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Postby great america fan on February 9th, 2017, 9:21 pm
Goku1910 wrote:Was that window to left of Angelo's door always there? It's not in street view.

Video:
https://gyazo.com/e7c7da3e23f15b1c7c77b98f526c063b

Street view:
https://gyazo.com/7695645921b1ca4c4c59a26697b43b0f

I think it's blocked by the advertisement
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Postby Goku1910 on February 9th, 2017, 9:23 pm
Even then it wasn't visible from inside either. This window lines up roughly where the serving counter and cooler for desserts are.
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Postby RollingCoasting on February 9th, 2017, 10:58 pm
^^ Here's a pic without the advertisement

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Postby Goku1910 on February 9th, 2017, 11:00 pm
Found a really old image from in front. Turns out its a display case, not a window. It is indeed covered by the ad seen in the street view image.
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Postby Whizzer Whiz Kid on February 9th, 2017, 11:10 pm
Display Case can be seen here...
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Postby gottastrata33 on February 10th, 2017, 5:52 am
These last two updates have literally been the same. Just this time we got a longer video. It looks like Angelos is well under its new facelift as well.
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on February 10th, 2017, 11:05 am
Yeah, I drove past yesterday. The top layer was already half way done.

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Postby AirTimeDaz on February 10th, 2017, 2:31 pm
Guy_With_A_Stick wrote:Yeah, I drove past yesterday. The top layer was already half way done.

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Nice! Looks like they should be topping him off pretty soon then. 8)
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Postby staticshadows on February 11th, 2017, 10:35 am
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Postby gottastrata33 on February 11th, 2017, 12:44 pm
That article was weird...two nice pics of progress though. & can we stop talkin about V2 now! Lol
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Postby RollingCoasting on February 11th, 2017, 1:47 pm
Not necessarily.

Here's what Hank Salemi said about the Iron Wolf rumor in July 2011....

Hank Salemi wrote:Hello David,

Thank you for your interest in Six Flags Great America and taking the time to contact me.

As an avid supporter of keeping Great America's classic rides at Great America, I can assure you that Iron Wolf will thrill guests for many years to come.

If you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask me.

Thank you, and have a Six Flags day!

Hank Salemi
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Six Flags Great America


....V.S. what he said in August 2011

Hank Salemi wrote:After a long 21 year history at the park, we will be removing Iron Wolf. Make sure to get your last rides in – Iron Wolf’s Last Stand is September 5
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Postby SFGAM_Hog on February 11th, 2017, 5:47 pm
So excited for opening!! I wonder how the queue line is going to go around it because it looks very close to the path and if they add more queue in front of the path the area will be squished together.
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Postby gottastrata33 on February 11th, 2017, 5:58 pm
From a business aspect it makes sense not to actually "reveal" future plans without an official announcement but still sucks cause it's really false hope. I love V2 at our park... anyways, wow What a weird lookin coaster in our park! I remember looking at V2 & Vu when they were here for the first time like WTF is that?! & now I feel I'm gonna have that same feeling haha
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Postby RobSFGAm on February 11th, 2017, 7:18 pm
Are they still shooting for Memorial Day to open this..even though it could be ready for opening weekend?
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Postby SFGAM_Hog on February 11th, 2017, 7:23 pm
RobSFGAm wrote:Are they still shooting for Memorial Day to open this..even though it could be ready for opening weekend?


Exactly. This month (if construction goes as anticipated) they will top the coaster off and add chainlift. Maybe add trains. Then in March they can add the trains if they don't do it in February. Then, begin working on the queue line + working in Angelo's. Then freshen up the scenery. And adding the two Joker signs on each side. That's what I wish could happen.
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Postby RollingCoasting on February 11th, 2017, 7:31 pm
They could, but it's not going to happen. The park is going for 2 attendance boosts, y'know

If I'm correct, the last time they had a coaster ready for opening day was Superman: Ultimate Flight in 2003
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Postby anewman35 on February 11th, 2017, 10:20 pm
SFGAM_Hog wrote:So excited for opening!! I wonder how the queue line is going to go around it because it looks very close to the path and if they add more queue in front of the path the area will be squished together.


You can see some of the queue setup in some of the renderings (all of them are at http://www.coaster101.com/2016/09/01/jo ... rica-2017/ I think), it's hard to tell for sure but I think they're going to use the Batman overflow queue and add some additional queue on whatever part of the East River Crawler spot is left open.
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Postby gottastrata33 on February 12th, 2017, 4:07 am
If it's anything like the other 15, right behind the lift the control booth/building should go.
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Postby FParker185 on February 12th, 2017, 6:36 pm
The park said in an interview in the past few days, it will open memorial day weekend, even though theres no reason it can't be operational opening day.
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Postby gottastrata33 on February 12th, 2017, 9:33 pm
Which is frickin stupid no matter how you truly look at it- attendance spike or not. If you can operate your new attraction for guests who are paying money to enter the park, then run it for them!
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Postby great america fan on February 12th, 2017, 10:20 pm
gottastrata33 wrote:Which is frickin stupid no matter how you truly look at it- attendance spike or not. If you can operate your new attraction for guests who are paying money to enter the park, then run it for them!

Which in turn gives them a reason to come back to the park and spend more money.
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Postby FParker185 on February 12th, 2017, 11:28 pm
I'm hoping the park decides to soft open the ride rather than send the message to their customer base that they don't care about you unless you visit after memorial day.
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Postby gottastrata33 on February 13th, 2017, 2:08 am
& you don't find anything wrong with that? It just sucks that it's more about money than guest satisfaction. The park is gonna make money. But we all know there are people who will show up to ride that coaster & for almost a solid month, those people won't be riding it cause it won't be open when it COULD be.
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on February 13th, 2017, 2:20 am
Those people pay admission, but the park isn't operating the coaster.

I know, it's bad for the guests, but it makes the park more money. And they'll do anything to make more money.
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Postby gottastrata33 on February 13th, 2017, 2:51 pm
We can repeat that all we want but do you not see anything wrong with that? I do understand the money but I still think it's not really right. But then again, we could have no park to visit at all...
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