Batman pieces on site at SFDL (pics)

Neither do I. You ARE at an amusement park after all, and when your inside I doubt you would hear it as long as it isn't right outside the window.

I am telling you, put that, and one more flat ride there and that section will actually feel like it should be there.

I can always hope...just don't put it so far out of the way like they did to the boomerang, slc and top spin...

I hope this all turns out well cause the park could easily become a yearly visit for me since its so close and the campground is a good time.

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Ben Nelson said:
As another person who has SFDL as one of my homeparks, I wish we could have received Ultra Twister or Greezed Lightnin' instead. I've ridden Mantis, Georgia Scorcher, and Sky Rider and haven't been particularly impressed with any of them. Sky Rider is my favorite, but it still isn't that great of a ride.

I also visited SFAW on vacation back in 1999 and rode all of the coasters except for Batman (which was closed all day) and Serpent (which I skipped). Why couldn't SFDL have gotten the intriguing and unique Ultra Twister, or the quick, simple fun of Greezed Lightnin'? (which inspired my signature that I've kept since I became a member here)

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You'd rather have ultra twister as opposed to B:TE at your home park? if I could I'd gladly trade you for it as UT's what we're getting at SFA.

Ahhhh.. There it is!

This Togo coaster in Japan runs "both" a stand-up and sitdown train on the same track! It was featured in an ACE publiation a fews years back as well!

http://www.rcdb.com/id1219.htm

And heres another....

http://www.rcdb.com/id1432.htm
(that uses two loading platforms, but runs on the same track

This ride features two tracks and two different trains:
http://www.rcdb.com/id1213.htm

Poop

What do you guys think the chance is of this opening for this upcoming season?

Trust me BFSFA, I know what I'm talking about, you don't want Batman the Escape. Like everyone else has said, you have to change the trains first before it would be an acceptable ride. Please trust me, Ultra Twister is a LOT more fun and scary too.

Here's one interesting thing I remember when it was Shockwave at Great Adventure. When the train hit the midcourse, it was LOUD. I think they still had a tire-based midcourse back then (and if it wasn't tire-based, it was incredibly ear-piercing nonetheless). The ride ops were all wearing earplugs. Of course when the ride was relocated to Houston, they enclosed the station. I've managed a total of three rides on it. As Shockwave, it opened late in the day and the line was too long to get a re-ride. At SFAW, we rode it once, then stupidly rode it again later in the day. It's like we just wanted more abuse.

i still have no ideas on where this will go, but as fast as they COULD put this up, i don't see it opening for the beginning of the season.

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Rob Ascough said:
I think the ride would be better with new B&M standup trains, although I doubt the park is likely to invest in those.

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I assume they'll be retrofitted to the Intamin track, then?

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I assume they'll be retrofitted to the Intamin track, then?

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Technically it's not Intamin track that this coaster runs on. It runs on Giovanola track that is the exact same track the B&M coasters run on. So adding a B&M stand-up train shouldn't be too difficult

As for getting this ride up and operating n time to open with the park, it may happen. If they have already appllied for permits to build it, and if they have aready poured footers for it it should only take a month or two to actually construct and test. Why would they store the ride in the field across the street if they weren't going to put it up this year. If it was going into storage wouldn't they have put it in the back lots somewhere?

Remember this is only a new announcement to us. If one person at SFAW knew that this ride was going to SFDL, they could have applied for the permits and done the survey work and even started to pour the footers back in October or November. It is definately possible for this to show up in April when the park opens, but even more likely to debut over Memorial Day weekend, when the true park season kicks off. *** Edited 2/3/2006 12:35:01 PM UTC by SK610***

is there a pov of shockwave? becides the one on the astroworld forms> I tried to register to it because it is required to view the videos, but it tells me that my e-mail address is banned?

Johnny, if you are talking about B:TE from SFAW as it was known as shockwave in it's two previous lives, then your answer is yes. If you go to www.houstonthrills.com and click on the vidoes section and view the final astroworld video there is a POV of B:TE on there

So re: coasters with both stand up and sit down trains.

1 credit or 2? ;)

I've been reading coasterbuzz since i registered in I think 2000 after s:ros turned me into a coaster nut. This is my first post in about 4 or five years. I'm just so happy d-lake is getting something. See what depravation can do to coaster fans? It can make us happy to get a 20 year old used coaster. My 6-2 frame actually liked mantis as well, so i'm looking forward to riding this, assuming it's going to be built. I also found an attractive overview on rcdb: http://www.rcdb.com/ig52.htm?picture=1 *** Edited 2/3/2006 6:17:17 PM UTC by TimmyD***

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SFDL_Dude said:
i still have no ideas on where this will go, but as fast as they COULD put this up, i don't see it opening for the beginning of the season.

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Chances are if it does go up this year it won't open til the start of the summer season,same goes for ultratwister at SFA & the SLC at TGE....this is SF wer'e talking about here ;) .

I'm willing to take I-Fan's word about B:TE being a rough ride & besides we already have shockwave at PKD so a standup wouldn't be all that novel for the park but UT certainly will especially for it's 85 degree first drop...that's even steeper than the drop on supes which is 70 degrees.

Now I'm not sure if SFDL can begin construction until the permits become available or if they can go ahead with at least site preps during the application process,SFA for some reason actually requested approval for last years HH additions only after they were built but I doubt they can do the same for UT.

I actually enjoyed the ride, so it's nice to know that it still exists somewhere (hopfeully, of course). At least for SFDL, it would be something new at the park, and given the few major additions over the last few years, it would hopefully be a reason to get people coming to the park. Coupled with the overall experience, of course, but not having visited SFDL, I wouldn't know how the park fares in that respect.

Thanks for the link. I checked it out and it was great. It's kinda sad though

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Ride of Steel said:
...and the backwards loop is wicked intense and fun, without being painful.

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Wow, you MUST be from New England. ;)

I belive that that Batman will stay in that parking lot until at least september.

They still need to finish the big kahuna

september!?

i think they will definitly start during the season sometime, pouring footers etc. when the weather is nice... that is, if they don't start now. Although, I too think they will be busy with big kahuna.

-- Alan Jacyszyn

There not going to start now! The two locations mentioned is by Brutal planet and the other is by the speedway. both need to be used this year unless the close the speedway and take away valuable campsites or they stop doing fright fest.