by Richard
Let me first start off by saying there is one real good reason to love Six Flags Over Georgia. Namely, their games actually pay off. I won a Tasmanian Devil stuffed animal, a stuffed toucan and — more importantly — Zippy the Monkey Boy won an actual, real electric guitar paitned like the Batman logo.
And it didn’t take the normal three thousand, four hundred and seventeen dollars it usually takes to win anything substantial at those carnival games. He won it on his second try. It cost a grand total of $5. Okay, sure, it probably would have been made for a total of 23 cents, but he’s still almost deliriously happy. Amazingly, the love for this guitar seemed to take all the rest of the need for high-speed stimulation out of him.
Seeing as how Zippy the Monkey Boy is on spring break, we came down to Atlanta to spend a couple of days, just him and me, having some fun and doing stuff without any other little dudes.
We got to the thrill park just as it opened on a cold, drizzly Saturday. Of course, we loved it. The weather meant there wouldn’t be that many people there so we could skip a lot of lines. And we did.
The first thing we did was to hit the Goliath, a huge roller coaster that has at least a 100-foot drop on it’s first part. The coaster didn’t have any loops, but it had plenty of ups and downs and barrel rolls. After that first horrendous drop and blindingly fast rise to the next crest, all I could think of was, “How is this thing going to stay on rails?” Which is sad, really, since when I was younger my thought would have been, as I’m sure was Zippy the Monkey Boy’s, “Yaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”
It stayed on track and so did we. We hit the Goliath a couple of times, then ran to the Georgia Scorcher, a stand-up coaster, that had a couple of loops and a longer line. We also did the Mindbender and Batman: The Ride. The Batman coaster was great because it was one of those rides where you sit down and your legs dangle off into nothingness, so when you’re riding it lo0ks like there’s nothing between you and a very, very long fall.
And, of course, we hit the carnival midway games. We popped balloons and climbed rope ladders. At which I was totally gyped. I mean, the rules said nothing about climbing the rope ladder when you were upside down. I still think I should have won. Whatever. I mean, I’m not sure I really could have talked my wife, known to me as She Who Likes Her Stuffed Animals To Be A Reasonable Size, into housing a 10-foot bear, no matter how cute.
Overall, the place was clean and filled with friendly (seeming at least) employees. It was filled with places to eat and even had a pretty good variety available, Mexican, Papa John’s pizza, a Panda Express. I would definitely recommend you heading to it if you’re ever anywhere in the neighborhood.
I give this four (4) dudes out of five. A nice park.
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