EricGarbo

The thrill is riding a very fast launch roller coaster directly next to the most famous track in the world (Even closer then the closest bleacher). I would love to get that close to the track and actually travel at velocity; you would actually feel like you were on the track!

The Raging Bull ERT was a great time! It was so very cold but those night rides with nobody in the park were great.

It's called the 'Power Pose.' Runners do it when crossing the finish line of a race. It's basically the most alpha position possible. When you're on a roller coaster and the blood gets pumping and you feel on top of the world where nothing can bring you down you do your best to strike the power pose as best you can by throwing your arms up in the air.

I went to the park last night as well. Everything was a walk on even with some rides being on single train operation. The park may have only been open for 4 hours but that was more then enough to ride everything several times. It's a great feeling when you're coming down the brake run and you know that you that you don't even have to worry about getting out of your seat if you want to ride again. The night was capped off with an hour of ERT on X-Flight from 10PM-11PM. There were about 8 of us and we got around 15 rides on. It was absolutely freezing, though! I've never been so cold after an hour of riding like that.

On your way from the Discovery Kingdom to Magic Mountain you will have to pass by California's Great America, which is the sister park to Six Flags Great America. They just built an excellent wooden roller coaster called Gold Striker which is well worth a stop. Stick around in this thread and you'll get about a thousand other suggestions all the way down the Golden Coast but Gold Striker is not to be missed.

On Shivering Timbers it's not the trick track that's the problem, it's the pot hole after the trick track that destroys your back.

Hades 360 is a fantastic ride which needs some serious maintenance. I rode Hades its opening year and it provided an incredibly comfortable ride. The new section after the tunnel is the extra piece it needed to finish off its insane layout. The same goes for Cyclops: I rode it over 7 years ago and it was my favorite wooden roller coaster, especially with that mid-ride airtime drop. Today it's a migraine generator with the life sucked out of it. It's not the rides that are the problem: It's the park.

I went on opening weekend and was able to get 11 rides in a rode in before I started noticing any of this ridiculous roughness. The tunnel has always been a bit shaky (It never hurt, though) but the bottom of the first drop was too much. I guess it's been riding worse then opening weekend?

The Eagle looks so slick with a fresh paint job. If you look at it today it appears as though the park is just sacking it next season.

Saying you have 4 by counting both sides of Eagle is pretty dumb, IMO. Ask the majority of the guests walking through the gate and they'll count Eagle as 1. SFGam will have three woodies. Suck it up and deal with it. --Robb "Nothing wrong with saying you have three woodies in one park!" Alvey To me it comes down to the maintenance aspect. Even though the Eagle is really one roller coaster that is a LOT of track to maintain. We could argue all day about how many wooden roller coasters SFGA has but having that many linear feet of wooden roller coaster track is pretty awesome.

My thoughts exactly! I wanna see RMC try out some different colors. This ride looks absolutely incredible. This done to The Boss would be insane. :Fingers crossed: My thought was that they just used red in all of their CG videos as some sort of standard, and that maybe the construction colors would be different. However, NTAG and Iron Rattler defeat my theory. They way it looks Goliath will be orange so there is at least the possibility of one other color, and I suppose they didn't give a flashy color to Outlaw Run.

You know, I was thinking the same thing. Better then Bizarro, though. You feel like you're going to crash right into the station. If you look at old Arrow's like Demon at CGA or SFGA the brake run is pretty huge, and those were built in 1976.

Hey GoBears (Gah, that's so hard to type) where did you get that hawt new photo?

At the groundbreaking Hank said the track length was somewhere on the order of 3500 feet. I thought he said around 3,100 feet. Maybe I heard wrong. You're probably correct. Man I'm just too excited to think straight!

At the groundbreaking Hank said the track length was somewhere on the order of 3500 feet.

That first drop is absolutely insane!

I just left the groundbreaking ceremony. It's amazing the size of the area that Iron Wolf left behind. During the ceremony they released a balloon into the area tied to a 165 foot string. Looking up at that balloon was incredibly; everything came into perspective and I began to truly appreciate the scale of this ride. This is a monumentous occassion.

I'll be there! I'll probably show up around 9.

So I asked off of work and got approved for Thursday morning. I will be at the groundbreaking ceremony and will take lots of photographs and be sure to write down the best parts of Hank's speech. I will report back to this thread on TPR. Will anyone else from TPR be there in two days? It would be great to get together at the event and talk about/record what is going on. Unfortunately I will not be streaming the event for everyone at home. If anyone (Perhaps the guy who streamed the Village Board Meeting?) plans on streaming the event it would be great if we could link it here.

I was watching this video on Wimp. Notice anything funny about the intro? http://www.wimp.com/vacuumexperiment/

There are carnival games hiding most of the "old charm". I forget where Rue le Dodge is at this point! Three point challenges and ladder climbs are worse than ad wraps and flatscreen monitors in my opinion. I try very hard to forget about the existence of three point challenges, ladder climbs, and guess your weight/age games. They're so temporary in their design that I hope they disappear and never leave a permanent mark on the park. I 'love' seeing rides with understaffed operations when there's a thousand people standing around the park on dead days operating this stupid games.

I've seen that, too, but that's usually when it's an unusually busy day and there's only one side running.

Unless you cut the line short on the park side of the bridge the American Eagle has one of the dumbest queues on any ride. Isn't it crazy that a queue for a Batman: The Ride is the one of the shortest in the park?

I really need to chime in on this subject. Yes, the theme park has been lacking with theming updates and is getting ad-wrapped to all heck, but look at the water park. Beautiful theming (Real fricking palm trees in northern Illinois!), fantastic new and fresh rides, gorgeous buildings that give it a boardwalk feel. I mean, holy cow the water park is one of the best themed parks I've been to at a Six Flags park. You can clearly tell the direction that they're starting to go in and I like it. Remember how Shockwave was a parking lot coaster? Have you seen the trees they planted that are starting to get pretty tall around Superman? I imagine that the area for Superman when it was built looked like how the area for The Whizzer did when it was built, and look at it now. Despite all of the Six Flags sabotage the Gurnee park has retained much of its old charm and is continuing to develop it for the better.

Especially if you live in Rockford. Traffic down I90 is terrible right now with that construction.