Deja Vu officially dead

[Jerrykoala2112]

I think Six Flags is better off selling it. Plus, what Six Flags would they send it too?

[onyxhotel08]

Well, either us(lol) or Texas? Better conditions in the south I think weather wise.

[zerowest]

Silverwood bought the GIB for less than 1 million. The bulk of the cost was the tear down, shipping and rebuild. the reason Six Flags had so much trouble is because they never paid for the rides and therefore Vekoma never came to inspect and test the ride (this came from a guy with the vekoma crew). Six Flags put them up on their own. Vekoma also made some modifications to the programming to make the ride run better, Six Flags didn't have these upgrades. The ride will not miscatch on Tower 2 anymore unless there is a power failure or an E-stop. It has a hard catch mode now that will catch and hold the train in all other circumstances. Silverwood should have better luck with this ride since Vekoma came and worked on it and will come out for any future upgrades.

[FParker185]

the previous Vekoma who built DV was out of business when it came time for our DV to open, so SFGAm had no choice but to bring in Premeir Rides to finish some programming and other odds and ends, then SF did alot of in house programming.

Silverwood who will actually allow Vekoma to touch the ride should and does in fact appear to have alot better luck.

[Jerrykoala2112]

Why is that area cursed with mechanical problems. lol

[demonbulleagle]

It started with the last 2 or 3 years Sky Whirl was there and how much money was out into it each year to get it running again. And parts for it were nearly impossible since then it was the only one left.

[Jerrykoala2112]

It started with the last 2 or 3 years Sky Whirl was there and how much money was out into it each year to get it running again. And parts for it were nearly impossible since then it was the only one left.

Dont forget hay bayler.

[demonbulleagle]

True. but there were just problems because that ride was bought used i believe.

[Ilovthevu']

Why is that area cursed with mechanical problems. lol

Sky Whirl was just an old ride. Deja Vu was a prototype. It's not cursed. Demon has been in that area for a long time. Splash Water Falls is another older ride. They just didn't put it in. People have said that Splash Water Falls bottom is leaking. Instead of redoing it, they are just getting rid of it for another ride. They figure that a new addition would bring more people to the park. I don't think Splash Water Falls was that fun of a ride.

I thought it was just a ride to get me wet when I was really warm. Roaring Rapids I always liked my favorite even though I just don't like the "newer boats" from Astroworld. They don't seem to splash you as much as the older boats going over the waves too much. It's either that, or they lowered the water depth because of what happened in Texas before. However, I think it's really the boats.

The wavepool at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon is having problems, and they are redoing that. So, the older an attraction is, the harder it is to get parts, and it's going to break more. It's like a car.

Look at what Disney did for Disneyland's Space Mountain. They put completely new track in the ride. It's still called Space Mountain, but it must feel different than the original version. I kind of think Disney does a lot of their rides in house, and it's easier for them to get parts for rides like Roger Rabbit, Snow White, Alice, Peter Pan, and It's a Small World. Some newer rides though, they are companies like Mack, Zamperla, Vekoma, and Intamin.

They just bought new monorails for Disneyland. Is Six Flags willing to spend the money on older stuff? I kind of think that a lot of the world knows about the Monorails at Disney, Space Mountain, or Big Thunder. How many people really know about Batman the Ride, Raging Bull, Superman Ultimate Flight? Disney is so advertised across the US while each Six Flags is usually just the area around it. Disney has channels on tv in which they can pop up something Disney (like Wonderful World of Disney) by ABC, ABC Family, ESPN (1 & 2), and maybe more.

I think a reason why Paramount Parks didn't do that great is because they had a network by the name of CBS, and weren't using it to their advantage. I think Paramount still owns CBS. If they do, that means that could have even advertised on the CW (Stands for CBS Warner), but now they are Cedar Fair. It's a little too late. Also, for the one Paramount Park I visited, the rides names weren't anything I really cared for. The rides were pretty great, but at one time, it was called Paramount so you think they would have some good movies for rides. How about a Friday the 13th ride? That would have been awesome!

[onyxhotel08]

Don't kill me for reviving an older post please! Thanks! Anyway, I still think they got rid of Splash Water Falls unnecessarily last year and now they don't seem to know themselves what they want to replace it with. Even if it was leaking, you can fix that and will probably cost less than putting something completely new in its place. For a park like SFGAm having those 4 water rides was very helpful and County Fair didn't seem so dead. I SOMEWHAT agree with Vu going but there was no point in rushing in the removal of SWF. The lines were packed in the queue house practically all summer and it was another great ride for the kiddies to enjoy also.

[DejaVu2001]

^ The problem with SWF was more than just leaking. The problem with SWF was everything. It was 21 years old, O.D. Hopkins is out of business, and SF had no more extra boats to canbalize for parts. As for "rushing" the removal, it could have been removed after 2006, but they decided to give it one more year.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

I recently had a dream where I was at the park with some people, and we were going through the very empty queue of BTR. In the tunnel right before the station, someone credible told me that "hints are everywhere" and I was like huh? And he whispered to me: "Deja Vu is coming back!" I just about died with excitement. We were all jumping up and down and cheering. Definitely a memorable dream.

Oh, how I miss Vu.

[onyxhotel08]

Are you sure it was a dream? Maybe a vision of the future...

[onyxhotel08]

Anyone else find it weird NOTHING has been said about Georgia's Deja Vu ALL of 2008? Wonder why you would take a ride down spending tons of time and money on it during tough economic times only to have the parts sitting in a storage facility the park probably has...ridiculous. If nobody buys it in 2009 they might transfer it to a park that needs a ride and amybe just maybe it will do better just like Aftershock did when it moved.

[FParker185]

I'm guessing the ride is sitting outside in a parking lot or field on SFOG property, it will probably stay on the market, and if it doesn't sell before it becomes unusable, they will likely sell it for scrap value, which is probably pretty high though material prices are falling with the economy right now. I bet if scrap prices were the same now as they were like 2-4 years ago, SFOG's would already have been scrapped.

[onyxhotel08]

Such a shame since I'm sure it wouldn't be impossible to make the ride work and there are only 4 in the world. 4. If cared for by a park with patience and common sense, SFOG's Deja Vu could still rise from the dead. I hear MM's Deja Vu will likely not be the next ride of theirs to go it might be after Superman The Escape.

[DvuRulz]

Oh wow! This thread is still going on after all this time. Well, as long as it is I have one comment to make. Déjà Vu is not officially dead. It's living on in another form...get it? déjà vu!

[NightRider785]

I hope a buyer never comes so Deja Vu can sit on Shockwave's hill and we can get a million "I heard Deja Vu is coming back" threads.

That would be hilarious.

Just curious, but what do you mean by "Shockwave's Hill"??

[bigb7965]

^ I'm pretty sure it was a hill on the side of the park that all of shockwave's pieces sat on after it was taken down

[NightRider785]

That makes sense. I've wondered around the back lot of the park and saw pieces to the "Sky Whirl" and also I believe all of the parts to the ride to which the name escapes me, but it was the ship that went all the way around in a circle, upside down and such. A painful ride, but still a fun one. But does anyone know whether the Shockwave got sold or did it get scrapped or do they possibly still have it laying around somewhere?!

[Goku1910]

It got scrapped.

I believe that there was a few spare parts available for Viper at SFMM....But that's my belief, don't take it into consideration.

[DejaVu2001]

All of Shock Wave's track was scrapped in late 2004 (except for the mangled peice Jon managed to get). The supports were also scrapped. Parts of the entrance railings are used during Fright Fest, and a couple small portions of evacuation/maintenance stairs have been reused at other rides. The yellow train and blue train were sent to SFMM for spare parts for Viper. The red train went to SFGAdv for spare parts for GASM.

[Goku1910]

now there's the details we were looking for!

Thanks!

[demonbulleagle]

And the lift motor went to Demon

[guitarhero119]

and the chain went to SFStL