06-03-2002, 06:49 AM
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| | | Some sort of coaster/ride parts spotted at SFA by screamscape
Goto www.coasterempire.com (my site to read what screamscape said, its rght on the ront page btw)
They said they saw track or something in blue containers by the parking lot near two face possibly B&M track because it is laid out in similar way to another ark with B&M track.... hopefully we'l get something big, just wanted to point it out
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06-03-2002, 07:26 PM
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| | | That's some great news. 180 acres is a TON of land, seeing as CP is 364 acres, that's almost HALF the size of Cedar Point. They must be doing some major expansion, and that could end up making it another mega-park. How big is it already?
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06-03-2002, 07:54 PM
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| | | SFA is a medium sized park right now. The problem with SFA is the people that mainly go there. It is in a lower income area and the season pass price is right at $50. The park in mid summer is unbarable. It is a good park that could use a face lift. The rides are world class evem if the people are not. I have friend that will not even go. I went 3 weekends ago and the park was empty. I got 11 rides on S:ROS and 3 on BatWing, plus I rode all the other coasters in less than 4 hours. Not a bad day. The main problem is it is so close to so many people that the park is usually jam packed. It could get real big though. The D.C. area needs another park. PKD and BGW are real close too.
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06-09-2002, 10:27 PM
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| | | Correct me if I'm wrong, but from talking to Sam Marks, SFA already ownes the land behind Batwing and Superman. In fact, I was told that the park owns nearly 260 acres with Superman being in the pretty much dead center of the park.
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06-16-2002, 11:03 PM
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| | | well i hope they own that land, thats great news. Hopefully it will become the next SF mega park. And the best part is...i only live an hour and a half away! lol |
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06-19-2002, 08:13 AM
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| | | For real, and I only live 40min away :-D :-D :-D ANyway as I was saying the park is now shaped as an oval and they will buold in the back area of the park so it wwill be expanding a GREAT deal in the next 2-3 years I am extreemly excited... |
06-19-2002, 05:14 PM
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| | | This is great news....although it's not really news since they already own that land. I love SFA, it and AW are the parks that I grew up with. I've been going since it was Wild World. My aunt lives 5 minutes away. |
06-20-2002, 05:58 PM
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Wow lucky her...it is the park i am growing up with so to speak...I went today..I inspected the land they have to build with...looks great !!! As I said in 2-3 year the park will be awesome and maybe even a new flagship cause all the land they own PLUS what they have now is bigger then Cedar POint or magic mountain  Im looking forward to the futere |
06-21-2002, 11:55 AM
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| | I just want to point out that SFA got approval to expand on 118 acres of land not 180, that's still agreat deal and im hoping to see great things  |
06-26-2002, 07:25 PM
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| | | I noticed all the land behind Batwing when I was waiting in line for Batwing. There is like a huge field to the left of the chain lift. This land purchase almost doubles the size of the park. Maybe it will become as good as MM of GAdv.
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06-30-2002, 07:16 PM
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| | | I don't know about the rest of you but I'd like some confirmation on this. I mean it is very possible they bought more land but why would it be nessacary? They already own a good deal of unused land. And if they did buy that much, 180acres isn't cheap. If that is the case, that they did buy this land, than they likely wont be building a new coaster anytime soon. Which isn't the case.
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06-30-2002, 11:18 PM
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| | | SFA has a real problem building coasters to suit their grumpy citizen neighbors. The rides must be quiet and can't have extra lighting, hence why Superman is so dark at night. Possibly, if the rumor is true, they bought this land as a "cushion" against future residence expansion. COnsidering the local problems, they can't really put coasters on the edge of the park property, hence much more property is needed to leave that extra space as a sound dampener. Also consider that SFA does not have a seperate water park, their current one is incorporated into their park. Maybe they want this land to build a new bigger, better water park, which the park will need if they wanna be one of the big dogs.
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07-02-2002, 10:53 AM
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| | | Well as I said before they bought 118 not 180, and they bought it for expantion not for a coushin of sound, I do not have confirmation that you cans ee but I heard it from someone and this person heard it from a top og in the park |
07-04-2002, 11:24 PM
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| | | I remember that some document that I found through Danimation or thispagecannotbedisplayed, I forget, says that SFA owns about 520 acres of land and is only using like 120 acres for park operations. I wish I could that again because it had some pretty wild statistics. Like it said that SFGadv owns like 2,200 acres, and is only using like 250 for park operations. It seemed to be a reoccuring pattern for most Six Flags parks that they own a lot more land than they actaully use....
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