Ultra Twister from Six Flags Astroworld moved to Six Flags America?

^You're already getting a spinner so count yourself lucky at SFSTL.

As for SFA,I was over on SFAFans recently & heard something about supes being down for an extended period of time because they have to rebuild the lift motor....has anyone else heard anything more about this?

vacoasterfreak: I made no mention of the coaster being called Batman. That wasn't what I was correcting Vincent for.

He said that the SLC was at Darien Lake, which it's not (they already have one). The SLC from SFAW is at TGE, and the Intamin standup is at SFDL, which is what I told him.

Neither one of us made mention of the name of the coaster, though I do know it WAS called Batman: The Escape, and before that, it was called Shockwave.

^ By any moniker, that standup has the name "Standup Suckage". What a God-awful piece of (s)crap metal!

UT was at least interesting. B:TE made me wish I was on the Togo from PKD. THAT bad...

Yea, I can believe that thing is garbage. I'm generally a B&M fan, but I'm not much of a fan of their standups. If this Intamin version is any worse than PGA's & Carowinds' Vortex coasters, then it probably isn't much worth putting up.

Actually, Togo seems to have gotten 1 thing right with their standups: they have a more comfortable seat than the B&M & (I assume) Intamin ones.

Thank you rablat5 for confirming how much the B&M seat sucks. It's far too wide for us thin people. The big problem with Batman the Escape that I complained about before is the headrest. They hurt far worse than any SLC I've ever ridden. It's like hitting concrete over and over again. The last turn into the station was brutal.

Standups are such a gimmick, anyway. I definitely prefer the gimmicks of floorless coasters to these machines.

Is it even possible to make a comfortable standup coaster? Riddler's Revenge is probably the best standup coaster, but yes, those B&M seats are crappy. If only B&M would have taken a cue from TOGO this time--I think we'd have some more "tolerable" rides on our hands, though that still won't eliminate the headbanging.

I thought B:TE was an Intamin stand-up?!?

I thought Batman-The Escape was a fantastic ride. It was nice to ride a standup that had a B-TR kinda setup. Compact and wildly intense. I'm sorry, but I thought that was one cool ride.

Swoosh, it IS an Intamin standup. See my above post:

"Yea, I can believe that thing is garbage. I'm generally a B&M fan, but I'm not much of a fan of their standups. If this Intamin version is any worse than PGA's & Carowinds' Vortex coasters, then it probably isn't much worth putting up."

Sirloindude, everybody is welcome to their own opinion. I'm actually one of the rare people that actually like T2 at SFKK, at least to a certain extent. I think it's because it's the original SLC layout--not because of its roughness.

I got beat up more by Iron Wolf than I did B:TE.

So what you're saying is that B:TE is "slightly less evil" than IW....I can buy that. I'll never ride either again. One of my very best friends had to take his GF on Iron Wolf for the *credit lap*. As SOON as she said "OK, I'll go", I immediately smiled, backed away, and took pics instead. Bad is bad! ;)

I rode IW, and didn't think it was too bad for me, but those who have their ears closer to the OSTRs might not enjoy it as much. I guess it pays to be tall sometimes--other times, not as much so.

Yeah I guess that's what I'm saying, gator. :)
But I did ride both more than once, and I was even able to get my GF to re-ride B:TE with me, but it wasn't happening with IW.
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What does B:TE have to do with UT...other than the fact that they were both once in the same park?

Anyhow,the update I just read about supes is that the lift motor overheated earlier in the week<monday I believe> stranding a trainload of riders about 180ft up....good thing I wasn't on it when that happened.

I just hope they can get it back up by the time frightfest starts,then again given the park's track record so far this season<cough TSC cough> once a ride has gone down for the count it remains down.