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Texas Giant and Iron Rattler run Gerstlauer hybrid coaster trains. Outlaw Run, Medusa Steel Coaster, and Goliath run RMC's own trains, which are a bit like two-bench Millennium Flyers. New Cyclone will probably use the latter.

New leak: It will be called Cyclone: Knight Flight of Doom from Krypton: The Ride.

I would say no to that as ride of steel was a play on Superman's nickname man of steel. I know it was. I still wouldn't put it past them.

I have two guesses. It may be called "New Cyclone". It's a classic, so maybe they'll do what they did for Texas Giant and just market it as a made-over version of the original. My other guess would be "Cyclone: Ride of Steel". I certainly wouldn't put it past them to re-use a moniker they once used for a DC-themed ride for an unrelated ride. Lex Luthor and Zumanjaro are both called "Drop of Doom".

Cyclone was one of the smoothest coasters in the park. I've had rougher rides on Batman, and compared to Boulder Dash, Cyclone was smooth as butter.

Best - Wood: Wooden Warrior. Boulder Dash is overall a much better coaster, but its last two hills are a little tame and rampy in comparison to the "airtime buffet" right before it. Steel: Bizarro. The ending does everything Cyclone was supposed to do, plus two extra turns. It's almost as if they designed it with Cyclone in mind. Lamest - Wood: Rolling Thunder. The whole ride was completely forceless. Steel: Batman: The Dark Knight (Kiddie coasters and wild mice aside). It's just not as intense as some of the other steel coasters. But I still love it, and would take it over a Boomerang any day.

Same here. They should have fixed Cyclone and replaced Mind Eraser with an RMC coaster. Selling that piece of crap for scrap metal would have gotten them about $200,000 dollars to put toward the new ride. Scrap metal isn't the only fate for an old, unpopular SLC. I'm sure there are parks that want parts for SLCs and maybe even cheap SLCs. There must be a market for parts - those rides are more cloned than Dolly the sheep! I know that there's probably a park that would buy it for way more than that, I just want to see that coaster die. I never thought of the spare parts idea, though.

I'm really not sure. The problem is that most modern cars (except PTC's and Gerstlauers) have only one or two benches, and Wildcat's station is very short. The fewer benches you have per car, the longer the train would be with the same amount of benches. Now, some of the newer trains (like Millennium Flyers and RMC's) have cars that are closer together than PTC's, so this might be circumvented to some extent. But I'm still not sure if a 9-car Millennium Flyer or a 5-car RMC would fit in the station.

Same here. They should have fixed Cyclone and replaced Mind Eraser with an RMC coaster. Selling that piece of crap for scrap metal would have gotten them about $200,000 dollars to put toward the new ride.

Lake Compounce: 2015 (not part of plan; confirmed by the park) - Wildcat gets new trains. 2016 - Wildcat retracking finished, new paint job 2017 - Padded RMC trains for Boulder Dash (there was a rumor about this) 2018 - More Crocodile Cove expansion. 2019 - Lake Compounce buys Cyclone's trim brakes, puts them in the Haunted Graveyard as "coaster traps" (I couldn't think of anything else to put). 2020 - Zoomerang removed to make way for an all-steel RMC coaster, most likely called "Zoomer".

I havent been back since they stopped the dueling and rethemed it to Dragon Challenge, but I agree that this is a terrible neuter. The two rides were incredibly unique dueling like that and really added some great sights. Having said that, both coasters are still at least two of the world's best inverts on their own. I'm sure it has been mentioned a few pages back, but what Six Flags did to the Riverside Cyclone is up there as well. That ride's first drop and intensity were legendary, but the park reprofiled the first drop and purchased new PTCs that sapped a lot of the ride's speed. The first drop (even reduced) still packed a wallop, but there were many areas with awkward or slow pacing. Six Flags did ruin the ride, but some of the awkward, slow-paced parts were actually part of the original ride. The wave turn actually seemed slower in the videos from 1983. The flat turn with the surprise dip was never really fast, either.

I rode Boulder Dash at night, in the front row, in the rain. WOW.

I agree completely with these, especially the last one. If the Cyclone had feelings, it must have felt distressed since the younger child is usually the spoiled one I also want to add the Yankee Cannonball and Great Escape Comet here along with Wooden Warrior. For steel coasters, most B&Ms are glass smooth except their stand-up coasters and the Bizarro and Scream floorless coasters. Manta and Journey to Atlantis at SeaWorld San Diego were both perfectly smooth as well along with the newer launched Premier coasters like Superman and YOLOcoaster. Since when is Bizarro rough? When I visited Great Adventure last year, I found it to be noticeably smoother than Batman at SFNE.

That's probably the best RCT coaster I've seen.

It was designed by Prior & Church, the same people who designed the Giant Dippers. It was basically a larger version with more crossovers and an extra layer of track.

You also must be new at this whole Six Flags thing. Or maybe I'm just thinking of SFMM. I agree with MagnumFreak25. While it is definitely cool to see companies are able to put inversions on wood coasters, I think they should focus on other things otherwise they will end up being just like some steel coasters only wood. As if there was no difference between having a woodie or a steel ride, just the material it is made of. I'm okay with an inversion here and there (and I definitely praise RMC for what they have been doing) but here I'm with intamin's president when he said (during IAAPA 2012, I think) that if they wanted inversions, you had their steel rides because to put one on a wooden coaster you will always have to use some more metal and then it's not as "pure". Now if you ask me: Would you rather have a 7 inversions RMC built near your house or another wood coaster made by a random company (apart from intamin) I probably would go for the RMC but, if it were me, I would focus on other things like airtime, "twistyness", sensation of speed,.... I'm totally with you guys. I do not want any inversions to be honest on Iron Cyclone. I want a twisty, airtime-filled ride, with a nice speed, steepness, and it's old drop returned. I just have a feeling Six Flags will try to do the whole Medusa drop and add an inversion after the drop off the lift hill, and add at least 2 more inversions. But I agree, they need to go the NTAG route, rather than the IR route. If they do, it will actually have a legit chance to be the best ride in the park. I think Six Flags cares more about hype than whether or not something will be the best ride in the park. And "We added teh loopies!!111" resonates with the GP way more than only being able to boast that the new ride is taller, steeper, and faster.

Don't say that. What if they did remove the ride and put in a Goliath-style wooden coaster?

The fact that Cyclone hasn't received the Rolling Thunder treatment may mean that Cyclone could be relocated to another park.

And now, there's actually a Reverse Blast.

I recently had a dream that SFNE's Cyclone was moved to another park and converted to a huge Virginia Reel. I also got an aerial view of a really weird coaster in the middle of an arid, rural area. It was almost like a large Zierer Tivoli but with a launch instead of a lift. Come to think of it, that might be an interesting concept.

Flip-Flap Railway at Sea Lion Park. What a neck-snapper! In all seriousness, though, the oldest I've been on was Wildcat at Lake Compounce. It's actually pretty fun, with one or two pops of good airtime. It also seems as if putting your hands up negates some of the jerkiness on its Magnum-like bunny hops.

Yeah, it probably would be cheaper to give Cyclone the I-Box treatment and build a new wooden coaster at Fiesta Texas than it would be to build a new Goliath-style coaster and relocate Cyclone. *EDIT* How much did Goliath cost? Six Flags does not release ride costs. Cedar Fair does. It doesn't? Maybe they used to, because I read that New Texas Giant cost 10 million, and Goliath at Magic Mountain cost 30.

Yes, Knoebels is getting rid of their super-popular, award winning ride.

Would Six Flags be that subtle? Maybe...

Yeah, it probably would be cheaper to give Cyclone the I-Box treatment and build a new wooden coaster at Fiesta Texas than it would be to build a new Goliath-style coaster and relocate Cyclone. *EDIT* How much did Goliath cost?