Ace Of Spades

They might have removed them to attach the rigging to the coaster train.

Well, I don't know if you're taking input from more than one source, but I think that just another desert theme would be perfectly fine. How about CanyonRunner as a name? Or are you joking, because after your last quick edit there, I'm guessing so.

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Would discussions here on TPR count as an official source?

Entry: Well, someone had to do it.

Let's count what attractions are actually being added to the Six Flags chain this year, shall we? -A rollerskater. -A small kiddie wood coaster. -Some small water park expansions. -An SLC for La Ronde. -Small little shows here and there. Thus, it's easy to see why the ride announcements have been "slacking": There aren't that many new rides to begin with! Honestly, I have a feeling that the three coasters will get some press (with a nice release already out for Little Dipper), but everything else is not exactly something that will pack 'em through the turnstiles, so to speak, so press releases won't be necessary. (Forgive me if I missed any rides...)

Sorry, I'm indecisive by nature! Also, I mostly included things that I can judge from personal experience, although some are (to me) obvious, from what I've gathered. - Favorite new coasters. X2/Space Mountain 2005/California Screamin'/Dueling Dragons - Favorite new rides. Shockwave, Canada's Wonderland/Soarin' Over California, DCA/Giant Frisbees. - Favorite new park. SFDK (It counts, it counts! It was SFMW!) Favorite Fair Midway. Ventura County Fair Favorite On-Property Hotel. Royal Pacific (Universal Orlando)/Grand Californian (DLR) - Most memorable park moments. First visit to IoA/Losing a shoe on X2/Getting stuck on Indiana Jones and getting to walk the track/Jogging back and forth to the DLR every morning, alone, from my hotel/Water bombing people on White Water Safari at SFDK/Getting to tour DCA, CW, DLR, and SFMM alone/10pm ride on Splash Mountain with a log to myself/SFDK's Holiday in the park. - Most memorable coaster moments Oh crap. RnRc (First Looping Coaster-2001)/Desperado (First Hyper-2002)/Batman: The Ride: (First Major Coaster/B&M-2003)/First ride on X (First Epic Coaster-2006) - Best ERT session Xcellerator during Coaster Solace (sorry, I didn't know TPR existed when I went...) - Least favorite coasters Cyclone (Astroland)/Manhattan Express/Grizzly (CGA) - Least favorite rides Sledgehammer (CW) - Least favorite parks CGA/Astroland - Most interesting rides you've seen introduced Sky Swat/4D coaster/B&M Flyer/Spinning Coaster/Tornado Slide - Least interesting rides you've seen intoduced Intamin Hyper/Megalite (Oh, yeah, I went there!) - Your favorite TPR moment (favorite post, trip report, video, whatever!) Learning that I'd be going to Bay Area Bash as a Christmas gift! First TPR event! - The decade's biggest flops. SoB/Cedar Fair acquisition of Paramount - The decade's biggest success. SFDK Best Ad Campaign. Mr. Six Worst Ad Campaign. Ride Warriors - The best meals you've had at a park. Pulled Pork sandwich at the California Barbecue at SFDK/Meatloaf at Carnation Cafe in Disneyland. - The worst meals you've had at a park. Pretzel at CGA ("Uhh, we don't have any salt.")/Fries at CGA - Best park turnarounds Kemah Boardwalk/SFDK/SFMM/All of the Six Flags Chain save SFKK and SFA. - Worst park turnarounds SFKK/SFA/CGA - What were the biggest trends of this past decade? The Re-Rebirth of the wooden coaster, the end of the coaster wars, the OMFGINTAMIN craze, family friendly branding, and viral marketing. Happy 2010 everyone!

Most likely SFDK, although I'll be visiting that and Disneyland within December, so god knows when my next voyage to a park will be...

I'll find a picture of it later, but there is a sign near SFDK's "Walrus Experience" saying, and I promise I'm not making this up, "Sorry, Walrus is closed". Also, all the signs in the park refer to the viewing area as simply "Walrus".

Well, someone had to do it.

Good to hear about the crowds being light. I have school off tomorrow, so I think I'll be able to make a short credit run to finally get Terminator cleared. I'll be in the initial bullrun to X2, however. so if anyone else is doing that, hopefully I'll see you there!

Well, I gotta say. I've read many a trip report in my time, but that was by far the most engaging, fun, and all-out-awesome TR I've ever read. That makes me literally want to purposely miss my flight to Sacramento tomorrow, board a flight to Atlanta, and visit SFOG. Yes, it is that awesome. Oh, and the audio you captured in the "artsy shots" of Goliath (the little kid and Joey) was actually quite, quite amusing! Bravo on the best TR EVER!

Now that could work! Seriously, somebody give this guy a contract ! Seriously! AoS

Again, I've now got to hold my own some 4 pages afterwards. First off, don't call me a "Everything Six Flags does fails" kinda guy, nor the, "Spoiled with top notch coasters to the point when a family coaster just sucks hard" kinda guy. I love family coasters! And looking at the ride itself, it could go great in so many other parks, its shocking. I mean, there are easily a good 20 parks minimum that could use this Woodie. But it's just not for SFMM. It just looks as if it was poorly photoshopped out of a different park and placed here, without any concern of flow or eye-popping-ness. And its not as if it needs to be unspectacular to appeal to families (as repeatedly proved by Disney, Universal, and even Cedar Fair to point), but that's exactly what you guys will argue, that all its flaws, track, theeming, and all, can be answered by the Parrot-like repetition of "It's a family ride! It's a family ride"...And as for the "SFMM is getting a new coaster, you should be ashamed of not feeling uber-excited...", well. the park doesn't need it! I'd actually prefer if they did a touch up job on one of their current rides and put this coaster somewhere else, because its just not needed! It overkill! I've said it before and I'll say it again, The ride is just akward and not what SFMM needs right now. AoS "I Drink Your Milkshake!"

I never said that it had to be Uber-Hardcore-X9-Insanity, in fact for the most part smaller rides can be awesome (Space Mountain at DL and Roller Coaster at Lagoon, two of my favorites, for example). And, when reviewing the footage again, it wasn't as odd as it originally seemed. As for the location, it goes without saying that it will be very hard to top X2, Tatsu, and Goliath And, the more I see this coaster, the more I see it as a larger, better ride. And my problem isn't with quality either. It just seems less than adequate, second-rate. The possibilities of theeming (which is mainly an annoyance), the possibilities of a different location, and the overall possibility for this ride to really excel, which I feel it didn't. Its just...awkward, the best possible descriptive adjective in this case. Now despite my continued revisions, I give it approximately five minutes while I go floss my teeth for someone to pick apart my statement entirely. AoS (Long live the pointless enthusiast debates!)

I gotta say. Coming from the Atari forums, where posts come every five minutes and approximately 3 to 4 posts is the average that will follow you in one night, I'm seriously not used to the lightning quick post speed in these threads. So, if one is looking for a moral to that short rant, this is why I'm referencing my post 4 pages earlier. Let me make something clear: There are at least four or five parks I could name off the top of my head that this exact coaster, theeming and all, would go well in. But, when you put it in SFMM, and try to squeeze it in the relatively small space Psyclone occupied, it comes together awkwardly, as if it just doesn't fit right. You know, when you get that vibe that something just will not fit in a specific place...well...yeah, that's what I'm feeling. Now, lets go back to the early 2000's. If an early 2000's GCI (AKA: Roar Wildcat) was put here, it would much more elegantly take up the space, as it would seem rather large and exciting. However, they waited until the contemporary, more reserved GCI's came in, where they seem somewhat underwhelming, an image that should never be associated with SFMM. And on to the theme. We've all seen ridiculous ideas in theeming pulled off more than once. So, truth be told, the overall theme for Terminator could work. But even so, there might be a few flaws... -From what I understood from the press release, it almost sounded like on board audio. Now, consider the design of these trains. The Millennium Flyers were designed to look like trains of yore, streamlined, elegant, and tight enough to get close to your date. To try to add speakers to these already tight trains would just seem tacky and possibly not even fit. -As per the concept art and animation, it seems that insofar the coaster doesn't have a single ounce of theeming outside of the name. I mean, since when did the Terminator associate with plain grassy areas and generic loading stations? -And finally, as many I've heard argue this, why at all would anyone associate the Terminator with a coaster straight out of the 20's? Plot twist be damed! It just shows lack of common sense in Six Flags' detail department. If this coaster ditched the ridiculous theme and went with something more Boardwalk-y (I mean, hell, the area is called Cyclone Bay), this ride would actually drastically improve in my view. Yes, like throngs of others, I will ride this. Possibly, I might have my socks blown off (I don't know what, but whatever they did to Viper this year, it rocketed it for me from second to last to #6 on my top ten, so miracles can happen). But, more likely than not, I'll probably come off feeling cheated by a second-rate slapdown of a coaster... And, as for Robb's comment: Nope. I adore press releases, and I'm very excited for HRRR, Saw: The Ride, Ring Racer, Diamondback, and even somewhat for Carolina Cobra (Ha!). I nearly died when X2 and Behemoth were announced last year! But this, this announcement just feels awkward and stupid, and somewhat bumbling as Six Flags continues its uphill battle... Also, because I just noticed...I have every right to find this coaster to be pointless. If I have no right to not join the general consensus in shouting, "NEW COASTER OMG LOVE ITT BECAUSE THE COOL PPL LUV IT LOLZ!!!!1!!!", then this post might as well have been meant for hogs. My retaliation is done. Rejoice. AOS

I honestly don't see what everyone's so hyped about. I mean, yeah, it means a new coaster for my local park, but it looks as if its almost a sell-out. This ride style has become so generic inside the Six Flags chain that for a flagship park to get something of this particular caliber and regular-ocity (?) is just not cool. You know, I'm all for the renovation of this park, and I also adore the one GCI I've experienced (Thunderhead), but this just wasn't the right move. My vote: They shouldn't gone for something more unique, such as Lagoon's WICKED. Common, that ride is bad-ass, and yet could still be family friendly and thrill-seeker friendly (except wood-coaster enthusiasts lol.) For what we have here, however, I find the layout to be below average, the construction space to be too constricted (there are some much better barren areas), the themieng to be over dramatic and tacky, and the overall concept to be a bad move. Guess I'll just have to wait for the rumored "Transformers" Spiderman ride at USH in 2011 to get a decent new ride... AOS

^Roflmao at that last sign... But still, why does no one ever get pics of GeoPanic? I don't wanna sound like Emon00b 3000 here, just wondering. Great date-of-up Robb! AoS

Why do so many people not find that Goliath One amusing? Since I do not insofar have an entry, my vote goes to Rick-Roller coaster/ When I saw that quite a few pages ago, I nearly fell outta my chair laughing! AOS

I was a Vegas local for the oh-so-longest time, so this story truly hits home... I knew this was eventually coming. Despite the sheer perfection that ride had, it was rarely busy, and the value of the $6.00 tickets were probably questionable at best for the GP. But it always was one of the very damn best coasters (and launchers, to be sure) in North America... And now its leaving... My only hopes are that Adventuredome will survive (which, according to recent purchases and plans for the hotel, gets a 2:1 chance against, despite being grossly popular year in and year out with locals), having the shoulder harnesses removed on ME (it's already got Premier lap restraints, it could easily work), or that Desparado will keep on, well, keeping on (the most likely of the three)... And as for Vegas as a whole, the town, both on a tourist and local level, is going to Hell. I'm glad I got out when I did, because everything, every single dam little thing, is going to hell. Okay, my Emo-noob rant is over. Begin the opinionating at will! AOS

Seeing as it is CF, I woulda guessed that they would call it something original, like "Wood Coaster". AOS

1st post... Have fun with Behemoth guys. I've already been this summer, and the ride is like nothing else at CW. Not even the almighty SFMM Goliath can compare! AOS