As for it being manageable, thats another thing I dont understand meaning: IF it is a maintenance issue as to why theyre wanting to rid it, what solving gets done making it another parks issue?! Not only that, it pisses me off more when the new park takes care of it better & fixes it the way the original park no longer wanted to...Aftershock anyone? :/
For YEARS our park added family additions to bring in families & now youre considering taking OUT one of your greatest family attractions?! MAKES NO SENSE & it really irritates me(if you couldnt tell haha). Again - great ride, great family attraction, always packed even when people know capacity/queing for it sucks, unique to the chain, & did I mention great ride? It kiss a$$ for a little coaster.
Regardless that were gettin a new coaster, it saddens me they feel the need to take one out to put one in. Especially when the two locations have nothing to do with each other. Were gonna be at 13 coasters forever, lending all our past coasters to Maryland.
Coming to Six Flags America in 2015, the Demon. LOL
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^ So are you going to the announcement Thursday to picket RC? Lol
With the groundbreaking on Thursday, does this mean that the picnic grove and path will not be used for FF 2013?
Because SFA can handle a ride with such low capacity. This is a park that will have one train on every coaster on a Saturday in July and they'll still be walk ons. As much as I love RC, we need rides with high capacity. Why they never fixed the issue to get 9 cars on it, I don't know. I don't know if it even can be fixed. But if it' can only run 5 cars then it makes sense to put it in a park that can handle an already low capacity ride running at even lower capacity.
Besides the awful capacity, RC is too rough for my tastes. I just rode it with 3 of my kids Sunday and we were grunting over and over as we got jerked about. The Gerstlauer spinners are smoother and I find more enjoyable as a ride. I hate to lose a family ride if the rumor is true, but we usually skip it because of the long wait in line. Almost half an hour wait just to go around 1 switchback Sunday.
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Give the neighbors something to use at the next zoning meeting
Yep Pandemonium at St. Louis is so much more fun to ride. It's less "extreme" than RC, but I could ride it over and over and still have a great time.
Just saying but maybe the coasters running backward this year had more meaning that to keep us happy for no new ride this year and look for a dark ride to in the southwest
Village Board stopped caring about "Noise" in its approval a while ago... The Village has one word for the residence.... "You chose to live next to a theme park, meaning you chose to accept the noise"... Its like the towns that put up NO TRAIN HORN Ordinance...You chose to live next to the tracks, you suffer aftermath
No one forced these people to live next to a theme park, they Chose to..
Id much rather see one of the Gerstlauer spinners since they're much more smoother and from what I heard much more efficient. However, like I said earlier, if they changed the restraints on it like Opa at Mt. Olympus, I'd like RC to stay. I'd also want it to stay if they ran it in FULL capacity. EDIT: Remember we're talking about a ride that had an incident/death they day after it opened to the public. Consecutive Trips Riding X Flight: 92
SFGAm Lifetime Trips: 104 
^ And how is that incident relevant to the current discussion?
It isn't, just putting it out there for anyone who doesn't know much about RC Consecutive Trips Riding X Flight: 92
SFGAm Lifetime Trips: 104
Also, these are they restraints I'm talking about (they may be a bit hard to see, but make the ride much more comfortable.
http://cache.rcdb.com/4i80chqmli98jh4rg1kt00.jpg Consecutive Trips Riding X Flight: 92
SFGAm Lifetime Trips: 104
^Opa was definitely more comfortable to me, but it does not spin if I remember correctly, does it? The forces of the hard spinning the second half of RC definitely contribute to its not being comfortable at times. The restrains definitely could make a difference too.
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Opa spins, just not as much. This allows for a more comfortable ride. The restraints I like because then you don't have anything that crashes into your side while going around the turns, where on RC you do. Consecutive Trips Riding X Flight: 92
SFGAm Lifetime Trips: 104
^Yeah, I bashed my elbow hard once on the side of RC. I ride it more defensively now.
I have a love hate relationship with the restraints on RC. When I ride with someone, I hate them as you just end up smacking into one another the whole ride. But, when you have the whole side of the car to yourself, I love them because when you go around the turns you can slide from side to side, which adds a fun element to the ride in my opinion.
Just what I thought but it's going.
A'ight! Enough of this Ragin'Cajun shiz. Im turnin 666 over here
 The more & more I see or read about this "largest in park history" talk, I truly think whether I'm way off or right on the money here, that this is/will be a 2yr park plan. [?] I mean cause in all honesty, unless they pull a Dollywood2104/2015, what could truly pull off being bigger than adding a whole new water park in 2005?? (Did I bring this up already?...oops if so)
Speaking of which:http://www.screamscape.com/html/six_flags_america.htm In the picture of the Ragin' Cajun sign, you can see Superman and Condor in the background. This clearly gives it away that Cajun is GONE unless SFA is getting a BRAND NEW one. Consecutive Trips Riding X Flight: 92
SFGAm Lifetime Trips: 104
It seems like just yesterday that people were complain and moaning about the removal of original park structures/rides and the suspension bridge for the installation of RC, now people want the ride to stay.
My take is if SFA want's our rubbish, they are more then free to keep taking it. As for the lapbars on RC, it was the very first one Zamperla made after buying the design from bankrupt Reverchon, and it was one of the last ones made with the overhead lapbars if not the very last one. Favorite Wood Coasters: The Voyage, Ravine Flyer II, Thunderhead, Balder
Favorite Steel: Voltron Nevera, Steel Vengeance, Expedition GeForce, Olympia Looping Parks visited: 232, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 894, Wood: 179, Total: 1073
^Funny if next year they take Jester's Wild Ride.
 "I've been staring at the world, waiting. All the trouble and all the pain we're facing. Too much light to be livin' in the dark. Why waste time? We only got one life. Together we can be the CHANGE. So go and let your heart burn bright"
I just hope we don't get another half-assed ride removal and they at least throw some tables in the area so we don't have another ugly hole in the park.
I'm assuming they'll just move the stage from the Iron Wolf area there.
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I'm new but i read every. single. page. Here's something for SURE we are getting rid of ragin Cajun no idea whats going in 
