Six Flags New England announces Wicked Cyclone

This is far and away the most appealing of any of the Six Flags announcements for this year. I actually rather enjoyed the original, but this just looks insane. Shut up and take my money!!!

RMC all the way! It is so cool to see this small company that got its start over at Silverwood, which has its own incredible story, significantly change what is possible with coasters.

I saw the early plans for this last year and i was told they were planning more changes to the coaster. I must say they did a great job with it and im impressed with the end result.

First retrofit that actually impresses me, It only loses 300ft of track and eliminates some dead spots while adding a couple neat elements.

Glad I got to ride the Riverside Cyclone but this one Isn't a total hack up and remove a ton of stuff

On a mostly unrelated note, I'm still holding hope that the rumors are true and RMC will transform The Predator at Darien Lake into Lake Monster...

Best name of the crop!

It's obvious Chuck has yet to ride an RMC...

I can't wait for media day to ride this

I didn't say the other retrofits weren't good coasters. I said this Is the first that impresses me. I guess I could say Rattler was a good one as well.

Texas Giant an Riverside Cyclone were great rides as they were when running properly. NTG removed over a minute of ride time. Twisted Collosus removes 3000 ft of track.

Just saying this is the most impressive makeover in keeping the ride long and improving dead spots on the old one.

YMMV,

I really liked the Texas Giant on my first ride on it in 2004. My last ride on it in 2008 was horrendous. What NTG did to it was nothing short of exceptional.

I will say that this revamped Cyclone is the most exciting retrofit to me probably since NTG. This ride just looks exceptional.

Rattler, like Colossus, was a terrible ride.

Riverside Cyclone and Texas Giant were good and GREAT rides respectively, IMO. I'd rather SF do the RMCing to the worst of the woodies...and most seem to agree that (O)TG and Cyclone were good candidates for the remake/remodel (any Roxy Music fans?).

Peronsally, I'd like to see fewer inversions on the RMC'd rides...but it beats taering them down by a wide, wide margin.

I agree on the barrel rolls, but I love the inverted hang time hills. It's such a clever concept.

I wish I had ridden the Cyclone a bit more, though. I don't remember the old one too well. I know I enjoyed it, but I just didn't ride it enough to engrain it in my memory. Given that I generally missed it because I was riding SROS/Bizarro, though, I don't have much in the way of regret. ;)

Ditto Texas Giant. Titan and B-TR were my go-tos at SFOT.

Texas Giant is the best steel coaster I've been on. It's not too short and the ride was amazing.

Ha! Gator, remind me to tell you of the time I saw RM in the 70's...

And to carry on in that tone, could we bestow Pinfari with 'In Every Dreamhome A Heartache?' ;)

Charles Nungester said:

NTG removed over a minute of ride time.

And like others have suggested, they did so by speeding up the lift and cutting out the slow, lumbering second half of the double helix around the lift and that in turn sped up the last 1/3 of the ride. Even when the old version was running at its peak, that was a pretty dull part of the ride.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B1H0BuDWqQ0
The park released this pov of the ride :)

That ride looks absolutely fantastic.

Wow. They definitely make use of every foot of track! Looks awesome!

~Rob

It does look awesome and i don't know if im more excited for this or for their attraction coming in 2016!