Superman: Ultimate Flight

[Danhockey04]

Everyone loves the Whizzer, but people know that it will not be there forever, and other coasters at SFGAm will not be there forever, they will be replaced sooner or later.

[FParker185]

If the whizzer is ever removed it will need to be replaced with a coaster the whole family can ride, and not a huge thrill ride. The family demographic is far to profitable a demographic to alienate, and Rajun Cajun doesn count as family when it has the 48 or 54 height requirement..


However to answer an earlier question, a large floorless probably would fit there (depends on your definition of large), especially with B&M using steeper lifts on certain coasters. But again if they did that, somewhere in the park something would have to fill Whizzers place.

[Jamesb58]

Sorry to be a bum, but, if Six Flags got rid of Whizzer, they don't have
to put a Family Coaster in. The Park can do what ever the heck it wants
to do. If they decided to remove Whizzer in the next few years and
replace it with a Floorless or a Dive Machine or any other B&M, they'll
do it without worrying. It's not like they'll sit there and think, Oh My Gosh
We have to have a Family coaster, so screw the Floorless.

Understand, just because you think they have to have it, doesn't mean
that Six Flags has to do it and will do it. I think that they should have
rebuilt Shockwave, but, they never did. So they'll never do what we think
they will or "have" to do.

[Trailblazer Tony]

Your right, however, they also understand that if they were to eliminate the Whizzer, they would need a new family attraction. They don't have to put one in, but they should and probably will. Also, attractions come and go in amusement parks, but there should be one ride that will be there forever for memories and no other ride has more memories than the Whizzer.
I was reading the newspaper for Six Flags Astroworld and they were saying how the Texas Cyclone has had three generations of people ride it and how sad they were to see it go. It is the same with Whizzer. My parents got to ride it as their first coaster, i did, and i want my kids to also. There are plenty of other rides to remove, they should keep the Whizzer, AT LEAST for a couple more years.

[slydoc]

I'd rather see a floorless than a diving machine when SFGAm gets another coaster. To date, only one DM has any inversions at all, and that one (SheiKra) only has one. in my opinion, one of the things we lack is a really good coaster with several inversions. I'd also be very happy with a looping coaster. Thorpe Park's Clossous, a 10-inversion Intamin looper, comes to mind and it's not even a very big coaster, but a whole lot of fun.

[FRD714]

I predicted a flying coaster for 2003 and I predicted a floorless last year. Im pretty sure it will be floorless, but maybe im wrong. The only question is where will it go?

[Binks Drake]

IW or Whizzer's spot.

[[jonrev]]

Why can't they just make IW into a floorless? They just have to change the trains and it's ready.

[FRD714]

It would be too small for a florrless. Id rather have a brand new coaster.

[Binks Drake]

yeah, converting IW into a floorless would just be stupid.

[CoastsToCoasters]

The nicest of the three SUF's, is most definatley SFGAD's......have you seen the entrance, the indoor metal que lines, the scenery....etc.

I think we need that.

[rct2wizard360]

No, definatley SFOG's.

They themed that thing to death, and it gets a lot closer to the ground than any of the other clones.

[Mr. D.T.]

Yeah! They could've themed Superman's queue after Mr. Freeze in St. Louis. The entire inside of the building had blue lights to resemble the color of ice. But I swear they used the building for something else as they had windows at one spot which were covered. I think they were offices at one point.

What really would have been the difference if they just moved WIZZER (as some people would spell it) to the area where Splashwater Falls is and built Superman there is probably that only the trees which needed to be cut would have been cut depending on where the track and supports go. In fact they could move Whizzer where Splashwater is and put a floorless in its place.

[[jonrev]]

Whizzer would definetly NOT fit in SWF's area.

[slydoc]

I agree about Whizzer not fitting in SWF's spot and I'd much rather see the next coaster we get go into the IM/Wilderness Theatre spot rather than SWF's area, assuming they pull out a water ride. I guess they could put a coaster in the Pictorium/Go Kart area, although I'd rather see that used for a Master Blaster if they could find another spot for the next coaster.

[msoeagle]

Whizzer is 30 years old. The reason people go to sfgam isnt as a family activity but as a thrill. They have spacely sprocket rocket and that whole kids area. Whizzers going! Face it. And I had a whole thread on them converting iron wolf to a floorless and everyone hated it.

[Binks Drake]

Yeah...no. See SFI is trying very hard to cater to families at the moment. Hence the new kids area at SFGAdv, the new Water park here. Including a significant waterpark expansion next season. (Probably). That is where the money is right now, I would rather SFI got out of debt, or at least reduced it, before building another coaster at SFGAm. Although I wouldn't say no if they randomly decided a floorless should come our way!

[msoeagle]

Where else is a fricken floorless going to fit??????

[Shockwavegirl]

In the parking lot.

And you may not go to the park as a family activity, but have you noticed how many strollers and small kids you see. Theme parks have always catered to families, and SFI is no exception. If they centered around thrill seekers, they wouldn't have built TWO kids areas, and they would have put your floorless where Hurricane Harbor is now. Face it, us coaster freaks aren't the big money makers for the park. It's people with families that make up more than 50% of park goers in the summer. They are the ones who buy food and merchandise. You don't go to a whole day event without feeding your kids a couple of times.....coaster enthusiaists usually only eat once while they are there, we don't waste time in the line for food, if we can be in line for RB....unless we are starving. Kids want their parents to buy them souveniers......we generally don't really care, we are just there for the thrills. So from an economic stand-point it would be SENSELESS for them to center around anyone else.


AND I read in the Whizzer to be removed this season topic, someone said there was a crane outside Whizzer and it was taken off the list of open rides......that was BS if I ever heard it. Whizzer WAS open yesterday...until it started raining, then it was closed. And I saw NO CRANE by it to take it apart. It isn't going anywhere. Yet, anyway.

[twixmix0303]

They could be referring to the crane at the end of the storage tracks/brake run that is permanently mounted to the ground (similar to the one on Roaring Rapids that brings the rafts onto the back of a pick-up). I have no idea what the list of open rides is. Maybe they meant it was on the list of closed rides? (which I also know it wasn't)

[msoeagle]

Excuese my langauge I was just leaving for school and got mad. Yes I like whizzer but I just think its going to go. Maybe if sfgam expands there parking lot will all be happy and they can build a floorless in the parking lot.

[rct2wizard360]

Why on earth would you wan't a floorless to replace whizzer?

Whizzer is more intense than a B&M floorless.

[FRD714]

^ What!!! You would take whizzer over a floorless. Ok, Im not going to get into this whole whizzer topic again, but its eventually going to go.

[Trailblazer Tony]

slydoc, this one's for you, i think i will answer the topic you originally started by saying that after all of this arguing, THE WHIZZER is the most underappreciated coaster in Great America

[msoeagle]

I just wish there was a way for everyone to be happy! Maybe we should just live with what we have.