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Postby Tardis1972 on August 21st, 2016, 3:53 pm
Anything is possible. By the way is the first one a Disk'O?
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 21st, 2016, 4:11 pm
I believe so. If Jester's is leaving for sure, I'd love to see a full-size Disk'O.
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on August 21st, 2016, 6:00 pm
A "pipe scream" we can market as our next coaster ;D the Pipe Screams are really fun rides so I wouldn't be upset :)

Let's get that & the 4D. Two ways to spin in 2017 haha it's really looking like another family year for us & a Disko coaster could be the ride we get ;)
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Postby staticshadows on August 21st, 2016, 7:10 pm
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 21st, 2016, 7:59 pm
Fiesta Texas just got a regular Disk'O, so I can't imagine we'd get the Disk'O Coaster.
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on August 21st, 2016, 8:23 pm
Which may not be our ideal attraction but I could def see it working really well here :) ...yeah we should get one. ;D
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Postby Coaster Justin on August 22nd, 2016, 5:49 am
staticshadows wrote:Just about any combination of 2-3 flats will work in this space. Here is Pipe Scream and an Air Race. Relocating Poltergeist from Fiesta Texas to the Picnic Grove will have to wait for next year. :lol: :roll:
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How about replace Pipe Scream with a Giant Discovery and Air Race with Flying Scooters?


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Postby CoasterRiderSC on August 22nd, 2016, 11:10 am
I was at the park all day on 8/19 and asked 3 different Ops about the new ride for 2017. They all said it's going in RC's vacant spot! One went further and said that it has a Russian sounding name and that it will use ERC's spot also.

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Postby Tardis1972 on August 22nd, 2016, 11:31 am
I don't know if I should believe that or not. I mean I believe whatever it is it will use the spots left open by RC, ERC and Jeter's, but the Russian sounding name I just can't believe.
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Postby RollingCoasting on August 22nd, 2016, 12:44 pm
I think that sounds pretty cool. As long as its not called "The Joker" I'm good

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Postby Tardis1972 on August 22nd, 2016, 1:03 pm
I'll agree with you on that one. Let one of the other SF parks rumored to get a free spin get the Joker theme.
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Postby SFGAM_Hog on August 22nd, 2016, 2:51 pm
RollingCoasting wrote:I think that sounds pretty cool. As long as its not called "The Joker" I'm good


If they keep on going with the Gotham themed names, how about Catwomen or Penguin's Revenge?

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Postby aaron60060 on August 22nd, 2016, 3:23 pm
Honestly I wouldn't mind something like the Zamperla Volare. I'm assuming that's not a realistic option bc of capacity, but the smallish footprint is nice, and I feel like it's less of a gimmick than the 4D
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 22nd, 2016, 3:30 pm
^ Please go ride one, and then reassess that opinion. There is no more evil "amusement" device currently in production.
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Postby aaron60060 on August 22nd, 2016, 3:32 pm
Wow DejaVu are they really that bad? How so?
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on August 22nd, 2016, 3:39 pm
Do not believe the Russian name rumor one bit. Next. ;D

Oh god no! Have you ever been on a Volare?! We already have superman which is far superior to those awful flying coasters. They are not only ugly, but highly uncomfortable. I felt like I was gonna fall out the back of my seat & yes, capacity sucks.
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Postby ernstwhere on August 23rd, 2016, 12:01 am
I was at the park today and if Orbit is really gone there is a ton of space to build something and in the adjacent Industrial Revolution, ropes course, smoking section lot. I asked a games employee about Orbit and she said in the park newsletter Orbit was just closed for the season.... We'll see.
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Postby ernstwhere on August 23rd, 2016, 12:39 am
What the park really needs is a super brand enhancing custom attraction, high capacity, that gets people excited with a great story line. I tried to talk to the greeter today at Demon "Hey I'm excited!" No info, no enthusiasm, no explanation there are two lines now for VR or no VR. No fun about the parks' new attraction. Wow. I am so glad this wasn't done to the Bull.
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Postby coasterfanatic on August 23rd, 2016, 1:39 pm
ernstwhere wrote:I was at the park today and if Orbit is really gone there is a ton of space to build something and in the adjacent Industrial Revolution, ropes course, smoking section lot. I asked a games employee about Orbit and she said in the park newsletter Orbit was just closed for the season.... We'll see.


I am not quite sure why people still think that Orbit isn't going anywhere. People who went to the park on the last day of it being open as well as media outlets like Marcus LaShock at WGN have said that the ride has closed for good. Orbit is not coming back. It's done. The

Let's move on to something else...Gosh, September 1 can't come fast enough.
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on August 23rd, 2016, 3:37 pm
The park employees won't confirm anything until the park confirms/posts about it themselves. You can walk into guest services & say "is a coaster coming next season?" They will answer "exciting things are coming, watch our online event on Sept. 1st" or "is orbit closed for good" will be replied with "it is closed for the remainder of the season". They're not gonna tell you anything that will spread talk let alone leak any future plans. Most of them don't truly know anyway. For years they talked about a water coaster/Intamin aqua trax was coming to CP when I worked there. Oh it was coming cause park op & maintenance said it was. Wanna know what it was? Shoot the Rapids 2yrs later. Some will argue there was truth to all that talk butttt other than it being Intamin, no.
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Postby ChicagoCoasterGuy on August 24th, 2016, 9:28 am
I'm seeing so much unhappiness over Orbit leaving. Over on Themepark Review they're talking about it lots as well.....
Have you ever thought of this though? What if Orbit as we know it is gone but it will still be back next year. What if it's being relocated to the other side of the park and renamed something else and that's why they are saying Orbit is closed forever, because technically that would be somewhat correct.

Just a thought....


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Postby Re-Check 9 on August 24th, 2016, 9:56 am
Orbit will not return to Great America or any other park. This has been confirmed by SFGAm PR staff at an ACE event on August 14. Valleyfair and Kennywood are closing their Enterprises as well. Parts are simply too hard to find.
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Postby Nightmare31sfgam on August 24th, 2016, 9:59 am
All I can confirm is that we aren't getting no teaser so I am assuming something small like a show maya be a new stage and show in rc spot
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Postby ChicagoCoasterGuy on August 24th, 2016, 10:57 am
Nightmare31sfgam wrote:All I can confirm is that we aren't getting no teaser so I am assuming something small like a show maya be a new stage and show in rc spot


So based on that theory the only park that's getting anything is Fiesta Texas since they seem to be the only ones that teased anything.

Slow year for Six Flags I guess....


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Postby ChicagoCoasterGuy on August 24th, 2016, 10:58 am
Nightmare31sfgam wrote:All I can confirm is that we aren't getting no teaser so I am assuming something small like a show maya be a new stage and show in rc spot


So based on that theory the only park that's getting anything is Fiesta Texas since they seem to be the only ones that teased anything.

Slow year for Six Flags I guess....


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