Second weekend of the 2026 season, still some challenging operations. Hope this helps for those visiting this season. I have the Six Flags All Parks Gold Pass, purchased from Cedar Point during last year's Labor Day sale. Considering their recent acquisition, there are bound to be a lot of bumps on top of normal early-season woes, but it took 8 hours to ride 5 roller coasters.
At the parking booths, there are two phones to scan barcodes - one for Enchanted Parks, the other for Six Flags. The attendant had to get the Six Flags phone from their neighboring attendant to provide entry for parking.
After chaperone check, security line has two lanes - the right is for those without bags, the left is for those with bags.
At the park entry gates, the phone scanner didn't work but the handheld scanner did.
Entered slightly after park opening, lined up for Spinning Dragons. Three trains on the track, but only two were in use, and they loaded one at a time at a glacial pace. After waiting about 20 minutes it went down for maintenance and half the line left. Then waited another 20 minutes before finally riding.
Got in line for Patriot, waited an hour of single train operations before learning it was down for maintenance, 95% of the line left as the ride operators exited the attraction. Instead of "we don't know how long the delay will be," it was stated it would be a "lengthy delay." Checking the platform, the mechanics were making adjustments to the track in the station and an empty train was stuck halfway up the lift hill. The ride operators said those in line should try other fun rides that were open. Later in the day, it was still down, but it looks like they were able to clear the train from the lift hill. It finally reopened 5.5 hours later.
Got in line for Zambezi Zinger. After waiting for 10 minutes, the entire line emptied out after again notifying the line of a "lengthy" delay. Frustrated with my luck so far, I stuck it out, especially seeing the team of mechanics already on site cycling trains. Waited about another 30-45 minutes for the ride to reopen.
Then in line for Prowler. Two trains on the track, but they were only loading one. It took about an hour to get through this line. It felt like a miracle to get through a line without any maintenance issues.
Then in line for Mamba, also single train operations. A ride attendant said the other train "hasn't been cleared by maintenance." I identified someone getting in line for Fast Lane and it took them about 40 minutes to enter the platform. For me non-Fast Lane, it took about two hours to get to the platform. The line had a bunch of line jumping happening but the line attendants were more concerned with people sitting on the handrails in the queue.
Patriot was okay after reopening, but the assignment of groups of four seemed too much for the platform attendant, as he held up the entire line until an exact group of four was gathered for each row. Luckily for him, there was only one train running, so he had just enough time to assign rows.
Timber Wolf had a sign posted that read: "Reopening this summer with a smoother, more exciting ride!"