line where falling down due to cracked concrete . a plastic bag by the lift hill of Batman (B&M) .Example of areas where flat old flat rides can be seen where Chaos used to be fill it in with something new .
This is the general problem with Six Flags, isn't it? Some of their parks are still up there with Cedar Fair with the best collections of thrill rides in the US, possibly in the world. But they don't make much effort to go beyond that with the parks themselves. Little family-owned parks are often better places to visit.
I live 20 minutes from this park. I haven't been since 2016. It's not the place I remember from the 80s too many scumbags, gang members it's not family friendly I have several friends that are Jackson police officers and they tell me all the time just how much scum get arrested there every day. Not good
The log flume ride was closed when I went. A kid I was with got the whole story on the water squirters. They were working but kept breaking, people wasted their money for tokens. But the squirters barely worked, they then closed it. He asked me why the ride closed, I told him because it went off track and stopped right in front of us. I saw it on the news something went wrong. He was very excited about the trip but I told him to keep in mind an accident can happen when on a ride. He said it was good that he stuck to the smaller rides. He would not be in the air or worse on the bigger rides. It is in the news look up NJ six flags log flume accident.
A few rides were closed down, and the Harley ride I feel has more down time because of many people using it. The ride is going to go bust quicker, it is new. But, more experienced people need to be hired as ride operators. The young people just run the rides into the ground. Two rides were smoking because they kept sending people. The place could be better if it was not temporary young people.
At least it's getting a Hotel soon
Six flags just came out and said that they would renew some outdated restaurants, and just other park improvements. Also Medusa is coming back let’s go!
I feel like Six flags is changing but will take time. I went to the park in 2018 and was great but I feel . Like it has more potential. Six flags needs to stop using dc named go something original or non dc
Why is the dc theming a problem?
@@lamaripiazza5226 it’s fine but it’s way over used.
@@lamaripiazza5226 I feel like I'm the only one who cares about riding a coaster because of its superhero name...
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 Obviously your not alone
Six Flags is too busy massaging Magic Mountain's cajones to give a damn about any of their other parks.
this is my home park and seeing fiesta texas get a B&M made me extremely upset.
You should make a video about Kings Dominion
Completely agree. I grew up going to this park and loved it. But after every recent visit it does seem sadder and sadder to be there, with the neglect and cutting corners that you mentioned. One thing I will disagree with you is that the food is trash at six flags. lol.
Yeah, the six flags New Jersey complex needs a hotel! This place is worth 2 days. If u want beach shore, drive 45 minutes East on I-195. This shore is cool to swim at but u have to worry about sharks. This thrill does not exist at cedar point beach.
You should make a video on the canceled Kennywood resort.
Can you send me more info? I’d love to hear it!
@@amusementscape I'll try finding some sources to send you on Instagram. Basically, they bought a bunch of land behind the hill by Racer. They were going to build a hotel, indoor waterpark, and they were going to expand the park and that would've included a new "signature attraction". The project was delayed a bunch by Kennywood Entertainment Company, but Palace cancelled the project when they bought the park.
@@pittsburghthrills1281 very interesting. I would definitely do a video on this or including this
That’s why we have carowinds lol.
When I went at a tea cup ride at six flags with my cousins I saw a dropped six flags I thought it was chrushed but no maybe
Do Kings Dominion next 🙂
I wonder if they'll ever replace the Big Wheel with a newer one.... The current one is kinda getting old
Sell some of the little parks to independent parks then invest in the big parks
Now the golden kingdom is just a path and the old kids area is gone just a few animals and bamboo
Yup
went in 2019
EVERYTHING seemed like it needed a new coat of paint
Another park that I am unsure if you have visited here.. is Dreamworld Australia… it’s amazing themeing mostly in the front… then it’s just trees. And they only have 1 coaster and one still being built.. It was very popular around 2014 and it was booming.. unfortunately they had 4 deaths on one of their water rides… and it’s really really gone down..
heres a solution.. raise the prices....dont give group discounts
This video has me very very inspired and thought provoked..
intro music?
SFGA is the world's second-largest amusement park?
One day the park will close down due to bankruptcy.
No
So a 450 foot launch coaster that nearly does 130 mph with a 400 foot drop tower attached, 4 B&Ms the world’s greatest wooden coaster a recently opened biggest single coaster isn’t good enough? This park looks like it stomps ANY cedar fair park except maybe Cedar Point.
Like I said, the rides aren’t the problem at all. It’s the way the park is operated
You should take a look at Six Flags Great Escape. A theme park Six Flags has all but abandoned. Most people don't know this, but Great Escape is one of the parks that Walt Disney visited when he was planning Disneyland. Now? The food sucks (most of it either pizza that tastes like cardboard, or salads that look like they were pulled from the garbage), the park rarely smells like anything BUT vomit, the staff are under trained and actually kind of rude, and on top of that, the rides are aging and their safety is questionable. Remember the accident where the 14 year old girl fell a Gondola ride at an Amusement Park? Ya, that was Great Escape. And NOTHING has changed. At this point, the park is more famous for being dirty and basically abandoned then anything else. I mean if you stand under the portion of the toboggan ride that crosses over the pathway and watch as a train passes overhead, you will literally see the ENTIRE TRACK shake and shift a good 4-6 inches (not to mention the fact that ALL of the struts are covered in rust). Which is truly NOT ok. It's like they're asking for an accident.
Definitely one on my list for sure 👍
Same thing could be said for Magic Mountain and Great America, there is no good reason for the three biggest markets in the USA to have such crappy ran parks.
Definitely!
RMC has Shut JDC down as well as Stunt Pilot Due to one of Stunt Pilot's wheels falling off
It’s back open at least
@@amusementscape it’s still closed I don’t see it open for at least another week