Deja Vu at SFGAm - CoasterBuzz

Has anyone heard from any Six Flags Great America workers what the state of Deja Vu is right now?
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Quick Smithers get the Mind Eraser.

You mean the revolver sir.

Yes Exactly erase everyone's memory here and then when you're done erase your own too!

-C. Montgomery Burns

Well as far as I know it will be just like last year. They haven't done anything new to it in the off season.

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Mike
Favorite Wood: Viper at SFGAM,Shivering Timbers
Favorite Steel: Magnum and Raging Bull

I think he means will it be open May 3rd? Well it should be. They had a good 6 months to fix and do what they had to.

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Fly with the man of steel in '03 at SFGAM :)

There is currently a crane by the ride. Probably vallied during testing,

Well truthfully for any one who has ever gotten the chance to ride Deja Vu its one hell of a ride , but Vekoma has to fix the probelm with this ride , do you think maybe the seating has anything to do with the vallying?

Drove by the park this last Friday night and I saw no crane next to Deja-Vu.

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No the train has nothing to do with the train valleying all the time. Actually Deja Vu should never valley except between the loop and the second lift. If it valleys in the cobra roll or between the cobra roll and the loop it was the computer's fault. I think Deja Vu needs a better computer system to control the brakes that are installed all over the ride. The ride is set up with brakes and sensors to stop the train if it doesn't have enough speed to go through the loop and the cobra roll which would prevent the coaster from valleying. Its no big deal if the train valleys between loop and the second lift because they can roll the train onto the lift cart and pull the train up the second lift like normal. Hopefully it doesn't valley this year like last year. Last year it did almost every day though which is good.
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Mike
Favorite Wood: Viper at SFGAM,Shivering Timbers
Favorite Steel: Magnum and Raging Bull

The crane could of been there to install the train on the track or for preseason track inspection.

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Mike
Favorite Wood: Viper at SFGAM,Shivering Timbers
Favorite Steel: Magnum and Raging Bull

i dont see how it could valley in testing if there is no train to be seen anywhere....

gonna be hard to test that invisible train, methinks...

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mela en coiamin Legolas...
it aint the size of the arrow, its what you do with the bow

How do you know if there wasn't a train on the track? Were you at the park to see into the station?

If the train did valley they wouldn't take it off the track. Have they ever done it before? No.

Yes they would. When a train valleys (say inbetween the loop and cobra roll) how do you think they get it back to the station?
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- "I used to be in the audio/visual club, but I was kicked out because of my views on Vietnam........and I was stealing projectors" - Homer Simpson

I heard from some friends who were at the park on saturday april 26th for a private buy out that Deja Vu wasn't open and that they could not see a train on the track. but they are not coaster entusiasts so who knows.

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Quick Smithers get the Mind Eraser. You mean the revolver sir. Yes Exactly erase everyone's memory here and then when you're done erase your own too!
-C. Montgomery Burns

According to someone who works at the park The Ride Op's for Deja Vu have not been trained yet. It appears Deja Vu is not yet ready for the 2003 season.

Carlo

They don't take the train off the track when it vallies.

Yes they do.

Not when I was there. It vallied betwen the second tower and the loop. A mechanic came and hooked up a chain from the tower to the train and pulled the train up to acertain point till the pullie pulled it up by it self up the tower.

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Whats red yellow and blue at SFGAm...???

That's because it's designed to valley there. If it valleys between the loop and the cobra roll, the train needs to be removed from the track.

-Nate

so it doesn't allways need to be removed, just some times.

and as of right now Deja Vu is just siting there, enjoying it's last few days of peace and quiet before the park opens for the season.

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You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes.
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

They don't take the train off the track to do to the placement of the train.
*** This post was edited by KrazyKoaster 4/27/2003 10:59:55 PM ***