Dark Knight coaster confirmed for SFGAm in 2008

[Ilovthevu']

There might not be air conditioning in the actual ride building, but that air in the other parts must get to that ride building because it's doesn't feel like 90 degrees in there. The one room that it feels quite warm is in the video room.

[viper1988]

In the preshow as far as I know there is little to no AC or Heat but like you said it does get rather warm in there. Now that Six Flags is running 10 cars they can fit way more people in that room and just think about it logically...110 people in a room for five mins and then it happens again over and over all day long its bound to get pretty hot inside that box just from the body heat.

[onyxhotel08]

Honestly, it goes by so fast I hardly notice if it is even slightly hot in there.

[FParker185]

yep, goes by real fast when you walk in and then ignore the instructions and walk right out the exit door

[onyxhotel08]

^^^I don't ignore anything. I only make about 2-3 visits per year so I want to see, hear & enjoy everything. I STILL don't understand the extensive panning of Dark Knight these days when so many parks get nothing for years.

[saylorman47]

The fact of the matter is, would you rather have nothing, or The Dark Knight?

[onyxhotel08]

The Dark Knight with no question.

[FParker185]

I'd take option 3 thank you very much.

7.5 mil in the bank and a decent theater.

[onyxhotel08]

FYI Theater Royale was a dead zone in the end and had nothing but lifeless Looney Tunes back-to-back.

[Goku1910]

Looney Tunes were the $%&#!

But TDK is a really big success for the "Family" Element. I was to see the "Thrill" at SFGAm.....IF Superman brought a bu-load of guests.....just imagine.

^And to add on that, it's been 5 years, and it still had 3 hour lines.

I personally want to buy the Looney Tune DVD's just for memory.

[ben_the_bear]

The Dark Knight looks much better than the theater and is much more fun. Next they need to tear out LAFF for a coaster.

[tp41190]

The Dark Knight looks much better than the theater and is much more fun. Next they need to tear out LAFF for a coaster.

Agreed...

See, I still don't see people complaining about this coaster. I mean, its not like we would have gotten something else...its a theater! And that show wasn't that popular anyway so I think it was a good idea...because it was a credit

[LAFFfan4lyfe]

I like that they put a coaster in that area, but I wish they would have just made it more interesting. What appeal is there going around a corner and nothing being there? Halfway through my first ride on it, I was bored! Half the time I couldn't even see the scenery because we were flying past it so fast.

Even the pre-show, which i thought was the best part of the ride, felt a little bit too long last time I saw it. I like the idea of it, but I think with better execution it could have been a really really great ride.

I'm glad we don't have that theater anymore. I remember seeing some shows in there and there not really being a great audience. After they took the magic shows out of there in 2002, I felt like that theater just went down the crapper.

[onyxhotel08]

I wonder why your attendance at the park went down 85% this year...

[tp41190]

^Yes...because having week days where lines were well over 30 mins means a 85% decrease

[BP317]

/\ Read the signature in the post above that.

[tp41190]

Heh heh heh...yeah

I see now though, and I understand. Even though I went more days and went for less operating hours because I got bored so fast. There were at least 4 visits, out of 13, were I stayed for less then 2 hours. And I only went 3 times where I stayed from open-close (opening day,fright fest sunday, closing day).

[sixflags90320freak]

idk if anyone brought this up ok here i go

near the end of the season i rode the dark knight and i felt like something was missing in the que line after that little movie i rember that there was a cople joker cards there at the beggining of the season when it open and at the end of the season they were gone someone must have stolen them right???????????

[BP317]

Those were hotglued to the walls, most of them were stolen the first day of the ride being open.

[sixflags90320freak]

oook those were really cool cards

[onyxhotel08]

How/Why steal them? Good job Six Flags securing your stuff!

[BP317]

I almost had a heart attack after the park closed on TDK's opening day walking through the line, when that morning everything was shiny and new by that night it was completely destroyed. A bunch of gates were broken from people sitting on them, crap was written on the walls, people peeled paint off of the poles outside the theater, and of course a bunch of those cards were ripped off the wall. A lot of it had to do with poor design (they shouldve been expecting people to sit on those no-latch gates) etc, but any time you get thousands of a**holes walking through one space in a matter of a few hours things like that are going to happen.
Luckily it all got fixed pretty quick, they repainted the queue line/took out a lot of the broken gates and there were zipties in the crew room so the signs that people ripped off could be rehung. Havent been there in awhile so IDK how it looks now, id imagine its not as much of a problem now that the line moves faster (with the amount of FP's they sell now thats debatable) but anyway, upkeeping that queue line was a project .

[[jonrev]]

I remember seeing it all nice and clean on opening day then being shocked a few days later to see all the damage done to it. I knew the Joker Cards wouldn't last more than a day and the gates seemed real cheap when they were first installed. I think they may have used poor quality paint on the Theater Royale exterior because I watched people in front of me easily peeling it off, in big strips sometimes. People are such pigs.

I think every time I walked through that last part of the line leading up to the "joker mask screen" thing it looked like the metal walls had been repainted again since the last visit.

[onyxhotel08]

----The only real problem I have with it after thinking about it during this off-season is simple. Dark Knight Coaster is not dark enough. You see so much of the ride before hand there are no surprises. You an see the walls, doors, etc. It ruins the mood. I don't know how they can make it a bit more dark but it would definitely help I think setting the tone and honestly if you are going to use props make sure they don't look like you bought them from Target. ---- Still a good ride. I have absolutely no desire to try out Ragun Cajun no w that I have been on Dark Knight and Opa at Mt. Olympus but TDKC was way too over-hyped in my opinion. With Six Flags ear 2008/2009 you have to keep your expectations low. Mine weren't low enough but I did not expect God knows what from that ugly gray box. 7/10 Probably #8 or #9 fave ride at the park. Oh, and by the way I wasn't blown away by the movie either. Stale ending and no pay-off for the audience and Heath Ledger WTF? What happened to the Joker? He should have been in the final scenes too! Boo! 7.5/10

[coastercrazy]

I road Dark Knight for the first time yesterday. What a waste. I can't believe they ruined a good theater for that.