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Where? It might not be a big plan, but they have an idea of what they need to do. They are working on finding an engineering company to help them dismantle the coaster hopefully by next summer, they might remove the smaller components and electronics before winter, and they have a very rough estimate of how much it will cost to take the coaster apart, move it, store it, and reassemble it. Will it work? Probably not. Best of luck to them, but I don't really think that they're looking at this realistically at all.

It's been confirmed that the new Texas Giant will be receiving the flame cannons from Bizarro at Six Flags New England as mentioned in a Q&A session during Super Hero Celebration. Link

A plan is slowly being made. Article

Elissa makes a good point about perception. If Holiday World didn't tell you the story behind Gobbler Getaway and how you're actually calling turkeys, you would think that you're just shooting them. If Busch Gardens doesn't give you a story behind Cheetah Hunt, people might think you're hunting cheetahs. But of course the ride will have a story and theming behind it and once that has been established, people won't really be able to complain how Cheetah Hunt promotes hunting cheetahs.

I do not understand your post? Or, as Johnny 5 would say "Does not compute, need more input!" Did you not see the picture? YouTube has an option where it will translate the audio in any video and make captions. Everyone was complaining about how the name may promote hunting cheetahs. I noticed that when YouTube translated the announcement video, it said something about shooting President Bush and I found it amusing. Is that a better explanation? It was a joke.

^I wasn't able to go today, but according to friends on Twitter lines were 2 hours long for Racer so it was a busy day. Also according to them, crowds usually die down around 11 and the park is open till 1 in the morning.

The "auto-caption" feature on YouTube sucks, but it makes for entertaining subtitles! See? Busch doesn't want to hunt cheetahs!

Yea, but if Cedar Point just put in Zacpsins next year people would still complain because they would be "copying" Magic Mountain and they need something new and unique.

I might be heading to Kings Island for the first time tomorrow, anyone tips? I'll probably hit Flight of Fear, Firehawk, and Invertigo first because those are low capacity rides, but any other tips on the Haunt itself? Anyone want to meet up?

The line for Dark Knight actually moves pretty fast for a wild mouse because of the moving station and the blocking on the ride. Even if the entire queue in the old theater is full, that's only around a 45 minute wait.

^The cars can spin freely and the crazinesses is really determined by the weight distribution in each car.

^I don't really think this is that huge of an investment on the part of Six Flags. If you think about it, they're really only paying 7 million for Green Lantern (based on the cost of Insane), maybe a million for the Superman refurbishment, and then a little more for the re-located kiddie coaster. It's just 18, Colossus only counts as a single coaster. I find that interesting just because Six Flags Great America counts American Eagle as 2.

If you check out the promo video, it actually does say 3 new coaster experiences.

Six Flags Magic Mountain to open 3 New Coaster Experiences in 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS5jyNsKIWQ http://www.screamscape.com/html/six_flags_magic_mountain.htm Green Lantern zacspin Superman Escape from Krypton

Because it's concept art. It's just supposed to give you an idea of what the ride might be like and usually isn't accurate 100% I too am questioning the Cheetah Hunt name, but the entire ride looks great!

Wimps! Nice review Jon. Haunted houses have never been my thing, but I might have to check some out next year.

Has anyone tried out the new Saw maze or any mazes at Fright Fest this year? Also, how's Love at First Fright and Terror Twister 2?

What are girls? Thanks for the laughs everyone, it's been very entertaining.

Thanks for all of the comments guys, they're always appreciated. Another day at Holiday World!!! 9/26/2010 I was not expecting to go to Holiday World twice this year! Although it's closer now that i'm at college, I don't have a car. The closest park is Kings Island which is only 30 minutes away so i'm hoping to go there soon. Luckily some of my coaster friends in the midwest said that they were going to go to Holiday World for the day and that they would pick me up! The park was completely empty. All coasters were only running one train, but we were re-riding everything the whole day! Sometimes we didn't have to leave the station, other times our seats. It was a cold but fantastic day! I'm so glad that I was able to get back down to Holiday World because it is a great park. I was able to meet and thank Pat Koch personally at the beginning of the day for all of the hard work she and many others have put in to Holiday World. Before you check out pictures, here's a video Jeff took of a major collision on the bumper cars! I always love seeing Voyage from the road! Before we went to Holiday World though, we stopped by the Santa Clause statue that's being restored next year. There are nice quotes on each side of the statue As you can see, it's in bad shape. If you didn't know, it was Will Koch's dream to buy and restore this statue and I think it's great that Holiday World is doing that. The reindeer has a hole in it. You can see Pilgrim's Plunge from here! Of course our first ride of the day was on Raven! This was a common site during the entire day It looked like it might rain that day, so we made sure to get on all the coasters in case they shut down. See those guys waving? Those are my buds Ted and Jeff. Empty Voyage station = tons of re-rides! Old PTC train, new Timberliner train! From what i've heard, they're testing the Timberliners during the week. It was a cloudy and cold day, that didn't stop us though! I tried getting more "reaction" shots today, wish my camera was better for that! The water rides were still open that day and for some reason people were still going on them! I didn't have time to ride Paul Revere's Midnight Ride last time because of crowds, what a fun ride! My coaster pals Ted, Danny, and Jeff. (thanks for driving Danny!) Jeff and his "steed". Did you watch that video yet? Liberty Launch! Remember the last time I went to Holiday World and took a self-timed picture? I did it again! This is going to become a tradition. Danny made a new friend. Jeff wants to join the Village People OMG DANNY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?! Voyage, yea, awesome! Danny is too short to ride Revolution. We even re-rode Revolution today! This picture isn't crazy enough. Howler is more intense than Legend. Oh Voyage, how I love thee. I can't wait to try out those Timberliners! Lift-hill You can never have enough pictures of Voyage! This is probably my favorite picture of the day! I have all of the original pics if anyone wants one. Jeff and Ted decided that they wanted hypothermia Me being all fancy with Jeff's camera If I remembered correctly, this eating area will be covered and have AC next year. Jeff has a crush on the grandma Legend time I spy lots of empty seats! Seriously, once the waterpark closes for the season the rest of the park is dead! Danny and Ted like Legend in the rear. Raven lift hill shot Again, no one here! Do you see the green guy on the lift hill? Green guy is bundled up tight! Awesome clouds behind Legend Creepy Thank you Holiday World for another awesome day! I can't wait to come back for Holliwood nights next year!

Wha? Sorry, just spent the last hour reading this thread trying to figure out what the hell is going on. I'm still confused, so it seems like i'm on the same page as whoever is trying to save Big Dipper. I wish them good luck, but none of this seems well planned at all. Also, saw the Save the Big Dipper ads on Facebook. This is absolutely insane but in a hilarious, awesome way!

^Yea, that frisbee looks great! And you said it works too?

And here all 4 clips released so far combined.

There are 3 yellow coasters at Six Flags Great America, it looks fine to me so I think you'll be fine.

^Nope, symmastia on YouTube put it together.

Here's a video of teaser clips 1 and 3 combined.