Intaman

This coaster just keeps looking better each day (or so it seems).

If you like fancy signs, go to Cedar Fair parks. If you like kick butt rides (with cheap looking signs), go to Six Flags I'll take a world-class coaster over a sign any day. Heck, in this case, they could even hand-write the sign and I wouldn't care. Goliath should be awesome!

If you like fancy signs, go to Cedar Fair parks. If you like kick butt rides (with cheap looking signs), go to Six Flags I'll take a world-class coaster over a sign any day. Heck, in this case, they can could even hand-write the sign and I wouldn't care. Goliath should be awesome!

Who cares about the sign; it's an RMC! Now, let's see how many of those Cedar Fair has installed.

Fantastic. I'm game.

Or, they just attract more of their season-pass holders/current customers on one-single day. In any case, while Memorial Day was missed, this is the risk taken with any project, especially one that faces what was a brutal Chicago winter. I'm sure July 4th attendance will be even stronger with Goliath open. As for Banshee, if KI has one or two "Black Friday" type days in addition to their typical park attendance and revenues, I'm sure they'll be happy.

These pink identifiers look like temporary survey markings. Perhaps they are looking to repair the broken pavement.

^^ I did a quick search to just capture a feel for the importance of Memorial Day and came across this article, albeit an old one. So, yes, delays are serious, but sometimes inevitable aspects of any project. As long at revenues increase, however, this can be somewhat tossed aside.

I'm just guessing on all of this, but I doubt they care all that much - if the weather's decent, it'll be packed all weekend anyway. I can't imagine there's a very big percentage of people who are not going to go to the park just because Goliath is not open yet (and those people would just probably go later in the year anyway, so it's not as if the park loses money on those people. If Six Flags really really cared about being open for Memorial Day, they'd have started the project earlier (or scheduled more employees on it). I'm pretty certain they care when there is a bottom-line. Six Flags is a publically traded company, which means investors, not just some park operating on a whim and yes, holiday weekends are major revenue generator for parks. Delays are a potential reality for any project despite the best attempts to keep it on-schedule. Projects require that financing is in place before construction can begin and adding more workers/labor cost more money, so these projects are a little more complicated than simply starting earlier or adding more labor. Anyway, it's not the people who already go there; it's those that rarely or seldom go. Banshee had a five hour wait its opening day, so yes new attractions can be major revenue generators, even by just one day. New attractions are not merely built for exiting customers. They are built to attract new customers or those who have not visited the park in several years i.e. growing the company. Memorial Day weekend is attractive since may companies that operate on Saturdays will close and the additional day gives people the change to travel further distances. So, yes, SFGA will attract a large crowd that weekend; but it is likely they would have attracted more people, especially those that are located at the farthest reachest of the park's intended market e.g. Wisconsin, Iowa, NW Indiana, and western Michigan. It's those customers that may plan to take a chance on a park visit that weekend, especially if there is a new attraction.

I'm sure Robb will let everybody know as soon as he finds out the information. Here, patience is the proverbial virtue.

Yeah, I should have remembered that it's Six Flags. Cedar Fair has their new attractions ready by opening day 90% of the time, whereas Six Flags just seems to take their sweet time for construction. I guess you could also say that about their dispatch times and customer service. From a financial standpoint, any park would prefer to open their attractions on-time since it costs money. Remember, Six Flags is a company that wants to take in more money than it spends. Delays, weather, etc., are typically built into the budget, but if not, delays can have heavy financial ramifications/impacts from project costs to lost revenues from smaller attendance e.g. the infamous Miller Park construction in Milwaukee. SFGA will miss the all important Memorial Day weekend due to the later opening, which is something I'm sure the park did not want; however, the delay is hardly surprising given the brutal winter Chicago has had this year. I could be wrong, but I think that X-Flight did open on-time.

This looks more spectacular with each photo update.

Lol. This doesn't surprise me. It's freakin' Mt. Olympus! Do you see the guy to the bottom left watching him?

It was 80 degrees Saturday. Today, there's snow.

I cannot believe people can be so careless and unaware of the safety and lives of others and pull out a cellphone during a ride, especially one that is high-intensity (then again, I can believe some people will do that). I experienced this several times last year at SFGA; riders would pull out their cellphone during Raging Bull. If that phone goes flying and strikes somebody, that could really injure them or worse.

Of course, it's also against company/park policy to hold any loose item during a ride, so that, and the violation of policy/code/ethics should end that employee's time at KI. Who wants to see his poorly-made, junk POV anyway? His inability to be trusted and the reason he was fired should be a great addition to his resume.

Can they get that heavy metal band to do another YOLO song for Goliath? I still can't believe this park is getting an RMC. After Outlaw Run on Texas-Midwest last summer, I am really, really excited for this.

I did always like the Iron Wolf sign. Now, the ride was a completely different story.

I like that the park still uses the original voice recording, "For those waiting to challenge Raging Bull..." or whatever variation it is, while waiting inside the station.

That wooden coaster looks awesome!

Goliath should really cement the idea and drive the point home just how much more awesome Wildfire will be. It's really awesome to have high-quality, exciting coasters to look forward to again, especially since B&Ms have diminished in quality over the years and it seems that we may see fewer new Intamin installations stateside.

So let me get this straight, you only would have been impressed if this was a 71MPH launching woodie with four inversions? Some people just shouldn't be allowed to have opinions. Well the kid is 13, but his opinion supports the the current national trend of building record breakers because records are the only way you can be "extreme" and "thrilling" apparently That said, YOLO!!!

Anaconda, Mind Eraser @ SFNE, and Manhattan Express are pure torture/aneurysm inducing.

Seriously, this looks like a fantasy layout from RCTIII or NL, only it's real. Can't wait for this!

I'll say it's a clone of Son of Beast.