Dean O'Keefe Gives Small Details On SFNE Ride

What's the point of you rant Todd? That your smarter than the rest of us? Then please be our guest and tell us *exactly* what SFNE is building. We're listening...
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haha...im goin on a limb here....but ive got this feeling that its going to be a B&M flying coaster...call me crazy, but just got this whim here..:)
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Umm, judging from the artist's rendering, it does not look like it will be an under-track coaster.

Looking at the artist renderings I would probably say it is going to be a stand up.If you look at the lift it is the same as on Mantis @ CP.It appears to have the same lift then flat right hand turn and then the actual drop.Most floorless and inverted coasters have a curved or spiral drop right off the lift instead of a flat or slightly banked curve 180 degrees before the drop.Of course I could be wrong though.Regardless of what type of coaster it is at least SFNEwill have one more coaster to add to it's collection.

SFNE's coaster will be a standup or a standard sit down B&M, a little bit like Georgia Scorcher becuase of similar size. The ride will eithier be called,"Mr. Freeze, Batman, or even Batwing. It will be by S:ROS and be a compact design.

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BATWING FAN SFA, just because it apparently has a drop like Mantis's, don't guarentee it's a stand-up. Not all stand-ups have drops like that, for one, Georgia Scorcher has no turnaround drop. For two, Iron Wolf has a twisting drop. Third, Riddler's Revenge has a twisting drop (effectivly having both old and new style B&Ms having twisting drops on stand-ups)

I myself do want it to be a stand-up, as I think there are not enough of them. Floorless seems more likely though, as they seem to be exponentially more popular than stand-ups in the last few years. Not since Georgia Scorcher has any company built a stand-up coaster, and that was in 1999. And since 1999, 7 floorless coasters have been built. Hopefully it will be a stand-up, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

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Based on the size of the ride (~120 ft), I'm inclined to believe that it will be a standup.

Plus, there is a Batman standup at SFAW (Batman: The Escape). But whatever this new coaster is, inverted, standup, sitdown, flying, the letters B&M almost guarantee a great ride.

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Inside soruces say it is a Floorless. Also, the websites with the blueprints show upright track. This rules out the idea of a Flying B&M or an Inverted B&M coaster. Plus, the idea of 2 full circuit inverts is not common, as well as the fact that this has a completely different layout than the B:TR's. This will most likely be the first small floorless coaster, IMO (Stand-Ups have never performed interlocking corkscrews).

Will it be a stand-up or a sit down? They are two totally different designs. Play fair...
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vacoasterfreak said:
haha...im goin on a limb here....but ive got this feeling that its going to be a B&M flying coaster...call me crazy, but just got this whim here..
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it sin't going to be a B&M flying, because Alton Towers fels that they have to have a sort of 'patent' on some of the rides they build. I don't think that they're allowing B&M to build another flying for at least two years. Anyone, correct me if I'm wrong?

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I would bet it is a batman inverted ride. Look at the last drawing, look at the similar ride design like the Batman Clones. Has the sweeping drop off the hill, loop right after the hill. I would almost want to call this the New Batman Cloneable for all the other Six Flags parks with out the "Batman The Ride" .

By the By, which parks in the SF world have no inverted, they might pull out the SLC and Replace with the B&M.

God Bless and Go America.

Just Fiesta Texas, though Fiesta doesn't want that SLC. Astroworld has one right next door.

This is not going to be a Batman: The Ride clone. The layout is no where near BTR. Its going to be either a standup or a floorless. however, my sources which are very credible say it is a floorless. A coaster doesn't have to be tall or long to be good. BTR is not that tall and it is short, look how good a ride it is.
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Look at the layout here. doesn't look like an invert or flying coaster layout...

Maybe I am wrong, I just do not see them building a floorless or stand up that only goes a 100 plus. Why not take it up a couple more feet get that bad boy moving upper 60's instead of maybe low 50's. Hey what ever they get is a great addition as long as it is Tagged B & M.

Look closely at the queue area. As it is drawn the gift shop/covered queue area doesn't seem to match up with the correct entrance/exit queues. One would expect the entrance queue to wind back and forth several times and the exit queue to take a fairly straight path out. The exit may be a ramp, but boy the station must be a ways off the ground to need that much ramp.

Curtis