Great America's Deja Vu at opens to rave reviews

Anybody ride it yet?  I am debating on going next friday, cause i don't know if it can rely on it being open.

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Neil, "Boy Genius, Hope of Mankind"
http://kmlaser81.tripod.com/RockinCoasterSite/

Neil and others,

I was lucky enought to be part of the media day event on Oct 4th. I don't remember how cold it was in the morining, but I know that during the day, the temperature did not get above 60.

The ride is a lot of fun, and hopefully (if weather was the reason it was down yesterday) it will get warm enough for the GP to be able to ride this year.

If weather is a problem, then my guess is it will be down today as well, since right now it is only 44 degrees outside (at 7AM CST it was only 26).

If I recall, Z-Force had problems with the weather as well (thats why it left the park back in 1987). What I got told was that when they built the ride, the corner out of the station into the lift was to tight, and in the fall, when the steel contracted, it became TOO tight of a cornor, and the train would not go around it.

So, hopefully things will work out and it will open soon.

As far as V2 goes, I keep hearing different things on this one. At one point I was told that V2 blew a transformer back on September 21st. But, I don't know if that is true or not.

--Brian

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Brian A. Plencner
E-Mail: saurses@home.com

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I just want Great America to get rid of the ride because it's causing the park so many problems.

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Don't Fight It: Ride it! Raging Bull

Hey all,

Delay-ja-vu IS open!
It opened on Sunday 10/7, and I got to ride it on Monday 10/8. Man, what a ride!!! I got in the front on the left wing seat. I think my favorite part was actually the initial pull backwards before launch. The anticipation whilst hanging there is just great.
To answer the earlier questions, the story I heard is that, yes, it doesn't like the cold. I was in line with a guy who claimed to be a ride mechanic, and he said that it got stuck a bunch of times when the weather was cool. Sure enough, just before the started testing it to open, I saw guys crawling all over the train with kerosene torpedo heaters.
I would highly recommend getting on this ride. Definitely better that SUE/V2!

Later,
V

Two weeks left before I go to Six Flags Great America final trip of 2001.

Looks like I won't get to ride deja vu this season - I overheard that one of the cables snapped during a run. (October 21)

I went to Great America on the 20th and waited two and a half hours in line only for the thing to break down for the second time that day with THE SAME PROBLEM!  They said 15 minutes and they could re-open.  When they were test running it the SAME thing happened.  We were 5 minutes away from getting on.  They should've invested their money in a better way.  This ride was a total mistake.

I have another story of DejaVu breaking down, I think that there is something wrong with how often both DejaVu and V2 Break down.

I traveled from the south suburbs of Chicago 10/28/01 to visit SFGAm's Fright fest and to ride DejaVu for the first time. It broke down while I was riding and we must've been sitting at the bottom of the seccond towe partially at an incline for ten minites. They never explained what happened or appologized for the inconvenience. But to look on the bright side, we got the last ride on DejaVu for the season! =)