Six Flags 2004 plans

Way to beat me to the punch-thats what I get for spending 10 minutes staring into space thinking about boobies...errr, I mean rollercoasters.

What the heck is an Intamin Halfpipe? SFEG is getting it and I'd like to add it to my RCT recreation.

I am very happy about the Intamin Halfpipe. The ride looks awsome. I think SF may have finally realized the true potentional SFEG has to make some money. I can still say that I am truly surprised though.

The hammerhead stall sounds more like a skateboard halfpipe to me... How sweet would it be to see a Tony Hawk themed stall? And no, I'm not a skater. *** Edited 1/8/2004 6:30:32 PM UTC by ShaneDenmark***

I'm getting word that SFA may be adding at least one new flat this year.

Humm....Sounds like flats in almost all the parks for this year.

Wounder what a flat would normaly run $$$$$$? SFI media site stated that the company would use the $75,000,000.00 on investing into all of the parks for the 2004 season + their ride routation program... *** Edited 1/8/2004 4:48:44 AM UTC by ACEAND1***

I wish that Great America was getting what it absolutely needs-HIGH CAPACITY FLATS. Personally, it would be great to see a couple of the giant Huss flats on the ride roster and not the small Huss flats. Don't get me wrong, I like the Huss flats, but Great America has too many of the Ist Generation flats and none of the 2nd generation flats.

A Huss Frisbee XL and a Giant Top Spin would compliment the great coaster lineup that they have. Those two flats would place SFGAM in a new realm of thrills and truly above the other parks in the country-except Kings Island (for obvious reasons).

I would love to see SF install HIGH CAPACITY flats in all of their parks. *** Edited 1/8/2004 5:13:14 AM UTC by ACEAND1***

Amusement Businesses Reports that Six Flags will be spending 45 million on amenities. Which 15 million of that will be spend on bathrooms.

Carlo

Awesome! Looks like the SF people are going all out this year as far as flats!

I am so happy to hear the sweet stuff coming to Great America. I love ALL those Reverchon miceys, as long as you fill the seat with as much weight as possible. :-)

-Tina

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Dptalon05 said:
What the heck is an Intamin Halfpipe? SFEG is getting it and I'd like to add it to my RCT recreation.

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Someone didn't read the entre thread.

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Mamoosh said:
The difference between Vekoma's Hammerhead Stall and Intamin's Half Pipe is this:

IHP - think of it like a giant Zamperla Disk-O. The two pods of seats rotate as the car slides back and forth along the track.

VHS - cars would face the direction of travel. As they "stalled" at one of the ends of the "u" and reversed the car would turn 180* so riders were then facing the direction of travel [facing straight down]. Once the car reached the other end of the "u" the car would turn 180* again...and so forth.

Got it? ;)

mOOSH

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Thanks Mooshie! That clears it up. I think I've actually heard this mentioned before but it was a while back. Sounds interesting. I was beginning to wonder how long it would take to see any of the coasters that the smaller parks overseas have on this side of the world. Kudos to Six Flags for the IHP. Sounds cool.

Six Flags Hurricane Harbor in Arlington is getting a Tornado slide. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/7660267.htm

I bet Sfgam won't name the mouse coaster with any loony toon characters name. You know why? They have to pay royalties to use those kinds of names to time warner because they own the characters and names.

Edit ** Sorry about the double post, i didn't mean to. *** Edited 1/12/2004 6:39:49 AM UTC by booya***

I bet Sfgam won't name the mouse coaster with any loony toon characters name. You know why? They have to pay royalties to use those kinds of names to time warner because they own the characters and names.

Any more rides going to be getting for the other parks??

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ShaneDenmark said:
How sweet would it be to see a Tony Hawk themed stall? And no, I'm not a skater.

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I'm thinking bitter. Tony hawk has become tacky in the way the media has idolized him. The only things with his name on them that are still *cool* are his video games.

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If you were a skater, you'd know that.;)

Just drove arond Frontier City today and the trains from the Diamondback were sitting on the parking lot, looks like the Diamondback is getting a complete over-haul of the trains and the track, there were about 4-6 cars sitting out-side of the fence watching as the trains were being worked on, also, there were maintance trucks all over the park and the corporate parking lot was almost filled till about 6:30 or so.....

Six Flags Hurricane Harbor next to Magic Mountain is currently assembling their own ProSlide 'Tornado' funnel ride. Here are pictures of it being assembled near the water park in the parking area.

http://www.surfchaos.com/slide/

I totally agree with the previous statement made about SFDL. There is so much expantion that could be made, but they just sit around and collect the money. It seems to me that they are afraied to make a move. SFDL could be the greatest amusement park in NY. I guess that they won't put anything new in until they post a loss for the season. As far as SFWOA beeing the worst of the two parks, they sure have alot more to do there. I'de rather go there and be boared riding 10 coasters than being board at SFDL riding 5 coasters