What about SFOG's Deja Vu?

[Déjà Vu '07]

So we all know that our Déjà Vu was sold and is now known as Aftershock at Silverwood, but what ever happpened to the Déjà Vu at Six Flags Over Georgia? I seem to remember that they sold it to another park, but I don't know.

[onyxhotel08]

It is still up for sale. Reportedly, Deja Vu from Georgia is at some warehouse/storage facility in bits and pieces waiting for it's new home. Don't count on it finding one anytime soon. Georgia's GIB was far worse in terms of reliability and downtime.

[SFaddiction84]

Was there not a 3rd somewhere? There was ours, SFOG's and was there not one at like MM or something? I know the 4th was over sea's but ya! So what about the 3rd one, has that found a home yet?

[Linzi]

I'm pretty sure the third one is at SFMM. Still op-ing

[JordanSDMF]

Sounds like the Deja Vu at MM is going well. I hope it's still up when I get out there to MM. I want to ride a GIB one last time. I think Stunt Fall is fine.

Looks like Vekoma had a good idea with a GIB, but just couldn't get the mechanical part of it down. It's such a shame that these roller coasters had to get demolished. They really were amazing roller coasters for their size. By that I mean the area it covered. They are like almost 200' tall.

[BrianPlencner]

^ According to RCDB, Déjà Vu at SFMM is still open.

http://www.rcdb.com/pd4.htm

On that site, the pages for SFOG and our park show it in the "Past Roller Coasters" section.

http://www.rcdb.com/pd2.htm
http://www.rcdb.com/pd7.htm

--Brian

[FParker185]

SFOG's is sitting in either their parking lot or in backstage areas last I heard. Ours obviously is now at Silverwood, SFMM's operates during peak season (maybe non peak also now), Stuntfall still operates at MovieWorld in Spain though it's front car is permanently roped off for whatever reason.

Deja Vu was a decent concept that was perverted by Six Flags. No SF park should have gotten one. Really almost all Vekoma rides are designed for smaller parks with limited space and budget who cant afford a B&M. Problem with Deja Vu is the capacity is far to low for a major park and the price tag is way to high for small parks. Also SF should have learned from buying 3 dysfunctional Premeir launched coasters in 1997, none of which opened that year except for SFGAdv's chiller for less than one week. Buying more than one prototype at a time from any company (B&M included) is a bad idea. Doesn't matter how much math they do, and how many times they run it though the computer, in the end it's still a crap shoot if it's going to work. This is less likely with B&M though they have still had problems with at least one prototype, it was minor and happened on AIR at Alton Towers*, but goes to show anyone can get a design wrong.

*Before everyone asks, the bar that tilts the seats broke, that bar that the wheel attached to the train rides in that tilts the seat, the original design was one solid bar the length of the train which ended up taking alot more stress than they thought it would and it broke a few months after it opened in the middle of a tilt letting all the cars of the train fall back upright in varying degrees of upright-ness. The redesigned system breaks up that bar into an individual section for each car which is greatly reinforced from the original design.

[onyxhotel08]

Expect it to be sitting unused in Georgia for quite some time. I think I heard online somewhere it was going for about $500,000 now. Anyone got the money?

[MForce4ever]

My theory is that it's still somewhere around the park but I couldn't find any evidence of that when I was there a month ago...

[onyxhotel08]

Here is the listing for Georgia's Deja Vu: http://www.irmpri.com/product.htm

What does it mean two units available in Eastern USA?

[JordanSDMF]

^They probably sold the SFGAm one on their too, and so they meant, there are 2 deja vus available in the eastern USA.