CoasterGuy06

"The New Revolution" is the VR experience. The coaster is still Ninja.

I saw an interview with Fred Grubb recently where he said that as of now they are no longer offering Topper Track repairs to existing wooden coasters because of how busy they are with new builds/ full layout conversions.

Apparently Valleyfair received the old Ghost Rider trains. Those lap bars do look old, so I guess it's true.

^Exactly. The first season I was a rides supervisor I we had to keep a downtime log. The day with the most downtime by far was opening day, and a lot of it was because new employees would call rides down because of a noise they heard that was actually a normal noise, they just were still getting use to the ride.

1. Preview Day is a Wednesday and Thursday at a seasonal park that depends on local employees, with opening day on Good Friday. I'm guessing most schools are out for Spring Break, hence them being open for those days. I'm also going to guess based on experience that many of those employees had spring break plans prior to them being hired by Six Flags too. 2. They are literally giving you a two weeks notice. Remember when Cedar Point gave a whole 4 days notice that Maverick's opening was being delayed? Magic Mountain extended their hours less than two weeks ago AND added three extra BAF days because they were so busy. Also a park like Cedar Point has thousands of employees that live right on park property. It's very easy to have them stay longer. As someone that use to be a supervisor at a park that had large amounts of young seasonal employees, you can't just tell a bunch of high school kids "Hey we're busy so we need to to stay an extra hour or two even though your parents are waiting in the employee lot to pick you up."

Ninja would at least be the 4th coaster to get painted on my list (after Scorcher, Superman, and Goliath), however Batman, Scorcher, and Mindbender have all been painted more recently than Ninja. I guess it is time for new paint.

Canada's Wonderland wanted to build a B&M invert in 1995. Cedar Point had a 200 mile exclusive window on inverted coasters, and CW was in that zone. They got their Vekoma SLC instead. Story was told here.

The problem with flying coaster capacities is in order to get close to them you need to be running all three trains with both stations (if applicable). Many parks don't seem to do that though, although I have seen SFOG run theirs with 2 trains/1 station with very little to no stacking on several visits, so you can still get good capacity with a good crew.

It makes it easier to inspect the track.

^It's from Mondial, just like Psyclone at Canada's Wonderland.

The park posted a video update on the new additions. Looks like Spinsanity is ready to go. [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

Jim Reid-Anderson could still keep doing the announcements as the "Executive Chairman."

Yep. For example, Alabama Adventure's HUSS Pirate was only open a total of a couple months the last three seasons that park was open (2009-2011). That was after numerous repairs too.

It was not the day I went (first Sunday in December). It and Mindbender were both running one train.

I believe it will be a Zamperla Sky Tower

The Great White- Sea World San Antonio in 2002.

Darien Lake bought their Space Shot from Alabama Adventure when it closed all their rides.

I wonder if it is being removed to try and bring the number of rides more in line with what their current attendance is.

It closed during the 2014 season. It was still standing last year, so who knows when they will actually remove it. It's had numerous extended closures since it opened in 2003. Also want to point out I believe they will only have a net gain of 1 ride. The tea cups are going when the Helicopter Heroes ride was. I don't think it operated in 2015. It is no longer listed on the website either.

Eh SFNE is really just repainting Bizarro and renaming it. Last year SFOG was the only park that added a second ride.

The Vekoma launched coaster at the park formerly known as Six Flags Holland was called Superman:The Ride

I'm guessing the Harley Quinn Mirror Maze is going in the building as well, which is probably why they are switching the theme. It is funny they had Fearless Freep's Dare Devil Dive when they build Dare Devil Dive and now they will apparently have The Joker Chaos Coaster and The Joker Funhouse Coaster

I really hope this is the first of many Giant Frisbee style rides that Six Flags installs.

Love that the park is finally getting new flats the past couple of years!

Pretty sure it was said they were sent to SFA to be used as parts for their SROS when the transformation happened.