Would it be cost effective to modify Shockwave?

Shockwave was incredibly smooth & fun when it first opened in the late 80s. I even waited 3 hours to ride it when it debuted as the tallest rollercoaster in the world, boasting the most inversions on a coaster at the time. It's tragic how poorly it aged, especially considering it was my favorite ride at SFGam until the late 90s.

If it does get moved to a new home, I would hope that Six Flags hires S&S/Arrow to fabricate some sort of helix to ease the transition into the mid-course brakes. I'd also love to see it re-worked, with enclosed portions and creative themeing. Either way, it would be a shame to see a once quality ride go to waste after lying on a hill near the Great America employee parking lot for 2 years.

Please forgive me while I temporarily hijack this thread for a public service announcement.

If you are going to misspell stuff in your post, please don't do it in the thread title. How difficult is it to give your thread title a once over before hitting the submit button. Granted this post is from one of the most prolific thread starters since our very own Pancake Boy, CP No Nuts, but for christs sake please check your thread's title! It's simple and it wont bug me like an out of place window shade would bother Monk.

We now return you to your normally unhijacked discussion of a terrible Arrow Multi Looper.

I love Monk!

"Kiddie hypers" are the Beemas...:)

NOW, back to your discussion of the bad Arrow looper....

And what a spelling error it is!

-Nate
Edit: Greg ruined all the fun. *** Edited 5/27/2004 2:35:31 AM UTC by coasterdude318***

You know you're tired when you don't even notice such things...

Fixed.
--Greg

Kick The Sky - Get a life. I wood preefeer u b anal sumware else.

For my opinion, copy Rollergator's first post. I hope we are both wrong, and something happens.

Dear Word-

I think that Bob does have a life already.

At least, that's what I hear anyway. I haven't seen any evidence of it yet. ;)

Ooooh! ... "Kick The Sky"

"No you didn't"...

heehee...

Anyway... I still miss the "Shockwave" of old, but I appreciate the funny feedback from our more critical Coasterbuzz peers... Please don't be offended too much "Cedar 'Counter' Point"...

I agree that the spelling error in the title bugged me a bit... I'm glad it was corrected. If I spelled anything incorrectly in this post, please feel free to make fun of me... (heh)

-GH

*** Edited 5/27/2004 1:44:31 PM UTC by djgreghaus***