KK BIG breakdown?!?!?

SFMM's "retaking the record" in 2006

What is the source of that quote?

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Peppermint said:

Actually the man flying to his death was six flag's fault because he was to large to ride and they let him ride anyways. And maybe the other two incidents wouldn't have happened if six flags actually maintained their rides better.

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well you dont really see any other coaster types having these serious problems do you? the ops didn't take consideration into not letting the man ride, he had a serious illness and he knew he shouldntve gone on it. so thats not six flags fault. And if you think SF can't maintain their rides, then how come almost every other ride in the park runs just fine with no more than slightly minor breakdowns. But thats not the point, what I'm saying is that Intamin is the only company that ends up having major problems the most.

RavenTDD - that quote came from the park's PR rep.

The question that remains is "what record?" Height? Speed? Length? Most coasters? Seems most people, including me at first, assumed the record[s] broken would be height, length, and/or speed. The more I think about it the more I'm lead to believe it is neither of those three.

Think about it: for MUCH less than the $25m cost of Kingda Ka SFMM could ad FOUR coasters, for a total of 20, and not have to worry about their closest competitors overtaking that record for some time.

IMHO the last think SFMM news is new coasters. They need flats, landscaping, paint...basically an extreme makeover.

I would like to see the exact wording of that quote if anyone has a link. If they are talking about "retaking" the record, they cannot be talking about coaster counts since they never had that record. They were tied, but they are tied now so if they consider tied as having the record, then they have it now. That leaves height and speed, IMO.

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Peabody said:Not quite. I've made 5 visits to SFOG, 3 to SFGAm, and 1 to SFMM in the last 3 years. Grand total I've seen a Deja Vu run.....0. And they're in their 5th season now.

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Im thinking you have a real bad case of bad luck. The Deja Vu at SFGAm has been running very consistently for the past 2 seasons. And when it is closed, it's usually at the begining or end of the season during the weekdays when they don't have enough staff to run the thing. It's run everday they have had enough staff to run it this year so far...with very little downtime.

Wow... this is the most mindless chatter I've ever seen on a website. A whole bunch of crap is being thrown around, but NO ONE has yet to find out what truly happened. So, you should probably cease and desist until you find out what happened. Then do your thing.

From about.com:

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As I was standing in the loading station however, I watched as one of the trains launched, made a terrible racket, and appeared to shear rods of metal that shot out from either side of the track.

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http://themeparks.about.com/b/a/176104.htm

Coasterdude316...you're right...I've only once in my life seen one run. Others have gotten lucky! But, whether I have ridden one or not, the point is the things still don't run well, like the person I was responding to claimed. If I'm 0 for 5 at SFOG in the last year and someone's 5 for 5, that's still like a 50% downtime :)

RavenTDD said:

I would like to see the exact wording of that quote if anyone has a link.

It was spoken by the SFMM rep, not written anywhere. Sorry...no link possible.

Thanks. I trust you, I just wanted to see the exact wording to see if it could apply to the coaster count record.

I rode DV at SFMM, but X was down that day. I've never seen it open at SFGAm nor the time i was at SFOG. As for KK. Please people, pray it is open for me on Sunday :)

GOt my fingers crossed for you, but don't get your hopes up. Have a blast even without it though!

And be thankful you're not going Saturday...PARK'S CLOSED!

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"Six Flags Great Adventure will open Nitro, Batman The Ride and Stuntman's Freefall tomorrow, Friday June 10 at 9 a.m. for season passholders. However, Kingda Ka will not open tomorrow. We regret any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you at the park! "

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Atleast they replaced the SP ERT on KK fridays.

Last week they opened Medusa for Season Pass holders at 9:00 also when Kingda Ka was down due to the rain. In my brief observation while I was there, SFGAdv was trying to due the right thing. Most of the staff had a really good attitude while KK was down, even though the guests emotions ranged from disappointment to being downright pissed.

Thats cool that they have opened other coasters.

But...what are they going to do with the thousands of pissed off people on Saturday who are not allowed into the park?

Just got this email so it looks like KK is hurting really bad.

Six Flags Great Adventure will open Nitro, Batman The Ride and Stuntman's Freefall tomorrow, Friday June 10 at 9 a.m. for season passholders. However, Kingda Ka will not open tomorrow. We regret any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you at the park!

Please note that Six Flags Great Adventure and Wild Safari will be closed for a private event on Saturday, June 11. Six Flags Hurricane Harbor will be open on Saturday.

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....And in some Sandusky bar.......Kinzel and Spehn are having a few cold ones.......cheers.

UBR, get it through your thick skull, no one has said that they're celebrating that a coaster is down.

The thing to be celebrating if you're a CP-ite is that someone else is having the same problems TTD had. Therefore, all the whining about how much CP must suck because they can't keep TTD running and how much better KK would be is all proven absolutely moot. While it may not prove any park to be better than another, it shows that they're all in the same boat together. Now, if you're stupid enough to jump into a leaky lifeboat, well, that's your own damn fault.

--Brett, feeling fanboyish tonite

And I believe Jeff said that at IAAPA, a lot of major players in the industry were walking around saying "What is Six Flags thinking...they are just asking for trouble"

I was hoping that they would get lucky and have a nice, relatively trouble free ride, but it looks like they got what many were expecting.

I said it before, and I'll say it again....why do I have a feeling that SF bought another one of these..maybe even bigger, before this one opened?

SFGAm's Deja Vu is running great...I've made 6 trips this year and it's ran each and every time. I got 3 rides on it today.