New Coaster Toy: Six Flags Cool Coasters

I'm going to WalMart today. maybe I will get one.

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A very neat thing with this toy is that u can build a floorless design just take off the body and bingo u have a floorless coaster u can make impulses and shuttle i made superman and it is really cool(its reallly reallly really hard to make superman i would recomend it)

Steel Phantom: Which Superman? I don't see how an impulse will work, because when the train comes backwards off the front spike it will hit the launch wheels. I guess you could manually control the wheel...

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Kinda strange that it's so hit-or-miss finding these things. I haven't checked any of the Columbus-area Wal-Marts, but since I've been traveling to Canton, Michigan every week for business, I decided to check up here. Sure enough, the WM in Belleville had about ten of them, so I picked up a couple. This was two weeks ago, but it might be worth checking for Canton-area 'Buzzers.

If I had known people were going to have such a hard time finding then in Columbus, I would've bought some extras!

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I built superman: the escape at six flags magic mountian in cali what i did was i shut off the wheels and if u have the toy i'll explain it I had one rope as the straight away and one rope as the spike i took the third rope and put it on the enter side so i could put the cars on!!!If any one has ideas i need some!!! i tried to build the steel phantom (the original) just the inversons though but u need 2 boosters and more track u might need 3!

Does anyone know if the eastern mass Walmarts have it? I'mn going to one tomorrow and checking. Is it worth the $20? Is a vertical loop possible? How many inversions can you make? How long is the track of one set?

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pretty ok size if u have enough get 2 a vertical loop is possiple if u mean a loop but other than that its a little hard

The Wal-Mart where I live has them and guess what!!, they are only 10$ each, there were only 3 so I bought them all, if I ever get all 3 of them put together I will post some pics, some suggestions i have: Make the rods that connect the tubing together, MUCH longer or have some kind of lock on them, because they were always coming apart. I fixed this by wrapping just a little bit of tape around them and they stay together very well. These things nees some better support structures but I think the track looks great.It would also be cool if some how you could make these things have a lift hill, the launch isnt very realistic.

Overall im pretty pleased with this product.

Where is the Walmart that you got them for $10? Please tell me it's in eastern MA.

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It is in Lynchburg Virginia, it is a supercenter, for some reason they were all on the huge clearance shelf for 10$, but strangely enough there were 2 sets in the model car department with the regular priced, maybe the ones on clearance were put there by accidnent, or the 2 in the model cars department were overlooked

I think they were on the clearance shelf by accident because everyone else says they are $20. This is a fairly new product also.

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Just picked one up at the Eagan, MN WalMart - my son and I put it together last night and are having a blast! There were two left, definitely plan to pick up another one today. And don't rely on what they tell you on the phone - I called earlier yesterday and they said they never heard of it (same for the Apple Valley Walmart) . We went in and started hunting around and sure enough we found three of em' - you would think then all the Walmarts in Minnesota would have them then. I hope they come out with new versions for other coasters too. Very fun/cool toy!

i e-mailed best pals and they said there is going to be more coster colors and sets over the next year they also plan to have a coasater with a lift hill!!!!!!!! another feature i asked was for hyper and giga they said educate me on what u mean so i told them they might also have other coasters from diffrent parks not just six flags

Here is the e-mail i and they sent to me!

Thanks for the input, I actually just got back from Magic Mountain today, X is so cool, we will have to find a way to do that car...but it is so complicated and so wide I am not sure if it can work with our set...I did like the Riddlers Revenge, you stand up on that one...seems different anyway. Again thanks for your input we will put the giga and hyper to practice and try them out.
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Giga and hyper mean types of coasters as in giga is like six flags superman:Ride of steel in six flags america its a triangle track and the car is difftrent and hyper is like the magnum xl200 or it can be a 4 row car as in Nitro in six flags great america the best car would be "X" its a four d coaster the riders go off the sides of the track and they turn upside down refer to sixflags.com or even cedarpoint.com Thank you very much ~i said

We will be introducing a few different layouts this year, but to be honest, they are all very similar, next year the cars will change more dramatically, and we will add some very different and fun features. We will also give you a change in color so you can start building your own theme park in your home, and each ride wil have its own personality and color scheme. The cars currently go "floorless when you hang the riders and remove the car body...but educate me on what you mean by "Giga" and "Hyper"???
Thanks for the feedback!
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Will There be any other coaster designs from six flags or another park?
Will there be any other coaster cars/track as in hyper, giga, floorless, suspened(invrted with buckets)!
Cause that would be very neat thanks alot~i said

Hope this helps

*** This post was edited by StEeL PhAnToM on 9/1/2002. ***

The stand up coaster combined with the flying coaster is our next coaster to come out, if it tests well with kids...(as long as Six Flags is good with it). Thanks for the input!! We will work on that X thing...but it is an engineering nightmare!
Take care!

Thats awesome if anyone knows the best pal site please post it

Steel Phantom, Thats pretty cool that the manufacturer emailed you back curios about new types of coasters for the set. That will be cool when the new sets come out. I have a feeling we'll be seeing stand up people before too long.

I think I may drop them an email with some ideas for expansion packs for loops, and inline twists. That way you could just go out and buy a loop or whatever and put it in place so you don't need to try and build it.

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coasterpunk thats a very good idea they aren't rollercoaster literate as well as we are but i would think they no how to do a loop also see if they will make a lift hill!

For anyone in the Charlotte area You can fnd this toy at the new Wal-Mart Super Store at Arrowood and South Tryon They had 5 earlier today ,9-01 $20

I havent bought one yet I'm curious to see some realistic custom designs On the box it says you can build Viper and Ninja but their recreations look nothing like the original by any stretch of the imagination

I think the only way to build an impulse would be to wire a reverser switch into the toy and ido it manually but I'm no electrician so I don't know how safe that would be.

The old Matchbox(or was it Hot Wheels) laucher was one way

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U can't make can't make an impulse u can make a shuttle though check this out: if you take the car and reverse it so it goes backward its so cool try it its ver intresting and neat!!!!

I've looked at all the Wal-Marts by me and can't find it does anyone live near the New Orleans area that has seen it.