TheAmericanKnight
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So for those who have experienced both, how has Tantrum aged compared to Untamed at Canobie Lake? Is it a potential headbanger? My wife will want to know for next time we get there. Thanks!
Lapbar only on Tantrum, unless something explainable or really strange happened to it in the year of shut down it was perfectly smooth in 2019, a very nice small Euro Fighter. The two really rough coasters at the park are Predator (if you're in the front it really isn't all that bad but anywhere else is unpleasant) and Mind Eraser, but that's to be expected.
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Yeah, DL was my "home park" for a lot of my life. I am 33 now, but my family started camping there when in 97 when I was 10 and Mind Eraser was brand new. That three year stretch of Mind Eraser, Nightmare, Boomerang, and Superman is what made me a coaster nerd. I put home park in quotes because it was a four hour drive on a good day, but we went every summer for at least a few days. My parents would relax in the campground and I would usually bring a friend to explore the park with. If not, I'd at least drag my little brother or whatever cousin came with us around. It was ideal for everyone.
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My kid is ten now and we have only been once since he was born, and he was pretty small. I don't remember how old he was/what year, exactly, but he was kiddie ride young and I remember having fun on that stupid but charming moose ride they added. It was probably 2013, 2014. We were supposed to go back this year for a day on a road trip but it didn't pan out for obvious reasons.
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Predator is still by memory the roughest experience I have ever had on a coaster. I remember at one point getting very bad chest pains on it even though I was probably like... 15? It was an awful ride, but like you said front seat did make it more tolerable. The sad thing is I remember loving it in the very late nineties, very early 00s. I don't know if I just started growing up a little and losing tolerance for the roughness or if it just fell apart. And a SLC is gonna SLC.
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I am a proponent of RMC Predator in a big way. I'd like to see the SLC torn down and replaced eventually too, but that won't happen any time soon. As for the rest of the lineup, I don't have complaints. MotoCoaster was cute. Superman will always have a soft spot in my heart and I think at least as of my 2013/14/whenever ride it had become a little underrated. It and its clone are still good rides. Viper low key is one of the better original era Arrow loopers left standing. A Boomerang is obligatory and you probably can't do anything better with that footprint anyway, at least not with a coaster. Tantrum was a great edition on paper to round out the lineup too, though I haven't experienced it yet. Glad to hear it is lapbars only.
So, I assume you have been on Mind Eraser when it was new? What was it like back then? Did it feel the same? Also, did anything else change since it first opened?
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Any word on how nearby Seabreeze is doing through the pandemic? Will that park open at all this year?
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Campground reopening June 25th
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Does that include the Amusement Park? If not, have that not announced the opening date of the park yet?
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Does anyone have any videos or photos of Nightmare at Phantom Cave on the inside while it was at Darien Lake? A POV video would be great!
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The Company Man uploaded this video on Six Flags recently. I feel as though its a bit out of date though despite being uploaded yesterday.
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I don't know if memes are allowed here, but I found this on the obscure side of YouTube recently. Thought some of you folks may like this.
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Just found this on YouTube. It is about a month old, but this is at least a bit of a visual update. Also, be prepared for cringey editing.
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the new attraction has been removed from the site
So, is the new slide never being set up then, or are they storing it for next year?
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Also, is it safe to assume there won't be a new attraction next year either?
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At this point anything would be nice on the dry side, but as stated everything really appears to be up in the air. SFMM is already getting another coaster in 2021 with this supposed budget of Six Flags, and SFDL can barely put one rideable train together for ME. Vekoma vest restraints would be nice but quarantine got me talking long/dreaming again sorry!! Hahaha
Don't they have to get a new train to pass inspections at this point for Mind Eraser?
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BTW, for anyone wanting to do something outside while the Amusement Parks are shut down (if they remain shut down for a while longer), this SubReddit might help. Hiking is fun, right lads?
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When is SFDL actually going to open this season? I would have to assume the Coronavirus outbreak will delay its opening day, right?
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For some off season entertainment, I may as well ask about this. If this has already been asked, my apologies, but my life is busy enough that I sometimes forget about those sort of things.
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Anyways, so how likely is Six Flags to add a roller coaster to Six Flags Darien Lake within the next couple of years? Is it nearly impossible, or at least a little bit plausible? Also, is RMC Predator never happening?
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Kinda stupid is being kind. This is like saying CF had disputes with Intamin over Dragster, so now CF is going to remove Maverick, Millie and all other Intamin coasters in the chain. It makes less than zero sense. Most major industries do not work based on spite.
Very true. Of course they wouldn't.
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Just an average day of spreading rumors on the internet...
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I remember reading a little while back that the Mind Eraser trains reached the end of their service life. If this is true, and they are not getting new trains, then how is the park going to operate Mind Eraser? Or are they getting new trains after all? Or was the claim that the old trains reached the end of their service life false?
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So, what are the updates on the claims people were making recently earlier in this thread?
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- Any updates on Motocoaster being relocated within the park?
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- Any updates on Mind Eraser getting a new train? Or a full retheme?
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- Any updates DC Comics IPs coming to the park?
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- Any updates on whether or not any of this is happening?
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Such a coaster that fits in a small space, yet offers big thrills. Nowadays, everyone wants to run the tallest, fastest, and insane-looking coaster as they forget that even the little coasters can offer thrills just like the big daddies. I may like to ride big rides, but I also like the smaller rides as well.
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Too bad this coaster is in a place I probably won't be able to visit within my lifetime. Oh well, I can always watch the video and pretend I'm ridding it.
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I agree with you. I wish more Chance rollercoaster were being made because Lightning Run seems to be awesome, compact/small, and packs a punch that some huge coasters do not even get close to.
I feel like small rides with a good ability to thrill are still being made and catching on. The S&S Freespins are a good example. The RMC Raptors are not huge and yet the reviews for them suggest that they are very good. Eurofighter coasters by Gerstlauer are also very good rides. So, the concept of small but intense roller coasters is still very alive today.
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Once again, Six Flags is the leased operator for the park. They own nothing.
That is the case for the majority of Six Flags parks. I believe Six Flags St. Louis is the only park that they fully own (correct me if I'm wrong, of course).
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^ I'd say land wise, either behind Brain Drain, or over the bridge. I don't really see any other area to put it in, unless Kahuna were to close.
They could put the slide to the side of the wave pool behind Big Kahuna. Most of Big Kahuna is over water, so I would not be surprised if the did the same thing for Wahoo Wave. There is a strip of land beside the wave pool where they could fit a queue, exit, and a splashdown pool.
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Well, at least that is not a bad addition. Still hoping they will announce dry park improvements later (as other posts have already mentioned). From the description given for the waterslide on local news sites, it will probably be a near exact clone of the Wahoo Wave in Hurricane Harbor Splashtown (Houston).
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5:00AM EST.
Is that a joke, or legit?
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I don't joke about things that are well-documented and easily searchable on Google.
I did try to look it up on Google, but I couldn't find anything. That's why I asked here. I typed in "Six Flags 2019 announcement time" and got a couple of results about "2019 Opening Weekend" and "Quarterly Earnings" instead.
Six Flags Darien Lake (SFDL) Discussion Thread
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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Just for fun, I'm going to post a bit of a strange rumor here that will probably never happen that I heard about on YouTube. I'm sure the conversation should make this worth it.
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Anyways, there's a bit of a rumor about the possibility that Scream from Six Flags Magic Mountain may get relocated to another Six Flags park. Will it go to Six Flags Darien Lake, or more likely another Six Flags park like Six Flags Mexico?