Hello, i went to gurnee today and passed a junkyard and i saw something that looked like the stairs from shockwave in a pile of stuff. It was blue. Is this possible. This junkyard was in racine.
Six Flags cut up all the pieces of shockwave on site and loaded them into dumptrucks. Since a lot of shockwave is quality steel it was probably melted down a lot time ago (steel fetches quite a bit for 1 ton).
Didn't they use some of Shockwave's stairs at the beginning of Whizzer's stair's? They are spiral stairs and are located at the beginning of the lift on the left side of the track. Check em out next time your there.
Colin C
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colincoon wrote:Didn't they use some of Shockwave's stairs at the beginning of Whizzer's stair's? They are spiral stairs and are located at the beginning of the lift on the left side of the track. Check em out next time your there.
Colin C
They used to be the stairs from Shockwave near the two loops
colincoon wrote:Didn't they use some of Shockwave's stairs at the beginning of Whizzer's stair's? They are spiral stairs and are located at the beginning of the lift on the left side of the track. Check em out next time your there.
Colin C
Yes, that's correct. I think someone pointed that out in an opening day trip report. (Something I hadn't/will never have noticed if it hadn't been pointed out. You can tell it's new because the fencing isn't rusting like the rest of the ride )
m11stephen wrote:Hello, i went to gurnee today and passed a junkyard and i saw something that looked like the stairs from shockwave in a pile of stuff. It was blue. Is this possible. This junkyard was in racine.
No. They melted that down right away. Steel is VERY expensive right now.
Timmy179 wrote:I saw the Stairs you were taliing about, and I just so happened to have my camera with me
Its a "bad" camera so things are a little pixley.
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^ I doubt that bolt was stolen. They gave a few Shock Wave bolts away at No Coaster Con 2003 if you answered a trivia question (I got one). They also auctioned 2 of them at No Coaster Con 2004.
