Where are the rides from Astroworld going??

SFAW's Greezed Lightnin has a better launch, the insane hang time on the drop as well as negative-g's going up the back spike so it has plenty of things that Mr. Freeze doesn't.

i herd that theres going to be a new disnyland built in katy Tx in next years to come and their was land sold about 300+ acers sold years ago and i heard that it was bought by disny.

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Paul Drabek said:
I say send the Schwarzkopf's to parks near me. You could put Greezed Lightnin over at SFStL and Viper would fit nicely at SFKK. Other than that I'd love to see XLR-8 saved albeit with new Vekoma floorless trains and Ultra-Twister. If the Texas Cyclone is saved I say scrap the Morgans and get a real train.

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If anything gets saved, currently the word is the trains and perhaps the track may be re-used. The structure becomes scrap definitely.

Skuller that rumor has been around for ages. Heck I first heard of it when I went to high school back in the 1980's about 10 miles away from Katy, TX. My gut reaction is that it will happen about the same time as Gaylord Enterprises tears down Shopryland and starts rebuilding Opryland USA.

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i herd that theres going to be a new disnyland

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Friends don't let friends post drunk.

You know it's a bad thing when you have to take a breatholizer test to post on here! LOL

Maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea! LOL

John Peck's right. The majority of the park's coasters will never operate again... at least not at a Six Flags property.

I can see Serial Thriller and another major coaster going across the state to Fiesta Texas. Fiesta Texas is the one big Six Flags park that doesn't have an inverted coaster of any kind. Greezed Lightnin, Viper, Batman and Chaos could end up at any of the smaller Six Flags properties like Enchanted Village, The Great Escape or Frontier City since those parks can't really justify the addition of a brand-new coaster. Send a few flats to other Six Flags parks and Astroworld is just about gone.

Rob, not to be a smarty-pants, but I don't believe Astroworld has a single ride named Chaos, at least not a coaster.

Perhaps he means the chaos of the urban brawls that periodically erupt at Astroworld?

What am I thinking of? The indoor coaster? Maybe it was called Chaos before it got relocated to Astroworld?

You're thinking of the indoor vekoma coaster that was at Opryland and stored at Old Indiana. I think it's toast though. Astroworld has something similar (though much smaller), Mayan Mindbender.

That's what I'm thinking of. What I meant was Mayan Mindbender, which used to be Boblo's Nightmare.

So was it true that some park chains were interested in this park, all was it all just a bunch of wishful thinking?

I'm planning on coming down, though!
I did it for Miracle strip, Im sure as hell am going to do it for Astroworld!

So was it true that some park chains were interested in this park, all was it all just a bunch of wishful thinking?

I'm planning on coming down, though!
I did it for Miracle strip, Im sure as hell am going to do it for Astroworld!

I'm thinking it was sparked by a comment made by Daniel Snyder, which ended up just being his speculation. Unfortunately it looks like there is little any company could do to buy the park even if they wanted.

Well, where ever they put Swat, I plan to visit that park. That is one of my favorite Flats around.

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Cameraman said:
I'm kind of sick of this. Why is the coaster enthusiast community more concerned about where the rides are going to than protesting or showing disgust for the brutal annihilation of a fairly old park. My two cents. If this park were located in the Northeast there would be a much, MUCH different story. You all are making me really sick. There's plenty of time to speculate where rides go once Six Flags drives the stake through the park's heart, but can we not focus on everything that's important BEFORE that happens?

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Well said! I could not have said it any better ;)

And then:

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dannerman said:
Well, the park is only around 30 years old (give or take a decade), and the decision was made (apparently in June) and there's no way to change it.. so rather than getting worked up about something we cannot change, we're accepting it, moving on, and having generally happier more fulfilled lives because we're not developing stress-based physiological conditions (did I get enough big words in there? )

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Well, at 37 years old Astroworld is only the 4th oldest theme park that OPENED as a major theme park and survived for more than a few seasons (Disneyland, 1955; SFOT, 1961; SFOG, 1967; Astroworld, 1968.)

It is older than other classic regional theme parks such as King's Island, King's Dominion, Carowinds, both Great Americas, Magic Mountain, Great Adventure, Worlds Of Fun, and even the Magic Kingdom at WDW!

Astroworld is also the first regional theme park to succeed that was founded by someone OTHER than Walt Disney or Angus Wynne. So I'd say that it has a pretty solid historical pedigree for a park "only around 30 years old" as you put it.

Also, no one is developing "stress based psycological conditions" as you put it, just because we care more about the park than where the rides will end up. I guess some of you are enjoying "happier, more fulfilled lives" at the selfish prospect of getting a new ride at Astroworld's expense, which I think is kind of sad.

I agree with Cameraman that if the park was in the region of the people who were drooling over the rides, instead of somewhere they may consider "out of the way" that they may never get to, they would be singing a different tune.

As a park enthusiast, if a classic major park in what I consider an "out of the way" place - such as the northeast or the west coast - was closing, I would still want that park to be saved, even if I had never been there. Simply because I view any park closing as sad, and would rather see it survive even if it meant my home park couldn't be a vulture and scavenge one of the rides.

If we come off as having "psycological conditions" simply for being enthusiastic enough about a park to want to see it survive, than some of you are coming of as greedy, ruthless scavengers whose desperate desire for something new at your home park is blinding you to what is really right and wrong regarding Astroworld's pending closing.

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I don't know if CF was interested in the park or if Snyder was hoping that CF was interested in the park. Don't forget that the owner of Williams Grove also mentioned the idea of selling his park to CF so maybe CF is a hopeful buyer for everyone looking to sell a park?

I never said anything about "psycological conditions", so please don't use quotes. (Also, it's spelled "psychological", not "psycological"). I said physiological, which is quite different.

Psychological conditions are things like paranoia, infereority complexes, etc.

Physiological conditions include things like stomach aches, stomach ulcers due to stress, migraines due to stress, etc.

I understand being enthusiastic about a park (especially if it's a home park or has some other deep emotional attachment value), however stressing yourself out over ways to save it when the nails are already in the coffin (and have been for some time) or stressing out about people picking apart the rides for their own parks.. why subject yourself to all that stress, and the possible negative physiological conditions that can be caused by too much stress?

EDIT: To what Cameraman said, Six Flags has driven the stake through the park's heart... according to newspaper articles, back in June.

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