SFGAdv Sky Ride - Closed
If it ever opens again, I'll be amazed. Time to tear this out and put in something good. The support towers are somewhat creepy besides - like there should be something going on up there, but isn't.
I wonder if the two stations will be where the two rumored 2007 flat rides will go!
- J
IF it would be taken down, I don't know how much land it would free up. Perhaps the are where the West station is could be used, but the East station in the Fort might be tricky to use.
The difference between Great Adventure and many parks that had huge skyrides like this... The other parks removed theirs... Great Adventure simply let theirs there to rot.
Truth be told... Shaprio says it isn't all about coasters? Then prove it... Keep a "family" ride like the skyride open and tear out the oft closed and problem plagued Batman and Robbin the Chiller.
But the ride is still oeprating Also is a great way to get accross the park.
GAdv's similarities to SFMM are certainly evoked when bringing up the subject of closed/abandoned *attractions*....in a sad way. I know there's a lot of backlash to the idea of selling off GAdv, a considerable portion of which comes from ME. Then again...coins have two sides for a reason.
I agree about the west station looking pretty creepy, but the Fort station is pretty cool! It's one of those things that gives the park some uniqueness. Besides, that fort is also used for the Runaway Train.
majortom1981 said:
The ride is still open. They dont open it if its too windy or they dont ahve the staff for it...
or its a Tuesday... or its a month with an "R" in it... or they just don't feel like it.
millrace said: the Fort station is pretty cool! It's one of those things that gives the park some uniqueness.
If the skyride is removed, I believe the fort would stay. Like you said, it is also the Runaway train's station. As far as Uniqueness... it is one of the few things remaining from the beginning of the park that still gives it character. The huge "covered" wagon (last time I was there it was missing its "cover") as well as the Giant TeePee were also there from the start. A little of the fantasy style of theming (icecream roofs, etc) is still present in the park, especially around the carrousel area... but other than that, alot of the old magic is long since gone and things look kind of bland. Perhaps it is just my memory fading over the years, but in 1974 to my then 9 year old brain, it was a wonderfull place. A litlte of that magic had disappared by my second visit in 1978 (I can remember noting how things "just weren't the same"). Fast forward nearly 30 years to 2004 and 2005 and my 3rd and 4th visits and it was kind of depressing to see that the old magic was almost all gone... the remaining original parts of the park looked dull, dingey and neglected while the newer sections looked bland and lifeless.
As for Chiller... Okay... keep if IF they FIX them and run them both. As it is... it's pretty useless. If they want to theme that area of the park like... oh, I don't know... an abandoned amusement park, then great... Keep Chiller, great "abandoned park" theming there. Other than that... fix it or nix it.
*** Edited 8/25/2006 7:22:38 PM UTC by SLFAKE***
SLFAKE said:tear out the oft closed and problem plagued Batman and Robbin the Chiller.
Curse you for even saying that ;)
I understand your point though
You know, if I did go to the park and the Sky Ride was actually open, I don't know that I'd ride it even then. How comfortable am I to ride something that has never been open? That has had no *life* around it whatsoever? A sky ride like that?
The excuse that it's because of breezes and winds - that's Baloney. How many parks in the seventies and eighties had sky rides and ran them routinely? It was a central part of the park. The way to get from one side to another and see the park and see what you wanted to go to.
i understand that Disney World is taking out its sky ride because of insurance and liability issues.
The towers st SFGAdv look like ruins of some former ride or some former time in the park's life. Just tear it out, it looks bloody awful and creepy.
Take out the non-fort station and put in a new kiddy ride :-D maybe a Whip - that would rule!
- J
Is there any reliable indication that this ride will be open next year?
- J
ErinGoBraugh said:
You know, if I did go to the park and the Sky Ride was actually open, I don't know that I'd ride it even then. How comfortable am I to ride something that has never been open? That has had no *life* around it whatsoever? A sky ride like that?
It's been open almost all season. To say that it "has never been open" and "has no life around it whatsoever" is just plain wrong. It even ran both sides this season.
'She might be getting things confused.'
'She' is not getting things confused. I know what a sky ride is. I grew up alternating between Hershey Park and Kings Dominion every summer since I was 3. That was probably before you were born. But that's beside the point.
I went to SFGAdv on June 11th and also on August 24th - no Sky Ride operation. No signs of anything ever happening around Sky Ride, either. no people, no staff, no life, no anything. No maintenance, no indication that anything had, was, or would ever happen around the sky ride. No signs, at the sky ride, saying that the sky ride was closed for the day, or temporarily closed. Yeah, maybe they had a little sign off to the side, at the entrance to the park, listing sky ride as being one of the attractions being closed. Big Friggin Deal.
Even the Buckaneer had a sign in front of it saying it was temporarily closed.
When a ride doesn't even have the courtesy of a sign in front of it saying it is closed, gives a strong signal that the park ceases to care who or what knows that the ride is closed.
Maybe I'm holding higher standards than should be reasonable these days and in the year 2006, but when I was growing up heading out to KD, the Sky Ride was always operating. Lights were on, Staff was there, Paint was in a state indicating that the system was being used. Maybe it's too much to consider that parks or even park guests consider the sky ride to be a central aspect of a park. It's only a huge structure spanning a significant area of a park, and should be kept presentable and looking 'alive.' The one at SFGAdv does not look alive. It looks neglected.
The cars, too, look pathetic. Two colors. The park could show a little interest. Get them painted different colors to light up the sky in a rainbow of colors. How friggin boring to have the cars on two colors. If I was a kid, I'd think the park didn't care about their sky ride, and you know what, I'd be correct.
Six Flags management, heck the SFGAdv management, should look at one of the Cedar Point web cams. The one that shows the sky ride operating with cars in a rainbow of different, beaming, happy colors. Showing life.
Don't get me wrong - I enjoy SFGAdv very much. That's why I care about even typing this stuff.
- J
ErinGoBraugh said:
'Accident'? 'Scuse me?'She might be getting things confused.'
'She' is not getting things confused. I know what a sky ride is. I grew up alternating between Hershey Park and Kings Dominion every summer since I was 3. That was probably before you were born. But that's beside the point.
I went to SFGAdv on June 11th and also on August 24th - no Sky Ride operation. No signs of anything ever happening around Sky Ride, either. no people, no staff, no life, no anything. No maintenance, no indication that anything had, was, or would ever happen around the sky ride. No signs, at the sky ride, saying that the sky ride was closed for the day, or temporarily closed. Yeah, maybe they had a little sign off to the side, at the entrance to the park, listing sky ride as being one of the attractions being closed. Big Friggin Deal.
Even the Buckaneer had a sign in front of it saying it was temporarily closed.
When a ride doesn't even have the courtesy of a sign in front of it saying it is closed, gives a strong signal that the park ceases to care who or what knows that the ride is closed.
Maybe I'm holding higher standards than should be reasonable these days and in the year 2006, but when I was growing up heading out to KD, the Sky Ride was always operating. Lights were on, Staff was there, Paint was in a state indicating that the system was being used. Maybe it's too much to consider that parks or even park guests consider the sky ride to be a central aspect of a park. It's only a huge structure spanning a significant area of a park, and should be kept presentable and looking 'alive.' The one at SFGAdv does not look alive. It looks neglected.
The cars, too, look pathetic. Two colors. The park could show a little interest. Get them painted different colors to light up the sky in a rainbow of colors. How friggin boring to have the cars on two colors. If I was a kid, I'd think the park didn't care about their sky ride, and you know what, I'd be correct.
Six Flags management, heck the SFGAdv management, should look at one of the Cedar Point web cams. The one that shows the sky ride operating with cars in a rainbow of different, beaming, happy colors. Showing life.
Don't get me wrong - I enjoy SFGAdv very much. That's why I care about even typing this stuff.
- J
I was referring to the Chiller maam, not the skyride ;)
Uppity much?
--Madison
*** Edited 8/30/2006 4:19:51 AM UTC by Willh51***
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