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My GHCA finally failed!
I have 2 AC adapters at home, and neither of them charge the car. I get stuck on “Waiting” and “initializing” and then eventually, “Error.” Last night I plugged in at 40% and it failed at 66%. I’ve had my polestar 3 in 3 times for service in the last year. Once was for speaker rattling on the driver door, and twice for scraping sounds from the front motor.

The manager at polestar lisle on the phone said “What? Thats amazing that it’s your first one!” On the GHCA failure.

I thought i was so lucky, and then mercury retrograde said “NOPE!”

I’ve been to the park twice in the last week. Once on 6-23 and again on 7-1.

I’m aware that there was some opening pains in June. Especially with one train ops, which I experienced the pain of last week. I’m glad that was solved this week. I don’t think raging bull will be up to 3 trains anytime soon. The red train restraints look horribly decayed. You can spot them if you are on the right seat as you wait to pull into the station.

But the efforts made for overall park health and restoration, especially for the 50th anniversary, are not unnoticed. Today, I rode The Demon for the first time in 13 years. I’ve been to great America several times since, but, I always avoided the classic ride because of the pain.

The demon today is smoother than I ever remember it being in my lifetime. The restored theming is beautiful and the ride experience is, dare I say, comfortable. It’s incredible! And it’s so much fun to go on after rakasha. The demon also smells like steel. The smell brought me back 20+ years to my childhood.

And the eagle! Wow. I remember this one getting to be so rickity and painful. It felt like for a long time that the ride was heading towards permanent decay and rot. But honestly, it too is running smooth as ever. And it has to if it wants to do two train operations.

And don’t think I didn’t notice the quality increase on the whizzer. The partial retrack is also very nice.