Day 3:
I Stared off the day by heading over to Superman: Tower of Power (ironically abbreviated to STOP) to go visit/harass Tristen as he had to work today. After riding twice, I headed over to Titan for a morning ride. As I got to the platform, Titan broke down, so many people left. I took this opportunity to get to the front of the line, as I knew the delay wouldn't be long (simple seat belt issue) and I was right! After just 5 minutes, the ride was back up, so I got on and had my ride. Still fun. Still amazing. As I got off Titan, I headed over to Giant. Unfortunately, Giant was closed due to technical difficulties, but I did get to see a maintenance worker using the transfer track to move a train off the course, so that was pretty cool (also got some pics of it). Since Giant was closed, and I was in the area, I decided to head over to Runaway Mountain to snap some pics of the scenery and go for a quick, albeit fun, ride. Once I got off, I headed over to Gotham to snap some pics of Freeze before riding. Once I got off, I headed over to batman, but the line was ridiculously long, so instead I walked up the exit ramp to shoot a ton of photos of the ride (today was a MAJOR picture day). Once I finished my photo-shoot, I headed over to Dry Hole Charlie's for some chicken strips and a beer. After lunch, I headed back to Superman in an attempt to harass Tristen, but it backfired when I got assigned to a different tower and a mutual friend decided it was prudent to harass me instead by slamming the lapbar down on my crotch (OW, but well played, Kirby). After I took a few minutes to recover, I headed over to Shockwave for Media Day (details and a review of Shockwave with VR can be found
HERE). After Shockwave, I decided to have another beer before heading over to Giant. The wait was about 1.5 hours, so I initially say F@#K that and instead headed over to La Vibora (bobsled). I rode twice (don't get why people hate on it, it's fun AF). After La Vibora, I headed back to Giant to check the line. The line was just about as long as it was before, but there was a group of girls that were hot AF right ahead of me so I decided to wait it out (ended up chatting them up and getting flirted with for the entire wait, even got a #, so it wasn't that bad actually). Once I got on (ended up riding with those same girls) the attendant actually forgot to check my restraint, which I had purposefully left about two inches above my waist. As such, as soon as I hit the lift hill, I loosened my seat belt as well to REALLY experience some airtime. HOLY CRAP. I was basically flying for a good half of the layout (literally flying, I wasn't in contact with my seat at ALL) and I couldn't have been happier about it. Honestly, it was the best ride I'd had on Giant to date. After Giant, I learned that Titan was closed for the rest of the day, so I headed back to La Vibora for another ride. As I reached the very front of the single riders line, the ride temporarily shut down due to someone losing their hat on the ride (it was actually on the track and caused a train to get stuck). After about 5 minutes, the ride opened back up and I managed to get on the second train out of the station. Funnily enough, they never actually cleared the hat from the track (Six Flags, amirite?). As such, while riding, we passed the hat (luckily we had such a heavy train we were actually banking so hard we'd hit the sides and avoided the hat altogether). Once we passed the hat, which was before the first MCBR, I motioned to the staff running the ride that the hat was still there (the station is visible from the first MCBR and vice-versa). Apparently, they got the message, because as soon as we hit the brakerun, the ride op e-stopped the ride. UNFORTUNATELY, I was at a point where I couldn't unload (according to park rules at least....I WAS in the station though), so I had to watch the entire ordeal of resetting the ride from a position in the station that I could have easily gotten out of had I been allowed. Eventually, they got the ride working again and I got off. After the ordeal at La Vibora, I needed another beer.........
....So I went and got one (Don't drink kids, it's addicting). After my beer, I headed back Over to Superman to say hi to Tristen and Kirby as well as to take a ride (managed to avoid a harness with a nutter, so bullet dodged there, as I got Kirby as my OP YET AGAIN). After finishing my ride and chatting up the multiple ride ops on the tower I was assigned, I headed over to Runaway Minetrain to get a nighttime ride in. Unfortunately it was temporarily closed due to technical difficulties, so I went on ahead and queued up for Batman. After riding Batman, I headed back over to Minetrain to see if it was back up and running and it was! So I ended up riding it in the dark (pretty fun, unfortunately all the lights in the park make the track mostly visible....the tunnels were legit tho). After Minetrain, I headed back over to Superman for two more rides to finish off the night and chat up some employees. I eventually left about half an hour early to write up the review of Shockwave W/VR, as it was an extra writeup, and I need some rest because: I'll be going back YET AGAIN tomorrow. Can't wait!