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- From: buckley@powdml.enet.dec.com (Bill Buckley)
- Newsgroups: rec.roller-coaster
- Subject: Re: SFMM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.140440.10269@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 12:57:48 GMT
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- Steve Klingsporn writes...
-
- >Great America, originally a Mariott park (like the one in Gurnee, IL),
- >is now owned by Paramount Pictures. Their new ride, "Top Gun" (similar,
- >if not identical to SFGA's "Batman - The Ride") will open this spring.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >I'm not sure when Great America opens. I'm from Illinois, and being in
- >the Great America here is like Deja Vu. They have "The Edge" (crashed
- >in IL, and was torn out) still -- very cool. Another stand-up
- >coaster, identical (from what I can tell) to "Iron Wolf" in IL.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Just for clarification -- whil Bollinger and Mabillard (B&M) built
- the BATMAN and TOP GUN inverted coasters, they are actually quite
- different in layout and design from one another. The coaster in CA
- is more spread out, and has 2 less inversions than it's IL counterpart.
-
- Same goes for the stand-up ... IRON WOLF is a much larger, longer,
- and more compact (and intensly twisted) deisgn than the VORTEX
- stand-up in CA, which is much shorter, while still mainaining two
- inversion.
-
-
- FYI -- The EDGE, Intamin FreeFall, formerly located at SFGAm in IL,
- now lives on happily at Rocky Point Park in Warwick, RI.
-
-
-
- >The boardwalk in Santa Cruz (I've been many times) is very cool.
- >Their blue metal coaster is quite wimpy, but the wooden one there
- >(name escapes me) is pretty cool! :)
-
- You think the SDC Hurricane is wimpy?!? They are not wimpy rides,
- but maybe after all the re-profiling and brakes SCBB added to the
- damn thing...
-
-
- Buck
-