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Postby CoastsToCoasters on August 27th, 2013, 2:53 am
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.

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Postby SFGAm Viper on August 27th, 2013, 8:56 am
^ So are you going to the announcement Thursday to picket RC? Lol
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Postby rmc2014 on August 27th, 2013, 9:36 am
With the groundbreaking on Thursday, does this mean that the picnic grove and path will not be used for FF 2013?
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Postby Viper 88 on August 27th, 2013, 9:52 am
gottastrata33 wrote: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.

I couldnt have said it better myself This new coaster wont be family friendly RC is actually one of the few coasters whole families can go on. The spinning makes it better than TDK, which lines for are bogus the only time I rode it more than once in a day was during last years 7 11 day i rode it 7 times in a row because i cant get on SUF. These were the only rides open they should have also left condor and RLD open. But normally if the line is 15 mins or more i wont bother, so basically all the time. What they needed to do was configure the track in such a way where all of the cars could run, speeding up loaqding unloading times as well as line times.

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Postby DeathbyDinn on August 27th, 2013, 10:28 am
gottastrata33 wrote: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? :/


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.
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Postby ilrider on August 27th, 2013, 10:36 am
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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Postby CoasterNick3157 on August 27th, 2013, 11:49 am
[jonrev] wrote:Stream can be viewed at the Zone or on whatever mobile device you have, just like last time. The RSVP form says the gig starts at 10AM, so we'll probably go live just before then.

Since this seems to be an open-invite gig, it could get loud like the Banshee announcement. Keep your fingers on the volume controls because I can't do anything about the cell phone mike except cut audio entirely.


Give the neighbors something to use at the next zoning meeting
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Postby Sporlo on August 27th, 2013, 11:52 am
ilrider wrote: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.


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.
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Postby reptar on August 27th, 2013, 1:07 pm
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
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Postby CoasterJinxX on August 27th, 2013, 1:37 pm
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..
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Postby kossdude1 on August 27th, 2013, 2:06 pm
ilrider wrote: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.


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.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 27th, 2013, 2:14 pm
^ And how is that incident relevant to the current discussion?
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Postby kossdude1 on August 27th, 2013, 2:25 pm
DejaVu2001 wrote:^ 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
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Postby kossdude1 on August 27th, 2013, 2:28 pm
Also, these are they restraints I'm talking about (they may be a bit hard to see, but make the ride much more comfortable.

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Postby ilrider on August 27th, 2013, 2:35 pm
^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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Postby kossdude1 on August 27th, 2013, 2:49 pm
ilrider wrote:^Opa was definitely more comfortable to me, but it is 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.


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.
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Postby ilrider on August 27th, 2013, 3:39 pm
^Yeah, I bashed my elbow hard once on the side of RC. I ride it more defensively now.
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Postby DeathbyDinn on August 27th, 2013, 3:59 pm
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.
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Postby zsintic on August 27th, 2013, 4:26 pm
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zsintic wrote:Hallo People :D 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 :)


I don't think they would, just because of how much traffic it gets.


Just what I thought but it's going.
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on August 27th, 2013, 8:40 pm
A'ight! Enough of this Ragin'Cajun shiz. Im turnin 666 over here :evil:

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)
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Postby kossdude1 on August 27th, 2013, 10:11 pm
gottastrata33 wrote:A'ight! Enough of this Ragin'Cajun shiz. Im turnin 666 over here :evil:


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.
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Postby FParker185 on August 27th, 2013, 11:08 pm
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.
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Postby Ilovthevu' on August 27th, 2013, 11:12 pm
^Funny if next year they take Jester's Wild Ride. :lol:
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Postby DeathbyDinn on August 27th, 2013, 11:16 pm
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.
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Postby anewman35 on August 27th, 2013, 11:20 pm
DeathbyDinn wrote: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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