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Deja Vu officially dead

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Postby DvuRulz on Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:42 pm
DejaVuGurl1203 wrote::cry: :cry: :cry:

I only got one ride on it tonight, oh well. Second to last ride of the ACE event. I don't know what I'm going to do without my Vu...


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Postby cycamps on Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:01 pm
Has anyone noticed that some of the coasters removed from GAm are blue? Shockwave, Z-Force, Tidalwave, and now Deja Vu, which has some blue on it. Maybe it's a curse...
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Postby Jackluver18 on Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:37 pm
^ I did notice that.....does anyone have a feeling Eagle is gonna go soon cause it's blue....I just did. I know it's not gonna happen so don't yell at me about but im just saying after Vu goes Eagle blue is the only coaster in the park that's blue.
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Postby Trailblazer Tony on Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:37 pm
So was that post about the Theater Royale true as well?!

As for Deja Vu, i was pissed at it the first three years of it's life. Then i rode it, and immediately put it at third favorite in the park and by last year, it was my 6th favorite ride in the park. It had initially placed in my top 10 steel coasters of all time list, but as of this year, was no longer in it. First ride was INSANE, definitely the scariest coaster in the park without question. It's too bad it's leaving. It was one of the few rides that i was torn whether front or back was the best row (Viper is the only one i debate about as well). Still, it was a broken down mess most of the time, most of the GP didn't like the fact that it was either always broken or always crowded. It belongs in a park with smaller crowds and less coasters, that way maintaince can spend EXTRA time fixing the ride and when the crowds are there, they aren't waiting too long.

Overall it'll be missed. I posted some new pictures i did in photoshop from this summer....let that be my privelege to the first coaster i've liked to ever get demolished! :(
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Postby rct2wizard360 on Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:50 pm
I just looked at the top banner.
Oh man. :(

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Postby Sedir on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:10 pm
What's with the lack of notice though? Had I known earlier I would have made sure to go to FF last weekend but I had things going on already.
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Postby rct2wizard360 on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:16 pm
^There was a topic to sign up for the enthusiast event...
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Postby gottastrata33 on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:34 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO[!]

why?! I went 25times this season and it did so well this year. especially on saturday. WTF No!

I dont care what anyone says, it was so good. Im P**sed. I feel sick im so mad....

maybe we can turn this around like whizzer..........? psh. :evil:
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Postby Sedir on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:40 pm
rct2wizard360 wrote:^There was a topic to sign up for the enthusiast event...


Yeah I know I'm just saying I couldn't get to fright fest last weekend.
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Postby sfgam1992 on Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:41 pm
First they got rid of my favorite flat (trailblazer) and know Deja Vu. :(
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Postby diggerg56 on Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:59 pm
gottastrata33 wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO[!]

why?! I went 25times this season and it did so well this year. especially on saturday. WTF No!

I dont care what anyone says, it was so good. Im P**sed. I feel sick im so mad....

maybe we can turn this around like whizzer..........? psh. :evil:


According to comments Sunday night during the last rides, this Deja Vu and the one at SFoG have both been sold. I doubt anything will change with that.

FWIW, SFGAm management didn't want the ride removed, the decision came from higher up in corporate management. A couple of the maintenance guys I talked with were pretty upset too. They've put a lot of time into making Vu run better over the years and seemed pretty proud of the improvement in operation over the past couple seasons.
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Postby tp41190 on Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:28 pm
I think that it is sad that DeJa Vu is now removed of the SFGAm World banner..... :x

I will never get used to that.
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Postby Cryptkeeper on Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:09 pm
tp41190 wrote:But there was one that I saw around 7:30 on tower 1. We ran over to it and saw it sitting in the brakes. Then watched it go back and forth for a while.


The miscatch will be missed! Strange enough, a few weeks ago, a couple of us got a miscatch on tower 1 and got exit passes for that horrific event. ;) We decided to wait until closing day to use them on Vu. So, about 7:30pm rolls around, and we use them to ride the Vu..and ..yes, that's right - miscatch on tower 1 again! That served two purposes - emptying out the queue (down to a 15 min wait about) and also resulted in, you guessed it, another exit pass. :) So, we waited in line for 15 mins then got right back on w/ the exit passes, but alas, a 3rd miscatch was not in our future. That last miscatch was the last one ever on the ride @ SFGAm.

So overall, w/out waiting for the ride more than 30 mins I think, most in our group ended up with 10 to 13 or so rides on Vu closing day thanks to Vu opening at 10am (thanks maintenance :)) and the late arriving Sunday morning church crowd. It was a fun day, but also a bittersweet day as Vu was my favorite ride at the park.

(btw, that sign that was hanging at the control panel on closing day was pretty cool..so kudos must go out to whoever made it (and to the brave soul who put it up) ;) ;)
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Postby Danhockey04 on Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:28 am
In memory of the great Vu :lol: , I would like to share my favorite picture that I took of it to you all.....

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Postby coasterkid94 on Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:48 am
That gets me very, very sad and angry. Deja Vu is one ride that I have never ever been on before. When I get my first season pass next year, my first thing that I wanted to do on opening day was head right on over to 'Vu.

Now that Deja Vu is going to be demolished, what are they going to put there? Is that where they are going to put the Dark Night coaster?
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Postby superflybri on Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:47 am
coasterkid94 said:
Now that Deja Vu is going to be demolished, what are they going to put there? Is that where they are going to put the Dark Night coaster?


Nope... The Dark Knight is going by superman! We will just have A LOT of open space from Deja Vu to SWF. I dont really know if I see those cars that drive around SWF staying much longer either.. But who knows!
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Postby zjohn1988 on Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:06 am
superflybri wrote:zjohn1988 said:
its a good decision for what will come.


Umm... If you like Thomas the train go for it! WOOT WOOT.. Hear that whistle? Round up em' youngins.


You keep thinking that :wink:
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Postby superflybri on Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:21 am
zjohn1988 said:
You keep thinking that


I know that we are not going to be getting a Thomas section as of YET. Seriously people, it's only 2007! Nothing big will go there until 2009 if anything big goes there! I don't understand how you can already assume that it's going to be another coaster. They do not need to put one there. And think about our topic the other day; Coasters that got canceled.. One being Mr. Freeze

Nobody knows any concrete information as of yet and they probably wont unless they are part of the top dawgs of sfgaM.
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Postby w00dland on Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:29 am
Can we PLEASE keep the new for 2009 coaster rumor quiet for the first couple months of the offseason? Its going to get obnoxious, I can already picture what most people will say.
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Postby Trailblazer Tony on Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:03 pm
^I agree.

Oh, and supposedly Deja Vu in SFOG has begun demolition (i didn't hear this from a reliable source though) and it got me wondering, does anyone know when the demolision process well begin?!
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Postby DejaVuGurl1203 on Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:36 pm
tp41190 wrote:I think that it is sad that DeJa Vu is now removed of the SFGAm World banner..... :x

I will never get used to that.


No wonder it looked weird to me. I don't think I'll ever get used to it either. Ugh, Vu was such an amazing ride. I'll just have to go to other parks to ride it I guess.

FYI, Deja Vu is no longer on the ride list on the website. :cry:
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Postby LaTiNoObSeSeDSFGAm on Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:52 pm
This was the first year in my entire life I have never been to Six Flags and I already feel that its gone in a wrong turn. Frist theatre Royal and now De Ja Vu. I can understand that keeping De Ja Vu will lose more money for having to keep on fixign it but seriously do they have to take down Theatre Royal? Cant they build the Dark Knight coaster over where DeJaVu is located? That makes much resonable sense here dont you guys think? Unless there going to leave a blank vacant lot next season and have a new kids area there.
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Postby FParker185 on Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:11 pm
Rumor has it Demolition starts in 2 weeks on DV. Also noticed DV has been removed from the website, though splashwater falls is still listed in some places.

I think Dark Knight is going into a perfect location due to the proximity to houses there, the park cant build a whole lot there, Indoor Coaster with no noise works best there, and leaves the more central DV location in the park free for future expansion.
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Postby FRD714 on Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:46 pm
w00dland wrote:Can we PLEASE keep the new for 2009 coaster rumor quiet for the first couple months of the offseason? Its going to get obnoxious, I can already picture what most people will say.

Too late, it got obnoxious about 4 days ago.
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Postby Danhockey04 on Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:57 pm
Ok, now I can say it. All of the following rides will be removed and they have already been removed from the website. Deja Vu, Splashwater Falls and Space Shuttle America. Along with the departure of Theater Royale.
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