A Great Adventure Ft. Boosted El Toro 8/14

Got down to Great Adventure again on Monday. Crowds were light so I rode my absolute face off. Met up with @skiburkesurfjay (Adam) about half way through the day so that was pretty cool.

El Toro (x21)- See I told you I rode my face off. Y'all already know it's one of the best coasters ever right? Well thanks to Adam, he convinced one of the attendants to give us a ride with the boost feature that El Toro's lift has. I can't even describe how nuts it is with the boost, the drop goes from already insane to completely absurd. Every single element felt a little more powerful and it completely tore thru the twister section at the end. I haven't been on much but it's the best damn coaster on the planet and I don't see anything knocking out if my #1 spot anytime soon.

Kingda Ka (x2)- This ride has its haters but I love this thing. Front is the only way to go on this ride, it solves the roughness problem and I really don't mind the OTSRs at all, so keep on hating haters, this thing is lit. The 128 mph wind trying to rip your face off and staring at the pavement from 456 feet up is just something that will never get old.

Nitro (x5)- Like with Ka, this ride has its haters too but it's another one I love. The floater air is so fun and the helix has crushing positive G's in the back seat. It's just one of those rides were you throw your hands up and let the machine do it's glorious work. Still one of B&M's best hypers! Also gives one of the best night rides out there, it's not Beast or Boulder Dash but it doesn't get much better than Nitro at night.

Batman (x1)- I hadn't ridden this since 2015 when it was backwards. How a 24 year old B&M this compact and snappy and this intense has stayed glass smooth is amazing to me. I know it's a clone but this ride is awesome and is underrated as hell.

Bizarro (x1)- Nothing to report here. Ops sucked just a little less than the last time I was at the park a month ago. Stacked all 3 trains for like 2 minutes instead of 5 this time. Kudos to the Bizarro crew I guess lol.

Skull Mountain (x1)- Sick airtime on the drop, heavy metal music, whole lot of awesome. This ride is one of those so bad it's good rides.

Superman (x1)- Waited until the end of the night to ride this. Had no wait for the back row, same old Superman kinda lame but the pretzel loop is so awesome it's worth the ride.

Zumanjaro (x2)- The ascent still gets me. Too bad the drop is so forceless, the brakes are more forceful than the drop.

Joker (x1)- Got 3 flips on this surprisingly. Most I've gotten on SFNE's is 2 so +1 for Great Adventure there.

Justice League (x1)- What a cool ride, SFNE can we please get one of these!?!? It would be such an amazing addition to the park, especially now with Holiday in the park and the need for indoor rides.

Obviously because it's a Six Flags you had to deal with some normal Six Flags silliness. On Toro at one point they ran out of lockers and of course since you can't bring your phones on it, I had to go get a locker over at Bizarro than walk back over to El Toro.

Then sometimes there'd be a 5 minute line just to get into El Toro's queue line because they're checking people for phones before they go in. Then of course people have to argue with the security guard at the entrance over it. Which I guess I understand considering they ran out of lockers and they force you to get one.

Also, while in line for Nitro they stopped a train on the lift because a guy had his phone out. The employee climbed the lift took his phone and then got the Ride going again. I'm guessing they called security and got the guy kicked out, which I find absolutely hilarious they announced if you had your phone out on the ride you'd be banned. Oh well people are stupid but at least it entertains me.

Other than that it was another amazing trip to Great Adventure. Shout out to the El Toro crew they were absolutely plowing through trains. Big shoutout to the guy working on El Toro rolling trains with an air cast on his foot that's some dedication to your job lol.

I'm assuming by boost feature you mean no slow-down at the top, right? Unfortunately that is how it ran all the time for its first couple of years. It definitely makes the first drop crazier, although the rest of the ride is mostly the same.

Glad you had a great day!

^Some people claimed to get a small pop of air right at the top!

Yes, the boost is when it doesn't slow down. It's crazy.

I had a great day hanging out with you and getting on pretty much everything. I agree about Justice League. It blew me away. My only complaint is the blasters aren't very accurate. But other than that, it's one of my favorite dark rides.

Didn't get any airtime at the top but did get some laterals on the turn before the drop.

Yep, that's what I remember.

It's crazy, looking around I can't believe very few people have gotten the "boosted" ride experience. Then, I realize it's been 11 years since the ride opened. It's crazy how fast time flies. I remember my first Toro ride a week after it opened like it was just yesterday.