I was extremely surprised with how awesome SFOG is! I thoroughly enjoyed all of their rides, not a bad one at the park! No Boomerangs or SLCs here, just flat out awesome coasters. This park has hands down one of the best hyper coasters on the planet, probably my second favorite only to Six Flags New Englands. Also their drop tower Acrophobia is absolutely AMAZING! I have always though drop towers were boring up until you are tilted out at 45 degree angle 200 feet in the air with nothing around you, absolutely terrifying yet amazing view.
They also have an awesome Schwarzkopf looper with only lapbars, BTR, SUF, a Gerstlauer Eurofighter, an awesome old school out and back woodie, a classic Cyclone, a very smooth B&M standup with an action packed layout similar to Iron Wolf, even Ninja was enjoyable and had a ton of headchoppers and not rough at all in the back car.
The park was very clean, operations were good, employees were friendly, shrubbery and natural landscape phenominal, and everyone seemed to be having a great time. The only thing that sucked about the park was the advertisements which we have come to expect and the rediculous way they try to sell souvineer sports bottles at the resturaunts by having the employees announce it (though that was funny and made a good youtube clip).
Even though the park was scheduled to open at 10 it opened at 9:30. The gates opened at 9:30 and we all walked towards Dare Devil Dive expecting there to be ropes somewhere along the way, and we walked right onto the first train! After the disaster that was Busch Gardens Tampa the day before, it was nice to go to a park that had their act together.
|
||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Dare Devil Dive opening day May 28 at SFOG
16 posts
• Page 1 of 1
 After a dissapointing day at Busch Gardens and an 8 hour drive to Atlanta we arrived at SFOG nice and early.  This park has one of the least glamourous entrances of any corporate park I have seen. You exit the highway, go down a few side streets and under this bridge, and enter the parking lot.  And you drive next to of the best hyper coasters in the world  We were the first ones to arrive at the park, even with the new coaster opening the park was dead until the early afternoon when the weather cleared up    Entrance to the parking lot   Heavy fog started to roll in  I was a bit dissapointed that the green lantern parking lot was the white one  The gates opened at 9:30 and we walked right into Daredevil Dives station and got the first train out. Was a great way to start the day. 
     Overall a solid addition to SFOG's coaster lineup. The drop was a bit underwhelming, not as intense as some other beyond vertical drop coasters but the first inversion and the last inversion were very strange and cool.   It was 9:45 and even though the park was supposed to open at 10 all the rides were open and the characters were out, not a bad start to the day at all  We were the only ones on the Georgia Cyclone   A little bumpy around the edges but not bad, not as good as Viper but still had some air and decent laterals   Acrophobia was closed at this time of the day but would open later  This is a very unique mine train
    I was surprised by how clean and well landscaped this park is  Monster Mansion is one of the strangest dark rides I have ever been on  A bunch of Monsters are on a southern plantation and invite humans to a picnic    I honestly have no idea what is going on at all, this is a very WTF ride      
 The area where SUF and GASM are is themed to "cotton states"  This park is huge and has a lot of natural terrain    SUF is tucked away in a back corner of the park  Instead of having 8 rows, the original SUF has 7 rows and is designed to run 3 trains (2 load platforms)    SUF is also built into the terrain and looks a lot smaller than the other 2   Being low to the ground provides more facechoppers and makes the ride more exciting    
 Great American Scream Machine was next  GASM is very smooth and provides great airtime   Sadly Ninja had gotten ad-overlays  I rode this train at Great Adveture a few years ago   Ninja was surprisingly pretty smooth  They had the heatlh dept rating on the front window of this eating establishment   The reason I am pointing to my shirt is because this is what DejaVu was replaced with. And now that it's not themed to Thomas anymore, it's completely pointless. How sad.    
 The Gotham area of the park has Crime Wave, Batman, and Mindbender        Sadly, like many other BTRs (excluding SFGAms), the scenes in the queue have fallen into neglect   BTR has a massive extended queue    Almost there     
   Mindbender is an intense Shwarzkopf multi looping coaster with lapbars  When Gotham City was added to SFOG Mindbender was rethemed to Riddler  Sadly it has fallen victim to shrinkwrapped ad trains  This is the way the train is designed to look  Oddly shaped support 
 Goliath is the stand out star of this park  Hats stuck in the net  Like SFSTL, this park still has the vine tunnels that add shade and shrubbery to the park. There used to be one of these by Demon I am unsure why it was taken out.   Schorcher is an intense B&M standup coaster similar to Iron Wolf, but is glass smooth. The trains were repainted in support of its sponsor.  The ride also has custom uniforms to promote its sponsor    Fortunately we had q bots and got right on the back row several times  Goliath is an AIRTIME MACHINE. I don't think I have ever been on any coaster that jacks you out of your seat hill after hill after hill as much.  Goliath is better than all other B&M hypers ive been on (Raging Bull, Nitro, Apollo's Chariot, Behemoth, Laronde Goliath) put together  It may not be the biggest of the B&M hypers but it is by far the best
 This guy was chillin on the ladder climb  They are really pushing the white green lantern  Anyway back to Goliath  This ride kicks ass. What else is there to be said?       This is interesting theming
 Acrophobia is by far the best of the Intamin drop towers. Tilting outwards 45 degrees is terrifying and provides a great view.       Derek and I in front of SUF, the only B&M flying coaster now that I have not ridden is the one in China    SUF was only running 2 trains  [img]http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak- snc6/249265_10150642474805160_504465159_19078626_4772937_n.jpg[/img]  This trim is not used  Last picture, thanks for reading
The black Green Lantern is the most recent one. The most famous Green Lantern is the one they have on everything, Hal Jordan. He's the one being used in the movie. All the rest are also white. Jon Stewart is just the most recent one, the black one.
The black Green Lantern is an ongoing joke on this site, similar to rick roll and "Mr Freeze B*tch"
Seems like a very good park. Very clean and organized one of these days i need to try to get to SFOG. Rides look good and daredevil looks pretty cool.
 Great trip report By the way  SFGA
DeJavu Last ride ever Row 8B Right Side R.I.P Dejavu 2006 Trip Vists:41 2007 Trip Visits:37 2008 Trip Visits:22 2009 Trip Visits:15 2010 Trip Visits:2 2011 Trip Visits:3
Oh, didn't know.
Great pics brad.
Very underrated park. I have enjoyed all of my visits there. They have a solid coaster lineup and a few great flats along with a dark ride. Still have to get back to experience Dare Devil Dive. Goliath like Brad said, is one kickass hyper. I got off that thing thinking, damn, RB has nothing on this. I was fortunate to be able to get on their Deja-Vu before it closed which got me on all state-side GIB's. Brad, you do realize they have the Riverview Chicago park carousel? Surprised you didn't post pics of that historical masterpiece. I finally retired the Sarah Palin signature because she is now 100% irrelevant.
16 posts
• Page 1 of 1
Who is onlineUsers browsing this forum: No registered users and 9 guests
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||