Six Flags New England plans to "reinvent" Superman for next season

rathofdoom said:
Hopefully they'll be smart enough to use music from the Superman cartoons and movies on the ride.

I can't see why it would be anything else. For this reason it will probably be similar to the noise pollution that can be found on your local Six Flags midway nowadays. If I had to take a shot in the dark at this point I'd say the 3 Doors Down song "Kryptonite". I hope I'm wrong.

Off all the things wrong in Six Flags parks and they pick the one piece of perfection that they have and tinker with it!?

I've never been to this park, but I've been told that this ride is the most fun you can have on a roller coaster. Since I have no plans to go this fall, it's too bad that I won't be able to experience it before they reinvent it.

Looking through the Six Flags announcements, it seem like an "off" year, with most of the new attractions done on the cheap- or at least nothing major. Or am I forgetting/missing something?

Goliath Freak suggested:

...I've heard the new trains will feature the same type restraints that El Toro utilizes with the U shaped lap bars and double lock seat belts.

Ugh. That was what I hated about El Toro. Mostly because of the need to have the lap bar squashing me in places that really prefer not to be squashed, which served to make the airtime moments on that ride more painful than fun.

I still think they would be better off to adapt the overhead lap bars, as they appear to be doing on Pilgrims Plunge. Wraps around the rider so that the rider won't come out, has a safety belt to keep the rider from slipping out any other way, and eliminates the need for a conventional seat belt, which is something this industry really, really, really needs to do desperately...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

If only they could reinvent their corporate image, maybe their stock price would climb to the point where they could make real capital expansion plans instead of some gimmick ones like these.

The difference between X2 and this is that X was more or less broken while S:RoS is more or less perfect (when the fog is running).

ApolloAndy said:
The difference between X2 and this is that X was more or less broken while S:RoS is more or less perfect (when the fog is running).

Superman may not have been having noticeable issues, but how do you know it doesn't need similar work? I have a very good feeling that this is simply Six Flags making a necessary and sizable maintenance investment marketable. Something like "as long as we need new trains, why don't we add sound?"

I meant the ride experience in general. Not the condition of the trains.

This is pointless. I don't understand this "revampering" of rides. I think SF should invest on new rides.