SFGAm riddle

Colonel, I think he counts AE as one not two.

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Sworn Whizzer hater because it took Shockwave down

Colonel, no matter what the publicity material says, by every reasonable definition, Great America had a "mere" eleven coasters at the begining of this season. Frankly, I thought they were counting Giant Drop as the twelth. I seem to remember some ad calling it one at some point.

Look American eagle is two coasters. They Both have different layouts. If Superman The escape is a coaster then american eagle is two.(no pun intended)

edit: You don't count dueling dragons as one coaster do you?

*** This post was edited by Colonel Sanders on 9/29/2002. ***

no, because the layouts are completely different.

AE just has a few differences, and it runs side-by-side

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Sworn Whizzer hater because it took Shockwave down

Doesn't matter technically they are two seperate operating coasters. If I built an exact clone of v2 right next to it that would still be a seperate coaster.

That's your opinion, and AE is one is mine. We'll just agree to disagree.

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Sworn Whizzer hater because it took Shockwave down

It's clearly two separate rides, however it only has one name.

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These days, AE has 2 completely different sides, since one is forwards, one is backwards. Hopefully they'll keep the ride that way.

I agree that AE is 2 different coasters, because think about this if the other side was at another part of the park it would be a different coaster right?

Yeah I also agree that AE is two different coasters. There are two differents tracks. So that means that AE is two coasters.

Did East River Crawler ever open this summer. I remember going to the park early in the summer and they had about 10 drums of what on the outside said oil. Maybe this ride needs a lot of maintence and the only way they could have done it is by taking the ride down and rebuilding it. That is the only reason I can think of with all of the drums around the ride earlier this summer.

I beleive that American Eagle is two coasters, because the ride on the red side is very different from the ride on the blue side. On Superman: The Escape, the ride is exactly the same on both sides.

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I dunno, I think I call racing rides, like AE and Gemini, one coaster, it's just duel tracked, but if we have a case like Primeval Whril at WDW's Animal Kingdom were it's 2 seperate, but side by side coasters, it's two. If one of those were some place else in the park with a new name it would be to, but AE, has one station and is connected, hence a duel tracked coaster.

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First: Trust me -- SFGAm will be receiving just one roller coaster next year.

Second: To get rid of ERC makes absolutely no sense. Judging by lines it is the most popular flat ride, which it should be, because it is FUN. To remove that ride permanently would be indefensible.

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SFGAm: 1)DV 2)V2 3)AE Blue 4)Viper 5)Bull

The two sides of American Eagle are *not* identical. The "back" runs are completely different (the red side has hill after hill, the blue has a long, wide turn).

-Nate

The two sides being different is the only shortcoming on our visit to SFGAm. The backwards side was running, and even got on DV, but forward AE never opened.....guess we'll have to go back...;)

rollergator the past two weekends I went to SFGAm American Eagle Red was closed all day. Either they are really short on staff or somethings got to be wrong with the ride. I don't see why they would leave a coaster not running

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rollergator the past two weekends I went to SFGAm American Eagle Red was closed all day. Either they are really short on staff or somethings got to be wrong with the ride. I don't see why they would leave a coaster not running at least one train.

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*** This post was edited by CoasterDude316 on 9/30/2002. ***

Okay: Begining last season, Great America started running only one side of the Eagle, at least in relatively light crowds. This was sort of hit and miss this year, I guess because a few people realized that some people would also want to ride facing forwards, so the red side was open quite a bit. I really hope they go back to running both sides all the time, though.

Now, how many coasters does CP have? 15. Magic Mountain? 15. Both of these parks have racing coasters, such as Gemini and Colloss. Racing coasters. That's a very important word. Because some coasters are dueling, such as (as you challenged me with, Colonel Sanders), Dueling Dragons. These coasters either have very little similarities in layout or are almost total mirror images, and get their kicks more out of making it look like the trains are going to crash into each other. On the other hand, a racer's main thing is, well, racing. Racers also must have a common layout. Now, the sides on the Eagle do split appart after the big helix, but they parralel each other almost exactly. while the mirror image helixes next to the lift hill are reminicent of a dueling coaster, the major change in direction, the turing back part of out-and-back, is in the same direction for both sides. Look at the layout. These tracks are almost exactly the same. The only real difference is one of elevation along a particular point. Granted, this makes for different rides, but it takes more than just subjective feel to create a valid definition. Now, look at most of the ride. The station, lift hill, bunny hops, and helix are all parrallel. And not only that, but they share supports. Now, Todd talked about putting different halves of various twin-type rides in different areas, and this is the main point: You can't do that on the Eagle. Try and sepreate the rides, and you find that the lift hill is one solid peice of constuction. Ditto for the helix. The station also has one support structure. The Eagle is one coaster, even if its two side have slight variations in elevation at some point. Some dueling coasters (Lightning Racer comes to mind, though I'm not sure) may share some support structure, but their overall layout is so different that they can only qualify as two seperate rides. The Eagle's layout is almost identical on both sides, period.

My understanding for a racing coaster was one entrance, one coaster!