Six Flags America (SFA) Discussion Thread

Six Flags America Announces Apocalypse


Maryland’s best theme park to add eighth coaster and first stand-up experience in 2012

The end is near as Six Flags America prepares to face the Apocalypse in 2012! Mayhem comes to Maryland’s favorite theme park in the form of a 100-foot mean machine roller coaster. Guests will take a stand against the end of the world in an all-new, stand-up, steel adventure.

Upon approaching Apocalypse, located in the Skull Island area of the park, guests will wind through a queue stepping further and further into an end of the world scenario. Just when it looks bleak, riders will break out to make the final stand against obliteration. They’ll stand four abreast together, while making the 100-foot ascent to the ride’s apex. For two minutes, they’ll hurtle along the 2,900-foot steel track, feeling the rush of 55 miles-per-hour speeds, hairpin turns, and pulse-pounding inversions.

The Apocalypse is planned to begin at Six Flags America on Friday, May 25, 2012 with a grand opening observance in the morning as the park opens and a thrilling display of fire in the sky that evening. 2012 Six Flags America Season Pass holders will be invited to be amongst the first to brave the ride in a two-day preview event on Saturday, May 19 and Sunday, May 20, 2012. Season passes are on sale today at sixflags.com/America.

Apocalypse has been designed by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M) of Switzerland. This is Six Flags America’s first B&M coaster as well as the park’s first stand-up coaster. Apocalypse promises to add to a whole new high-intensity thrill to Maryland’s favorite theme park, complementing the park’s arsenal of world-class roller coasters, thrill rides, and water park. The seven current roller coasters at Six Flags America are anchored by the 200-foot SUPERMAN: Ride of Steel; and highlighted by BATWING, Maryland’s first flying coaster; and the classic wooden Wild One, which celebrates its 95th year of thrills in 2012.

About Six Flags Entertainment Corporation
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional theme park company with 2010 revenue of nearly $1.0 billion and 19 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada. Six Flags Over Texas, the company’s flagship location, is celebrating its 50th anniversary season in 2011.

Source:
http://news.sixflags.com/2012news/2011/08/26/six-flags-america-announces-apocalypse/


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[Jerrykoala2112Jo My Oh!]

Sweet! Sad to see Iron Wolf leave SFGAm, but it looks amazing with that paint job! Hopefully I'll have a chance to ride it next year.

[forcesHave I mentioned how awesome donkeys are?]

Glad to see "the ghetto" getting SOMETHING!!! So now I will have one more thing to ride when I go the one time a year (the park is 20 minutes from my home) to get my SF season pass processed. Hey it's a coaster right?

Sad to see the "skull" go....wasn't a bad water/flume.....too bad they couldn't somehow incorporate some of Apocalypse through the actual skull...

[A.J.Counts I305 as 32 credits...]

Good - new trains.

Seems as if there's hope for the lowly B&M Stand-up coaster after all. How they need to build more Sitting coasters.

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

Video now posted above:

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1083904#p1083904

[cfcI've gone pantless!]

I hope the new trains help, as Iron Wolf was quite the experience in pain and discomfort at Six Flags Great America.

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

Leaked to LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-six-flags-2012-rides-09201101-pg,0,6392538.photogallery

Talk about a drab paintjob,the park has gone the longest of any in the chain without a new coaster & this is what they give us?A 22 year old ride that has seen better days long ago.

Maybe,just maybe this will show the folks at corporate that it's a park worthy of investment & we'll get some better rides to come.

Is complaining about SFA all you ever do? They're getting something new. Just be happy about that.

[KDCOASTERFANI prefer to mate with donkeys over humans!]

I'm just nervous at how well this will hold up being dismantled and transported. Hopefully they can do some extensive train work to avoid too much pain. Either way, I'm sure the guests at SFA will eat it up.

Remember what happened with ultra twister?The park had planned to install it from SFAW but it arrived conveniently too badly damaged to operate & I don't see that as coincidence.

[noregretsMacaroni and Donkey]

Great looking paintjob! I really hope in the process of the move they call up B&M and get them to smooth this thing out a bit.

[jedimaster1227Open Up Happiness]

Remember what happened with ultra twister?The park had planned to install it from SFAW but it arrived conveniently too badly damaged to operate & I don't see that as coincidence.

You make it sound like there is some conspiracy that was involved in not only intentionally damaging that ride, but directly screwing Six Flags America overall.

Seriously people, it is a new addition! This park could have been Geauga Lake'd or closed, and people would still complain that they were being screwed.