Deja Vu at SFMM Reopens!

Actually, I was joking Peabody.

Even if a CF park had a DV, the PPH would be not much greater with the current loading/dispatching procedure.

Of course....wasn't using my brain. (Did I mention I'm on heavy medication from a recent hospital stay? :) :) ) Still, I would hope they could do a little better, at least crackign the infamous 6 minute dispatch!

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coasterdude318 said:
That's great, and I wish they'd do it that way at SFGAm, but then why the hell were the dispatch intervals at six minutes??? I didn't know people in the west were so slow. :)

-Nate

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You'd be surprised.

Keep in mind the ride just openened, and the ride ops were probably trained at the last minute, and aren't even the same ones who were assigned to the ride before. Combine that with guests who have no clue how to buckle themselves, as well as the double belts, and I give it six months before the ride gets anywhere near where it should be.

Just enough time for the ride to need another major overhaul. :)

lol...true. And don't expect them to get too efficient. It's hard to perfect operations if the thing breaks down every 90 minutes ;)

Slow ops and stupid guests were only part of the 6-min dispatch equation. After a train came to a stop exiting riders had to exit the platform entirely and the exit gates had to be closed before the queue entry gates could be opened and a new set of riders let on.

Add to that confusion of where to sit due to the stupid set up of the queue rows and how they correlate to the seats on the train and you have disaster and people can't figure out where to sit.

Humn, I'm still not sure we should believe that post made, A Quote from Six Flags SFMM Home Page

"Please note that Deja Vu is currently closed due to scheduled ride maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience to our guests. "

So are we sure its open??Is anyone going soon that can definatly confirm, Probably six Flags forgot to update webpage, but surely they wouldnt forget or would they???

Since when does Six Flags keep their website up to date ;) I think the dippin' dots guy is more reliable.

I can confirm that it was definitely open on Sunday 3/28 in the afternoon. I got my first ride ever on one of these things. Capacity was miserable and it was very obvious that the crew was in training, I clocked dispatches at about 5 minutes each.

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PaulD said:
Humn, I'm still not sure we should believe that post made, A Quote from Six Flags SFMM Home Page

"Please note that Deja Vu is currently closed due to scheduled ride maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience to our guests. "

So are we sure its open??Is anyone going soon that can definatly confirm, Probably six Flags forgot to update webpage, but surely they wouldnt forget or would they???

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coasterdude318 said:
I didn't know people in the west were so slow.

-Nate

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You'd be surprised. When I first came here I almost tore my hair out.

With Deja Vu up and running, does this mean that X is going down for repairs and what not? Also, was SFGAm's Deja Vu the most successful of the 3 last year in terms of uptime?

All coasters (except Flashback) were open on Wednesday 3/31/04. ALL coasters were running 1 train. Viper, Deja Vu, Riddler's Revenge, and Colossus were running 5 minute cycles. X and Scream were slower. Batman and Psyclone had no lines. I didn't make it to Goliath. The park wasn't crowded, but the waits were long due to single trains.

And SFMM wonders what the problem is. There's the problem. A goofy bald old guy isn't going to fix that.

Let's get all coasters (including flashback) running well with multi train ops and reasonable cycles, good employees, get the sky trek tower working, clean up the place etc. SFMM has the potential to be a world class park, but these recent trip reports are very discouraging :(

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onceler said:
With Deja Vu up and running, does this mean that X is going down for repairs and what not? Also, was SFGAm's Deja Vu the most successful of the 3 last year in terms of uptime?

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X is still operating, I believe.

As for your last comment - hardly. I can't believe you actually asked that. If anything, the SFGAm one was the worst in terms of how many hours of operation it achieved. While the Magic Mountain was the first to open on August 25, 2001, followed a day by the Over Georgia model on September 1st, the Chicago one did not open until mid-late October, which by then, the park was already prepared to close for the season. The come 2002. The Magic Mountain DV was operating on a continual basis, while the SFoG was down for weeks at a time, opened up, then went down again, the same cycle over and over - and while this was happening, the SFGAm was standing dormant with no train present at all and no crew working on the ride. *** Edited 4/1/2004 10:49:34 PM UTC by kRaXLeRidAh***

I'm not talking about the livetime of the DV's thus far, I am talking about last season (hence the reason why I asked about last year).

Oops! I apologize. I misread your post.

I still think GAm was the worst last season. It didn't open until what, June? July? SFMM's didn't close until late September. I heard the one in Spain, Stuntfall, is the best in terms of uptime.

Deja Vu at SFMM closed about 2 months earlier then late September, cause it was closed while I was there in the begining of August and had been closed for a few weeks. So that's about 8 month's of downtime SFMM's version. SFGAm's had 3 month's of downtime, how is that worse?

I don't think you took into account that Magic Mountain is a year-round park. Unlike, Great America and Over Georgia - where their off-season gives them an advantage buffer period of not having to constantly work on the ride or deal with customers asking why the ride is down.

Its interesting that they don't seem to have that valleying problem anymore?? Not that i have heard anyway.

Stuntfall at WBMW in Spain- how is that one going? Vekoma had more time on it before it was handed over to the park- have we heard how reliable that one is?

Wow I knew these things were unreliable but had no idea it was that bad. 8 months down at SFMM? Thats unacceptable. Who's doint the work to modify these things, SF or Vekoma? And who picks up the tab for these mods? I guess I'm glad I got to ride every coaster at SFMM when I was there 1 year ago this week. And I really liked Deja Vu, so it saddens me that they aren't good as far as reliability.