Six Flags Great America (SFGAm) Discussion Thread

[Jerrykoala2112Jo My Oh!]

I'm sure the ride will speed up as time goes on, but even in the video, it still looks like a good speed. This ride wasn't even meant for speed, just the experience and the keyholes, which I am more excited for. Cannot wait!

[TmcdllrWhy do I still have a donkey title???]

It will speed up, just like The Swarm did. But one thing i'm thinking about is that on the swarm's first test run, that first drop was slow. But x-flight's first drop takes it abit too fast from my opinion.

The Swarms first test run, the part of interest is at 0:27:

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I know that X-flight's drop is 7 feet smaller than the swarms and has 8 rows compared to The Swarms' 7 rows, but it does look abit fast. In the end, I'm not a genius engineer so my eyes might be fooling me.

Looks the same. It's all about perspective.

[KCForceHave I mentioned how awesome donkeys are?]

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Courtesy of the park.

I thought it was really cool that Six Flags chose to commemorate the Wright Brothers and their achievements with this ride's design and theme. Now everyone will know how it feels to be an aviation pioneer racing through the skies at 12 mph.

Thanks, thanks for the Coca-Cola choke and burning in my nose. I KNOW better than to drink and read the TPR forums. Milk would have burned less. Thanks again.

[GeorgeTDonkeys are my way of life!]

On the one hand, the 12 mph joke was really funny IMHO...on the other hand this could be a very good coaster, and who know`s about the final speed, yet ?

Looking forward to reading the first reviews...

[giscoStarbucks Enthusiast]

I'm not going to speculate on how good or bad or the speed until people have actually ridden it.

[GolfieI Smell Funny]

The trains will look fantastic when the covers are added. It seems to me like any coaster with extra-wide cars (such as B&M dive coasters) has that sort of spread-arm, graceful appearance. I will be waiting with a charged battery and an empty SDHC card!

I'm not going to speculate on how good or bad or the speed until people have actually ridden it.

Exactly! At the end of the day, these coasters are constrained by the limits of the average human body, NOT for the off-ride perception of speed.

[megametalWhich came first the turtle or the donkey?]

I'm sure it will go/is going around 50 MPH or so. No need to start calling it Zzzz-Flight yet.

[BafflesCan I park my donkey here?]

Looks exactly how Swarm did on its first runs and first thing in the morning. As mentioned it does appear to have a less of an inline tiwst off the lift and more of a dive, hence why the train starts off quicker.

[coasterlover420Racing for the sky]

^Very true, and you can kind of tell:





Plus, to all the people complaining about the speed of first test runs...welcome to the coaster industry. Coasters start out slow. It's a fact of life. If anything, the engineers are just praying it makes it through the course.

[matteocrepaldiI love donkeys more than me.]

Looks pretty good to me! It won't be much different from Swarm! I just wish I could ride it one day soon!