SF ride rotation? - CoasterBuzz

no not an impulse why cantwe get a Superman themed ride. Oh wait maybe it is hehehe. And besides we already have a launched coaster, so why build another. Can anyone name a SF with more then two launched coasters.

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Shaggy said:
This is an interesting topic.... no matter when they were moved, what other rides were relocated from one SF park to another?

Ninja was Kamikaze at Dinosaur Beach...

The stand-up in TX was relocated, a few bobsleds were moved, and a mine ride or two, including the *new* coaster at SFGE...and Flashback apparently is haded for its FOURTH home...can't BE..."say it ain't so!"....;)

edit: BullGuy, scary stuff....I mentioned Viper as a candidate for relocation on the phone earlier today....to another buzzer who will confirm SOON...;)
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Am I the only one who thinks the coaster relocation game is fun? :)

edit: Bill is speaking of the Ninja at Six Flags Over Georgia. The coaster at SFStLOMA was at Expo 86 in Vancouver before in opened at the park in Spring 1989.

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If they do indeed move Flashback, Enchanted Village in Seattle might be a good place for it. Due to height restrictions and a lack of space, we could use a ride with a small footprint. Does anyone who has ridden Flashback think that some new vehicles (B&M floorless, or maybe B&M hypercoaster) would reduce the pain enough to make it a decent ride...one worth relocating?

Ultratwister at SFAW was moved from SFGAdv

Batman: The Escape at SFAW was moved from SFGAdv after having been moved from SFMM (the last two may be switched.)

Frontier City's Arrow Shuttle Loop came from SFGAdv.

Flashback at SFNE was Vampire at SFKK.

(I thought wrong.) :)

Flashback at SFMM, of course, has been everywhere.

SFAW Texas Tornado is now SFMW's Zonga, duh.

..the aforementioned First Gen. Freefall.

...and, then, of course, there are all those rides that came from other places, like the Ninjas and Wild One.
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kick the sky, i think Six Flags Great America's Condor was also at SFSTL for one season also.

Cobra at La Ronde came from a small park in Sweden where its had the brilliant name.... Stand-Up.

Alpine Bobsled at GE came from SFGAm, where its was "Rolling Thunder". Before being at SFGAm, its was at SFGAdv, where its was "Sarajevo Bobsleds".

The aforementioned "Nightmare" is now the "Capacity" Nightmare at GE!

SFOT's La Vibora came from SFMM.

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Sarejvo Bobsleds at Sfmm now La Vibora at Sfot.

Well, there is an Arrow mega-looper in storage at SFGAm... that's bound to be heading *somewhere*... that'd be too easy though. :)

Actually Mr. Hyde at SFWoA came from the now defunct Rocky Point in Rhode Island during auction. Rocky Point bought it from SFGAm.

The Starchaser at SFKK did go to SFDL but I believe it's at Great Escape now.

Batman: The Escape at SFAW was Shock Wave at SFMM, then relocated to SFGAdv before calling Texas home.

I expect SFGAm's Shock Wave to turn up somewhere soon unless they melted it down like Drachen Fire.

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Condor at SFGAm, was at SFStL for one season.

Viper at SFAW was at SFStL (where Ninja is now).

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Ok, so what is all this talk about Ninja (SFSTL) leaving? lol An impulse? Surely not even Six Flags, Inc. would do that...we have Mr. Freeze, and the impulse in Chicago isn't THAT far away. Now a B&M Flyer, that would be nice! But then there is one of those in Chicago...hmm...Oh, and Swoosh, I believe when "Jet Scream" was at SFSTL (now Viper at SFAW), it was where Batman is now, behind that theatre.

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Aaron, your argument against S:UF coming to SFStL "doesn't hold water"...you could say the same thing about B:TR, but you have one of those, don't ya?

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SFMM and SFMW are close and they both have floorless coasters.

anyway you can check RCDB.com for a rides history it you want to know if the people here are telling the truth (which so far most of them have)

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Bossstl said:
Can anyone name a SF with more then two launched coasters.
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Well, I can't name a Six Flags park with more than 2, but PKD has Volcano, Flight of Fear, and Hypersonic, so it could happen at a Six Flags park, I'd venture to say, if they thought it viable. And isn't there a Six Flags that has Batman & Robin? I wouldn't put an Impulse past them anyday...
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Yeah, if coasters WEREN'T men we'd have Raging Cow instead!;)

Some might argue that SFGAdv's Batman & Robin - The Chiller *is* two launched coasters.

Moosh - not one of those people.

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I wish they would move flashback to SFKK or Sfwoa

I rode it once when I was at SFMM and loved it !

Swoosh -

The Jet Scream at SFSL was where Batman is today. Check out the picture here(not the best, but only one I have ever found) http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Reef/6776/SFStL.html

The Condor which was here for 1988 only, sat where Ninja's station is, right behind Wok & Roll.

The original SF ride rotation program really began when Bally owned SF (early/mid 80's) and continued with Wesray Corp. (late 80's).
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About Flashback - I'm not sure it is possible to just switch up the trains like that. Even then, I'm not wholly convinced that the track isn't to blame for the ride's problems, at least in conjunction with the trains...

Flashback is a great candidate to move too, because it is basically on a traveling coaster's frame. Everything about the way the ride is put up screams 'temporary.' That said, unless they do find a way to control the extreme headbanging and violent shaking on that ride, you don't want it.

But then again, there's another ride that's currently sitting, lonely in a parking lot at a certain park up here... You know, the one that isn't Superman: Ultimate Flight? :)

I mean, Shockwave's gotta go somewhere, right? It's just a little broken! It's still good! It's still good!

But anyway... I don't think that WoA will get a refurb any time soon, only because they (unlike SFMM, apparently :)) compete with Cedar Point. This year's going to be real interesting. If they can't coax people away from that massive Intamin thing, what luck are they going to have with a large, rough, multilooper with the same lineage as Mr. Hyde? Heck, what are they going to do with Flashback?? That ride's in WORSE shape!

I think that, if anywhere, Six Flags will start moving rides to its developing parks. Maybe it'll juggle a boomerang or something, I don't know. Besides Vampire at Kentucky Kingdom, there's no real precedent for that.

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