The DéjàVu Saga

[rct2wizard360]

I'll always remember getting stuck on tower two for a good ten minutes and a miscatch on it as well. I'm actually pretty sure that's a good chunk of why I enjoyed the ride. You always went on it thinking, "maybe I'll get a miscatch or something."

It was the element of "maybe I'll go through the exit an exit pass richer" that made the ride so enjoyable.

[w00dland]

^No kidding. I remember getting a couple of retractions on the 2nd spike and it was like winning the freaking lottery. Even if you didn't get an exit pass, it was still awesome.

[Ilovthevu']

For Invertigo, it was broke once out of 7 hours (within 2 days). No seats broke. Diamondback was broke more at Kings Island. Hello, Hello -I'm at a place called vertigo -It's everything I wish I didn't know -Except you give me something I can feel-Feel

I must say though at Kings Island for Invertigo, the wheels and blue thing around the wheels look terrible. They should get new wheels. Probably the same wheels from 1999. Invertigo = Awesome though not AS awesome as Deja Vu.

[Coastermonkey61]

Everytime I went to the park DejaVu was closed, so I never once rode it.

[onyxhotel08]

WHY would anyone in their right mind remove Deja Vu where it operates well and bring it to the other coast? Setting up yourself for failure Six Flags? What happened to not removing rides from SFMM for now and instead bringing in some flats?

[onyxhotel08]

So, where did I miss that Sky Mountain has been opened for months? Why does it look like it has been out in the rain for the past 4 years? Oh, it has?

[DeathbyDinn]

^ Sky Mountain hasn't opened since the park has no room for it, and they're having trouble expanding the park to fit it since they lease the land it sits on...

[Cole]

For Invertigo, it was broke once out of 7 hours (within 2 days). No seats broke. Diamondback was broke more at Kings Island. Hello, Hello -I'm at a place called vertigo -It's everything I wish I didn't know -Except you give me something I can feel-Feel

I must say though at Kings Island for Invertigo, the wheels and blue thing around the wheels look terrible. They should get new wheels. Probably the same wheels from 1999. Invertigo = Awesome though not AS awesome as Deja Vu.

[jwlnroe]

I never got to ride it the one year I did go was in 05 I believe and my sister inlaw and I waited in line and then it broke down so we decided not to wait for it to reopen and never got back to it before we left... next time I made it to SF it had already been taken down

[Johnny.Ink]

I thought DejaVu was moving to Six Flags New England and being called Goliath?

If DevjVu went to Idaho what will I be going on this summer when I visit?

[Ilovthevu']

^Deja Vu from Magic Mountain is going to SFNE and is called Goliath. The one that is called Sky Mountain was bought from Six Flags Over Georgia.

WHY would anyone in their right mind remove Deja Vu where it operates well and bring it to the other coast? Setting up yourself for failure Six Flags? What happened to not removing rides from SFMM for now and instead bringing in some flats?

I can think of some reasons why they are moving it. One reason is because SFMM is an all year round park, but yet for Deja Vu they need that ride closed in order to refurb the ride, and Six Flags didn't think about that fact, and thus didn't buy another train just for that purpose. Another reason is because of capacity. The capacity isn't that great, and the new people want more capacity on the ride, so they figured why put the money into the ride at SFMM when the ride is in a dead end of a park, and they don't think of it as a headliner. Also, if they put money into at SFMM, they probably don't think they are going to get a higher attendance compared to sending it to another park.

The reason why Deja Vu should increase capacity at another park is because of the new train. I THINK that they are trying to get rid of the seatbelt that goes right to left (or the other way left to right), and thus the new trains for Goliath look slanted. That takes time to check that extra seatbelt, and thus getting rid of it, would speed it up by a TON. The way they checked Deja Vu is that they first checked those seatbelts around people's waist, and than go around again by checking the people's harnesses. It's like on Batman the Ride if they had to check every seat once, and than check all the seats another time every time. Also, what I'm thinking is that with this new train, they might be able to unlock individual restraints or rows. On the old Deja Vu trains, you can't. If you want to open ONE restraint, they all open.

With the slanted seats on this train, I really think it's going to feel more Invertigo style than Deja Vu stlye. The tower is still 90 degrees, if they are slanted the seats more, it's going to feel different Aftershock in Idaho. This is an illustration of how the new train seats look (on a slant):

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150423088413740&set=a.10150408902108740.363143.52129033739&type=3&theater

Also, from the looks of it, Deja Vu needs a new paint job. It's getting those white spots like SFGAm had on it's. So, that's more money that need to be poured into it, and they put it in a new park, it's like a new ride, but to me this ride should have went to another park, or they should have just taken out the other boomerang for this one.

[Coaster Justin]

I've probably posted this before but Deja Vu was the only coaster I was not allowed to ride by myself. My mom was worried if the ride stalled, I'd talk everyone's ear off. Oddly, the only time I got on a coaster that stalled was V2.


BP/19, Can you do another "Saga?", Would love to see an Iron Wolf or Raging Bull Saga.

[chester016]

^^

[Muck Finnesota]

February 2001 - Photo Courtesy of Rob http://sfga_il.tripod.com/index.html

I don't get giddy about inanimate pieces of steel lying in a storage lot, but seeing those images back then was just great. It's unfortunate to think of all the park has lost since 2001-2002 in contrast to what has been added. Great thread btw.

[BP317]

BP/19, Can you do another "Saga?", Would love to see an Iron Wolf or Raging Bull Saga.

DejaVu was unique, there really is nothing to say about either of those that's different from most coasters. Raging Bull was designed during Time Warner ownership but built during Premier ownership, hence the budget for the theming being cut, and Iron Wolf was a popular and smooth ride up until 2001 or so. Personally I think IW has reached the end of its lifespan and have a few theories as to why they would bother moving it to SFA though that is strictly intuition with no evidence at all.

[CoasterZ]

had the oppurtunity to go to a private party back in 2005 when vu was running.... got to ride it about 6 times. front middle back and all around. Was a great coaster. I wish they could have worked the bugs out and we still had it. But he BB for VU!!!! what a great trade...(not)

[onyxhotel08]

I think to most people, they never rode it more than once if ever so they do not care it is gone. BB is enjoyed by families and even though it is not as popular as I thought it would be(or the park hoped it would be), it is still a reliable ride that is great on a hot summer day. Poor use of space but whatever. These rides belong in a smaller park because we know how many people actually ride it. I think it would have been more popular at Hurricane Harbor.