I really do hope SF has at least considered giving these to some of the lower tier parks in the chain that would feasibly still be around in the long run. Michigan’s Adventure and Great Escape could really benefit from them.
Attraction The Flash: Vertical Velocity
- Thread starter ConolyCoasterDesigns
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This question might be the opposite of intelligent, but is it too late for a dual station?
TECHNICALLY it is possible, but it definitely doesn't look easy. Vekoma doesn't seem to have designed the layout with dual stations in mind so implementing one seems like it would require some convoluted modifications.
I think there's enough clearance to do a single-wide turntable in the station area to feed into two new stations platforms, but something like that would require the complete demolition of the current station, construction of an entirely new station, a good handful of new track, a super large turntable, and a full queue redesign.
There's definitely the ability to add a second switch track beyond the current maintenance switch to send trains to two different, new load platforms. That would require a good handful of new track, a large new station, and a full queue redesign.
The silver bullets for either of these plans is both the exorbitantly high cost with no marketability and that any of these more complex implementations would add a ton of train parking time to each cycle—cutting into the theoretical hourly capacity gains.
Realistically, the answer is probably to wish for Flash to be shipped off to a smaller park and be replaced with something designed from the start with higher capacity in mind.
They never added any additional theming to the inside queue house either... so sad.
I pretty much felt the same way. I got 5 rides in last Saturday. I was really excited to finally try this crazy ride. Though, it wasn't anywhere near as crazy as I thought it would be. I knew it wasn't too wild, but I was underwhelmed. I wouldn't wait more then 30 minutes at max for this, in my opinion.
My favorite part was the backwards hangtime and the backwards spike. It's fun but the capacity is awful. Like others have said, this type of ride will be perfect for smaller parks. Overall, fun but not really my thing.
Honestly if it was like…..5 mph faster through the double down/double up and banana roll…..it would hit better than it does but it just crawls through those elements.
Okay the way they do the VIP tours on this attraction seriously needs to change. When I visited yesterday I went to Flash first thing, still probably waited 40 minutes for the damn thing which is expected but as I'm in the station for the ride this VIP group comes in. I wasn't even aware Great Adventure had this as an option, which is fine whatever, but they let this VIP group of 6 people take up an entire cycle on the ride. Nobody else waiting was allowed to ride, leaving 18 seats completely empty. I'm not sure if this is how they do it on other rides as well or if this is even how things normally go but this seriously needs to change. On a ride with such poor capacity letting 6 people ride on their own is just a slap in the face to everyone waiting. I know it's supposed to be a "VIP experience" but it seriously holds up the line on Flash because the ride is a shuttle.
