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Kingda Ka was a way too expensive ride for a Six Flags park. I think Top Thrill Dragster is awesome, but that ride costs so much money, and Kingda Ka was so much more money. I don't think Six Flags should be the innovator anymore. It's pointless. Look at the rides they bought that have had problems: X, Deja Vu, Superman the Escape, Batman and Robin, Kingda Ka, and the Vekoma Dutchman. Let another park buy roller coasters first, and see what's happening with them over at that place. Check out all of these Euro Fighter coasters before you buy one. The Mack standard mouse is a good buy because it's done so many times before.

^Is Batman in the ride at all?

Thanks for posting these, but what is your review of the ride itself??

I don't agree one bit with that statement. There are times when I rode Roaring Rapids, and felt like I would have left the seat if I did not have the seatbelt on. It really happens when it bumps into the boundaries, or they have these turning things it bumps into.

Wow, let's try to me just a little bit more damn racist next time. Sorry, but what you just said is messed up. I don't care what color the people were. If they were white, I say the same thing. The park didn't have that poor of operations as in efficiency of the rides (that actually were operating) operating except Batwing, and the workers didn't care what happened when this did happen on Superman. It had bad operations of the rides that were not operating which bugged me a lot. You could believe me or not, but good luck going to the park, and having everything open in June.

For Six Flags America, in June 13-14, 2007 which is "summer time", rides like Pirate’s Flight, Teacups, Falling Star, and Avalanche opened later than the rest of the park which is ridiculous considering the number of rides the park has. The Octopus, Two-Face Flipside (roller coaster), train, antique cars, and Power of Doom never opened. Skull Mountain would open and close periodically. On one day, Avalanche didn't open at all. Spanish people were going to the row of seats in which they were in line for, and than you have black people wrestle them out of the seats. The workers didn't do nothing, and just weren't aware, and didn't care. I don't think that trains dispatched that long except for Batwing though as in how fast they were, but rides not being open, and the incident in which the workers didn't do nothing just ruined my experience. They need more real police for Six Flags parks that need it from the city they are in instead of just the Six Flags hire a cop police. This was the park that someone was shooting a gun in the parking lot. I think people would be more scared of the real city police than the people that Six Flags hires so the gangs won't go to this park.

Deja Vu opened in October of 2001. Demon was called Turn of the Century before, and originally had bunny hills instead of loops. Iron Wolf was the first B&M ride, but using Intamin trains. Batman the Ride was the first inverted coaster that started at Six Flags Great America. The ball (Spaceship Earth) powers Future World in EPCOT. I think those are solar panels on it. They couldn't put any Disney characters in EPCOT, so the imagineers decided to put hidden Mickey's in some of the attractions. Thankfully, this has changed as Disney has become a little wiser over the years. It spread to the other parks. Spaceship Earth used to have a naked breast statue girl, but now they covered it up when they renovated it. Boo! There are 12 monorail colors at Disney World. They are gold, green, lime, blue, silver, red, neon yellow, purple, magenta, orange, pink, black (with red line) There are 4 per line with 3 lines. Disneyland only has one line, and the monorails are much smaller. I think the pink one looks like magenta, and sometimes they call the pink one I call, coral instead of pink. So, they call the official ones pink, and coral, or what I call magenta (instead of pink), and pink (instead of coral). Pirates of the Carribean California: Theoretical 3114 guests an hour Operational Standard Capacity: 2900 guests an hour Pirates of the Carribean: Florida: 3500 capacity Disneyland's Capacity: Mr. Toad: 685 It’s a Small World: 3200 Snow White: 1014 Space Mountain: 1700 Alice in Wonderland: 800

I really like Six Flags Over Texas, but this is the list I have: 1. Texas Giant 2. Typhoon (Santa’s Village) 3. Ninja (SFOG) 4. Ninja (SFStL)

You are absolutely right about that person saying it was going to be open on the phone. They should have said instead that since the weather doesn't look that great, that there is a chance that the park could close. I had a problem at another park in which the park closed 2 hours earlier than it said, and it bugged me a little bit, but I understood why. The crowds were light, and it closed earlier. I asked this one worker what time it was going to close, and I think she maybe said 7 pm, but than they close it at 5 pm. However, if I would have asked the worker at the ticket booth, she might have known the exact time when it's going to close. The problem is this with both amusement parks. They base whether the park opens, or closes based on people. They would leave any amusement park open from open to close if those parks were 3/4 filled of people, or even a 1/2 filled of people. So they check the lines at the front of the park when entering it, and they wait until a certain time to see is that enough people for us to be open. If the lines aren't that great like normal, than they might cut some hours out of the park. I think they really need to decide before the park opens whether or not to open it at all. When I see all this rain on the forecast, it's a slow time of year, and it's cold along with being windy outside, just don't open the park. There just isn't going to be a huge turnout with all those factors. If it was July, and there was rain on the forecast, more people go just for the fact that it's that month of the year. Wind is a good thing for a hot day in July. Wind isn't that great to the coasters, but the people like it better than being in 95 degrees, and sweating.

I heard before that when you were adding all these flats, they said something like we are adding flats to relieve the lines. Now, they are taking a lot of the flats out. I think the flats don't help that much because some of the flats just aren't that great. If the flats were better, more people would go on them. The swings at my park are a walk-on even if every ride is really crowded. The line isn't long enough. Keeping flats for a very long time, and not replacing them is a bad idea. You can't solve the line problems for coasters if the flats just aren't worth going in line for. I think this was an awesome photo report, and I like how you took the picture of the guy with the prints in his hand. Good luck to the park for the ride being open in two days.

I would like to know what's going on with Riverview park. I contacted them last year after seeing rides for sale like the Moby Dick, the ferris wheel with others, and was wondering what was going on. They didn't reply back.

Why couldn't they just call the Wisdom Tornado the Tornado, and have the normal looking panels? Instead, they call it the Howler, and put a Tornado design in the center. What the heck? Other than that, thanks for sharing the pictures.

^It was closed down on low staffing days, or early in the season. It was closed down when the weather was too cold, or windy. Also, when it rained for awhile, it would close down. Most of the time, it had 5 minutes breakdowns while other times it had 10-15 minutes, but yet you had miscatching, and all that fun stuff.

Does Demon, or Iron Wolf have new tv's?

No Orbiter. Oh, well. Thanks for showing the pics. For stacking on Vortex, I blame the fact that it's a stand up coaster. People don't like to stand a particular way, or even stand period.

It's exactly what I expected. I seen the ride simulation of it before it came out somewhere. It might have had something to do with IAAPA. I'm not sure. I forget where.

I'm going to take this general as in all amusements including carnivals. Why do I complain about a carnival ride not having head cushions for your head? It's because it's hurts really bad. Why was it annoying to not have music on Batman the Ride at SFMM? The reason is because it's makes the ride more exciting to me with the music pumping you up before you go on the ride. I don't really care if the fan moved, or they put fog machine in the tunnel, but the music is something that greats for that ride. The fog machine was at SFGAm, and I don't know if they ever had any at SFMM. Why does it bug me at SFGAm that they take the graffati away from the line? The reason is because you can look at it when you are in line. It gives you something to do. At other Six Flags parks, there graffati is what I would typical graffati (that I can remember - SFOT, SFMM, SFStL). SFGAm had Cubs, Sox, Bulls, American Flag, Mickey Mouse, Joker, and stuff I can relate to. It was fun looking at it, and the theme of the line made sense. The city is bad, and Batman needs to save it. For Big Thunder, if that goat didn't make noise at Disneyland I wouldn't think I would really care. If the snake didn't move it's tail, it's not a real big deal. It's cool when it works, but it's not life and death to me. Stuff just goes haywire overtime, and sometimes these parks don't want to put the money into fixing them. They don't feel they are important to fix. So, should I blame the company for not fixing the snake, or goat? No. I don't think it's a big deal. I think the Batman music is more of a big deal though, and now it plays at SFMM. SFGAm shut the waterfall off of at the Demon at SFGAm because people think it has to do with the rocks are being degraded, or something. I kind of forget it was ever on. Now, does it make a good appearance? I think it does. I think people will go by it more, and say that looks cool. Maybe, they will try it.

not if you're WHITE. It sounds bad, but I have a feeling that was a contributing factor to the "suspicion." I imagine those people were suspiciously Muslim, and thus they are automatically treated like they are going to do something wrong. Muslim is a religion!!! Don't people get that. Anyone else taking pictures of Carowinds, no one cares about.

I think that these rides might be great: Yo-Yo, Wipeout, Power Surge, Chance Alpine Bobs, Boomerang, Sidewinder, and the Mouse Coaster. I don't think the price is right for this park though. Someone said it's cheap. It's not so cheap to me if you only want to go one day instead of two. It's says it's $45.00, and you get one day "free". You get in SFOG for $29.99 on the Internet for one day. I haven't been to this park, and that's why I think those rides I was talking about might be great. I want to talk about Cypress Gardens though. Cypress Gardens is a higher priced park too. It's $39.99 for two days also. When I went to Cypress Gardens, there was hardly anyone in the park. People usually think why go to a park two days in a row, if you can get on rides the first day with eveyrthing walk-ons. Cypress Gardens have roller coasters, but they aren't like Six Flags, or Cedar Fair roller coasters. They are all pretty kiddie. I think the Power Surge, and the Yo-Yo are great at Cypress Gardens though. If they got rid of them, I probably wouldn't even go. The Starliner I think is great, but I don't think one roller coaster is worth $39.99 if I'm only going one day to the park. My dream park would be flats like Wild Adventures (I'm guessing these are run like the carnival ones) such as the Power Surge, Wipeout, Yo-Yo that tilts, Alpine Bobs, a normal old Tilt-A-Whirl (which they don't have- They have a G5.), and some other flats like an Orbiter, KMG Fireball, and than have Six Flags Magic Mountain roller coasters, or Six Flags Over Texas roller coasters. I don't seem to get both of them at one park. Cedar Point has come close with having a Tilt-A-Whirl, a Chaos, and a Flying Bobs, but I think the Flying Bobs is too slow for me. They also have a Himilaya which is okay. I don't believe that all carnival rides are all great though. I think the Super Sizzler, Inverter, Super Shot drop tower, Kite Flyer (at Cypress Gardens), Cliffhanger, and the Hurricane are just good rides. There are bad rides in my opinion though such as the 1001 Nachts, Round Up, Pharoah's Fury (at Cypress Gardens, and Wild Adventures), Gravitron, Zero Gravity, ARM Mega Bounce (at Cypress Gardens = Worst Flat Ever!!), and so on.

These are awesome. I can't wait until you get to SFA.

When I was younger, Arrow used to headbang me a lot more. So, yes I think it does matter. You also couldn't get on Deja Vu if you are greater than 6 4.

I just don't think that area could support a Six Flags like amusement park. The attendance number I heard for that park was only 500,000. The next park after SFNO is Great Escape with 710,000. I just want to say that these are older figures, and might have gone up since. The third worst park I have is SFKK at a little more than 1 million people. Basing it on those numbers, I think that SFNO's should be just maybe one roller coaster, and some flat rides for a $22.00 admission park. I would say something like Martin's Fantasy Island would be a great park for that spot. It only has 2 roller coasters, flats, and an older waterpark. I haven't been to Martin's Fantasy Island, but it's not a $50.00 park to get into.

When I was at GL, the Hay Bailer only went forwards. At SFGAm, it also only went forwards.

The cars never get stuck upside down for me, or I've never seen them stuck upside down for any of the other cars. Yes, they might be on the side, and that has to do with one person only riding it. The weight isn't evenly distributed, and it does that. Too bad, you didn't take a video of this Power Surge, I would like to see the cars being stuck upside down.

^^It might have just been the days I was there than. One day it was open, and one day it wasn't open. That day it only went one way for me, but I'm glad they run it mostly both ways during the year.