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What ride is leaving next?

Talk about anything that has to do with Six Flags Great America and Hurricane Harbor here.

what ride is going next?

Batman
0
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American Eagle
5
9%
demon
6
11%
Whizzer (to you older folk willards wizzer)
27
51%
ironwolf
13
25%
viper
2
4%
 
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Postby coasterguy on June 19th, 2003, 9:07 am
Yea but there is nothing you can do about it so stop trying.
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Postby T_Biggs on June 19th, 2003, 9:58 am
CoasterDude316 wrote:When the tires get wet on Whizzer it can cause it to slide and overshoot the station.
Strange. Schwarzkopf coasters must have problems with stations in the rain. I noticed on Wildcat at Cedar Point that after the rain, the cars would stop at different points in the unload station. Not just a few feet apart from the last one, but yards. I've also heard of the other Whizzer once crashing due to a brake failure. I'm not sure if it's true, but if it is, then it sounds like Schwarzkopf had problems with braking.
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Postby SFGA 11 on June 19th, 2003, 10:44 am
SFGAMNUT9302 wrote: in my opinion SFGAm really needs to start Adding coasters again without removing any.
I know what you mean. They haven't increased there coaster count i na while, they just added coasters, but took a coster out. :roll:
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Postby SFGA 11 on June 19th, 2003, 11:19 am
GamRCFreak wrote: It doesn't have the crowds it once had and has become a stereotypical arrow looper.
Yes, it doesn't have the crowds like back in the 80's, but it still has some good crowds. On my past visits the line has been all of the way to the entrance.
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Postby SFGAmfreak4life on June 19th, 2003, 12:26 pm
GAmRCFreak- Shockwave wasnt a twin. It was cloned to make the GASM but that coaster was b it higher. Viper at SFMM was a modified version. I really dont care if any of our rides are clones. Some of the best rides are clones. I really do hope that rides are added and not taken away to add a new one. Put it in a parking lot for all I care. Theres too much parking anyway.
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Postby GamRCFreak on June 19th, 2003, 2:09 pm
GASM's loop-the-loops also both travel in the same direction, as shockwave's went one and then to the other. This gave GASM a little bit more space to go into the MCBR. They tried to cut down on the roughness of it, and it worked, but not as well as Viper.I consider the 3 arrow megaloopers twins because even though they are not identical, they are very similiar. Just like Goliath and Titan are twins and not clones. It's just symantecs.
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Postby SFGAMkid on June 21st, 2003, 2:24 pm
Sad to say but whizzer might go next. Not eagle though, it is an important part of great america.
Rctfan: More people seem to say that Whizzer is important because it is the only coaster like it lfet operational, and it has been in the park since it opened. So in my opinion I think Whizzer is a more important part of GAm.
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Postby coastrcorey on June 22nd, 2003, 12:07 am
Yeah, I definately do not see Eagle going in quite a while... Especially since it just had some re-tracking.
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Postby usdjock01 on June 22nd, 2003, 2:08 pm
Yes i doubt GA would spend money fixing up a ride that they're gonna tear down in the near future.
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Postby NoUseForAName on June 22nd, 2003, 3:43 pm
If SSA was on there.........Anyways yes I would think it would be Whizzer.
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Postby raging badger on June 22nd, 2003, 9:58 pm
Of those listed, the Whizzer would be the one to go, in my opinion. I saw it get stuck at the top of the chain-lift on Saturday. The coaster is 27 years old, so maybe it's time to put it to rest. I could never see Iron Wolf or Batman removed. IW is the very first B&M coaster in the world and Batman was the first of its kind in the world as well. I would be shocked if the Eagle was torn down. It's such an important part of the Great America skyline, and it's still a great ride after all these years.
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Postby SFGAMNUT9302 on June 22nd, 2003, 10:11 pm
Doesn't matter really, Z-force was the first and only kind of its type , and it was removed. Plus Shock Wave made up a HUGE portion of the sky line, and it was removed as well.
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Postby coasterzak on June 22nd, 2003, 10:20 pm
Gosh, I hope no rides are leaving any time soon. I would cry my eyes out for just about all of them. How about Ice Mountain?
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Postby SFGAmfreak4life on June 22nd, 2003, 10:57 pm
SFGAMNUT9302 wrote:Doesn't matter really, Z-force was the first and only kind of its type , and it was removed. Plus Shock Wave made up a HUGE portion of the sky line, and it was removed as well.
I agree 100%. in my opinion AE isnt going anywhere for a long time. About IMS...I dont think thats going soon.
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Postby coasterzak on June 22nd, 2003, 11:43 pm
IMS isn't a popular "coaster" and it isn't open all the time. Also, they have other water type rides, and this ties up space for a nice coaster. I say it goes! But, I could also be an idiot because I've only been to the park a few times.
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Postby T_Biggs on June 23rd, 2003, 6:37 pm
SFGAMNUT9302 wrote:Doesn't matter really, Z-force was the first and only kind of its type , and it was removed.
Z-Force wasn't really removed, it was just moved. It was never meant to stay at SFGAm for its entire life, just a few years. It was a part of SF's ride exchange. It died in the early 90s, I think. SFMM was the park that had Z-Force at the time, so it still lives there. We, on the other hand, were the park that had Condor at the time. I think before SFGAm, it was at SFoMA (Over Mid America, now St Louis,) and maybe other parks. It's much harder to track flat rides than coasters because there is no site like RCDB for flats.Rolling Thunder was also a part of this program. I think it came from SFGAdv, and ended up at Great Escape.
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Postby SFGAm Shock Wave on June 23rd, 2003, 9:08 pm
usdjock01 wrote:Yes i doubt GA would spend money fixing up a ride that they're gonna tear down in the near future.
Remember that they fixed up one of Whizzer's trains last year when they still intended to remove it.
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Postby coastrcorey on June 24th, 2003, 11:03 am
But still... American Eagle is the only other woodie besides Viper that the park has... There would be a lot of angry people (including me) if they took Eagle out.
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Postby coastercrazy111 on June 24th, 2003, 11:21 am
HELLOOOO,Has anyone even thought that the next ride probably being taken out is the Iron Wolf. I mean don't get me wrong it's a good coaster but it's a little rough, and it was the very first stand up looping coaster so that means it's a little old(lol). Plus there's never really a line for it. The line for the Whizzer can get pretty long sometimes(meaning more people like going on the Whizzer that Iron Wolf). I've never seen the line for Iron Wolf even get close to filling up the queue. The last two times I've been to SFGAM I've only waited about 15 or so minutes for Iron Wolf(and that was for FRONT ROW). So I think this ride is going next.
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Postby coasterguy on June 24th, 2003, 12:22 pm
There is always a line for Iron Wolf when I go to GAm.
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Postby coastercrazy111 on June 24th, 2003, 12:27 pm
Yeah, but is it long like filling up the whole queue like the Whizzer has sometimes?
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Postby coasterguy on June 24th, 2003, 12:33 pm
It is long enough where I will walk over to V2 or Batman instead. Early in the day and late at night it is a very short line but in the afternoon it is pretty long line.
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Postby usdjock01 on June 24th, 2003, 1:14 pm
You guys have to remember though that it is still early in the season come mid july theres going to be maybe twice as many people at the park and then more rides are going to have longer lines such as iron wolf.
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Postby SFGAmfreak4life on June 24th, 2003, 4:49 pm
Im at the park almost every day that its open. IW always has a big line. Its not the first stand up looping coaster. And just because its rough doesnt mean it should be taken out. From what I hear Raging Wolf Bobs is one of the roughest coasters around. Guess what thats still around.
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Postby T_Biggs on June 24th, 2003, 7:55 pm
Correction: Raging Wolf Bobs is the half-roughest half-smoothest woodie around.But anyways, even though Iron Wolf doesn't draw a big crowd, I always see it filling trains. Just because it's rough doesn't mean it will be removed. Usually, unless the ride does something very very bad, rides on the chopping block would be the ones that are more expensive to maintain. I've heard that Jumbo Jets need spare parts custom machined, and Whizzer is basically a Jumbo Jet on a more spread out track. Custom parts, now thats expensive.
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