Six Flags

[BigPerm]

Have you been to any Six-Flag paks???

I've been to Magic Mountian in Cali and it fuckin' rocks. I love the Riddlers Revenge. its a coaster that you stand up on, we were in the front on it and the first drop is almost strait down... its fucking sick... i love it i want to go to Cedar Point, the biggest roller-coaster park in the us. its got a coaster that has a 310 foot drop and hits speeds of up to 92 mph..... fuckin' insane

[octane]

I try and get to magic mountain at least once a year... that place is better than sex... DEFINATELY.

LONG LIVE THE SUPERMAN RIDE.

octane.

[Yungrii Mobliatri]

i went to wild waves and went on the rides at enchanted park and they really arent that cool for me anymore. i used to be all about amusemt park rides and roller coasters but they aren't fun to me anymore. maybe if i went somewhere a little nicer and better my faith would be renewed.

[Humid Mist]

you are shit

[UrbanAssualtCutie]

I spent a portion of my life in New Jersey and trust me the only thing that state has going for it is a six flags!

[A D I D A S]

6-flags reciently bought out wild waves in fed way... not sure when they are going to start remodeling / building tho. keep your eyes out.

[Jeffro]

Me and Shannie are going(hopefully) end of august. I'm gonna take pictures on the coasters. :D Should be hella tee-ight!!!

Bye.

[ptownraverboi]

OMG..six flags is the SHIZNAT! Ive been like 4 times this summer. (of course i work for an airline so its easier to get there) but ALL of you HAVE to go to Magic Mountain....it kicks ass.

Peace out.

scott

[Headquarters]

Originally posted by UrbanAssualtCutie
I spent a portion of my life in New Jersey and trust me the only thing that state has going for it is a six flags!

i agree, i was born in new jersey and needless to say the state drove me all the way to seattle.

anyhow. i love majik mountain, i just went a couple of months ago and rode that new coaster Goliath. THat is the rollercoaster to end all rollercoaster. I remember getting to the top of the first hill and looking down at all the other rollercoasters. And once i went over the top i almost blew an o-ring on the 255' 85mph fall. THe pictures they took at the bottom were great.

[booboo69]

Originally posted by A D I D A S
6-flags reciently bought out wild waves in fed way... not sure when they are going to start remodeling / building tho. keep your eyes out.

Anyone notice that on the new commericals for Wild Waves / Enchanted Village that the rollercoaster they show at the end of the commercial (kind of going up a banked incline, turning to the left) DOESN'T look like The Wild Thing? Last time I checked, Wild Thing was green, the one in the commercial is pinkish. Unless they repainted it, we may have a new ride on our hands (strange they aren't advertising it though if it is...).

[Abe in Exile]

Six flags has no current plans for remodelling, other than to get rid of a couple kiddie rides and replace them with fair-standard teen-oriented rides (such as a year-round zipper and enterprise, etc).

Your observation that the commercial is wacked is correct - the roller coaster is the Mantis which is in texas I think, and the Waterslide tower is at another one of the Six Flags parks as well. Neither is the Konga River - the one in the commercial is not the Wild Waves one. IN short, Six Flags basically took another commercial for another park and dubbed over it tomake a Wild Waves commercial on the cheap.

Six Flags has owned Wild Waves for a couple of years now, and there's a reason they haven't yet changed the name to Six Flags over Seattle or something like that. Wild Waves is too small and too hilly to ever function like a large-scale amusement park such as Magic Mountain or Six Flags Great America in Chicago, where I used to live. Six Flags is waiting and seeing what will happen with the Great Northwest theme park in Lakewood before it makes any decisions, because if built that 80-acre park would be the Seattle/Portland area's real "Six Flags" type park.

Expanding Wild Waves only makes sense if the amusement park is to be the only one in the region. Wild Waves is landlocked by Subdivisions, and is located in an already-congested part of Federal Way, making any extra visitors drawn by new attractions an undue burden on Federal Way's already clogged road system. Also, during rush hour on Fridays, Wild Waves is a good hour and a half farther away from Portland than the proposed Great Northwest location is. Portland is a significant part of the Northwest market, as Portland's only amusement area is Oaks Park, which is so cheesy it makes Wild Waves look huge.

A larger Wild Waves would contain many more small, short rollercoasters like the Wild Thing, and more fair-type rides, but none of the major attractions of a standard Six-Flags amusement park. Ther's not enough room there for the huge footprint a hypercoaster takes up - so you can forget 92-mph vertical drops - or even 60-mph vertical drops for that matter. If you want hugh-jass rollercoasters and kickin rides, what you need to do is start writing your legislators and tell them to approve the $7 million tax deferral that would begin construction on Great Northwest. I find it appalling personally that the state senate can appropriate hundreds of millions for a new Seahwaks stadium, but can't spare 7 million for the Lakewood/Tacoma/Pierce County area. Can anyone smell institutionalized classism against Pierce County? Could this be the same reason why the state continues to try to dump prisoner-release centers and sex offender halfway houses on a county that already carries more than its fair weight of the states undesirables? Hmmm.

Next time you wish there were better rollercoasters in the Seattle/Tacoma/Everett area, blame your state legislators.


...anyway, that's it for my two cents...

[Muad'dib]

been to Magic Mountain and been to Great Adventure in New Jersey a bunch of times... Viper at Magic Mt. rules... (i was only there once like almost 10 years ago)
Batman & Robin at Great Adventure will fukk u up! heh

UrbanAssaultCutie -

hey where in NJ are u from? or did I ask u this once before heh

[Headquarters]

Geez.... NoToRiUsAbE i've never really thought there was any political conspiracy concerning amusement parks. Interesting point however.

[Abe in Exile]

I do'nt think there's any political conspiracy dude, it's just a matter of how people from other parts of the state view my county. Pierce residents are looked down on as a bunch of gun-toting hicks who like Meth labs by Olympia and SEattle people...and that's why we can't get a $7 million tax deferral to build a kickass amusement park, but Seattle can get state funding for two stadiums.

If given, the tax deferral wouldn't even be a tax break - it would have to be repaid starting in like 7 years if the amusement park was successful. So the state wouldn't even lose any money - cuz if the amusement park wasn't built, there would never be any $7 million for the stae to begin with (the taxes are for construction costs and stuff). But in its first 7 years, the city of Lakewood estimates that it could potentially generate $95 million dollars in total tax revenues.

Why would Washington state turn down that much Tax Revenue? A lot of it would go to the state itself through the state sales tax (people at amusement parks buy overpriced food and souveneirs, and the state gets a lot of tax money from that). So why wouldn't Washington jump at the chance for more free money? Could it be the fact that the cities of Tacoma, Lakewood, and Pierce County in general would ALSO reap windfall tax profits from the park and therefore increase their political clout? One wonders.