Two Would Be Better Than One

by **Ilovthevu'** on July 20th, 2004, 2:38 pm

Sure, it would be better if SFGAm had two tracks on D Vu and V2, but that would cost a lot of dough and more maintenance problems. However, there is one ride at SFGAm, other parks, and carnivals in which two of the same type of ride would be really good because they are always crowded.

What ride you ask? It would be great if they had two Rue Le Dodges (different names of course) instead of one. Since this is always seems packed at SFGAm and the above mentioned, why not add another one. SFGAm had two merry-go-rounds once before.

Also, are there any rides that you like to see two of?

by **Ron/Wolf** on July 20th, 2004, 3:29 pm

Nah, New Rules just my two cents.

by **DejaVuGurl1203** on July 20th, 2004, 4:11 pm

No, I usually don't like to see two of the same type of rides in the same park.

by **Ilovthevu'** on July 20th, 2004, 5:01 pm

Am E is supposedly two different coasters, but are very much the same. IMS and LR are almost the same thing along with Big Easy Balloons and Whirlgig (both on tilts, up the air like swings). Jester's Wild Ride is similiar to Revolution, but is smaller and much slower. I consider the Columbia Carousel as being two carousels. With the other one, it was like having three.

Ron/Wolf, you said New Rules. I'm guessing you mean that you would rather have SFGAm get a new ride than another bumper cars ride. SFGAm doesn't need it to look exactly like the other one. It's not like SFGAm couldn't add another ride that same year if they ever did add another bumper cars.

by **rct2wizard360** on July 20th, 2004, 5:06 pm

Are you saying like dueling/racing? or just two of the same kind? (ex. Raging Bull and Nitro in one park)

by **sixflagsguy5** on July 20th, 2004, 5:13 pm

Thats kind of stupid to get two rides that are the same unless they race or if you ad a loading track like on mr. freeze at six flags st. louis.

by **w00dland** on July 20th, 2004, 5:18 pm

in my opinion the only reason to do that would be to up capacity.

by **Ilovthevu'** on July 20th, 2004, 6:11 pm

Considering that the Bumper Cars are a very crowded ride, why not add another one. If people like it so much (and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to have another one), why wouldn't you put another one in. As I listed before, SFGAm has somewhat copies of other rides even though they are not exactly the same. They don't have to be exactly the same either. You could have one that's like Kiddielands where you go around in a rectangular shape with a one way sign,
http://www.sfgamworld.com/gallery/kiddieland/Im000382

and SF already has the open space one.

I'll take another example. I was at Wisconsin State Fair six years ago and they had two Zippers. Why? It's a popular ride, and even if you have two, people would be on both of them. So, yes I agree with you w00dland.

by **Danhockey04** on July 20th, 2004, 10:13 pm

I think that a different flat ride would be better than getting another bumper cars. Granted they are usually crowded, but I rarely ride them. I would like to see some new innovative flat instead.

by **Timmy179** on July 20th, 2004, 10:26 pm

as far as the initial question goes,

Of course two rides would always be better than one, its not practical though.

by **SFGAm Rules** on July 21st, 2004, 1:54 pm

Instead of adding another bumper car ride, we just should add more ride ops to the one that we already have. Plus, those bumper cars where you just go in a circle aren't nearly as fun as the ones were you can go anywhere. On the one-way rides, you can't hit any one hard. It's more like Great America Raceway than Rule Le Dodge.

by **Ilovthevu'** on July 21st, 2004, 2:04 pm

For the ones at Kiddieland, they are actually much harder hitting bumper cars and it's so fun to hit people when they turn the corners. At SFGAm, you can't do that.

The real reason why people don't want another one is because they don't go on them to begin with because the line so big.

by **sixflagsguy5** on July 21st, 2004, 2:10 pm

I think that we should just expand the bumper cars track that you drive on and add more cars.

by **CoasterDude04** on July 21st, 2004, 2:23 pm

I think they should have done with Ragin Cajun what they did at Animal Kingdom, and have two coasters mirroring each other instead of one. Makes the line fly by that way.

by **playerplex** on July 21st, 2004, 2:27 pm

I think they should have made two V2's, because its too long of a line most of the time, but it isn't worth waiting in.

by **Timmy179** on July 21st, 2004, 9:00 pm

Yeah, then you shell out the extra 15 million.

by **Ilovthevu'** on July 21st, 2004, 10:09 pm

I know that was more joking about the price, but Wicked Twister at Cedar Point costs about 9 million. Of course, you have to realize that it has two spirals instead of one.
http://www.rcdb.com/installationdetail1571.htm
However, it would still be too expensive to have another V2 and RC.

by **w00dland** on July 22nd, 2004, 11:30 am

And you have to realize the cost of operating V2, it would be tremendous to operate both at once.

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