Six Flags Magic Mountain announces new B&M floorless
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Six Flags Magic Mountain announced yesterday the construction of Scream, a 150-foot tall B&M floorless coaster that will feature that will feature the usual sequence of inversions. The ride will have about 4,000 feet of track.
Read the press release from PR Newswire via Yahoo.
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This is what Cedar Point gets for trying to keep all of us talking about the new mystery coaster. They have their coaster nearly complete and Six Flags trumps them by merely announcing that they are breaking their own "World Record" for number of roller coasters.
What? Nobody trumped anyone. Nobody in Cleveland cares about Magic Mountain, as I'm sure nobody in SoCal cares about Cedar Point.
It isn't really about records... it's about getting the locals in the park, and what a park thousands of miles away does has zero impact on what they're doing.
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I followded the pattern in my mind of what the ride may look like, it sounds alot like Medusa east, , if it is the same height? im not sure.... ,but if it is anything like Medusa east great for SFMM becuase Medusa east is a people eater (no bun intended).
Only an enthusiast who obsesses over stats, records and the such would even remotely care. It's irrelevant.
Getting things right is never irrelevant, no matter how minor or insignificant, especially when dealing with things that are going to be circulated and printed in newspapers. We should all strive to be as accurate as possible.
Anyhoo, SCREAM looks like it'll be a real crowd pleaser for the so-called GP, if not the first pick of enthusiasts. Sounds like it'll be fun.
I thought that CP wanted to try to upstage all other parks (especially SFWoA) by announcing their coaster last. You may say that SFMM beat them to the punch, but it really isn't anything too spectacular in regards to specs. Not to say it won't be a good coaster, but I think that CP's new coaster will wow everyone in the GP just by it's mammoth size.
Sure enthusiasts will ***** because they think they are entitled to some 10,000 foot monster, but what're ya gonna do?
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Did I miss a SFMM coaster somehow? They say this gives them every kind of coaster possible....but where is their flyer? I checked RCDB just to be sure and yep....no flyer!
Not that is matters any, just wish they would investigate their claims before they make them.
(and just to be technical, since they phrase this "floorless" as a "type", they also lack a looping woodie, complete circuit LIM, inverted impulse (ala V2), Giga, thrust air, and probably more but I think this enough to make the point)
SFMM didn't beat anybody to a 'punch'. If both parks were building floorless coasters, sure they would have. If they were both going for the same world record (a la 2000), they might have too.
Don't get me wrong--there's nothing I'd like more than a seven-inversion floorless at my home park (except a wavepool), but I do believe it might be standing in the shadow of something this summer that's wayyyyyy bigger and orange. And red. And white. Did I miss a color?
-'Playa
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"The ride sounds like a lot of fun, and I like it how they came up with an original name instead of the usual SF names. But seriously, "Scream!" is a pretty pathetic name."
But "Scream!" is a generic Six Flags name, it's not the first time they've used it (and probably not the last).
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Getting things right is never irrelevant, no matter how minor or insignificant, especially when dealing with things that are going to be circulated and printed in newspapers. We should all strive to be as accurate as possible.
Yes, but selling your amusement park and being accurate are two totally different things. It's marketing, it matters to almost no one, and in the big scheme of things it is truly irrelevant.
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Yes, but selling your amusement park and being accurate are two totally different things. It's marketing, it matters to almost no one, and in the big scheme of things it is truly irrelevant.
No, they're not different at all, and its not irrelevant. If have no problem with creative wording to sell your ride, that's simply the advertising world. But outright misstatements are never a good thing in any aspect of life. No matter how small or 'minor' it is, the truth is always important. Always.
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There are already rides at SF parks named Scream, CobraRoller: SFNE's & SFFT's S&S Towers.
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If the *truth* were really so important, people would not feel so compelled to lie. Next time your mom/sister/auntie/significant other asks you do they look fat/ugly/stupid while your in the middle of doing something you like, ask yourself is the *truth* really worth it!
Besides, SFI did not "lie". They made an error...
lata, jeremy aka The Spin Master (and I aint talking breakdancin')
That's why Paul Ruben's there--to slather on another layer of hype. Unless you've got your nose in the books, nobody knows better anyway. Besides, people waiting in line have more interesting stats half the time.
Now about your mom, sister, auntie and 'T'....sounds like a personal problem. Can't help you there. Besides, that question is worse than Kryptonite to Captain Obvious.
-'Playa *** This post was edited by CoastaPlaya on 11/14/2002. ***
The Scream Trilogy aren't Warner Bros. films, so I strongly doubt the name would come from the movies. Scream isn't nearly as bad of a name as it could have been and it's the only coaster in the World with that name as far as I know(I actually like it). The colors are great and really flashy as well and I'm glad they didn't go with the Medusa theme to spoil the unique name in the west.
As far as the ride itself goes, the layout sounds a lot more interesting than anything "that other park" has come up with in the last 6/7 years. Kraken and Knight Flight are two of my favorite coasters, so I'll be really looking forward to this one when I get to go back! The speed hills should add some nice extra thrills! =^D
Danny, who would have zero complaint about getting this at this home park
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