Did Flight Deck (Top Gun..) ever have floorless trains before? My parents seem to think it did at one point...

No, but The Bat had like the exact same floorless cars as vampire.

Tis what I thought! Thanks!

Did Flight Deck (Top Gun..) ever have floorless trains before? My parents seem to think it did at one point...

No, but The Bat had like the exact same floorless cars as vampire.

Tis what I thought! Thanks!

Bat & TG did not have those cars.

http://www.KICentral...?album=1&pos=40

As you can see in that pic, the brakes were located under the car (thus floorless could not be accomplished). The brake placement, along with a number of other issues, led to Bat's demise.

*sigh*... This rumor again?

Unless there was something seriously wrong with the trains that happened this season, then they arnt likely to change the trains mid-season.,They would wait till off season to do so. That was they could do one of those "we have a big surprise coming next season" like they did with dback and the dinos.

I thought Flight Deck looked a lot nicer with the red and grey paint scheme. And it would be supporting a certain team.

Hhmm, I wonder what team that is??

Whoa, you guys read way too much into stuff. The decals they put on that train are cheap. They peel off at least once a season. It's the park being cheap, that's all. After all, they just painted the thing... why would they tear it down or move it?

Didn't they repaint KC like 2-3 years before they removed it?

I thought Flight Deck looked a lot nicer with the red and grey paint scheme. And it would be supporting a certain team.

Hhmm, I wonder what team that is??

I heard that FD's new paintjob was actually paid for by selling autographed park memorabilia, a clear violation of IIAPA bylaws.

Slap some brown paint on it, remove the floor, add Harry Potter soundtrack, and rename it "Harry Potter's Quidditch Coaster"...they'll have a new crowd in minutes. Of course the name would have to be paid for.

^That'd be a universally bad idea.

J.K.

But not just kidding.

^you've got me rowling!

^you've got me rowling!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.

I don't get it.

Remember how everyone breathed a sigh of relief when Universal did Harry Potter "right," with many going so far as to say they were happy that the deal had fallen through with Disney? Universal, many said, did even better than Disney might've given the same boundaries.

Can you imagine if some seasonal regional park in Ohio had a brown roller coaster named after Harry Potter? They'd send the dementors after us. Really.

Yeah I guess it would be a bad idea, the park would be packed full every single day after that. Think about it, 2 hour wait lines for every coaster.

Yeah I guess it would be a bad idea, the park would be packed full every single day after that. Think about it, 2 hour wait lines for every coaster.

I was thinking more along the lines of outrage from the Harry Potter fans that any roller coaster could be painted brown and slapped with a Harry Potter name.

Yeah I guess it would be a bad idea, the park would be packed full every single day after that. Think about it, 2 hour wait lines for every coaster.

I was thinking more along the lines of outrage from the Harry Potter fans that any roller coaster could be painted brown and slapped with a Harry Potter name.

You would have to remove the cokpit style borders of the cars and make it floorless of course. If you're not a superfan of roller coasters and worship them and their developers, I doubt there would be any trouble from fans as long as you show an effort with the changes listed.

I don't see how any seasonal park open approximately 150 days/ year have a theme as popular as HP.

There would be no way to satisfy all the fans in such a small window of opportunity.

Whoa, you guys read way too much into stuff. The decals they put on that train are cheap. They peel off at least once a season. It's the park being cheap, that's all. After all, they just painted the thing... why would they tear it down or move it?

I don't think it's them "being cheap", I think it's them not bothering to invest in something that the park's valued guests will have destroyed by its first day of operation for the season.

Really? Distinguish, please, Disneyland, Universal, or even an urban park like Six Flags' Great America, Great Adventure, Magic Mountain or Over Georgia. Doesn't seem to be an issue to the same extent at those parks.

Really? Distinguish, please, Disneyland, Universal, or even an urban park like Six Flags' Great America, Great Adventure, Magic Mountain or Over Georgia. Doesn't seem to be an issue to the same extent at those parks.

I have seen the same things numerous times at the SF parks on a number of occaisions.

Disney & Universal?- not so much as they use more engravings than decals.

Kings Island used to. Remember the metal lettering on the fronts of Racer trains? The ornate carvings on the fronts of Beast?

Absolutely.

I wonder if Paramount kept that stuff around?

didnt see if anyone else mentioned this but today i noticed a model fighter plane and military type netting in the que before you go up the stairs to the ride. Between the paint job, this, and the aircraft landing strip its nice to see them trying to breath more life into it. see it doesnt take too much to make us happy :-)

I like the coaster how it is and like said earlier they might as we'll tear it down instead of putting Vekoma Trains On it those thing are pretty headbanging

Today's Vekoma is not the same as the company by that name of old. And a lot of Vekoma train problems can be traced to the coaster they are on. See Ninja at SFOG, now running SFGAd GASM trains, to no easily discernible improvement.