I believe batwing was originally designed to go over by grizzly but paramount wasn’t happy with stealth so they sold it to six flags
Possible Anaconda Replacements
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They’ll give us the SLC and rename it Volcano, as a direct competitor to BBW 2.
With Batwing's fate sealed, the southern Mid-Atlantic won't have a flying coaster. The Anaconda plot would be a much better location than the Dinosaurs Alive plot for a flying coaster.
There hasn't been a Flying coaster other than those Zamperla Volare torture devices built in the US since Manta at Seaworld Orlando in 2009. While still offered on B&M's website, the last sold was 2016's Flying Dinosaur. Sadly Vekoma hasn't made another flyer after F.L.Y so it might be awhile till we see another Flying coaster in the US.
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Imo kings needs a niche family/thill ride. Not a rapterra but more low to the ground and thrilling. Maybe a copperhead strike/verbolten kind of ride. I dont see KD getting anything massive for a very long time and if anywhere they need something badly on the right side of the park. Old virginia i think its called? When I went there last week I completly forgot that side even existed until I went to grizzly. It needs something attractive over there badly
I mean old Virginia could use another ride, it would add a bit more to the area and they could theme it to the old rides like dips near buckroe beach, maybe even make a path through the go kart area and add a flat in the dinosaur alive area and make it a sub area, though preferably keeping most the trees by grizzly but at this point the ride is more out from the trees than in. If they painted it white with dark green track it would really give it a classic look.
I mean wild one is marketable it’s a 108 years old making it the fourth oldest in the world and second oldest in the us, oldest operating in the western hemisphere when lakemont closes every other year.
I truly think the closures this off season came down to cost and marketability. Like anaconda isn’t marketable as there’s Nessie down the road and it was overall rather hated. Berserker wasn’t marketable as most gp see it as a swinging boat ride, the cost didn’t justify it staying. But between the cost of excess kd land and the cost of sfa there ought to be enough money in there to fund this relocation and ever since Bridgette Bywater took over KD has been doing good on its wooden coaster maintenance
Theres just absolutly no way a 100 year old woodie gets relocated. Has a wooden coaster ever been taken down and re put up? The amount of trucks to haul all that and not get certain sized pieces mixed up seems impossible.
If anything goes on that right side I want it to be a new age hyper. I was blown away by thunder striker after riding only Apollo my entire life. I305 is too intense for most of the public so KD could benefit and fill that airtime gap
If anything goes on that right side I want it to be a new age hyper. I was blown away by thunder striker after riding only Apollo my entire life. I305 is too intense for most of the public so KD could benefit and fill that airtime gap
Wild One is already a relocation
But no chance it would go to KD and, honestly, I doubt it would go to any Six Flags property.
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Whaaat really?Wild One is already relocation
But no chance it would go to KD and, honestly, I doubt it would go to any Six Flags property.
Quoting the history on Wikipedia
"When the roller coaster first opened in 1917, it was The Giant Coaster at Paragon Park in Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts."
"The Giant Coaster closed with Paragon Park in 1984 and was sold to Wild World (now Six Flags America), which acquired the ride in a last minute bid at auction. Charlie Dinn of the Dinn Corporation was contracted to relocate the ride and supervised the reconstruction. Curtis D. Summers reworked sections of the layout, and restored the helix finale that had been lost in the 1963 fire. The ride opened in 1986 as The Wild One"
Could a super boomerang work over the lake? I looked at the dimensions and they are a little small for the standard size Vekoma lists online. Maybe they could make something work. Renaming it Anaconda or doing some typical sequel title would be spot on too with the ride type
^Funny you mention that. By my estimates, it'd be a tight fit between the Chicken Shack back-of-house and the service road beside Racer, but I think it could fit pretty well. Though maybe we could name it after another serpent that once occupied that land...
What's the likelihood of it? Virtually zero. But it's fun to make some mock-ups!
What's the likelihood of it? Virtually zero. But it's fun to make some mock-ups!
off-topic, but is that KD recreation on the workshop? It looks really good and I’d love to explore it!
