liltrekkie

I'm not an expert on this, but if I had to guess, it's probably because it takes a long time to manufacture and transport. It's easier to to do smaller sections than the whole ride at once, allows a park to open the ride next season instead of a prolonged shutdown I could be way off on that thought though, so take that with a grain of salt.

Honestly they've poured decent money into the park the last few years. So, who knows. I think good things will happen between now and 2030.

A hypercoaster has to be a full circuit coaster. Because of that, Freeze doesn't meet the criteria to be a hypercoaster.

I wish I could have experienced that site. Unfortunately I was was still one of those young people at the time. I have only recently become a boomer and can now properly complain about the darn youngins being on my lawn

I think eventually we will get a Hyper. Eventually. Will it happen next year or the year after? Probably not. But I think within 10 years time it could happen. As much as I would love a hyper, I think filling out the park would be better. There is a ton of unused dead space in the park, and that makes the park seem empty. Like the space around sky screamer, where tidal wave used to be. I would love to see an expansion of hurricane harbor. There are three basically unused parking lots that are basically weed infested every year that could be used for that.

I'm not surprised. It was never all that popular honestly. When it was hot most people was in hurricane harbor anyway. What we should do is we should bring back the water cannons on thunder river. Now those were fun

Remember when we just used to argue on whether corporate hated our park? Good times. They've put some good money into the park this year, looking forward to seeing how it looks in person.

It's been a while since I've been on here. But as someone who thought corporate took a negative view to our park and wouldn't put the needed funds to improve it. I can tell you the park has 100% gotten better over the past couple years. New decking, fresh paint on storefronts and restaurant, path work, decent flowers (even if the skunks and deer rip them up immediately lol), a couple of new rides including a much needed family coaster. Sure, the park still lacks in some areas. I would like to see the Go-fresh store or whatever it was repurposed or reopened. If like the area where tidel wave used to be developed, and let's get something better than moose burger in. I'm biased and would love to see a new giga, hyper or even another water park expansion, but I don't think those things will happen yet. But overall the past two years alone corporate has dumped a ton of money into the park and I think it's heading in the right direction finally.

Honestly, while we definitely need more rides and coasters to just fill the park out more, what I believe is more important right now is also just general maintenance. Paint, gardening, general cleaning and renovations. Coasters and flat rides are cool, but a dirty and run down looking park isn't going to attract people to spend money. I'm also going to throw out a suggestion, they could take a page from Holiday World and expand the water park using that basically abandoned parking lot. Create one big spread out water park line they do. Add a second wave pool which could be smaller and maybe isn't as intense. Could of thriller water rides, maybe even a water coaster.

I imagine it's exactly the same ride, just different paint. Six flags has a history of buying multiple of the same ride and spreading them out over their parks over 2-3 years. Maybe they get a discount buying in bulk or something.

I have to admit, the thought of it swinging over the lagoon is absolutely thrilling to me. It would be a lovely view.

Going in Dragon Wings old spot makes a ton of sense. It'll fill that section of the park nicely. But that still leaves the spot by tidal wave, and really that whole section of park, incredibly empty and neglected.

I just wanna say, I totally called a Discovery model going into that spot. I'll take my cookie please.

And I thought I did a lot of complaining about the park. Old man yells at Carousel progress.

Well looks like I'll need to eat my hat. It might be a family coaster but it's still a coaster.

Is the giant discovery the most comparable model to what Xcalibur was? They make four different discovery models, I honestly don't know which one is most comparable. I think only one of them has a full 360 degrees of travel, and that's the revolution version, which at first glance seems like a drop in replacement. But I could be woefully wrong.

Super girl is an Endeavor. I think you're referring to one of the Discovery models from Zamperla. Which, would actually make a ton of sense to go there, considering Xcalibur has a similar support design. I would say I doubt one would go there, however, they got rid of highland fling and replaced it with super girl, which is just an updated version of the enterprise sooo, honestly, 9 to 5 and pick em at this point. After the lot sits for 5-10 years first, of course.

What makes it even worse is it's one of three flat rides (excluding the train) that still had it's original name. And was the staple for scenery when coming to the park. Everyone knew how iconic that ride was, due to it's extreme height. I'm not mad, honestly. It was expensive to maintain, and costly to run. I'm just sad to be losing such a park staple. And I'm sad because that ride will be gone and that lot will sit there empty for years to come. Coming to the park and not seeing Xcalibur on the skyline is just.. sad and wrong.

Speaking of speculation. Goodbye Xcalibur. You will be missed.

Well I mean there was one noteworthy thing that happened. Involving some very aggressive turkey legs.

This is what people don't understand. As a base diamond elite, I got 50% off basically everything. Merchandise, food, dining pass, candy. A flat rate discount on flash pass, plus skip the line tickets. A free funnel cake, free icee, double rides on paid attractions. All that for $217 a year, and we had HITP to make it an even better value. Now, a diamond pass gets you 20%, you pay $224, 50% a season pass for flash pass, 4 skip the line passes. Like what, that's a better value? It's not. If you want people to pay more, you need to give them something for it.

I don't blame them, I have a legacy diamond elite VIP pass. They are losing a crap ton of money on me, considering I visited the place 3x a week basically for the year. I am the bane of all six flags everywhere.

Aw, look at that optimism! It's so cute. New roofs don't get people into the park. Those are just necessary expenditures. You know what does get people into the park? Rides. We got nothing for two years, we get woman whip only this year, which hasn't exactly been open everyday when the park was open. And now, we get nothing for 2023. So tell me, what's new and exciting that will attract crowds and people in general? Sticking up a poster saying we got new roofs and paint doesn't do that. No one goes home and tells their neighbors they painted a building. No one except us anyway, because we are crazy like that. Six flags has closed parks before. Just look at Astroworld. Our parks death will come. And it will come sooner, rather than later.

Well this has been all a joy to read. The slow realization that I was right all along has settled among you all. There was once a time our park was considered one of the greatest in the chain, the founder, having a vision of a park that would rival Disney world. That time has since passed. I give it 10 years before our park is closed.

Yes, he was there Monday. I met him in the queue on American Thunder. He's visiting all the parks in the SF chain on the down low to get a feel for what each park might need. He is the nicest guy I have ever met that worked in the corporate office. He was super incognito, just trying to be a regular guest. The guy has a vision, and he sees every six flags as becoming a premium experience that rivals places like Cedar Point and Hershey Park. And he cares about every park, even little old us. No, I didn't get any secret plans or anything, although not for my lack of trying. Gives me hope our park won't be left behind anymore. (And if you believe any of this I have a bridge to sell you)