SFGAM 2003 Construction Photo's

they upped the number of cars since they downed the number of trains.

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-Bob (formerly Coaster Jedi)
your resident film major...beyotch!

I'd just like to give my view of processing yesterday.

I arrived at about 6:45 to process. It was amazing, I got out of the car and went over to look at IT. Within a minute of getting out of the car a train was going up the lift hill. It was beautiful. And then when it came through the pretzel loop I saw a guy in the front seat. He looked like he was having a great time. I was so jealous. They also tested another train that had all dummies, but there was a real person on one train. Turning into the station after the break run I managed to call out "When's our turn?" He answered niceley, "May 3rd." In which I replied "I'll be there." It was so much fun to see it test. I was also quite impressed with the processing and free pizza and so on. It went very quickly and smoothly. Seeing Superman has only made the last 10 days of anticipation even harder to bear.

I just posted an update from yesterday http://groups.msn.com/kylecoasterworld/toddreinemannsmufapril22.msnw theses are awesome photos I didnt take them but But Todd didnt have a site so he let me put them on mine.Check them out.

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Fly with the Man of Steel in 2003
SFGAm

Those are good pics! Thanks!

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Millenium Force- 1
Wicked Twister- 7
Magnum- 7
TTD- 0

Great pics... The anticipation is building now.

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Don't Fight It, Ride It, RAGING BULL!!!!!!- Six Flags Great America

I got a question about the trains.. Does Sfgadv have three trains or two like sfgram? There both built the same, and looks like the storage shed can only hold two trains at sfgadv and sfgram only has two. Maybe im not seeing the third at sfgadv. When I look at pics of it I only see two.

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Six Flags Great America Rules, I finally get to fly this year

GAd is the same as GAm. they both have two trains with seven cars per train. they also both have one station as opposed to SFOG's version.

on a final note, and please nobody take this the wrong way, if you're looking for the number of trains or cars on a coaster, rcdb.com is your friend.

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-Bob (formerly Coaster Jedi)
your resident film major...beyotch!

Umm SFGA Bob did you look at RCDB.com for that info? SFGAdv's and SFGAm's S:UF will have 8 cars not 7. :)

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Final Deja Vu Count for the 2002 Season: 52
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Update!! I got pictures today!!! The station is nearing completion. There are a few boards left to nail up. I also saw that four Giant Drop cars were suspended at the top, one in the middle, and the other was God knows where.

Anyways, as I was taking pictures past the yellow barricade at the drop-off, we saw the security truck. I was like SECURITY!! Funny part was, they were coming to tell us to get behind the barricade.

Pics right here!
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*** This post was edited by swimmerkev 4/24/2003 8:01:30 PM ***

I was there too like 30 minutes ago. Superman does look AWESOME in person. I also did notice how Giant having 4 cars at the top. Right by Hometown Fun Machine there's that Six Flags employee (or security guard I dunno) at the park thing. I was gonna go past him and see how far I could go since I didnt see any barricades but I couldnt cause I wasnt sure. I thought about just going behind him but I didnt. How far could you go into the park?

Seeing it in person is so aweome it's touching. I went in the drop-off zone. I went past the yellow barracades. I got as close as 5 yards from the fence.

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Great pics swimmerkev.. now lets just hope we get the landscaping we all hope for espically something like batman's which brings out the best in the ride

Thank you, CrAzedFaNaTiC. Finally some POSATIVE words. I think the vegetation is going to grow in very fast. It's going to be a great ride! *Looks down* Only 8 days guys!
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Coasterdude: *that's* why I want people to go to rcdb.com. I make mistakes, rcdb doesn't. ;) anyway, sorry about the typo

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-Bob (formerly Coaster Jedi)
your resident film major...beyotch!

I went to the park for processing today and I noticed that DejaVu has a crane by it, does any one know why that is? Also, does the park usualy clean out the pool at the entrance? I also noticed that S:UF looks alot better in person than in the pictures, i was shocked.
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Shockwave @ SFGAm R.I.P 1988-2002
"The Demon awaits you ..." - Great America
*** This post was edited by SFGA 11 4/24/2003 10:17:54 PM ***

What is the approximate size of this crane

it probably just vallyed again. no biggie.

ondrew

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p.s. contrary to popular belief i am not an idiot nor i am i a child.

I saw it too. It looks like the cranes(s) that were there in 2001 when it was being constucted. You're probably right, ondrew, i think it vallyed too but I didn't see a train or anything.
*** This post was edited by SFGAMan 4/25/2003 9:33:27 AM ***

I'll be going to the park this Sunday so I'll get some pics.. There's not too much I can take pics of that you people have not already seen though. Are there any requests? I can't gaurentee(sp?) anything but I'll try my best.

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Don't Fight It, Ride It, RAGING BULL!!!!!!- Six Flags Great America

Eh...the pics are o.k. I've seen better though. You cant really see much of the landscape, but it does show the ride well.