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Postby Coaster Justin on December 16th, 2010, 12:37 am
I'd Like a "Kids Carnival" to work with the County Fair Area in my opinion.
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Postby Goku1910 on December 16th, 2010, 5:02 pm
DejaVu2001 wrote:New Wiggles names, Six Flags New England edition:

KIDZOPOLIS

Captain Feathersword's Rockin' Pirate Ship = Ship’s Ahoy!
Big Red Planes = ZooomJets
Big Red Cars = Krazy Kars
Dorothy's Rosy Tea Cups = Krazy Kups
Wags' Doggie Copters = Whirlybirdz
Henry's Underwater Swing Band = Zinger Swings
S.S. Feathersword Pirate Ship and Henry's Splish Splash = Splish Splash Zone

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I laughed so hard at that ridiculous FAIL. :lol:
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Postby acquaz10 on December 16th, 2010, 5:36 pm
Lets see you try better. :o

They're obviously going for the whacky theme Wiggles brought, its pretty hard to cover it up once its there. They're making it even whackier. Big Red Cars could be called, Big Green, Purple, and Yellow Cars, and Splish Splash Zone is blue gray and red. So its pretty hard to color up bright colors without extensive work.

Plus remember, they're just kids rides. most people just say, the car ride, that plane ride, the swinging one, OR (my favorite) that pirate ship spinning thing thats fun and not really a kids ride.
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Postby monsterfan99 on December 16th, 2010, 11:11 pm
acquaz10 wrote:Plus remember, they're just kids rides. most people just say, the car ride, that plane ride, the swinging one, OR (my favorite) that pirate ship spinning thing thats fun and not really a kids ride.

Dead on here. If there are no characters attached, no one really cares about the name.
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Postby KyleK414 on December 17th, 2010, 2:37 am
This is AWESOME! All of us who have been "screaming" for this should be uniting in applause. Now it means that Six Flags and the parks have a chance to be C-R-E-A-T-I-V-E again! Consider this an early Christmas present, and late Hanukkah gift to most of the members of these boards. It seams like these new guys are trying to get back to the "THEME" aspect of how things go. Getting rid of the corporate branded crap is just the first step. I totally understand the recent family friendly aspect now too. It seems that the incoming management has had a hand in trying to "go back in time" or reset the image the company has had over the last few to 15 years. Riptide Bay is a part of these changes and good ones at that.

Had the old management been behind the Hurricane Harbor expansion it might have been like the "Riptide Bay presented by Capri Sun" or something like that. I also think that the new guys are gonna return this system to a "park=franchise" kind of thing.

With some of the broad sweeping changes, I think, they want to test waters some more. They seem to want to get input from the parks and their patrons. I might be wrong, but it seems like some of the moaning and complaining here might not have fallen on deaf ears. That doesn't mean SFGAm is going to get a huge new mega super coaster anytime soon, but it seems like these guys want to improve and look to the past and head to the future....

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Postby FParker185 on December 17th, 2010, 2:52 am
Agreed about it being nice that Six Flagsis trying to be creative again, however the last time Six Flags had any real creative force was back when Time Warner owned the chain (well, like 51% of it), it's a lot easier to theme stuff when you have the backing of a major film studio and a whole creative team. It seems though now that all the major new rides are still going with DC comics theme. And also to be fair Time Warner was clearly running out of ideas as well when they ran it with a slew of Viper and Ninja coasters being bestowed upon the parks.

I think it remains to be seen if SF is trying to be creative because they want to be, or if they're being forced into it solely because they no longer want to pay licensing fees.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on December 17th, 2010, 3:46 pm
Wiggles World rename, Six Flags Great America edition:

KIDZOPOLIS

Big Red Cars = Krazy Kars
Big Red Planes = ZoomJets
Yummy Yummy Fruit Salad = Up, Up & Away
Dorothy's Rosy Tea Cups = Krazy Kups
Bouncin' With Wags = Bouncer
Henry's Splish Splash = Splish Splash Zone

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Postby Goku1910 on December 17th, 2010, 4:30 pm
DejaVu2001 wrote:Wiggles World rename, Six Flags Great America edition:

KIDZOPOLIS

Big Red Cars = Krazy Kars
Big Red Planes = ZoomJets
Yummy Yummy Fruit Salad = Up, Up & Away
Dorothy's Rosy Tea Cups = Krazy Kups
Bouncin' With Wags = Bouncer
Henry's Splish Splash = Splish Splash Zone

http://www.sixflags.com/greatAmerica/ri ... Rides.aspx


Fruit salad will actually open? It was closed for half of this season lol.
Krazy Kars is probably the worst rename....words spelled with a "K" instead of a "C" just isn't appealing to me....at all.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on December 17th, 2010, 4:38 pm
Can't get much worse than Bouncer
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Postby Goku1910 on December 17th, 2010, 5:11 pm
^Yes it can, I seen a similar ride name "Frog Hop"
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Postby monsterfan99 on December 18th, 2010, 1:54 am
^At least Frog Hop has some type of theme behind it.
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Postby FParker185 on December 18th, 2010, 2:06 am
Industry name is Frog Hopper, only thing I can think of behind such a lazy naming.
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Postby Goku1910 on December 18th, 2010, 2:07 am
^^I didn't say that ride was themed.... :lol: It was just a plain white color.

And yes, The smaller carnival version is Frog Hopper.
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Postby FParker185 on December 18th, 2010, 4:36 am
Did it at least have that goofy looking frog on top of it? :D
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Postby Goku1910 on December 18th, 2010, 12:00 pm
no. That's exactly what made it so terrible.
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on December 21st, 2010, 3:02 pm
I dont understand why my post was deleted, but I still stand to say the names are not thought out terrible names.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on December 23rd, 2010, 4:51 pm
http://www.sixflags.com/greatEscape/rid ... Rides.aspx

The Great Escape has renamed Bugs Bunny National Park as Timbertown and renamed all the rides. :shock: This is very concerning. I had no problem with them dumping the stuff they've dumped so far, but if they dump Looney Tunes . . . . :evil:
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Postby Goku1910 on December 23rd, 2010, 5:46 pm
DejaVu2001 wrote:http://www.sixflags.com/greatEscape/rides/KidsRides.aspx

The Great Escape has renamed Bugs Bunny National Park as Timbertown and renamed all the rides. :shock: This is very concerning. I had no problem with them dumping the stuff they've dumped so far, but if they dump Looney Tunes . . . . :evil:


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Postby Demon_07 on December 23rd, 2010, 5:53 pm
Oh lord...
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Postby Goku1910 on December 23rd, 2010, 5:55 pm
I also seen SFStL's calendar....I must say, I'm really disappointed. It's hard to find days where they are even open until 10.
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Postby Cole on December 23rd, 2010, 6:20 pm
I guess David was right?
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Postby monsterfan99 on December 23rd, 2010, 8:53 pm
Between this and the Cedar Fair/Q funding saga this is shaping up to be a rough time for regional parks. Both companies seem to be killing all cost to make the cash flow look better to investors. Not the best idea for long term planning.
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Postby BP317 on January 10th, 2011, 3:46 pm
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When it comes to re-theming I was hoping they would at least shorten the pre-show so that they could consistently fill trains but it looks like they made the preshow the same length (which looks to all be filler stuff anyway) and trains are still going out half empty :roll:. It sucks waiting in a long line for Terminator and one out of every 3 trains going by half-empty because there was not enough space between the pre-show and loading station to hold enough people to fill the trains.
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Postby 6Flags4Evr on January 10th, 2011, 4:36 pm
A very good update from Theme Park Review. I'm suprised that land clearing hasn't started for the Green Lantern. Speaking of Green Latern, the one at GADv, correct me if i'm wrong, still hasn't gone vertical yet!
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Postby Goku1910 on January 10th, 2011, 5:44 pm
^^It looks like they just took a board and painted it, then slapped it over the terminator logo. That makes it lose it's "texture" like the new Raging Bull sign.
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