Don’t quote me on this, but I’m hearing that this will have onboard lights and audio
News Project 2027: Werewolf Gorge (Vekoma Multi-Launch Family Coaster)
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Real W for Fiesta Texas today. Love myself a good family coaster.
Makes more sense than not. Big Bear also has audio and Vekoma's been going nuts on the lights lately.
Unrelated, but - I wonder how many pph this thing will end up moving? Also wonder what this could mean for Road Runner long term, but that's a discussion for later.
If this come to fruition, then it’s gonna be a sick entrance plaza
I think it will have a great theme to all the ride lights and audio and all maybe fog machine too
now that's what I call anti-slop. incredibly jealous
Wow, northdetective approved! That's how ya know it's good LOL
Yep! Confirmed during the show!
All thoughts about the blatant Curse of the Werewolf swing launch copy aside, this is a phenomenal addition to the park and I hope to see more like it elsewhere (Great Adventure).
AI logo aside (which I think was simply designed by AI, I doubt the final rendering we see was spit out as is by chat gpt), this is a massive win for SFFT and the industry, regional parks need to keep pushing these boundaries and the entire industry will improve. THEMING!!
EDIT: Took a closer look at the logo and that shit is 100% AI lmao. Still, YAY THEMING!!
EDIT: Took a closer look at the logo and that shit is 100% AI lmao. Still, YAY THEMING!!
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It will. This was said in the event tonight
While I can't say this is what I was hoping for, I also can't say that it's a poor choice for a park that has pretty limited coaster options for younger riders. As a couple other comments were saying, it does feel a bit over the top for a family coaster at a park like Six Flags, but clearly those in charge feel this property will benefit enough from it to justify what is likely a $40+ million investment. However, this, Tormenta, and Cotaland (once fully open) definitely have moved a return to Texas up the priority ladder for me.
I know that Big Bear was around 25M, wonder how much this is
The project first got commissioned under the late-stage Selim Bassoul management, which after the disastrous shareholder's call in 2022 were frantically approving new attraction projects for parks left and right. Yeah they bought up rides that could open ASAP (Kid Flash and slides), but alot of park managements saw opportunity to ask for a little more financial rope and got leeway that historically might not have been given. It was very easy for SFFT to secure a large budget, which some people have put around $80M lol (don't quote me on this). Intamin submitted drafts at one point but obviously that didn't happen.
I didn't realize it went quite so far back, although I guess that makes sense with all that talk about it being started under Legacy Six. Kinda wonder if we haven't seen the last of those purchases.
I mean it had to be far back because coaster projects take time. Four to five years can be pretty normal for a major attraction like this. I believe this and SFMM’s Thrill Glider are the last of the Legacy SF calls, everything else has already opened. There’s a SFOT waterpark addition that’s been put on ice for now, but that’s it I think.
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Oh wow it’s Werewolf Gorge. I was reading it as Werewolf George until now and thinking wow what a terrible name
Can anyone point out what in the logo tips off AI? I don’t have a computer right now and zooming in on a phone is useless.
Biggest reason I ask is Shoreline Piers logos look much more AI to me (flat, no design, basic coloring) than this does at phone glance. This seems to have depth (wolf looks a little textured to me), uses colors well, and has what almost looks like shading to me.
Biggest reason I ask is Shoreline Piers logos look much more AI to me (flat, no design, basic coloring) than this does at phone glance. This seems to have depth (wolf looks a little textured to me), uses colors well, and has what almost looks like shading to me.
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AI art ≠ simplistic, for the record. "Flat, no design, basic coloring" actually sounds like it trends against what AI normally churns out.
I'm not actually convinced the final composition was wholly created with purely AI in the case of the Werewolf Gorge logo, but I do very much think that elements were likely created with AI (specifically the wolf with its odd number of teeth between its canine teeth and back left foot lighting weirdness alongside the coaster track and train along the bottom with its nonsensical perspective, comically small people, and inconsistent train curvature). It looks to me like those elements were created separately from the text though given the weird artifacting visible around the text stroking. That said, I suspect that the text was also created with AI because there are weird font inconsistencies (mismatched Gs, and Es, for instance).
The logo has AI slop written all over it by my eye, even if the final composition was done by hand.
I'm not actually convinced the final composition was wholly created with purely AI in the case of the Werewolf Gorge logo, but I do very much think that elements were likely created with AI (specifically the wolf with its odd number of teeth between its canine teeth and back left foot lighting weirdness alongside the coaster track and train along the bottom with its nonsensical perspective, comically small people, and inconsistent train curvature). It looks to me like those elements were created separately from the text though given the weird artifacting visible around the text stroking. That said, I suspect that the text was also created with AI because there are weird font inconsistencies (mismatched Gs, and Es, for instance).
The logo has AI slop written all over it by my eye, even if the final composition was done by hand.
Doesn’t make sense to me why they would use AI in one design (this one) and not another (Shoreline Pier rides) TBH.
But I appreciate what you point out there @Zachary - because this highlights something big to me, in that I wish people would explain why they see something as AI as opposed to just saying it. People pick up on different things. My eye didn’t go to those elements you pointed out, I went more to the texturing of the wolf, the wood having rough edges like it would in the Werewolf wording, and the use of color.
On the perspective of the track, I’d point out on the flip, the ties/crossbars look really consistent. I registered the track having that perspective for the function of the circle shape and making it obvious it was track.
But I appreciate what you point out there @Zachary - because this highlights something big to me, in that I wish people would explain why they see something as AI as opposed to just saying it. People pick up on different things. My eye didn’t go to those elements you pointed out, I went more to the texturing of the wolf, the wood having rough edges like it would in the Werewolf wording, and the use of color.
On the perspective of the track, I’d point out on the flip, the ties/crossbars look really consistent. I registered the track having that perspective for the function of the circle shape and making it obvious it was track.