Six Flags Great Adventure announces new "super boomerang" roller coaster

I guess I’ll look that up. Thanks, Six Flags for the graphics.

I was gonna post about their new safari glamping spa thing, but the text on the page is the same as that of the new coaster.

I still find the lack of renders or any imaging downright perplexing.

The imagery is on their Facebook. They still haven't figured out how to website.

https://www.facebook.com/si...3FaF3VqiYl

Not sure what everyone's talking about. You guys aren't seeing the rendering on the Six Flags site?

It wasn't there earlier. I assumed it was a relocation but this looks interesting.

So, it looks like Great Adventure is finally going to have that “hotel” (using the term loosely, here) it didn’t need.

That Savannah camping experience looks pretty cool, if you ask me.

Hopefully they outsource the resort management to a company that actually has hotel experience...

If they needed to outsource to a company that actually has hotel experience, they would have done it by now.

Again, I don’t understand SF corp’s cap ex plans. How do you put such a low-capacity ride (supposedly 800pph according to Vekoma) in one of your top attendance parks? The coaster I’m sure is going to be fun but I think a dueling version would have been a smarter choice for that park.

… the second in the world, making it as unique as the iconic speedster who inspired it

So … not unique?

Gunkey Monkey:

Again, I don’t understand SF corp’s cap ex plans. How do you put such a low-capacity ride (supposedly 800pph according to Vekoma) in one of your top attendance parks? The coaster I’m sure is going to be fun but I think a dueling version would have been a smarter choice for that park.

I'm sure they'll sell Flash Passes for it though.

Gunkey Monkey:

How do you put such a low-capacity ride (supposedly 800pph according to Vekoma) in one of your top attendance parks?

I imagine their free-spin coaster is about the same hourly capacity as this new coaster. It will be fine after the first season.

The ride looks like fun, but parks this size need to show their guests that they find their time valuable by building rides with higher capacity. I'd imagine that waiting in long lines is the biggest complaint guests have about visiting an amusement park.

FlashPass: The Ride.

LostKause:

parks this size need to show their guests that they find their time valuable

Since when has this ever applied to Six Flags?

i would guess that SF doesn’t care about the capacity. They are cash strapped so they are installing bargain attractions to get something new in the parks.

While this is a decent investment, it appears they got a last minute deal on it as was indicated in their investors meeting.

This looks like a good ride. The one in China does have some kind of switch track at the back spike that looks like a transfer track. Not sure why it would have that with one train.

However Vekoma could probably build this ride with a switch track so it would operate with two trains. But that would cost money that SF doesn’t have.

The only disappointing aspect of this ride is that it doesn’t go very far up the forward spike. Most of the train stops on the slope when it reverses directions.

I know, I know. Some of you guys don't understand that guests don't like to stand in line all day for one ride. I'm Cedar Point old school. Capacity is king. The less time guests stand in line, the more time they have to empty out their wallets. They are also happier overall, which also helps them want to spend money. They also might decide to make a return visit sooner than later.

If you own a park, you don't want to give them a reason to decide not to come the next time the family or group wants to do something fun. "Last time we went to that park, we stood in line so long that we only got to go on six rides all day. Let's go to the other park instead." When I was a cute, young Lost Kause, I recall hearing that exact sentence from my family. We were even talking about Six Flags Great Adventure.

That's the way I see it. You can disagree if you want. I don't need to explain it any better than that.

super7*:

They are cash strapped

According to whom?