Six Flags hat jetzt bestätigt, was lange als Gerücht umhergeisterte.
Die SHOCKWAVE (Arrow Megalooper)im SFGA wird aus dem Park (oder besser Parkplatz) entfernt. Ursprünglich plante der Park den klassischen Schwarzkopf Speedracer WHIZZER zu verschrotten, was man sich aber nach überwältigenden Proteststürmen nochmal anders überlegte.
Jetzt hat man begonnen SHOCKWAVE abzubauen. Diesmal hat Niemand gemeckert, eher das Gegenteil ist der Fall!Außerdem hat der Park bestätigt, die Bahn nicht zu verschrotten, sondern in einem anderen Park wieder aufzubauen. Jetzt stellt sich natürlich die Frage, welchem bedauernswerten Park diese Ohrfeigenmaschine zugeteilt wird.
Ich halte Europa für eine relativ realistische Lösung. MW hat zwar einen Parkplatz übrig, aber IMO spielt der TÜV bei Arrow Anlagen nicht mit.
Also, wohin rollt die SHOCKWAVE?
Achso, auf den freiwerdenden Parkplatz wird man wohl einen B&M Flyer bauen. Seufz!
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HiHabe im Internet mal einen kleinen Bericht aus einer Zeitung gefunden:
Shockwave the odd coaster out at Six Flags
By Jason J. King Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted on September 25, 2002
Something had to go at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. And, after a month of speculation, the park is dismantling the Shockwave.
Last month, when public outcry spared the life of the Whizzer roller coaster - a fixture at the park since it opened in 1976 - park officials were forced to look for other locations for a new attraction for the 2003 season.
Tuesday, the park announced the Shockwave coaster, built in 1988, would be dismantled to make room for the new addition.
"We're limited with space, and we don't have a lot of land to bring in new attractions without swapping an old attraction," park spokeswoman Susie Storey said. "Since we're keeping the Whizzer, the Shockwave was our backup attraction."
But Storey was tight-lipped about what would replace the Shockwave.
"We will be bringing in an attraction with broad appeal," she said. "It's going to be very unique to the Midwest, though similar attractions have been built in other parks."
A new roller coaster probably would not be out of the question, however.
The park opened two new coasters - Deja Vu and Vertical Velocity - in 2001. And two years prior to that, the park unveiled the Raging Bull coaster.
Because the park has no room to expand beyond its current boundaries, old rides and attractions are often sacrificed for newer ones, Storey said.
Last year, the Cajun Cliffhanger was removed, in part, because of an accident involving a 12-year-old McHenry girl. In 2000, the Sky Whirl, a three-armed Ferris wheel, was taken down. Both rides had been at the park since it opened.
The Shockwave, with its blue tubular steel construction, soared to a height of 170 feet and reached a top speed of 65 miles per hour during the two-minute, 20-second ride.
In comparison, the Whizzer, a wooden coaster where riders sit single-file, one behind the other, tops out at around 40 miles per hour without loops, making it fairly family-friendly.
Storey said work dismantling the Shockwave has already begun, and the goal is to have the new attraction in place and operational by the time the park opens next May.
As for the Shockwave, it will not be permanently put out to pasture, she said.
"The entire coaster will be taken down and leaving our park, but the attraction will be put up again at another park, though we're not sure where," Storey said.
Out: Coaster going to another park
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Sebastian Horacek alias Coasters