AJRNWO316
07-27-2001, 08:19 PM
I’ve bitten my lip for too long on this topic and can’t any longer (this topic being what Six Flags Great Adventure may be getting next year). I’ve scoured the internet, read all the rumors and I can’t stand it anymore. Now I know it’s perfectly normal to speculate, and say, “Oh, I heard they will be getting a (insert coaster here)” but there’s just some things that get to me.
First off, I can’t stand when people say where they got their sources from especially when it’s something ridiculous. For example:My brothers best friends uncles fathers half brothers half sisters dogs owners husband is a maintenance worker at the park and he is friends with someone high up in management
and this is what they told me... Just post your rumor and move on.
That’s the thing I really can’t stand and had to get that off my chest. Lets move on to business.
Ever since Nitro has opened, here is what has been rumored for the 2002 season: A standup, a new woodie, a v2, deja vu, acrophobia, a wild mouse, an inverted wild mouse, a new inverted, a giga coaster, a 4d, a tilt coaster, and a flying dutchman.
We can take a v2, deja vu, wild mouse, inverted wild mouse, and a tilt coaster off the list As you know, Great Adventure is a very busy park and a very busy park needs high capacity rides. Any type of wild mouse ride or tilt coaster isn’t anywhere near high capacity. A wild mouse ride can hold 2 or 3 people per car and maybe have 10 cars on the track at once. The lines would be out the door for this thing. How many people out there want to go on a wild mouse after getting off Nitro? I know I don’t. A tilt coaster i think can take 800 people per hour. Not up to Great Adventure standards. Plus the one they are building in Taiwan now is having all sorts of troubles. Why risk it. A v2 just barely made this list. I wouldn’t mind riding one of these. Unfortunately, the lines just move too slow.
Next, we take deja vu, a new inverted, a giga coaster and a 4d off the list. Deja vu has had too many problems this year. I know I don’t want to be in a car when that thing derails like it did before. Why get a new inverted when you have a perfectly good one? Batman is still a great ride and there is no reason to get a new inverted. How many parks out there have gotten a hyper one year and followed it up with a giga the very next year?
If memory serves me correct... none. Lastly... my favorite... a 4d. Now I would love to get one of these things for next year but I just don’t see it happening. Arrow has a 2 year wait and I don’t remember hearing that Six Flags corp put 2 orders in. Hey, I may be wrong, please tell me if I am.
Now we have a standup, a woodie, acrophobia and a flying dutchman left. I’ve heard a rumor that viper and rotting lumber are gone after this season and in it’s place are a new woodie and a standup; this is what I’d like to see most. Acrophobia would be nice but there’s Stuntman’s Freefall. Lastly, a flying dutchman. I heard it would be put near the lake and you’d fly over it very low to the water. That would be cool.
My money is on a B&M standup for next year (if they get a new coaster next year). From what I’ve heard, B&M only does multi-coaster deals. A park signs a 2 or 4 coaster deal with them. Two coasters must be built within 5 years. Four coasters must be built within a 10 year period. When was Great Adventure’s first B&M built? Well if you don’t feel like looking it up, it was Batman the Ride in 1993. Next was Medusa and that was in 1999. Then Nitro came along and that was in 2001 (for all you people hiding under a rock). That means a new B&M must be built in the next two years. What type of coasters does B&M design? Do they do wooden? Nope. Flying dutchman? No. How about standups? WELL PEOPLE, WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
So if Great Adventure gets a new coaster in the next two years, I’d put my money on a standup. Thanks for dealing with me.
First off, I can’t stand when people say where they got their sources from especially when it’s something ridiculous. For example:My brothers best friends uncles fathers half brothers half sisters dogs owners husband is a maintenance worker at the park and he is friends with someone high up in management
and this is what they told me... Just post your rumor and move on.
That’s the thing I really can’t stand and had to get that off my chest. Lets move on to business.
Ever since Nitro has opened, here is what has been rumored for the 2002 season: A standup, a new woodie, a v2, deja vu, acrophobia, a wild mouse, an inverted wild mouse, a new inverted, a giga coaster, a 4d, a tilt coaster, and a flying dutchman.
We can take a v2, deja vu, wild mouse, inverted wild mouse, and a tilt coaster off the list As you know, Great Adventure is a very busy park and a very busy park needs high capacity rides. Any type of wild mouse ride or tilt coaster isn’t anywhere near high capacity. A wild mouse ride can hold 2 or 3 people per car and maybe have 10 cars on the track at once. The lines would be out the door for this thing. How many people out there want to go on a wild mouse after getting off Nitro? I know I don’t. A tilt coaster i think can take 800 people per hour. Not up to Great Adventure standards. Plus the one they are building in Taiwan now is having all sorts of troubles. Why risk it. A v2 just barely made this list. I wouldn’t mind riding one of these. Unfortunately, the lines just move too slow.
Next, we take deja vu, a new inverted, a giga coaster and a 4d off the list. Deja vu has had too many problems this year. I know I don’t want to be in a car when that thing derails like it did before. Why get a new inverted when you have a perfectly good one? Batman is still a great ride and there is no reason to get a new inverted. How many parks out there have gotten a hyper one year and followed it up with a giga the very next year?
If memory serves me correct... none. Lastly... my favorite... a 4d. Now I would love to get one of these things for next year but I just don’t see it happening. Arrow has a 2 year wait and I don’t remember hearing that Six Flags corp put 2 orders in. Hey, I may be wrong, please tell me if I am.
Now we have a standup, a woodie, acrophobia and a flying dutchman left. I’ve heard a rumor that viper and rotting lumber are gone after this season and in it’s place are a new woodie and a standup; this is what I’d like to see most. Acrophobia would be nice but there’s Stuntman’s Freefall. Lastly, a flying dutchman. I heard it would be put near the lake and you’d fly over it very low to the water. That would be cool.
My money is on a B&M standup for next year (if they get a new coaster next year). From what I’ve heard, B&M only does multi-coaster deals. A park signs a 2 or 4 coaster deal with them. Two coasters must be built within 5 years. Four coasters must be built within a 10 year period. When was Great Adventure’s first B&M built? Well if you don’t feel like looking it up, it was Batman the Ride in 1993. Next was Medusa and that was in 1999. Then Nitro came along and that was in 2001 (for all you people hiding under a rock). That means a new B&M must be built in the next two years. What type of coasters does B&M design? Do they do wooden? Nope. Flying dutchman? No. How about standups? WELL PEOPLE, WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
So if Great Adventure gets a new coaster in the next two years, I’d put my money on a standup. Thanks for dealing with me.