Vffreak07 Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Renegade's is just fun. I might post a video in the future of it but yeah here's the switchbacks of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike541x Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 I wish I had a better picture of Hurler's at Kd. I love how it goes under the track and through the structure. Especially at night when the lights underneath light up. Grizzly's goes through the woods, I think that's pretty cool. Another one I like is Anaconda. You get to see part of the layout up close. Taken from the Queue Taken from the Queue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wood Dragon 1988 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Grizzly's goes through the woods It used to go a lot more through the woods too, till XLC and that damn Go-Kart Track came in. Not only did they take trees out of Grizzly's queue, but the Karts now SHARE Grizzly's queue! And last time I was there, Grizzly didn't even have a sign! favorites: Any Batman: The Ride, Volcano with the music and without the graffiti, Flight of Fear, DarKastle, Superman at New England, El Toro, Skull Mountain, Dark Knight, Predator, Lightning Racer, Canada's Scooby Doo, Dragon Mountain, Ninja at SFOG least favorites: Goliath SFOG, anything at Lakemonth because queues don't exist there, Laser, Behemoth, Goliath, Batwing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterstud522 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 One I've always liked it Afterburn, the coaster formally known as Top Gun- the jet coaster. It has the look and feel of an aircraft hanger and I've never seen to many terrible lines for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matteocrepaldi Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 This is Superman Ultimate Flight queue at S. F. Great America using the golden qbot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groteslurf Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Here some areal shots of the Oblivion queue I found on towersalmanac.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankees15 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 My favorite que is probably Talon's. The que is right in the infield of the ride. You have a great view of almost the entire coaster and it really builds up the anticipation. A couple others that I like are Hydra and Medusa because you also get a great view of the ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmerleeberry Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hey, I'm excited about queue lines as well. At Kings Dominion, they have a few coasters' queue line that are just straights (no switchbacks). Coasters such as the Rebel Yell, the Grizzly, the Ananconda, the Shockwave, and the Hurler all have staight lines that you must walk all the way the station regardless of how little or how many riders are present. Their two biggest coasters (Volcano and Dominator) have switchbacks (and they really do need them!!!). My biggest gripe is the situation of a ride that has many riders lining up before the entrance, and seeing tons of queueing lines not being used. Oh come on now: if you got queue lines, USE THEM!!! Don't force the riders to line up and cause a traffic jam on the midway. Another gripe I have is that some rides have straight lines that are way too long. I love riding the Dueling Dragon at Island of Adventures, but do they really need all that queueing? I counted the paces I had to travel from start until I reached the station and I counted 450 paces! Did the planners believe that ride to be so popular they felt they needed a line that would contain over 2000 waiting riders? Okay, my favorite queueing has to be the Led Zepplin. After passing through classic album covers and learning bits of trivia about the band, you see a show before getting on the ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewheeled999 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Since I haven't really been to that many parks, my queue knowledge is pretty limited, but oh well... Some of my favorite queues have to be Space Mountain at DLR, Batman: The Ride, Riddler's Revenge, and X2 just because of the videos they show, all at SFMM. The worst queues I've been in are Kong at SFDK, simply because it's boring and has a sign that says "Definitely Worth the Wait". Yeah, NO. Another is Tatsu at SFMM, it's just boring, and doesn't give you that great of a view of the ride. The last one is Scream! at SFMM, again because it's boring with no theming whatsoever besides the banners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 I was going through some pics and found some interesting ones: Le Monstre at LaRonde Steel Hawgs line. Imagine waiting in this moving 4 people like every 3 minutes or so minutes standing next to a bunch of Indiana hicks when its 90 degrees. Awesome. Steamin Demon at the Great Escape GASMs station and exit path, lots of careful planning and landscaping effort here. The Dark Knight at GADV The Dark Knight at GADV El Toro Batman at GADV Batman at GADV Batman at GADV Batman at GADV Dark Knight at SFGAm Dark Knight at SFGAm Dark Knight at SFGAm Decided one day to have a photo spree of Batman at SFGAm This isnt there anymore, they replaced the city-scape in 2008 with 3-D type buildings and replaced this display with a bare wall 2007 2008 Compare this to Great Adventures I dont know why SFGAms Batman monitors show renderings of SFNE's Batman More details, I absolutely LOVE SFGAms BTR in comparison to all the other BTRs. The others are just cheap imitations. Okay moving on Powder Kegs station, complete with SDC employee christmas costumes Maverick at CP Italian Job at KI, complete with no chickens sign Renegade vandalism at VF Corkscrew at VF exit path Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooksta77 Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 X2 At SFMM has a good queue! Only thing add misters again! And Views of the station and coaster! New Sign at entrance Plasmas with X2 Signage Nice Sun Blocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitrofan Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 When queues start going out of the queue area (into the midway), does anyone else ever move the chains themselves and start walking through the switchbacks? I used to do it, but someone got annoyed, so I don't do it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxedomask5432 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Thanks COOOOLkid, wow so Scream! is just a straight line up stairs into the station. Does anyone know about X's queue? X's queue was alot of switch backs, and pink walls with lots of yellow slogans. At least before they changed the themeing. The line was painfully long (3 hours) and seemed to be such a short ride. The whole time I was waiting, I kept seeing Viper's trains cycling wishing i was on that instead. I was a big fan of Mind Bender's queue at SFOG before they changed it to Riddler theming. There was an awesome sign of this man comming out of an iron lung type device with multiple holes. The man was like all elastic, and his head was coming out where is legs should be, etc. The line itself was ALL underneath huge trees and shaded. You couldn't see the ride from any point in the line, making it seem a lot more exciting once you got on. Also, There were big wooden posts that made up the barriers that were useful as stools. Now the queue is all wobbly metal railing that snakes through a somewhat shaded area which reveals the first drop and the first loop. LAME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJS1981 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 I don't think anyone has mentioned the "Warehouse" portion of B:TR's queue @ SFOG. On a busy day when that queue is filled up..... good lord! ..... That's a hell of a line AND wait time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitrofan Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I don't think anyone has mentioned the "Warehouse" portion of B:TR's queue @ SFOG. On a busy day when that queue is filled up..... good lord! ..... That's a hell of a line AND wait time! If that thing is full and spilling into the park part of the queue, you should just leave! There is no way that is only 120 mins if the warehouse and city park is full like the sign says. Probably no less than 3 hrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 im curious to what a dive machine's station looks like. Oblivion actually has a really unusual queue setup. The ride tandem loads (2 trains at once) and splits the queue very early on, and it's just two wide paths with a chain between going up a big spiralish ramp setup. Then each one splits and goes through a little cage jetway sort of elevated tunnel to the station, where things get even more unusual. Here's a pic if you were still interested Apolloman: http://www.parkz.com.au/photo/GB/Alton/Alton_Towers/904-Oblivion/2,1,3159-Station.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeG1287 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 six flags in my opinion has queues that are unecessiarly long. The biggest offender of the four parks i've visited [ SFOG, SFKK, SFMM & SFSTL] is The Boss at SFSTL. I saw 2 trains fully cycle while walking up to the station. Another bad one is Mr. Freeze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitrofan Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 ^I didn't think Mr. Freeze was that bad because of the use of switchbacks so you don't have to walk through it all. While Boss's queue was really long, I thought it was cool walking so close alongside the finale of the ride with trains shooting by. I think Poltergeist at SFFT, Roadrunner Express's at SFFT's old queue, Revenge of the Mummy at USF (even though it probably fills up pretty frequently), Dueling Dragons' queue (the queue is enough, but they added switchbacks too?), and Chang at SFKK. I would mention several of the queues at SFOG, but I have seen all of their queues full and spilling onto the midway (yes, even Batman, through all the switchbacks). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ccron10 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Phantom's Revenge's queue is extremely long and the entrance is almost one quarter of the way across the park. Fahrenheit's could use some shade for the time being until those trees grow in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divyking Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Heres some pics I found of Saw from earlier this year (http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/blog/?p=782) These were taken when Saw was on limited capacity due to technical issues and the queue was 4 HOURS!!! (there was no fastrack available for Saw at this time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iplf Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I liked the Saw queue a lot when I was at Thorpe in June. Moved VERY fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeG1287 Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I liked the Mr. Freeze queue at SSTL... With the exception od the air conditioner being broke in it. For such a cold themed ride it sure was hotter than hades in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastermaniac Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Many of you are saying that TTD's queue line is massive, snaking, has many switchbacks, and really long. Well I've waited the entire queue line before and it wasn't more that 2 hours. So it's not too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie200330 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 After having spent the weekend at Kings Dominion, I must say that Rebel Yell and Grizzly have the most ungodly loooong drawn out queues! You could almost count 3 or 4 trains dispatched before you hit the loading platform! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 I decided to go back and re-hash one of my old videos, or as Disney would call it, new magic. Batman The Line [revisited] - SFSTL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkNmJx3b0HE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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