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New Ride(s) for 2014
I think the news stations / papers have taken this out of hand. It's not officially announced by Six Flags on what they are getting, and you have the news outlets already telling people what it might be. Six Flags has backtracked out of this type of stuff before such as what happened with Chang. I also don't like that Six Flags is hiding from the Gurnee board on what type of coaster it really is. If the coaster have LIMS, those make a lot more noise than just a standard chain lift will. A real steel track makes different noise than a wooden track does. I get why they are trying to be sneaky about it, and not release too much stuff, but different coasters have much different noise. Even the amount of people per train is different from one ride to another, and more people could equal more noise.
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A steel/wood hybrid would just be a waste of engineering, unless it would actually be cheaper to build and maintain in the long run.
Well we're in the worst part now, the part where all we have to do is talk about already overtalked about things for about a week until we find out.
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Anyway, here's my guess. Wooden, RMC, topper track, 165 feet tall, 180 foot first drop, 85 degree angle, 72 miles per hour, polyurethane wheels, neighbors still pissed. Just throwing it out there. Let's see what happens. Scott Schaffer
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I wouldnt really get on the media for this one. The issue was a quote. The Daily Herald didn't say that it would be the fastest wooden coaster, the mayor did.
And Marcus Leshock's coverage of this was perfect. He went into what the facts are, what the realistic speculation is, and made the difference between facts and speculation very clear.
I really don't think it will be anything different than what we are already expecting. The mayor was just trying to muddy the waters again if she said too much.
I believe Hank stated at the board meeting that it would be a standard chain lift after a resident had a question about it. The coaster is also dropping the same direction that Wolfie did so that should cut back on noise. Some of the funniest resident complains come from those people who live on the Cedar Point peninsula. If you don't want to live half a mile from a world class theme park, I will gladly buy it.
^Iron Wolf's drop curved toward the south remember, away from the houses. This one is dropping straight north toward the houses I believe, but Hank's argument at the meeting was that the drop will be on the south end of the land, thus farther away from the houses than IW's drop, which was farther north.
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Bottom line here is that its a coaster! Coasters make noise, people scream on roller coasters, GET OVER YOURSELVES RESIDENTS WHO LIVE RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO AN AMUSMENT PARK!
Can't live without Roller Coasters!
Did anyone read about that bungee ride that is across a highway from houses and the residents complained so much about the screaming riders literally cannot scream on the ride per park rules? I forget where that was. I get so annoyed by residents who knew they were moving next door to a park complaining.
"They also don't like carnivals, the Easter Bunny, or puppies."
Scotty's kinda cute LOL moving on...
"Our residents" are nothing in comparison to some of the craziest around Alton Towers who complain about everything from screams to what they see above the trees. Their restrictions are the worst but then again, this causes AT to be the most creative park in the world if you want my honest opinion. Cant build a coaster higher than 65/70ft, fine build it 110ft underground. Oblivion is created. Im in love with the creativity that Alton creates to get around its insane nearby residents. so be happy we dont have to deal with them. Its bad enough that were in 2013 & our limit is 310ft but imagine it being 70ft....eek. ;D
Thanks. This story is so funny because these residents also live right by an 8-lane freeway and the park but complain.
I would LOVE to live right next to a world class theme park like SFGAM. I'll gladly trade places with them. Those season passes would get seriously abused! 
So getting back to the actual topic of this thread...
I'm a little confused by the "biggest ride announcement in park history" thing. It's probably just a marketing phrase that doesn't mean anything (in which case you can ignore the rest of this post), but realistically there's almost no way it could be true, right? It's obviously not the biggest ride in park history, and they've had world record rides before so just that wouldn't make it the biggest announcement in history either. Possibly the most expensive, but wood coasters would typically be cheaper than something like X-Flight, right? The only way I can see what they're saying as being true is if there were multiple new rides, but that doesn't seem very likely, either...
This video still KILLS me!
^^ Every announcement any park ever makes is the "biggest in it's history."
Scott does look cute HAHA... He could be in the next Six Flag commercial
Six Flags Ameirca as the number 1 park at SFI.... this is JOKE!
new woodie and I-Box for eagle blue....
just sayin
^ Now that we have this coming I don't see the point for an AE conversion. At the most this ride might get them to put some topper track on it.
[quote="rizash"]Say WHAT? B&m 4d is totally back in the realm of possibility[/quote]
Youll never knoe the layout does look kinda 4D and the guy did mention on the meeting they need to dig 40ft underground. X2 from EEJanaika in Japan I dont know if its true was only built at height of 165 ft they dig 40 feet deep to make the drop steeper so there could be a possiblity well have the tallest steepest and fastest 4d maybe well have to wait and see. SF like keeping secrets and messing us with their clues if this is a record holder and the biggest addition in the park history it could be more than a wooden coaster well have to wait and see.
^They are not digging 40 ft. underground. A board member brought up the silly idea of lowering the drop 40 ft. completely so the lift hill would only be 125 ft. tall, thus erasing the need for the height variance, as I heard it.
I also don't see a 4D steel coaster 2 years after X-Flight. This park needs a modern wooden coaster badly.
Theyre prob announcing their largest Fright Fest(though signs are already posted in the park) along with the coaster. I could also see them adding to Hurricane Harbor again as well. Maybe there are more attractions or a coaster & a show? Who knows, we'll find out in 4days but dont be upset if the giant announcement is the coaster alone or Ill punch you. Cause as stated, its a new big coaster only 2yrs after XF!! ;D LOL
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