KDCOASTERFAN Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 The last stand up that was planned was to be built at SFA in 2001 but when KD decided to back out of their original plan to build a vekoma flyer at the park SFA ended up getting Batwing instead.As for DL & their hopes to install SFAW's old Intamin stand up I'd say forget about it because word has it the ride was damaged(much like UT was) during the tear down & shipping to the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Where are you getting this information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskin Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Just like where everyone else gets theirs .. from the lemonade guy the dippon dots guy or the lemon chill guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touchdown Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Stand Ups are never coming back, they are too unconformable (especially to male guests,) and not popular (weither its CP, SFGAm, or SFOG the stand up always has a shorter line then the parks invert.) If I was a park, and was building a B&M it would be an invert, floorless, hyper or flying (maybe on that last one) because for the kind of money those things cost, I want a ride that will still be a headliner 10 years down the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Just like where everyone else gets theirs .. from the lemonade guy the dippon dots guy or the lemon chill guy And who are you to discredit his info? What do you have to show that he's only as credible as the random park employee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskin Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Just like where everyone else gets theirs .. from the lemonade guy the dippon dots guy or the lemon chill guy And who are you to discredit his info? What do you have to show that he's only as credible as the random park employee. lol I was joking gordon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 B&M innovative? I don't think so. First flying - Vekoma First stand up - Togo While they did make the first inverted and floorless rides I feel that B&M has the most borning layout a coaster can have. B&M is good at taking the poineers ideas and pefecting them however. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropZone99 Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Vekoma made the first inverted.. i think. Depends if you count Arrow's suspended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Just like where everyone else gets theirs .. from the lemonade guy the dippon dots guy or the lemon chill guy I'm rather partial to the Cabana Lady... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Actually the first inverted coaster was built by B&M is opened at Six Flags Great America. It's Batman the Ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Vekoma made the first inverted.. i think. Depends if you count Arrow's suspended. Vekoma's first invert in 1994: http://www.rcdb.com/id770.htm List of all inverts starting in 1992 with the previously mentioned Batman by B&M at SFGA: http://www.rcdb.com/ir.htm?cls=277&des...e=1&order=6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDCOASTERFAN Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Where are you getting this information? The ride was approved back in 1999 along with a whole list of attractions that,thanks to corporate's neglect for the park never got built & the information was easily obtainable back then from the PG county planning board website.It was also in the local papers as well around mid summer of 1999. When KD decided to scrap the flyer in favor of that POS HS:XLC SFA picked it up at the last minute & as a result the ride required approval,that's how everyone found out about it in november/december 2000 before the park even officially announced it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aves Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Today while i was at SFKK-a couple of my buddies that are employees, said that early in the morning, a group of people were viewing the land around Chang. A couple of guys they remember to be B&M techs and the others they didnt know before. at lunchtime, one of their supervisors said that some reps from another park-in this region???, dont know which yet-so hold your horses people!, were thinking about buying a coaster from B&M in the same style as Chang or Riddlers Revenge. I know there are only two of these types of stand ups with the hill height and lenght in USA- with one being on the West coast in Valencia, CA and the other one in Louisville,KY. Now maybe another Six Flags is thinking about getting a stand-up at their park but their super seemed to believe that it may be some other park on the East coast possibly Kings Dominion. now how reliable that info is i dont know, but i will definitely get the answer. If we do get a stand up, I would want something like Georgia Scorcher. KD is getting Dominator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Retro Monday time. Read. And ponder. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldschool75 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIBeast Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I'm still sticking with a new ride going in to Boo Blasters. No new stand-up coasters. The next coaster I would like to see KI get is floorless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 And, given what just happened.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoaster Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Keep the ride for now in International street a new dark ride to go by rivertown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIBeast Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 It seems that Rougarou has had a pretty good reception. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryoj Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I was at Cedar Point last week. Rougarou was a walk on. TTD, Maverick, MF, and Gatekeeper all had longer waits. Some of that is capacity I'm sure, but there didn't seem to be much excitement for the ride. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeriewench Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 ^Well the Smiler reached global news did it? I know completely different manufactures but there are some similarities with the trains. I have had people ask me if Rougerou is the same type of coaster just by the looks of the trains.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCandyManCan Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I've never heard of Rougerou *Rougarou 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoChickens Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 It's like Mantis, only different. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeriewench Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I've never heard of Rougerou *Rougarou My iPad has other ideas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieseltech20 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Folks see the name and immediately lose all interest in riding it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homestar92 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I would guess that the reason Rougarou doesn't have the normal excitement and popularity associated with a new coaster is because it's not a new coaster. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofBaconator Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 I think a stand-up coaster would only work if it was around 2,000ft or less in length and around 100ft or less. I'd be very curious to see a modernized B&M stand-up since one hasn't been built in over 20 years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coaster sally Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 7 hours ago, SonofBaconator said: I think a stand-up coaster would only work if it was around 2,000ft or less in length and around 100ft or less. I'd be very curious to see a modernized B&M stand-up since one hasn't been built in over 20 years. That would be like the Vortexs' at cga and Carowinds. They are/were so good. Georgia scorcher is OK, but is far from a great experience. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastForever Posted April 11, 2020 Share Posted April 11, 2020 While I haven't ridden Georgia Scorcher, it seems to be the best of both worlds in that its much better designed than their first couple of attempts in the Vortexes of Carowinds and CGA, but didn't go overkill on the stats side in the way Riddler's Revenge, Green Lantern/Chang, Mantis did. That having said, do I think B&M could build a tolerable/decent "modern" standup rendition if given the opportunity? Probably, if they model after GS and keep the layout miniminalist enough. But to me its a matter of opportunity costs more than anything. Something like GS wouldn't be "bad" edition per se, but there are just so many better options to be had, IMO. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyano Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Riddler's Revenge is a great ride, and is very well designed to not go complete overkill on the amount of force to your feet, but intense enough to still feel like a B&M from the 90s with no headbanging at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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