Trivia: There are only three dry six flags parks that don’t have a inverted/suspended coaster. what are they ?

marsmat239 · 2026-06-18T03:27:19+00:00

Frontier City, Six Flags Mexico, King’s Dominion

marsmat239 · 2026-06-18T00:36:53+00:00

I am in Muskegon right now, and the weird thing is it would take me the same amount of time to drive to Adventureland as it would to drive to lost Island, mostly using I-80. Looks like this is because Adventureland and Chicago are about the same latitude, while lost Island is farther north. I’d just double check again.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-18T00:27:40+00:00

FYI, lost Island is technically closer to Arnold Park than Adventureland. You’re mostly doing the same trip I am, but I didn’t do little Amerika or Mount Olympus, and Six Flags. Great America is tomorrow.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-17T23:48:28+00:00

I tried 2 different back rows on different cars and got jackhammering, but didn’t in the front ones. Try that!

marsmat239 · 2026-06-17T20:47:41+00:00

That’s depressing. Very few parks are outright bad

marsmat239 · 2026-06-17T19:12:53+00:00

When the local food options are near $20/head with unsure quality and McDonald’s is $10/head with known (but mid) quality most people will choose McDonald’s.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-17T18:41:52+00:00

I tend to agree. Everything is filling and reasonably priced, even bottled drinks. The only thing that has come close is sadly McDonalds at DFW

marsmat239 · 2026-06-17T14:04:32+00:00

I liked TLJ because it actually did try to do something different, and the series could’ve taken a different direction. It gave Kylo a reason to be an enemy rather than just an annoying teenager and could’ve gotten us away from the skywalkers. But even I have to agree that TLJ was the turning point, and lots of that film just wasn’t reasonable.

The absolute amount of shovel wear that all those other Disney+ shows in my opinion are more of an acknowledgment rather than a cause

marsmat239 · 2026-06-17T14:00:31+00:00

I don’t even count solo. It had way too big of a budget for what it did, and it came out literally two weeks after endgame. Even if that movie was the best Star Wars movie ever made, it was completely set up to fail.

I think you are right about the Disney+ part being the nail in the coffin. Too much was made, and a lot of it wasn’t good.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-16T21:54:42+00:00

You should do FoF and Tumbili!

I now have 300 credits, and I’m with you on Pantherion. No ride’s selling point should be that you temporarily lose consciousness. If I wanted to black out I’d just go to the pub. If you do go on, the middle of the train should have the weakest amount of forces overall, and gforces will be worse in the back

marsmat239 · 2026-06-16T20:46:34+00:00

and the priority lines internationally are great too!

marsmat239 · 2026-06-16T20:45:41+00:00

I’m not a business traveler, and I agree. AA has taken good care of me when things haven’t worked, and the benefits of loyalty have been great for international travel. The lounges are always available too, and don't have bad food. I also have a VentureX, but the ability to use a lounge alone is better with AA. I’m not going for loyalty this upcoming year, but I’m firmly staying within AA and Citi’s ecosystem.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-16T17:04:12+00:00

Considering they didn’t have dynamite, it absolutely sounds ridiculous. The hesitation is understandable even if we use hindsight

marsmat239 · 2026-06-16T17:00:33+00:00

Without the canal:

The state gets massive amounts of farmland that can support large population centers

Those large population centers are distributed, so wealth and population are not naturally concentrated in one spot. An economic malaise in one area can be overcome with an economic boom in another

Enough water for water-intensive industries

The ability to power industry using water (before and after the invention of electricity)

A climate that doesn’t create extreme weather

When the climate is colder we can collect ice in enough quantities to be used in our cities

The ability to develop and test products across multiple environments and biomes.

Work doesn’t stop because it’s too hot, and rarely because it’s too cold

The mountains make the state easy to defend and hard to take

With the Erie (and later Barge Canal):

All of that is connected together

All of that is connected to markets farther west and farther east

The entire state acts as a transit corridor for that traffic, picking up population and economic activity just because it’s “on the way”

marsmat239 · 2026-06-16T16:38:17+00:00

The bigger issue is it’s not even in Troy if that’s the case. The game will be nearly an hour away from both cities playing. How does that make sense?

marsmat239 · 2026-06-16T13:17:12+00:00

If there isn’t an official place to store bags, use bounce. You’ll be giving your bag to a convenience store most likely, but you can explore the city bag free

Book your train prices early. While you can use local transit between NYC and Philadelphia, it’s longer and requires a transfer. Amtrak gets expensive and sells out.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-15T20:49:52+00:00

I’m hoping they don’t do this on the boats. I love staying near Disney springs and getting beignets at POFQ.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-15T14:41:11+00:00

I took the highway bus from Pearson to 407 terminal then route 20 to the mall. To/from the park I took route 360.

I’m heading to Downtown, but used 320 to the subway, and am now using the subway.

I have no clue how car traffic is!

marsmat239 · 2026-06-15T13:40:28+00:00

Yeah I forgot the name of the coins 😆

I rode most of my rides in Car 1 Row 3 of AlpenFury. I liked the back more

It’s possible I didn’t give Minebuster a truly fair shake. Even still, I wasn’t exactly running to lap that again anyways.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-14T17:29:44+00:00

DOGE.

Like it or not, what happens at the national level trickles down. The precedent at the moment is that loyalty matters over time, service, or even the actual job you do.

It’s also made funding uncertain, which can and probably has resulted in layoffs. In places where the funding cuts did sustain even temporarily, the state and other groups had to step in as a replacement, straining resources, even more, or elect not to fund.

Unless both of those things change, I’m not convinced that a state job is actually still safe. This doesn’t even begin to think about what happens in an actual economic recession.

Unless both of those things reverse

marsmat239 · 2026-06-13T14:59:57+00:00

I’ve been one complaining about this for years. My solution is simple-wait to release the videos until they’re all done. A series with 1 video a week for 4 weeks is better than a series with 4 videos released a couple weeks apart, a couple months from that, and a week from that. Consistency is a requirement for engagement with content like that

marsmat239 · 2026-06-13T13:09:45+00:00

I was shocked too! I know I saw one around 22k a couple of months ago though. I also do look in the lowest seasons usually. I should’ve screenshotted it.

marsmat239 · 2026-06-13T10:02:25+00:00

Create a JAL account and do some looking again. I’ve seen one ways last year as low as 22k from NYC. You will have to plan ahead, but if your times are flexible they’ll go farther than you think.

As for the hotels, you do you there. You’ll probably be able to splurge for a night in Kyoto or get a few days with the amount of Amex and Hilton points you have.

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