Confirmed Coaster for SFGAm???

I know what you mean, but I think they seem it two ways. SFGAm they want to put in new rides to keep bringing people to the park, not really up the numbers at the gates. At a park like, oh, SFMW where the numbers went down 9% this season (and PGA went up 5%) they put in a new attraction to try and beat PGA and get a boost... does that make sense? I'm having a hard time explaining what I mean...

I gotcha. They would probably be considered a bigger park because of the raise in PGA though. Because there was a rise in something. Or just because they get good attendance? I dont know.

The one thing that I think is hurting SFGAm's attendance for the long haul is a waterpark.

This is the only big park in the country lacking a waterpark. While I am sure that SFGAm will always sustain attendance figures between 2-3 mil, the addition of a waterpark would further maintain those figures and even keep them near the 3 mil figure.

PGA IMO did the right thing with installing Boomerang Bay for the 2004 season. SFGAm could easily get rid of Ice Mountain Splash and do the same thing.

The better option for a waterpark would be in the current bus parking lot. They could start small and be able to expand on it in the future.

Its late and I am rambling but oh well. :)

I agree with you Chitown. My first(only)visit to SFGAm, I was so suprised that there wasn't a water park, and we needed one(though then we may not have gotten all of the coasters in.) They should start out small and grow.....

Good for GAm, another *family* coaster will serve them WELL.....and it gives dawny yet *another* reason to go to one of her "home parks".

Oh, and waterparks are THE single most profitable venture a park can undertake...considering the cost of rides, it's almost like FREE money...;)

TO: anyone who has SFDL as a home park.
FR: me, who has SFMM as a home park.

Let's trade parks for a year and then you can tell me who has a raw deal.

mOOSH [would gladly trade all of SFMM's coasters for SFDL's Superman]

Better no waterpark than losing rides like Great America in CA did at the price of a waterpark in my opinion.........nice that they are getting a package like that to make up for some of the recent year's removals.

Isn't Reverchon the manuafacture of the spinning wild mouse that the girl was killed on at Lightwater Valley? Does anyone know if the fault of that accident was the park's or the manufacturer's? *** Edited 1/12/2004 6:36:03 PM UTC by super7***

Super7, that's the company. I never did hear the outcome either. If memory serves me correctly, two of the cars collided in the brakerun.

Its about time we get a boom of spinning mice in the US, only ridden one (Exterminator) and they are just pure fun, cant wait for my home park to add one!

Anyone know where in the park they are placing it? I would think it would fit best themematically in Country Fair but seeing that there is not much room back there and its Six Flags I doubt it goes there.

My guess is it goes where the rock walls have been sitting for the past couple of years. But don't quote me on that.

-Nate

Yes you make fun of him. Look at your post. But maybe that was his intentions. Either way, both need to grow up.

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super7 said:
Better no waterpark than losing rides like Great America in CA did at the price of a waterpark in my opinion.........nice that they are getting a package like that to make up for some of the recent year's removals.

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If SFGAm went the same route as PGA is doing with a waterpark, we would only lose Ice Mountain Splash (AKA Yankee Clipper). This is a water ride that barely operates. We would possibly lose some of the picnic grove but considering how big the grove is, it wouldn't matter to lose some of it.

If they chose to build one in the bus parking lot, we wouldn't lose anything. :)

Hopefully, they begin construction on this coaster in the next month or so. Once we start getting pictures, we will probably be able to tell a general area on where it is located. It's nice they they now will have their coaster count up again, since they aren't taking anything out.

This was probably one of the easiest secrets to keep becuase GAm probably knew that track and supports and everything else would not arrive until end of Jan. beginning of February. It would only take them until March or so to complete it.

My idea for a location would be the are where the rock walls are too, or the area between STT and SSA. Obviously, they would have to go and extend into the parking lot, but that's what I think.

PGA's tiny waterpark is costing $20mill, and I don't think Six Flags has the money to put in a water park that could handle the crowds at SFGam. That's probably why they don't have one.

With reasoning like that, then you don't think SFMM or any of the other big Six Flags parks(all of which have water parks) should have went in? Even Disney has a couple water Parks, and there are 4 theme parks there.

A water Park is Just what SFGAm needs to take people out of the midways and make room for....more people. Maybe one day, then I'll think about going back(okay, it wouldn't take alot to get me back, so nevermind that:)).

I know its been 2 years since I've been there but isn't Ice mountain spalsh, the old splash waterfalls, the simple up a ramp turn around then drop down waterride. The yankee clipper was a twisting slow coaster type water ride like the log ride.

Ice Mountain Splash is what used to be the Yankee Clipper.

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TeknoScorpion said:
With reasoning like that, then you don't think SFMM or any of the other big Six Flags parks(all of which have water parks) should have went in? Even Disney has a couple water Parks, and there are 4 theme parks there.

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What I mean is it cost $20,000,000 for a very SMALL LOW CAPACITY park, and Six Flags doesn't have the money anymore to put in very large water parks, there is no way they could even build a small one. I never said waterparks in general, just small water parks.

I bet at least one of the flats will go over in the Space Shuttle America/Sky Trek area. There is a lot of unused space over there.

That would be nice if one of the flat goes in the Space Shuttle America section, but where exactly is the wild mouse coaster going, or is it still unknown to the public?