Most Endangered Six Flags Rides

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Given the recent closures I thought maybe we should start a list of rides that we believe might be at risk as a way of directing people towards that they might not have a chance at after this year.

Batwing SFA
Roar SFA
Carolina Cyclone Carowinds
Flying Cobras Carowinds
Vortex Carowinds
Woodstock express KD
White Water Canyon KD
Bat KI
Time Warp CW
Daredevil Drop Dorney

I have no hard evidence on any of these just my gut feeling that they are worth watching.
 
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Woodstock Express seems really unlikely. It's a key piece of Planet Snoopy and isn't expensive to run.

Roar also seems unlikely as rehabbing it wouldn't break the bank and SFA already doesn't have enough major rides. More likely would be just closing the whole SFA park or dry park.

Some I would add:
Corkscrew - CP and MA
The Windseekers
 
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rswashdc said:
Woodstock Express seems really unlikely. It's a key piece of Planet Snoopy and isn't expensive to run.

Roar also seems unlikely as rehabbing it wouldn't break the bank and SFA already doesn't have enough major rides. More likely would be just closing the whole SFA park or dry park.

Some I would add:
Corkscrew - CP and MA
The Windseekers
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Roar's in house retrack work hasn't improved the ride's ruffness and ridership always seems low when I visit. At this point I don't hold out much hope for the ride improving short of bringing in an outside company to do a Grizzly style retack. The figure that zi have heard batted around for Grizxly's work was 2 5 Million for the first year work. If I were going to guess Roars would be higher by at least double for a similar project. I have a hard time envisioning the current Six Flags corporate leadership being willing to drop that kind of money into a low rider coaster at a park that might have a questionable future.

Woodstock has felt neglected for several years and even had a partial lift hill collapse last summer. It's probably the one I think is least endangered on my list but without seeing a significant investment in it's future it stays as an outlier on my personal list.

Again these are just a list of my personal concerned coasters they are based in any rumors or hard evidence at this point.
 
Woodstock is one of the smoothest coasters at KD. It doesn't feel neglected at all. It still runs amazingly well 51 years after it opened and its fairly popular with families.

I could see KD removing Drop Zone before removing Woodstock. Drop Zone is down for maintenance every other visit I've made to the park and is basically the least reliable ride there.
 
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netdvn said:
Woodstock is one of the smoothest coasters at KD. It doesn't feel neglected at all. It still runs amazingly well 51 years after it opened and its fairly popular with families.

I could see KD removing Drop Zone before removing Woodstock. Drop Zone is down for maintenance every other visit I've made to the park and is basically the least reliable ride there.
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Considering Carowinds just announced that they’re taking down their Drop Tower, I wouldn’t be surprised if the other parks with this ride do the same.

Another of note: given the unreliability of Windseekers across the continent, I second what @rswashdc put in their list.
 
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Woodstock Express always seems to have a big line. Plus wasn't it their first coaster? I really don't think they will remove it because it's popular, it runs well, and it has history. Having said that, I couldn't have predicted all the closures they have done at once, so who knows?

I like Roar, but I could see that being torn down because yeah it never has a line. Which is a shame, but it is what it is.
 
They could rebuild Woodstock from the ground up for the cost of just demo'ing a big coaster.
horsesboy said:
Roar's in house retrack work hasn't improved the ride's ruffness and ridership always seems low when I visit. At this point I don't hold out much hope for the ride improving short of bringing in an outside company to do a Grizzly style retack. The figure that zi have heard batted around for Grizxly's work was 2 5 Million for the first year work. If I were going to guess Roars would be higher by at least double for a similar project. I have a hard time envisioning the current Six Flags corporate leadership being willing to drop that kind of money into a low rider coaster at a park that might have a questionable future.

Woodstock has felt neglected for several years and even had a partial lift hill collapse last summer. It's probably the one I think is least endangered on my list but without seeing a significant investment in it's future it stays as an outlier on my personal list.

Again these are just a list of my personal concerned coasters they are based in any rumors or hard evidence at this point.
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Roar's trackwork helps a lot but doesn't last. Last time they started from the beginning they didn't even get to the worst spot, and by the time they did the beginning was rough again. Sounds like a job for Titan track or something. As SFA almost assuredly will not be getting any new coasters, they need to maintain their stuff if they can.
 
I don't have the time/patience to do this but just look at the 3 most down rides in every park and you have your list.
 
mtorange said:
Considering Carowinds just announced that they’re taking down their Drop Tower, I wouldn’t be surprised if the other parks with this ride do the same.
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Carowinds’ Drop Tower had the least commanding presence in the skyline out of all the cedar fair towers. It was tucked in a corner with Fury looming above. The taller models are safer, like KD and KI’s. Carowinds probably paid just as much to operate theirs but the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze.
 
Man I hope KD's drop tower is not removed. But of course it was down for a *long* time. If that happens again I suppose it could get the axe. I would cry.
 
I'd expect SFA to lose their drop tower before KD does (leaving an area around Wild One empty now that Zydeco Zinger and Bourbon Street Fireball are gone).
 
Crunchewy said:
SFA’s is small, but still fun. Drop towers are one of those rides I think every park should have.
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Yeah, I didn't say it was a bad one that should go. It feels well-proportioned for SFA as it is now, and blew Mach Tower out of the water. I'd be happy to see a flats package replacing the two departed flats, unless they can squeeze a new coaster around Wild One (and remove the go-karts). At the very least, the new flats would be a more realistic addition for SFA than a new coaster at this point.
 
Logically anything where the manufacturer is no longer in business (Arrow), and/or over 20 years old is potentially on the chopping block.

Theoretically that puts Iron Dragon, Corkscrew, Gemini, and Magnum on the block at CP as well. Do I think they'll take them out, maybe one or two.
 
GAcoaster said:
Logically anything where the manufacturer is no longer in business (Arrow), and/or over 20 years old is potentially on the chopping block.

Theoretically that puts Iron Dragon, Corkscrew, Gemini, and Magnum on the block at CP as well. Do I think they'll take them out, maybe one or two.
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Going through them:

Iron Dragon - I think if they were ok removing it then when you did the TT2 and the rumor was Iron Dragon needed to come out you would have done it then.

Corkscrew - I think this is very hard to see go.

Gemini - I think, sadly, this one is likely. It still runs well and has minimal issues but it takes up a big plot and there’s a good amount they could do in that space, especially in the racing/dueling area.

Magnum - Such the double edged sword no? Like there’s issues and concerns, but there’s a good amount of historical relevance with it. I feel like if this comes out you are putting another airtime loaded hyper in it’s place because without Magnum that’s the MAJOR hole that would exist.

So all in all, I’d put odds on Gemini being the one to watch.
 
Honestly I think they’re all safe (short term) unless things get bad with the company’s stock and they’re forced to make more cuts to appease the Wall Street greed and drive for higher profits on lower costs.
 
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