5/14/04 Gold Pass Night

[ZosoBeast]

12 rides in 3 and 1/2 hours is pretty good I think! Park wasnt that bad at all crowd wise. Longest wait, FoF.

Walked inside and headed left. Hit SOB first thing, then TG, F/O, Recar, FoF, Vortex, SBSP, Beast (3 times all night rides) Delirium and SOB to end the night with the fireworks blasting in the background.

I do believe the part of The Racer got a paint job over this past week. And the painted claws leading to The Beast that start near the Larosas are back. Who can actually remember standing in line at that point to ride The Beast? I can!

The Beast broke down while waiting for the first ride. The train had loaded but they had them all get out. I seen this one dude go into the control room and look up at the monitor and his jaw dropped. Everybody in line was like "whats THAT supposed to mean?" I am shocked that one person had the nerve to say "If you dont tell me what happened, then I am not going to ride!" I would have said "you can exit the same way you came in!" She was getting kinda loud! She just needed to chill! Anwyay, from what I can hear, seems it got stuck on the second lift hill.

Something else I found odd was that a ride op was reading a book after she got done checking restraints on FoF. She would check and then walk over near the control desk and then raise her thumb and start reading some more with her thumb still in the air. When the train took off, she would lower thumb never once taking her eyes off the book. Just seemed a little strange to me.

[Browntggrr]

She would check and then walk over near the control desk and then raise her thumb and start reading some more with her thumb still in the air. When the train took off, she would lower thumb never once taking her eyes off the book. Just seemed a little strange to me.

This is a issue that I would hope PKI would deal with swiftly.

On another note, after what happened at SFNE a few weeks ago you think ride ops would want to pay very close attention to the riders.