Flashback Photo TR: Six Flags over Texas 9/24/06

Hey Guys. Well since I am about to go visit the park tomorrow I thought I should update my old TR from a couple years ago. Not much has changed, but originally the pictures were not on the TPR server. Hope ya'll enjoy>

Wonderful Entrance Plaza. Hope ya'll liked the pics

POV SHOT

ICE CREAM

If you go right, you are first greeted by the Looney Tunes

Some good funnel cakes.

Arlington is the new Hollywood

Attitudes

ACME Rock-n-Rocket.

It's fun.

Wildcatter. Replaced by Tony Hawk's Big Spin.

This was a fun ride.

This stage was replaced by Tony Hawk's Big Spin. I liked the atmosphere it created.

Welcome to Boomtown. Home of smells.

GAMES GAMES GAMES

Runaway Mine Train and Mini Mine Train

First tubular steel roller coaster. There's an ACE landmark. It's true.

Superman Tower Of Power.

In case you get lost, we have these expensive signs.

Blurred Perspective Shot

Stone. Random.

Caddo Lake Barge. Themed Zamperla flat.

Yeah. It's allright.

There was fire! and now...

This is now long gone!

Thank you Intamin!

Ahh. Enjoy the park. And the ripoffs.

Now on to the other side of the tracks! What's that? Go Karts? No?

POV SHOT!

Shockwave. Schwarzkopf. Lap bars. Heaven.

Lots of vertical objects! Yay!

Loops through the transfer track!

Superman behind the pole...?

Stupid camera ruins everything. Perfect shot other than the black dot. I'm a poet and you didn't know it.?

This picture was taken right after EXTREME EJECTOR AIR!

Lift hill with only one side of stairs! Scary?

The first EVER back to back loops! meh. But I LOVE SHOCKWAVE!

I want on!

Oil Derrick is a work of art.

This Alamo facade was removed a couple years after this photo was taken.

I love Texas Giant! It's not rough, that's crazy talk!

They bury people in Six Flags!?

A cool place to take a picture.

Now onto RODEO

See.

It's themed...

The ride's OK.

"I DON'T THOUND LIKE THYLVESTER!"

You just saw my favorite section of the park: Old South. This section is similar to SFOG's old south themed area. This Section has an amazing feel to it. It has a great restaurant, Gator McGee's, the heaviest themed Six Flags ride, in my opinion, and a beautiful theatre.

They left to do free labor!

Ben and Jerry's with the waffle cones! YAY!

The side of David Blackburn Southern Palace Theatre.

Try to pay attention to the theming of this ride. The last few pictures were good examples. Six Flags really went all out on this ride, which I believe was then owned by Time Warner.

The exit path

Try to avoid the shack. It means you'll wait a while.

I wish Six Flags would do theming like this today!

Love that theming.

Behind the waterfall looking at people behind me in line. Ha.

Attention to detail gives this ride attention.

Indoor queue

station

Some history.

Superman Again.

One of the Boy Scout Haunted Houses

Fright Fest preparation and Diner. Now Johnny Rockets.

Yeah. We may have the worst themed Gotham City. It's themed to games.

Snowy's Cones. Would you rather have a launched coaster or an ice cream factory? Well. you get both!

BATMAN

Such a great ride.

Entrance to Wayne Enterprises

Track

The Police Car

Queue fly by. Better than station fly by?

I really want to work there.

Would this logo be considered vintage or old?

Attention all guests: Zumiez

Fans. But still. Good theming!

WOO! DA DA DA DAAAAAAAA. DA BUUUUMMMMM! (Batman Theme)

Batman and Mr. Freeze (SBNO)

So curvacious!

Track.

Batwing

Majestic Theatre Bench

Majestic Theatre

Wildcatter was fun.

Judge Roy Scream. Smooth and not much else!

The Lake (or Pond)? Anyway, it's nice.

Ooh!

I love Johnson Creek!

Chaparral!

A nice ride with woods.

Hey! Cheap gas!

I love Scramblers!

Time to ride Titan!

This ride is just great! So much force! Almost too much!

Lift Pic! and camera screw up.

Titan running at 2/3 capacity!

Titan turnaround...aka...relief!

El Sombrero, the ride that those kids threw up on in The Sandlot.

The Six Flags Over Texas. Spain, France, Mexico, Republic Of Texas, Confederate States of America, and finally The United States of America.

 

 

Hope ya'll enjoy my trip report!

Great tr, hope to see more soon.

 

--Jay

comments appreciated

youtube of Runaway Mountain

 

almost up

Its a pretty good TR..but a FEW Suggestions...

 

1. We dont need random photographs or people or brick walls! For people that have never been there before would really rather see coaster shots and more shots of the overall park...

 

2. Show us you having fun! Do some goofy stuff...boost up your TRS a little bit.

 

3. Resize your images...they are a little too big..they could be a lot smaller.

 

4. Upload them to TPR...so that way you can see how many views youve had. You can normally upload about 40 at one time...

 

Hope you can take my suggestions into consideration!

 

-Ryan

You got some nice pics in there. What makes your Freefall the "best in the world" ? I hope that's not a stupid question, but I've never been there so I wouldn't know!

FYI, Superman Tower of Power isn't the tallest S&S tower in the world. The 328' tall "La Venganza del Enigma" in Madrid, Spain is.

 

The topping flagpole on Superman Tower of Power accounts for the park's advertised 325' claim, but the tower itself is only 313' tall with a 245' drop.

 

Knott's 312' tall (325' with the flagpole too) Supreme Scream actually has a taller dynamic ride (252') than Tower of Power (245').

 

1. We dont need random photographs or people or brick walls! For people that have never been there before would really rather see coaster shots and more shots of the overall park...

 

 

I actually liked all those close ups he had in his TR. There was a strong focus on the details of the park, which offered a very refreshing perspective on things. I never knew SFOT was such a nice park. Great TR, keep it up.

Nice. But you forgot the best attraction in the park!

 

BOOT SCOOTIN'!

You don't deserve this.

Damn you, SFOT. You just had to steal our (SFGAm's) Trioka center for this season... for no reason. Ugh. I want my Trioka back... luckily we still get ours back.

 

Anyway, nice TR.

 

Coaster shots are already out there... I really enojoyed the perspective shots. You had a great mix of coaster/perspective/park shots! Thanks for posting it.

why would you take a basketball on batman

^ Those basketballs you can win at the game booths.

Nice TR. Did they put that flat in the middle of the path? It looks like they did.

Wow, I've never stopped and actually payed attention to SFOT. After looking at this, the coasters look pretty good and making a trip out there wouldn't be that bad of an idea. Great photos BTW!

---Brent

Meh, I still don't like the new look to Runaway Mountain's new sign. It just looks a little weird to me with the red letters.

 

Anyways great TR, good to see a TR from my home park.

Nice TR! A ton of pictures! Keep it up!

You got some nice pics in there. What makes your Freefall the "best in the world" ? I hope that's not a stupid question, but I've never been there so I wouldn't know!

 

Just an opinion, I love the way the curve on the bottom of the drop catches your stomach

 

1. We dont need random photographs or people or brick walls! For people that have never been there before would really rather see coaster shots and more shots of the overall park...

 

 

I actually liked all those close ups he had in his TR. There was a strong focus on the details of the park, which offered a very refreshing perspective on things.

 

Right. Little things that sort of make you feel like being in the park. Like this one:

 

 

For some reason, I couldn't help but get that feeling of excitement, you know, "Ooh, I can't wait to ride that" feeling. Ride Shockwave, I mean, not Extreme Force or whatever that tv poster is.

You got some nice pics in there. What makes your Freefall the "best in the world" ? I hope that's not a stupid question, but I've never been there so I wouldn't know!

 

Just an opinion, I love the way the curve on the bottom of the drop catches your stomach

 

Oh so it's the same as the other Intamin first generations?

Damn you, SFOT. You just had to steal our (SFGAm's) Trioka center for this season... for no reason. Ugh. I want my Trioka back... luckily we still get ours back.

 

Um. What? SFoT's new Troika ride was relocated from Six Flags AstroWorld, not Great America.

You got some nice pics in there. What makes your Freefall the "best in the world" ? I hope that's not a stupid question, but I've never been there so I wouldn't know!

 

Just an opinion, I love the way the curve on the bottom of the drop catches your stomach

 

Oh so it's the same as the other Intamin first generations?

 

yes it is. the first one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tk6zdBJrPk

 

this is very creepy the way that the cars come in empty!

 

watch it

FYI, Superman Tower of Power isn't the tallest S&S tower in the world. The 328' tall "La Venganza del Enigma" in Madrid, Spain is.

 

The topping flagpole on Superman Tower of Power accounts for the park's advertised 325' claim, but the tower itself is only 313' tall with a 245' drop.

 

Knott's 312' tall (325' with the flagpole too) Supreme Scream actually has a taller dynamic ride (252') than Tower of Power (245').

 

ya, I've always thought that one was taller just by looking at it, but I decided to believe Six Flags

Nice TR. Did they put that flat in the middle of the path? It looks like they did.

 

on the edge of a very wide path

Damn you, SFOT. You just had to steal our (SFGAm's) Trioka center for this season... for no reason. Ugh. I want my Trioka back... luckily we still get ours back.

 

Um. What? SFoT's new Troika ride was relocated from Six Flags AstroWorld, not Great America.

The sweeps/cars are from Astroworld but the center piece is from SFGAm because AW's was damaged in transportation.