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Postby Chitown on April 21st, 2008, 3:28 am
Found this on Youtube. It appears to be a documentary on the evolution of steel coasters and how they progressed. This was done when Shockwave was in its first season. I take it they decided to use Shockwave because at the time it was a record breaker and advanced for its time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjBYKdt ... re=related
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Postby BrianPlencner on April 21st, 2008, 5:43 am
Nice find Chitown.

It has lots of POV and off-ride footage of Shockwave.

Thanks for posting this.

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Postby Chitown on April 21st, 2008, 6:10 am
And on top of that, the person that posted that video has started a site called http://www.greatadventurehistory.com

Check this site out because it has a ton of pics and history of SFGAdv.
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Postby ttd rox on April 21st, 2008, 7:10 am
Good video! I actually found this 2 days ago while watching one of Jonrev's videos. I like how it has some POV clips mix in.
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Postby Coaster Justin on April 21st, 2008, 3:56 pm
One time when I was at an ACE Convention, They said that Shockwave once had a helix before the end of the ride. Is this True?
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Postby cycamps on April 21st, 2008, 5:26 pm
Great find!!! I've never seen so much footage of Shockwave in just one video.
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Postby Chitown on April 21st, 2008, 6:42 pm
CoasterBoy wrote:One time when I was at an ACE Convention, They said that Shockwave once had a helix before the end of the ride. Is this True?


No. Never had a helix.
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on April 21st, 2008, 6:52 pm
Great Find! It almost made me miss Shockwave.
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Postby Jerrykoala2112 on April 26th, 2008, 10:06 am
The video is very interesting, too bad I never got a chance to ride it.
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Postby tp41190 on April 29th, 2008, 9:07 am
I remember riding Shockwave with my sister 13 times in a row on a rainy and cold September day...good memories.
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Postby Cove26flags on May 7th, 2008, 10:06 pm
Wow thats a cool video! I really miss Shockwave, It made our skyline look really cool in my opinion. Yeah it was rough but still fun. Superman is a good ride though. But when you look at the two, Superman I just see a rollercoaster, with Shockwave it was like a giant with all the inversions.
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