Minor Updates, Rumors, and Happenings

[maxwellt]

Double post but skip to around 24 seconds for the audio to start

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[ilrider]

https://youtu.be/iVltrMkybXM

I found this video on jiggidyndg's channel, its a new boarding audio for raging bull, with a more western accent and mentioning the 30 second rule. Nothing too dramatic.

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Wishful thinking on that 30 second dispatch. We rode it today, and it takes people more than 30 seconds just to put their items in the bins and get on the train.

[Tardis1972]

Wait I though it was the 60 second rule. When I was there last weekend we had 60 seconds. I'm glad they change the RB boarding audio to a western accent.

[WolfsterJ]

The Goliath rule is no longer in place for the AAP. Not sure if its the same for the Flash Pass.

[RollingCoasting]

I liked the original Raging Bull spiel (Removed after 2014)

[Tardis1972]

I really miss BTR's because you could never understand what the voice was saying.

[Tardis1972]

So according to the recent snapchat sent by the park the covered bridge has been moved to its new spot. Also I noticed the little fountain in the BTR queue line is gone.

[ChicagoCoasterGuy]

The bridge is not new....they just moved the entire bridge to its new location! Glad they are keeping it!!


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[RollingCoasting]

I really miss BTR's because you could never understand what the voice was saying.

I remember that, it took me like a year to realize Batman even had a spiel, haha

[great america fan]

Harambe is a character in love at first fright

[Coaster Justin]

What was with that Dinosaur?

[Guy_With_A_Stick]

This will probably shed some light onto the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyrmRxRr4iI

My favorite line was probably 'Let's make Six Flags Great America again'

[aaron60060]

So according to the recent snapchat sent by the park the covered bridge has been moved to its new spot. Also I noticed the little fountain in the BTR queue line is gone.

Where was the covered bridge in question and where is it now?

[Guy_With_A_Stick]

So according to the recent snapchat sent by the park the covered bridge has been moved to its new spot. Also I noticed the little fountain in the BTR queue line is gone.

Where was the covered bridge in question and where is it now?

Look at the last few pages of the Joker topic.

[HuskieJohn]

Went yesterday. It was busy but the weather made the waiting not that bad at all. We left at 4pm and the secondary parking lot had several hundred cars parked on that side.

Dark Knight line was about 25% slower than normal. The loading guy said they are down 2 cars for maintenance.

The character trick or treat thing was not as good as last years. Small things that really are not important but the biggest issue was there was not a single character on the path at 12:30. We went back at 3:30 just to get some pictures of the kids with the characters but it closed at 3pm so maybe next time.

The jester ride is still there but it was not running.


Hoping to go back one more time before the end of the season and our passes.

[great america fan]

The character trick or treat thing was not as good as last years. Small things that really are not important but the biggest issue was there was not a single character on the path at 12:30. We went back at 3:30 just to get some pictures of the kids with the characters but it closed at 3pm so maybe next time.

I went Sunday they had 3 characters on the trail

[ilrider]

Noticed in the season pass email that Demon VR is moving to a reservation system, and reservations can only be picked up after 4 p.m. each day.

[Guy_With_A_Stick]

Noticed in the season pass email that Demon VR is moving to a reservation system, and reservations can only be picked up after 4 p.m. each day.

Edit: Just to confirm...

https://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica/a ... r/overview

During Fright Fest Rage of the Gargoyles Virtual Reality will be offered only during "Fright by Night". You can experience Demon by day and VR beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays and Friday at 5 p.m.

A reservation system has been put in place, if you would like to make a reservation to ride please visit the Demon entrance beginning at 4p.m. Reservations are limited.

[Jodon]

This is a great way to do VR and sounds similar to how CP did the VR on Iron Dragon.

[n9yty]

My boys and I like the Demon, although it was not extremely busy through the summer. Maybe that added to why we liked it. But none of us were impressed with "Rage of the Gargoyles" either from a technology standpoint [graphcis not all that impressive, to be honest], nor (particularly) from how it destroyed the ride in terms of wait times and delays. We had high hopes, but were really not impressed. Still, we are not the only demographic, I hope it brings its own set of fans and following to be worth the time/investment they put into it.

[CoasterRiderSC]

I'm still wondering if Six Flags is doing the VR on these super old rides to see how riders react? Perhaps a litmus test to see if the ride should be kept around or not? I didn't read that anywhere. It's my own hypothesis.

[ilrider]

I'm still wondering if Six Flags is doing the VR on these super old rides to see how riders react? Perhaps a litmus test to see if the ride should be kept around or not? I didn't read that anywhere. It's my own hypothesis.

Interesting hypothesis. My only note would be that they did this to Revolution at SFMM too, which just got new restraints, and that seems like a poor investment if the ride might be removed soon. Maybe at our park they are actually studying just how much it is boosting ridership on Demon (though the VR severely reduces capacity, from what I have read).

[CoasterRiderSC]

^ Good point! Unless they plan on selling Revolution to a smaller park? They did the VR thing to Shock Wave at SFOT (not the same as our former Shockwave). I rode it without the goggles, being somewhat of a purist. BTW that Shock Wave had one section where the entire support post appeared to be shaking quite a bit (not talking about normal movement which is necessary )

[CoasterCale]

Well not all of the older rides are getting VR despite what the company claims to be doing with them. If this was the case, why has New Revolution, Goliath at LR, and the Supermen at SFFT, SFA, and SFNE received it?

[Coaster Justin]

Well not all of the older rides are getting VR despite what the company claims to be doing with them. If this was the case, why has New Revolution, Goliath at LR, and the Supermen at SFFT, SFA, and SFNE received it?

SFMM- Part of the Package of adding LapBars to Revolution and refurbishing it
LR- Extra Bonus for teens/thrillseekers since Flying Scooters, Falling Star, and Vampire backwards were 2016 additions
SFFT- Extra Bonus for teens/thrillseekers since a Tilt A Whirl, Larson Loop, and Disk O were the 2016 additions
SFA- Extra Bonus as the only adding in 2016 was a Smaller Skull Island
SFNE- See SFMM except replace Revolution with Superman

I credit ITL for making me realize the parks who got New Revolution/Superman VR were the parks that added small/non-thrilling additions as an extra cookie.