09-15-2005, 01:55 AM
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| | | six flags astroworld rides & coasters?
Now that six flags astroworld is going to be closed at the end of the summer. who will get its rides & coasters will they be distributed between other six flags parks or just torn down. |
09-15-2005, 04:36 AM
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| | | Nobody knows which rides will be saved and relocated to other Six Flags parks. Nobody knows which ones will be scrapped. We'll just have to wait and see, and just speculate like hell for now ;) |
09-15-2005, 09:20 AM
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That's a list of their current coasters.
Except for a few, most are standard coasters that are at most Six flags parks. I can't imagine them saving all of them.
They will probably just sit in SFA's field and rot forever.
Id' love to have Greezed Lightnin' at PC. I miss our old shuttle loop White Lightnin'.
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09-15-2005, 07:32 PM
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| | [QUOTE=bgwfreak]Except for a few, most are standard coasters that are at most Six flags parks. I can't imagine them saving all of them.[/QUOTE]
Maybe it's my fanboyism, but I only see 2 coasters on that list that could be considered standard SF coasters in my mind: Serial Thriller and Texas Cyclone. The others, while they may be clones, aren't very easy to find clones (Ultra Twister, Greezed Lightnin, Viper, BTE). XLR-8, Serpent, and Mayan Mindbender aren't clones, AFAIK. That's not to say these rides are good, but they are far from standard. |
09-15-2005, 07:40 PM
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| | | /\ What's funny is that the "standard" SF coasters in your mind at that park (Serial Thriller and Texas Cyclone) are first-hand rides installed at AstroWorld. Almost all the other more unique coasters there were previously used by other Six Flags parks and then relocated to their final home that is AstroWorld. This includes Viper, Ultra Twister, Batman The Escape, and Mayan Mindbender. |
09-15-2005, 09:36 PM
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| | | I think if it is cheaper to dismantle and move to another park than it is to build a coaster then SF should do this with all the coasters and split them up to parks that could use them. SFstlouis could use 1 or 2 coasters XLR8 and Greezed lightning ( I like schwarzkopf rides)
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09-15-2005, 09:44 PM
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| | | XLR8 is arrow...
I 2nd the call for greezed lightnin' to be relocated to carowinds!
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09-15-2005, 10:17 PM
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| | | [i]Six Flags New England could use a new big coaster. Even though we just got Mr.Six it's not all that great of a ride. a new ride like Viper,Greezed lightning, Batman The Escape, Ultra Twister,Serpent,or the Mayan Mindbender would make Six Flags New England even better. But out of any of those rides that i could see at Six Flags New England it would be Ultra Twister because it is small and compact and does not take up alot of space. and that is something Six Flags New England needs.[/i] |
09-15-2005, 10:19 PM
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| | | It would be so much beter for SF to just sent them to other SF parks and give them new paint jobs and the GP will think there getting a fresh new coaster. And they wont have the pay the big bucks for a new coaster. |
09-15-2005, 11:28 PM
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| | | Our buddies @ SFSTL(SFOMA) I think could use a hookup. They could use the Schwarzkopf VIPER to accompany Ninja in addition to an entirely new steel coaster.
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09-15-2005, 11:34 PM
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| | | Viper also has a very small footprint and is quite compact. It's usually most riders' 'first' ride ever, making it a popular ride. It's small and has one loop, so that usually encourages the GP to ride it if they're afraid...
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09-15-2005, 11:37 PM
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| | | Didn't Mayan Mindbender come from Boblo Island? If so...that was an independant park, not a Six Flags park. |
09-15-2005, 11:38 PM
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| | | [QUOTE=CHILLERLC1]Our buddies @ SFSTL(SFOMA) I think could use a hookup. They could use the Schwarzkopf VIPER to accompany Ninja in addition to an entirely new steel coaster.[/QUOTE]
Is it just me or was SFStL the original home of what is now known as "Viper" at Six Flags AstroWorld? It would be funny to see SFStL get its Jet Stream back ;) |
09-16-2005, 12:15 AM
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| | | Yes, it would be great to see other possible returns. :)
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09-16-2005, 02:03 AM
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| | | Life is a Journey....
And sometimes parks wind up having huge open sections when a ride is removed for whatever reason, and something smaller is put in it's place if anything gets put there. I know that there are some places at every park that I visit at least once every so often where it just looks out of place. Think for example Busch Gardens has that large spot where Drachen Fire was (I don't buy that DarKastle took up all that space), Carowinds seems to have open space out there near SkyFlier where there is nothing there. Neither of those have any connection with Six Flags...but it illustrates my point that there is space where things have come and gone...
And with that in mind, I definitely think most, if not all of the major rides from Astroworld should be relocated to other parks - whether Six Flags parks or other buyers. As stated above by Coasterking, this could definitely be a boon to the receiving parks, and financially, I would imagine it would be cheaper overall than building something new. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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