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When I see twisted Colossus, I think of a theme more along the lines of a cartoony exaggerated carnival ride.

 

This!

 

Then next year I would love to see some sort of carnival midway package of rides put in that whole area. They could re-theme it to a county fair type thingy.

 

Or like the other pictures suggest, a twisted freak show kinda theme.

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A flat or two in the area will add the necessary 'movement' the area needs to really keep people back there for an extended period of time. A dead end with no food or flats will eventually just turn onto another dead section...again...regardless of any attempts at themeing.

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I like the original trains from the announcement video, but other than that I'm down for anything.

 

In other news, I heard from my friend who is an Entertainment Lead at the park (manages one of the scarezones) that the park almost hit capacity last night during Fright Fest. Apparently there were 34k people in the park. I can't even imagine that place with that many people in it.

 

On that note, what is the park's capacity? And has it ever hit capacity before?

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I like the idea of a carnival theme for Colossus, as it seems to fit well with the ride and with the general Colossus County Fair theme for the area. The trains, though...eh, not bad but I prefer the ones in the animation. The Steampunk theme looks good as well, but it would seem out of place without a complete Colossus County Fair retheme.

 

Regardless of what is done, the area needs more than two coasters to be of interest. Remodel and open that closed food stand and add a couple flats down here (if going for a carnival theme, a Super Loop would fit right in ), and SFMM could end up with something as good as DC universe. Of course, if SFMM isn't committed to keeping up the area, I'd rather see them save the money for a new project, so hopefully they'll commit and the park will begin to move back toward 2009-2011 SFMM.

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I really like the idea of an expanded "DC Universe/Joker's Carnival" theme as opposed to the "ScreamPunk/Back Alley". I believe that the Steampunk genre is WAY out of the Six Flags wheelhouse to execute properly. Joker (Colossus) & Bizarro (Scream!) are great fits and would be solid anchors for that area. Plus, throw in an awesome flat ride, eatery, with new trees/shade/cooling stations. I think that would definitely be something SFMM could handle with minimum effort, dollars, up-keep (aka: the Six Flags way).

 

Surprising that they even gave enough of a f*%@ to see what their clientele thought of the new area, esp. this far along. Maybe the feedback among the internal team wasn't so positive either...

 

Joker + Bizarro + DC = Theming they can actually handle*

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This "Twisted" version (circa: 2004) of The Joker would be very cool

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In other news, I heard from my friend who is an Entertainment Lead at the park (manages one of the scarezones) that the park almost hit capacity last night during Fright Fest. Apparently there were 34k people in the park. I can't even imagine that place with that many people in it.

 

On that note, what is the park's capacity? And has it ever hit capacity before?

 

SATURDAY WAS OFF THE HOOK P A C K E D !!! MUST HAVE BEEN 100,000 PEEPS IN THERE. CARS WERE PARKING IN FILLMORE (WELL THEY WERE PARKING AT NEW SUNKIST BUILDING) .... IT WAS PACKED BUT FUN AT SAME TIME. I PITY PEEPS THAT WERE FIRST TIMERS AND MIGHT NOT HAVE GOTTEN FRONT OF THE LINE MAZE PASSES. THROTTLE PLAZA WAS PLACE TO BE AT SAME TIME DC UNIVERSE HAD THE NUMBERS.

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A carnival/Joker theme would be great for Colossus! No matter what they do, they'd better refresh the "country fair" area, because right now it's more like "abandoned buildings, faded paint and parking lot coaster land". I'd honestly rather have SFMM put some themeing in the area and do something, anything to Scream than worry about themeing Colossus. A Bizarro theme (and repaint and actual grass under the ride, too!) would make Scream at least look ok, even if the ride is rough and sucky IMO to begin with.

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In other news, I heard from my friend who is an Entertainment Lead at the park (manages one of the scarezones) that the park almost hit capacity last night during Fright Fest. Apparently there were 34k people in the park. I can't even imagine that place with that many people in it.

 

On that note, what is the park's capacity? And has it ever hit capacity before?

 

SATURDAY WAS OFF THE HOOK P A C K E D !!! MUST HAVE BEEN 100,000 PEEPS IN THERE. CARS WERE PARKING IN FILLMORE (WELL THEY WERE PARKING AT NEW SUNKIST BUILDING) .... IT WAS PACKED BUT FUN AT SAME TIME. I PITY PEEPS THAT WERE FIRST TIMERS AND MIGHT NOT HAVE GOTTEN FRONT OF THE LINE MAZE PASSES. THROTTLE PLAZA WAS PLACE TO BE AT SAME TIME DC UNIVERSE HAD THE NUMBERS.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair amount of those guests visited because they saw the animated POV of TC on Facebook and expected it to be open.

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Funny you say that.

 

Before TC was announced i heard a rumor about Joker's Colossus, and a DC universe expansion down to scream (Bizarro).

 

 

I rather like that idea, too. Why not give the Joker a big, twisted ride all his own?

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In other news, I heard from my friend who is an Entertainment Lead at the park (manages one of the scarezones) that the park almost hit capacity last night during Fright Fest. Apparently there were 34k people in the park. I can't even imagine that place with that many people in it.

 

On that note, what is the park's capacity? And has it ever hit capacity before?

 

SATURDAY WAS OFF THE HOOK P A C K E D !!! MUST HAVE BEEN 100,000 PEEPS IN THERE. CARS WERE PARKING IN FILLMORE (WELL THEY WERE PARKING AT NEW SUNKIST BUILDING) .... IT WAS PACKED BUT FUN AT SAME TIME. I PITY PEEPS THAT WERE FIRST TIMERS AND MIGHT NOT HAVE GOTTEN FRONT OF THE LINE MAZE PASSES. THROTTLE PLAZA WAS PLACE TO BE AT SAME TIME DC UNIVERSE HAD THE NUMBERS.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair amount of those guests visited because they saw the animated POV of TC on Facebook and expected it to be open.

 

LOL I highly doubt that. It was Saturday, it's fright fest, there is a good SP deal right now, the weathers nice, it's open till 1am. Not rocket science.

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I don't think this ride matches with the Joker or any DC related theme really. I say leave that stuff in the DC universe area.

 

The ride looks, like I said before, like it would work best with an exaggerated/over-the-top/crazy/cartoony/scary carnival theme.

 

In other news, I heard from my friend who is an Entertainment Lead at the park (manages one of the scarezones) that the park almost hit capacity last night during Fright Fest. Apparently there were 34k people in the park. I can't even imagine that place with that many people in it.

 

On that note, what is the park's capacity? And has it ever hit capacity before?

 

SATURDAY WAS OFF THE HOOK P A C K E D !!! MUST HAVE BEEN 100,000 PEEPS IN THERE. CARS WERE PARKING IN FILLMORE (WELL THEY WERE PARKING AT NEW SUNKIST BUILDING) .... IT WAS PACKED BUT FUN AT SAME TIME. I PITY PEEPS THAT WERE FIRST TIMERS AND MIGHT NOT HAVE GOTTEN FRONT OF THE LINE MAZE PASSES. THROTTLE PLAZA WAS PLACE TO BE AT SAME TIME DC UNIVERSE HAD THE NUMBERS.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair amount of those guests visited because they saw the animated POV of TC on Facebook and expected it to be open.

 

LOL I highly doubt that. It was Saturday, it's fright fest, there is a good SP deal right now, the weathers nice, it's open till 1am. Not rocket science.

 

Haha yea I know, I'm just messing around but it would be hilarious seeing that one guy ask "where's the entrance to the new colossus?"

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