Six Flags marketing does it again

We all know Six Flags' infamous technique of marketing new coasters by showing pictures of similar coasters at their other parks.  For example on the SFGAdv Guide this year is a picture of Raging Bull @ SFGAm.  Well on Six Flags Over Georgia's official website, they have a picture of X-Flight to help market Superman: Ultimate Flight.  It's pretty funny because the color really don't get the Superman theme across.  Check it out at http://www.sixflags.com/parks/overgeorgia/home.asp.
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Someone should sue them for false advertising...I think it would make an interesting case ;)
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Rollercoasters are my life, I think about them more than I think about....wait, thats all I think about :)

I always laugh at things like that.  I don't understand why they don't just hire artists to draw their version of the ride.
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The thing is the GP doesn't care.  We notice those kind of things.  How many GP will see that and go "Wait...that's a Vekoma flyer. I'm not going now!"?
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I am not sure I would go as far as to say “false advertising”.  Considering that SfoG’s new ride does not yet exist  (do any other ones like it exist?) they couldn’t have showed the vacant piece of ground where it is going to go.    While granted, they could have used an artist’s impression of their version of the ride,  they simply took the easy way out and used a picture of a similar ride at another Six Flag’s park.

 Technically, Hersheypark is doing the same thing.  In their advertising for Roller Soaker, they have a picture of a similar type of coaster (Super Saturator from PCW?).  Granted, at least these two coasters are of the same type and by the same manufacturer, but still it is a picture of a different coaster .   (I do remember someone on here or another board saying… “Odd, I don’t remember a lake near Canyon River Rapids… There is a lake in the picture…”  not realizing that this picture was borrowed from another park).   Compare that to when they were building Lightning Racer.  Their image of that coaster was a computer generated image of the coaster combined with a photograph of the land it was going to go on.
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"I wasn't always this cynical, but then I started kindergarden..."

Who didn't see that one coming? ;)

And who other than us, is going to care?

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Have you ever considered that it may not be the park that's the problem, but YOU???

Are you going to sue them because they show a Vekoma and deliver a B&M?  Sounds like a mighty weak case to me.

I've never been bothered by this problem. As long as the picture is close to what they are getting then no big deal.

What is bothersome are those commercials for Wyandot Lake that show a steel looping coaster.
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Who cares......

Millrace: I completly agree with you 100%

I remember some old cardboard cut out ads for Riddler actually featured a picture of the old Shockwave with altered colors.  I also have a poster of SFMW's V2, but the colors don't quite seem natural...the yellow track looks to have a slight red tint to it.  Then of course there is the classic Goliath T-shirt featuring Superman:  Ride of Steel from SFDL.  Deja Vu comercials featured computer rendered shots of Deja Vu intercut with footage of Superman: Ultimate Escape at SFWoA.

-Ride_Op

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Its honesty not a big catastrophe, its just a quicker way of getting a picture unstead of waiting for the actual coaster to test.

Furthermore, how do we know this isn't the edited picture of Stealth for the picture of X-flight?;-)

*** This post was edited by WCS4488 on 1/28/2002. ***

Paramount's does this to, when Top Gun at PC was being built they showed pics of Top Gun PGA.  I still think its no biggie
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Is there somthing more, then what I've been handed, I've been crawling in the dark looking for the answers!- Hoobastank

Remember, those are meant for the local southern GP, not rabid coaster junkies.  They need to show them what one of dem dare flyin roller rides looks like!
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The name of the image is even xflight701.jpg.  They didn't even bothering changing the name of the file.  They could have at least edited the colors of the track and removed the "X-Flight" logo from the front of the trains!  Hilarious.
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When ever  they have commercials for S:ROS at SFDL they always and still are showing footage of Viper at SFMM. It is really funny because in the line first-timers are like "on tv this thing went upsidedown this ride is going to suck"
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SFDL NEEDS A GOOD EXPANSION!!!!!!!

You know what's really bad?

That image is nearly SEVEN MEGABYTES. I don't know if it being the wrong coaster is their biggest problem here...

No kidding. I have a T1 in my office, and it took about 30 seconds to load.
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Doesn't it seem as though morons always have the caps lock on?

I wondered why it took so long to load...

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sfmw still uses pics of S:ue for V2 and in the specs of the ride they say the colors to be blue with red track. And its been open for a year!
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When will they get rid of the grizzly

Great Adventure's First commercail for Nitro didn't show Nitro at all! They showed Golioth and Raging Bull. It was terrible! Then for the other coasters they showed Medusa, Viper, The Great American Scream Machine, and Joker's Jinx......?

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