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[sixflagsfreak56]

It seems there are a quite a few people who live

within a two-hour drive to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. The

coaster craze has already started to spread for all the parks across the nation with

everyone talking about coasters, thrill rides, rumors, ect. Great Adventure is one of

those parks, but instead of rumors, it is known that we are getting a coaster next year.

A Jackson Township meeting on Monday June 7 will decide it all since acording to to this document, Six Flags is looking to seek permission for a

roller coaster in 2005. But the big question still remains, what will it be?

In

1998, B&M signed a contract to add four attractions to Six Flags Great

Adventure every other year. Medusa was in 99', Nitro in 01', Superman in

03', and that makes 05' the final year. We already have a flying, hyper,

floorless, and inverted from B&M, and there are not many other choices left.

There is only a few like the B&M dive machine and the stand-up. But there is

one more, the rumored 4-D from B&M could possibly be that coaster in

05'. Monday hopefully will give way to more news about this. Only time will

tell.

[MillenniumMan310]

Finally some one brings it up on this site, i was

going to but i was hoping some would eventually.

Was there actually a an

4 coaster contract or is that just the rumor? Hey, If its true i wouldnt mind.

But for 2005 its hard to say what i would like. A stand up would be nice but its

really to simalar to medusa and batman IMO, plus stand ups a pretty much dead now,

but they could make a come back. Dive machines are making a comeback now since

BGT is getting one, but i cant honstly say id want one, considering how short they are.

Plus the GP already think nitro goes straight down so it wouldnt impress many people.

The 4d id love to have just becasue its unique and something the world has yet to have

seen, not very likley thhough (then again neither was a hydro launch with inversions

and a DM for bgt).

The other thing we lack is a good wooden. RT is

great, but id love a nice long one. Maybe 2005 will be a the introduction of

B&Ms first wooden?

If the 4 year contract isnt 100% true then id

really like an impulse or a deja vu, but that unlikely considering the lack of power for

chiller and the constant break downs of the deja vu.

It should be

interesting, i guess we'll know more after the meeting on monday.

[awclark]

I hope B+M does a new type of coaster. Since I live

an hour from the park I don't want a DM or any other small coaster considering

S:UF was a huge dissapointment for me.

A wooden for me would be

great. A GCI or Intamin woody would be best since IMO they make the smothest

woddie's out there. RT sucks now I come off everytime with a migrane.

A 4-D would be awsome from B+M (Slightly unlikely though) I've been

on X which was amazing, but it was a tad bit on the bumpy side. Considering the

difference between Arrow's and B+M's smoothness, a 4-D would be

great. If they do announce this, hopefully a faster loading time would happen since

X's loading time is around the 3 to 5 mins.

[jumpboy]

http://www.gadv.com/news.html

Sound really

short...

[NitroRyder33]

I found a pic of the area that its gonna be built in...

GADV '05 Coaster Lot

CC

This

better make up for SROS's murder of air time...

[jumpboy]

Yet another parking lot coaster...

Maybe a

Dive Machine but extened like BGTs is gonna be.

[MillenniumMan310]

I have been putting alot of thought into this and i

think ive come up with a good prediction....

Well first off, we do odvously

know the coaster will be 2480ft in length and go next to RT. This pretty much tells us

we can elliminate the stand up (too short of lenght for one) the wooden (a wooden

next to a wooden?) and the 4d (could be one, but not likely.). The B&M dive

machine is still a possibility.

Now as of now the biggest rumor out there is

a record breaking intamin rocket coaster that wil beat ttd. I have ot say i find this very

hard to accept. This is coming off of gadv.com and what supprised me was before

the meeting everyone thought they knew we had a 4 coaster contract with B&M,

but right after they dropped that idea and turned it into something they really want.

Let me tell why i dont agree with this and my theory....

I honestly think it

will be a new improved S&S ta2k. In 01, gadv ofcoarse got nitro which was a

major addition ot the park because the GP loved it. They love the drop and the speed.

Now in 03 we got Superman UF. this got the GP very excited because in their minds

it would be better than nitro. So after they wait 3 hours they come off and are

extremilly dissipointed. This left superman not being as good addition as it was

supposed to be. Now in 05, its no secret that gadv will try to do something the GP will

love as much as nitro. How? Well, the pretty much new fad now is launched

coasters. Gadv already has 2 (both sides of Chiller), but because of the amount of

energy their LIMs eat up, a new LIM of hydraulic launched coaster because of how

much power chiller already uses. If only there was a launch that required very little

power but could be effective. O wait, there is! Compressed Air!!

PKD in 2001 could afford ot get another launch coaster after haveing 2 LIMs already

because of how much litle energy the compressed air needs. So this pretty much

states that if gadv want to go for a launch, compressed air might be the best and only

way to do it. In result, theyll get a fun, fast , and trillingride the gp will love and can

still have enough power for chiller.

Now S&S has also been hinting

very much so about beating ttd in the near future. this is true at the end of <a

href='http://www.screamsca...s_squirrel.html' target='_blank'>This

Article</a> and at the end of This Video. So to do this S&S would be needing park

willing to go along with them to do. Six Flags! Now odviously to make a recrd

breaking compressed air coaster theyd have to improve on the hypersonic model by

creating higher capacity and other things. This is why i think gadv will get the

prototype of htis new improved TA2K. Then in 06 SfMM will go ahead and take this

model and get a 450 or 500 footer. Then in 07 cp will beat thast as Richard Kinzel

retires.

Thats my prediction, just seems tho be the mst likely ot me.

[Stealthy350Z]

Tallest coaster for GADV? Impossible they have a

height restriction that is less than 420 feet. I dont know the exact height but I believe

its around 300.

[NitroRyder33]

They have no hieght limit...

CC

[MillenniumMan310]

I hear both sides, it seems they only have a height

limit when people want it too, but when the possibility of a record breaker comes there

is none.

Even if there isnt, that board approaved that coaster way to fast

for there to be a height of 300 ft or higher. Gadv would have to do alot more fighting

to get a record breaker approaved.....

Also every time im there i always

see planes flying very very low, thats something to think about....

[awclark]

HUGE NEWS!!!

While I

was at GAdv today with my friends I noticed in line for Superman, Small sections of

red Intamin track and yellow supports in the grass between S:UF and Scream

Machine. Then on the lift hill for Nitro I looked down at the maintenence area and

there was more small sections of red Intamin Track and yellow supports.

[jumpboy]

Looks like its a Rocket then.

[gforce]

Yeah, I heard they're moving Top Thrill Dragster

over to there!

EDIT:You should have gotten some pictures!

[awclark]

Sorry didn't have the Digital Camera. The

Track peices though seemed they were either the station or brake pieces.

[gforce]

It's definately TTD! I know it!

[sixflagsfreak56]

No way! And TTD is not coming to

SFGAdv....

This is awsome! An Intamin!

[Stealthy350Z]

Originally posted by awclark@Jun 15 2004, 01:04

AM
HUGE

NEWS!!!

While I was at GAdv today with my friends I

noticed in line for Superman, Small sections of red Intamin track and yellow supports

in the grass between S:UF and Scream Machine. Then on the lift hill for Nitro

I looked down at the maintenence area and there was more small sections of red

Intamin Track and yellow supports.

They are just pieces for a new misting system being installed in Nitro, and Superman

que's.

[awclark]

how do you know that it's that. It looks a lot

like Intamin track to me (Station tack or brakes). What about the supports?

If you're right then, my bad.

[sixflagsfreak56]

I think HP is right...

It's also to early

to start seeing track and why would they put it there for everyone to see?

[awclark]

True. I guess you're right.

Sorry for

the mix up.