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Postby RagingBullFan on January 14th, 2006, 11:11 am
Just one year after the launch of the brand new Caribbean themed water park, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, Six Flags Great America has announced that it will be adding yet another thrilling and unique family water slide experience to its already astonishing collection of water attractions. This spring, the award-winning giant Tornado slide will take the Midwest's most popular water park by storm.

View the complete article at <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/sixflags/23528/" class="news">PRNewswire</a>.
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Postby ragingbullchick on January 14th, 2006, 12:02 pm
Yes! I can't wait to ride one of those!
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Postby RagingBullFan on January 14th, 2006, 12:07 pm
Having ridden one I can say they are quite fun, there are only 2 problems I have with them however:

1. Capacity - Don't expect the line to go anywhere fast, actual capacity is nowhere near the estimated.

2. Repairs - The lift system to bring the tubes back up always fails. The only way to fix it is to have someone climb up the belt and remove the jammed tube.
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Postby FRD714 on January 14th, 2006, 12:11 pm
I watched the video and it looks ok. Nothing real exciting.
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Postby RagingBullFan on January 14th, 2006, 12:13 pm
I think the best part isn't shown real well in the video, being the initial part where you are in the tube before you drop into the "Tornado" part, its pretty black and you don't know when you will drop out.
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Postby FRD714 on January 14th, 2006, 12:16 pm
Still I doubt I will go to HH this year. Theres no way I would last with Bull and Viper rising high above the waterpark.
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Postby zjohn1988 on January 14th, 2006, 12:40 pm
I saw the blueprints for it in October. I think it will be a one time thing for guests...
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Postby DejaVuGurl1203 on January 14th, 2006, 12:41 pm
Yeah, it doesn't look VERY exciting, but I'm still looking forward to trying it out. I'm one of those people who pretty much enjoys HH more than GAm.
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Postby ihauntu2 on January 14th, 2006, 1:05 pm
The tornado at SFSTL is awesome. Its a great ride, the only problem is capacity. This becomes a serious issue if they allow for two person rafts instead of grouping everyone into four person rafts.

I never heard anything about the raft lift breaking down because there isn't one at SFSTL. You get to lug that damn raft halfway throught the line and all the way up the stairs.
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Postby RagingBullFan on January 14th, 2006, 1:31 pm
The one where I was at was Geauga Lake, it was a nice feature so you don't have to lug it up.
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Postby DejaVuGurl1203 on January 14th, 2006, 1:33 pm
So if you have just 2 people in your group would they group you with 2 others?
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Postby Galvan on January 14th, 2006, 1:47 pm
^ At Michigan's Adventure they have 4 and 2 person rafts for Funnel of Fear. However you had to lug the thing up the stairwell which really sucks.
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Postby RagingBullFan on January 14th, 2006, 1:49 pm
When I was at Geauga they only had 4 person cloverleaf rafts and they would always make 3 or 4.
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Postby SIC COASTER on January 14th, 2006, 3:20 pm
Carrying the raft up the stairs makes it so the line looks really long and fills up to the bottom of the stairs creating a much shorter line for the slide, insteed of everyone just standing on the stairs without the tube and there being 3 times and many people jammed into the stairs so ours better make us carry them up. Also I have been on 2 of them and there not that great,
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Postby Danhockey04 on January 14th, 2006, 3:31 pm
I have ridden one, they are lots of fun, the only thing that I disliked was the water sitting in the middle stopping the raft going up the Tornado more.
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Postby FRD714 on January 14th, 2006, 3:49 pm
Well theres probably a reason for that. Maybe they dont want you going that high.
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Postby sfgam05 on January 14th, 2006, 5:05 pm
well i guess they finally announced it, end of speculations, at least the forums will be less spammed now. It looks ok, but like most have already said, it doesnt look too exciting. I'd still rather get on bull or giant drop.
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Postby LAFFfan4lyfe on January 14th, 2006, 7:14 pm
yeah, tornadoes are fun.. I rode the funnel of fear at MiA, which is the same thing, and though i was freaked out the first time, I was better afterwards. Cool cool.
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Postby twixmix0303 on January 14th, 2006, 10:46 pm
RagingBullFan wrote:The lift system to bring the tubes back up always fails. The only way to fix it is to have someone climb up the belt and remove the jammed tube.


I missed the morning half of Convention this morning, so I missed the Great America session (heard they had a great video :)) but what I've heard (but did not hear this myself) is that there will not be a lift system.
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Postby SFGAm Shock Wave on January 14th, 2006, 11:11 pm
There will be no lift. That has been known since May seeing as there was not a chute off to the side of the pool.
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Postby zjohn1988 on January 14th, 2006, 11:24 pm
They just showed the press release on ABC news a few seconds ago.
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Postby [jonrev] on January 15th, 2006, 12:45 am
Meh, it looks cool but I probably wont wait in line for it.
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Postby playerplex on January 15th, 2006, 12:56 am
They look boring to me. I was about to go on the one in St. Louis but decided the line wasn't worth it. But it bothers me none. The more people the go to that will leave some of the other lines less crowded.
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Postby LaTiNoObSeSeDSFGAm on January 15th, 2006, 2:01 am
I got a question why dont they just cut the funnel in half instead of making it a whole funnel if you barely go all the way
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Postby twixmix0303 on January 15th, 2006, 2:03 am
That's what I figured. World's tallest, fastest speed slide would be much better. :twisted: (BTW, the current record-holder is Summit Plummit at Blizzard Beach, it is 120 ft. high and 65 mph. This is a little taller than Batman.)
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