SF St. Louis - Anything going on??

'gator, that's sorta what I was getting at. If they need to replace motors, parts, etc. what better time than during a complete move? Besides, from what I hear, guests at SFGAdv never saw the thing run anyway, so they won't miss it. I'm a huge flat ride nut and would love nothing more than this to be the case. I've wanted to ride an "Evolution" since I first saw one - way back in the day when Vekoma had one available (1991, was it?). I've only seen the Preston version operate on video, which is a tad smaller than what Vekoma had available at the time. Anyone know who the SFGAdv version was credited with? Natua Bussik? (sp??)

Jeff

I've ridden an Evolution...it was merely "ok", and that's coming from a flat ride junkie as well.

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Well, I would love to see an "Evolution" come to the park, but if since it is similar to the Highland Fling (albeit larger and more extravagant), I would prefer something original. I mean, SFGAdv probably has both types of rides, but look at all the other rides they have in addition to that. If we are only going to have a handful of flat rides, I would like it better if they were different. Hmm....what's is something different than what we have....how about a DROP RIDE! lol! We are probably one of the only Six Flags parks that has no drop ride! lol And I LOVE drop rides! *sigh* Oh well. ;-)

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Going back to the topic at hand, does anyone have any updates. Any new parts, or perhaps have those parts spotted been moved anywhere?

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I know this is a little off topic, but today I was talkign to a ride op, one whom worked in Brit. And he caused me to remember an old rumer that went around the park that Sixflags tweaked The Boss's layout for there own evil ways. The rumer goes is that the original layout was built for 2 7 car trains. and that the brake run would not be were it is (in fact there would be no break run at all), and that the second turn around would be lower and would have a dip kinda like the third turn around. Well any ways the story goes on to tell that Six Flags hired in there own guy to modify the track to fit three 6 car trains. So this is were you get the brack run and they raised the second turn around to slow the train into the break run. I was jsut wondering if any one else heard this and if they can name in other non SF CCI with three train operation other than MA. And this could explain the vallying that occurs in vally two and three.

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Look what Cedar Point did to Mean Streak.

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Any idea when the announcment will come?

It will come when you recive a season pass renewal fourm. There probly will be no major annocement.

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Oh, by the way, i will be buying my first season pass this year, do you know where i can get the cheapest one. It will be for sfsl.

For Season passes, try Schnucks... but I think they are all about the same price. Just check around. Remember to get Parking included, it's only about 8 bucks for the whole season. It's the best deal regarding season passes.

I'm sure they will have some sort of announcement with the local media. They gotta spread the word somehow, even though it is not a major attraction like a coaster.

Steve

"'gator, that's sorta what I was getting at. If they need to replace motors, parts, etc. what better time than during a complete move? Besides, from what I hear, guests at SFGAdv never saw the thing run anyway, so they won't miss it. I'm a huge flat ride nut and would love nothing more than this to be the case. I've wanted to ride an "Evolution" since I first saw one - way back in the day when Vekoma had one available (1991, was it?)."

I know Vekoma advertised them when Inside Track changed formats, which was November of 1992.

"I've only seen the Preston version operate on video, which is a tad smaller than what Vekoma had available at the time. Anyone know who the SFGAdv version was credited with? Natua Bussik? (sp??) "

Actually, I believe that the version sold by the company called Preston Amusements out of Texas was actually the Fabbri version (about 6 or 7 of which travel the U.S.). The Vekoma one was roughly the same size as Bussink's (and I don't think they ever built any). The Fabbri version racks up on about 2 or 3 trailers, much smaller than the other one. Bussink did the Great Adventure one, it was one of three they built. The amazing thing was that this was a portable version, I believe it racked onto about 6 or 8 trucks in Europe (but probably could not be road legal in the U.S.).

In regards to the problems, what I have heard and has been confirmed by the builders was that while the ride operated flawlessly traveling Germany it encountered problems when it was put in a park in Italy. Apparently they called in Vekoma, who worked with a German showman to fix it. This was only a partial fix and SFGAdv bought the ride from Vekoma, who brokered the sale. According to the manufacturer, to this date they still have not been contacted by SF to work on the ride. I fear that unless they are contacted or someone with a working knowledge of the ride is called in the ride would sit at SFStL, or whereever it goes, as a lawn ornament.

Adam

A little more information on the ride in the parking lot. I spent about 30 minutes at the park today applying for a job they have available. While there I asked about the stuff in the parking lot and was told "yes, we are getting a new flat ride for 2003" When I asked what kind of ride it was I was told they don't have a name for it yet, but it is a...." Just as he got to that sentence someone walked out of another office and said "what are you doing, you can't tell him that, the public announcement will be within the next 2 weeks." The first guy replied that he had been on vacation and did not know it was such a big secret. When asked if it was a ride from another six flags park he grinned and said "no comment". When asked for the location of the new ride they replied that an official decision had not been made and they were looking at 4 different sites in the park. You can derive whatever conclusion you want from this post but if you believe what I was told we will know by the end of the month.

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Shouldn't the Season Pass Renewals be going out around the end of January.. I believe the Park opens the first part of April.. Maybe something will be in the packets to help sell the season passes this year. Hopefully it is a ride that will blow our socks off.

Angnjc while you were there was you able to look at any of the parts that is in the parking lot. Could you see if there was any clues as to what it may be. Let us know

As I said before, it is going where the Great Escape arcade used to be. The name of the ride will be "Excalibur"

Isnt the great escape the only arcade in the park.....maybe they should move the arcade to where axis games is(or was)should increase business a little if they run the exit to joker thru there.and sf stl guy...i checked on prices when the first hyper rumors came out,...thought thered be reason to get excited and around then..shnucks passes were a little cheeper....the promo may be over though.

No, unfortunately I forgot to take my trusty binoculars( more concerned about finding a job than seeing the ride) and unfortunatly the closest you can get without trespassing is probably 3 or 4 hundred yards away. Didn't think it would look good on the app that I was arrested for trespassing on park property :)

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If somebody has a picture of the Evolution at SFGAdv., I would like to see it. I have seen a picture before, but don't remember where(I want to see the color of that ride).

The Great Escape and the Palace Arcade were the two arcades in the park. Palace Arcade was basically taken away with the Fast Lane sales. Also at the end of the year the Axis Arcade was the name of the games right next to Joker Inc., so the games from the Great Escape are likely being moved over there.

I guess Excalibur fits in the Britania section of the park, we should soon find out what the mystery ride is.

*** This post was edited by SFZIP on 1/18/2003. ***

here u go http://www.dreamscape.com/johnrea/rides/evolution.html

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If the color hasn't been changed, I would say from what I saw from the distance I was from the pieces, this is the ride setting in the parking lot. Looked like blue supports with red stripes. Hard to tell on the ride coaches though.

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a few weeks back me and my buddy were around the park and got a look at the pieces thru a zoom lens on a camcorder..the coaches in the lot were purplish like evolutions.looking at that pic made me a little dizzy...looks like a very awesome thrill ride.