djackson
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Over/under that this will become a Harry potter attraction?
The statement says it's a franchise Universal owns themselves. I'm betting on Secret Life of Pets.
Secret Life Of Pets would be a decent addition but I don't think it will happen, but I am personally betting more money on that it will somehow be Fast and the Furious franchise! It's their most bankable franchise in history!
I've been hearing based around the Bourne franchise
That would be extremely dumb in my opinion. The target audience of Universal doesn't really connect with that franchise. Universal is about putting in relatable content.
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Perhaps due to a slight bias toward coasters, Mystic Timbers handily beat Flight of Passage for best new ride.
I'll bet if you asked most of the people who voted in the Golden Tickets they wouldn't even know what Flight of Passage is. They probably would think it's some B&M Wing Rider at a Happy Valley park. We really need a new "Mitch Hawker" style poll so we don't have to rely on a "best of" list that is a complete fucking joke.
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How long has the current park president been in the position.
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Dropping
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This must be what JETS fans feel like at the NFL draft.
Ironically I'm a Jets fan as well.
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Sorry for the double post but man would I hate to be SFA right now. They just recently posted the ride to Instagram and there isn't a single positive comment about the addition.
You know what would really fire them up? To find out that the Free Fly that went to GAdv was bought for SFA. The park president didn't want it for some reason (common, etc).
I'm getting kinda tired of the park president. This wouldn't be the first time SFA didn't get a ride that was bought for them. I can't help but think something like that happened this year.
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Wahoo River
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^ Not trying to ignore your post but...
If anyone wanted to know what that awesome song was that they've been playing on the teacups, it's this:
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Sorry for the double post but man would I hate to be SFA right now. They just recently posted the ride to Instagram and there isn't a single positive comment about the addition.
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Good. Draw more people into the water park, I don't go in there. I can wait until next year for dry park addition.
Renew my pass? No brainer. They're still coasters in my backyard and I'll get up to Great Adventure at least once and the temptation of the other SF parks is always there once the pass is in hand.
Give me the new trains on Mind Eraser and I'm good. Put the Mexican place on the meal plan and I am happy. They are pouring piers in the arena which should mean that they plan on actually using it for something even if it's competitions of some kind. There are those markers that were discussed which should be minor tweaks to the park. That would have made for a better teaser video: The Grim Reaper getting off ME not holding his head, eating a burrito, watching a cheerleading competition, and standing under a shade structure.
Throw some flyers in there for Roar and you'll have the best addition to the park in the past few years.
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SFA will probably get some type of restaraunt as well.
Does Six Flags announce their new restaurants in advance?
Kickin Tsunami Chicken and Apocalypse tacos weren't announced in advance. The survey makers were most likely for something along the lines of a Restaurant or Bathroom.
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To those of you getting rid of your season passes, think about it like this.
•We are actually getting something while Dorney and MIA will actually get nothing at all.
Dorney is gettin a nice new restaurant in Wildwater Kingdom...lol
-La Ronde got a pretty decent sized expansion that looks to include one of the Tourbillon rides like Over Texas and Great AdventureTheir Tourbillon is a scrambler...
SFA will probably get some type of restaraunt as well.
When I posted that the info was not clear as to what Tourbillon was going to be.
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Well, it's not a water coaster, but Typhoon Twister is probably the best non-water coaster slide they could've added to the park. It combines two of my favorite water slide elements (bowl and half-pipe) and looks like a lot of fun. It's just too bad that they didn't add a conveyor belt so you don't have to lug those huge rafts up 5 flights of stairs. The coaster drought continues but I really think the park will get a Free Fly or a Raptor in the next few years.
I think this may have been the last year if Free Flies.
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^ I read somewhere that it was more like 2 million.
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I think one ride hasn't been announced. According to somebody who recently took a tour of the plant, there is some green track but no green RMC has been announced.
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I wonder who is getting the 7th RMC
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My wife said it looks smaller then she expected.
Was this on your honeymoon?
Your late.
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Pretty sure when I went to SFA in 2008 I had absolutely no interest in their lazy river. This new one may peak my interest a lot more. My only issue is the general lack of excitement factor for me personally but that is a personal problem.
Search up Roa's Rapids at Aquatica or Fearless River at Volcano Bay. If they run this at a decent speed and if this has decent theming like Apocalypse it should be the 2nd best ride in the water park. My only problem with it is where is the route going to go?
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SFA is in a tough market with Hershey and KD... a 15 million dollar addition at SFA probably doesn't get the same return in attendance at SFA as it might at a park with less competition like SFFT and I suspect any attendance boosts are much shorter lived as people will go to SFA the year the new attraction opens but head back to the other parks as they open new attractions in subsequent years. It may be that corporate is resigned to add just enough to SFA to maintain their current market share but not add anything to try and expand their market share. This may just be the reality that we need to face.
I think Wahoo River is an attempt to compete with Hershey's new addition. The park doesn't have much space to add a slide without removing one and all but Zoomazon falls consistently have a line. A more immersive lazy river is probably thing they could've added outside of a Water Coaster.
I don't think the park sees itself as a competitor to KD. KD is pretty far from home for the Baltimore crowd which is the Major market for SFA. Even if they did see themselves as a competitor, trying to compete Twisted Timbers would have been dumb.
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I mean . . . I'm grateful that SFA is getting a new thing for Hurricane Harbor . . . but I still feel that (compared to other additions) SFA is the bastard step child (along with Great Escape and La Ronde) of the SF chain.
I'm still renewing for 2018 . . . hell, I got to make my requisite trips to Great Adventure (and I'll get off my A$$ and fly out to one of the other parks as well)
All three of the "step-child" parks got great additions.
-Great Escape got a nice flat that we haven't seen at a Six Flags Park before.
-La Ronde got a pretty decent sized expansion that looks to include one of the Tourbillon rides like Over Texas and Great Adventure
- We got a unique renovation to what was a terrible lazy river. The thing was a complete eye sore.
I think the reason we aren't seeing huge flats and coasters at these parks is because of the demographics. These parks are drawing more families then your parks like Magic Mountain and Great Adventure. They want to cater to who they can rely on coming to the park constantly.
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I'm thinking this was a tester to see how the concept does. If it goes well I think we'll see this at Great Advebture and Over Georgia next year.
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Jim Reid Anderson.
Universal Orlando Resort (USF, IOA, Epic) Discussion Thread
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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The target audience is families with pre-teens and teens. As a teenager, I can assure you that we don't really connect to that franchise.