Six Flags Over Georgia announces Dare Devil Dive roller coaster

This was posted on SFoG's facebook regarding the error about being the first beyond vertical drop in the country:

Sorry about that. It’s the country’s first beyond vertical coaster with a PAUSE element. We’re updating our materials to avoid any further confusion. Thanks.

Wow! Six Flags is looking into the smaller steel coaster market. Not bad, not bad at all. Now if they can just look at Gerstlauers Bobsleigh coasters, like Gesente Sau, or the Klotten coaster(I can never remember the name, just that it's an amazing ride.).

Upon viewing the press release....looks like they changed it. And they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling coasterbuzzers :-)

Any word on where in the park it will be located?

A "PAUSE" element? Oh la la! Now that's unprecedented! ;)

TimChat2 - I guess work has already started around the site of the old Freefall and Drive-in movie , there in the USA section, so that may be it.

Maybe the country they were referring to was the Confederate States of America.

Very glad to see that SFOG is getting a new coaster like this. It looks like fun!

Read this out loud and tell me it doesn't sound funny.

"Let's call the new ride Dare Devil Dive."

"Yes, Dare Devil Dive will have some serious marketing power."

"People will be talking about Dare Devil Dive everywhere."

Can we just call it D3?

RatherGoodBear said:
Maybe the country they were referring to was the Confederate States of America.

Even if that's so, Mystery Mine is in Tennessee.

Zing...

So umm...Isn't this coaster a little "low capacity" for such a busy park? I don't get it at all. Why are busy parks buying these single car coasters. The line could be horrendous, especially opening season.

I love the name, by the way. I don't care if it's recycled. That old ride is long gone.

Mystery Mine has 7 cars that each hold 8. They also load 2 cars at a time. Capacity is listed at 1000. While it is not a B&M level, I think it is respectable enough.

Besides if you don't want to wait you can always get a fast pass :)

Let me go pick some money off of my money tree to pay for that, Dave. :)

At a park that has a daily attendance of I'm guessing maybe 10-20,000 per day, a new roller coaster that has a hourly capacity of 1000 is not going to cut it, in my opinion.

I may be very wrong on the attendance number. I'll admit that it's just something that I pulled out of my, well, you know. :)

Does anyone have that information?

Didn't know Mystery Mine had that kind of set-up or could do that capacity. The Eurofighters I've seen generally had pretty poor throughput in parks without a great need for capacity (save perhaps Rage).

Wicked does have a dual loading station - and it's a ride I'd take over any Eurofigfhter.

Being as SFoG is the closest real roller coaster park to me, i will try to make it up there. Haven't been since Goliath was added so I am due. This looks cool. I'll give it a shot.

LostKause said:
At a park that has a daily attendance of I'm guessing maybe 10-20,000 per day, a new roller coaster that has a hourly capacity of 1000 is not going to cut it, in my opinion.

A ride that can move 5-10% of the entire crowd every hour isn't moving enough people?

Their current ride capacity per hour is 30,800. Divide that by 38 rides and you get an average capacity of 811 guests per ride per hour. Shows add another 5,700 per hour. The parking lot can hold 6,075 cars.

I can't speak to the numbers, but I doubt they'll hit their official capacity, ever.

I also know that coasters in similarly sized parks with similar capacity often have super long lines.

I have only been to Dollywood twice since the installment of Mystery Mine. In those visits, I had not seen a long line for Mystery Mine and what line there was moved steadily. Thunderhead however was running both trains, but sending one empty... with a long slow moving line.

Oh, I didn't mean Mystery Mine since Dollywood does a great job with lines. I was thinking more about other Six Flags parks that can never seem to get decent capacity out of even a 36 seater B&M or Intamin.