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Off season 4/17/04 (lots of cool stuff)

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Postby Papas on April 17th, 2004, 3:27 pm
With the nice weather decided to drive up today.
First went to Washington Street, Eagle Red was kickin butt and this was no 1 train crap they were pumpin it like it was open to the public, I walked up & down Wash taking pics then I heard a loud "3-2-1 FLY!," scared the crap outta me :lol:. So yeah there was DDV. After Wash went down to Grand where the gates were open. I went up on the hill outside them and took some pics. I was very surprised to see B:TR cycling. Also Viper, and Condor were cycling. We went through the driveway where we saw there was some Volvo event in the parking lot :roll:. While I was there S:UF started cycling. I could hear the new song for the show at admissions, I remember the word party in the lyrics. Also I looked in that direction there were people in neon shirts in front of the Columbia I just thaught they were working at first but it looked like they were practicing some kind of dance :lol:. So after being in the Volvo area I went back to the front of Grand driveway and saw Bull and Vu cycle. Went back to Wash to see the crew had moved over to Eagle Blue so that was cycling so I got pics of that, Bull cycling, and two of Vu cycling. Then went and ate fresh at Subway.

Rides I saw cycling (they wernt just cycling they were going so fast they were like operating):
Eagle Red.
Eagle Blue.
Dare Devil Dive.
Superman Ultimate Flight.
Batman The Ride.
Viper.
Condor.
Sky Trek Tower.
Déjà Vu.
Raging Bull.
Giant Drop.

Pics coming soon. *note the pics that may look like trespassing were from the Volvo show which was open*
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Postby SFGAmfan on April 17th, 2004, 3:51 pm
Sounds awesome! I can't wait for the season to start.
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Postby Papas on April 17th, 2004, 4:26 pm
http://groups.msn.com/ThePapasCoasterExperience/sfgamoffseason41704.msnw?Page=1
As stated before the pictures from that little part of the lot were from the Volvo show which was open.
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Postby SFGA 11 on April 17th, 2004, 4:30 pm
What type of music was at the entrance?
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Postby Papas on April 17th, 2004, 4:33 pm
It was like "were gonna party" music or somethin like that.
I cant explain it you'll find out May 1st anyway.
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Postby SFGA Bob on April 17th, 2004, 4:37 pm
were all the cars on giant drop running or was there one just sitting the whole time?
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Postby twixmix0303 on April 17th, 2004, 4:42 pm
Was it "We like to Party"?
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Postby Papas on April 17th, 2004, 4:43 pm
No it wasnt we like to party and i'm hecka glad it isnt!
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Postby SFGA 11 on April 17th, 2004, 5:31 pm
So does this mean that wont have that cool ragtime music at the entrance now? And they wont have themed music like they used to?
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Postby twixmix0303 on April 17th, 2004, 5:48 pm
It's probably part of their effort at maketing "It's Playtime!"
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Postby Carlo on April 17th, 2004, 6:48 pm
I think Papas did not hear the New Entrance music, He heard the New Show called “Six Flags Party” that is in front of the Reflection pond. Those people that were dancing were most likely the Characters (Not dressed up) practicing their Show.
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Postby juice_LP_cavs on April 17th, 2004, 7:47 pm
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Those pitures make me want to go up there NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby Papas on April 17th, 2004, 9:13 pm
Carlo wrote:I think Papas did not hear the New Entrance music, He heard the New Show called “Six Flags Party” that is in front of the Reflection pond. Those people that were dancing were most likely the Characters (Not dressed up) practicing their Show.

Exactly, I misunderstood what was going on.
I KNEW they were rehersing for a show but I didnt know that was the music for it i'm glad you pointed it out.
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Postby Drkstarboard on April 17th, 2004, 9:27 pm
hold your horses. I just saw the weather channel and they said that Sunday the 18th Madison, Wisconsin and somewhere in Iowa are supposed to get tornados. They said that the tornados wont get here. I hope they are right that no tornado hits here.
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Postby Papas on April 17th, 2004, 9:32 pm
The rides are built to withstand the regional weather conditions.
Also Madison is very far away from SFGAm, a tornado's not gonna go that far ;).
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Postby Drkstarboard on April 17th, 2004, 9:37 pm
I know, but you may want to step the warning level up a notch.

As you can probably tell that I dont like tornados that much. Wait until I tell you a kind of interesting SFGAm story
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Postby Drkstarboard on April 17th, 2004, 9:44 pm
I know that this post has NOTHING to do with SFGAm but here is a weather report:

Midwest
A front is draped from southwest Nebraska, across Iowa, to southern Michigan over some very warm springtime air. Temperatures south of the front peaked in the 80s with some near-90-to-low-90 spots in Kansas. A new round of severe thunderstorms with hail and damaging wind gusts will develop and cluster along and north of the front from easternmost South Dakota and northwest Iowa to Lower Michigan overnight. On Sunday, the front will lift northward through the Great Lakes toward the Canadian border as a strong windy low pressure area zips from western Nebraska to Minneapolis and then across the northern Great Lakes. A cold front will begin to move eastward through the central Plains. Severe thunderstorms will concentrate near the low pressure center and adjacent areas along the warm and cold fronts from northeast Nebraska, eastern South Dakota and northwest Iowa, across Minnesota, to northwest Wisconsin and western Upper Michigan. Hail and damaging winds will be ongoing threats and tornadoes are possible especially over southern Minnesota. On Monday, the cold front will move eastward with decreasing fanfare and any severe thunderstorms will be confined to Wisconsin and Michigan. The cold front will stall in the Ohio Valley, Missouri and Kansas where thunderstorms will increase on Tuesday and head for the Great Lakes early Wednesday.


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Postby Papas on April 17th, 2004, 9:45 pm
I just noticed that Eagle Blue has the third train back on (dont take this like an idiot its still in 2 train op).
Another season of one train with a stripe and the other one without a stripe :).
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Postby Do I Know You on April 17th, 2004, 10:21 pm
So does this mean Deja Vu will be open May 1st? I certainly hope so.
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Postby Drkstarboard on April 17th, 2004, 10:26 pm
Me too. Look at my signiture. If any of you are thinking of going on Deja Vu first. your wrong
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Postby SFGAmfan on April 17th, 2004, 10:57 pm
Nice pics. It doesn't look like Demon got repainted yet.
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Postby SFGA 11 on April 17th, 2004, 11:00 pm
I drove by on Thursday and it looked like they were starting to paint Demons loops.
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Postby Cs6153 on April 17th, 2004, 11:06 pm
You mean that Six Flags Staff is only going to allow 1 person to ride Deja Vu the first time it runs May first? :wink:
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Postby CoasterDave316 on April 17th, 2004, 11:13 pm
Drkstarboard....Calm down about the tornado thing. Just cause a storm is capable of creating a Tornado, doesn't mean it's going to happen. SFGAm will be just fine lol.

Also you might want to edit out that "Case Closed" line on your signature, since forum rules say 3 lines or less ;).
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Postby Do I Know You on April 18th, 2004, 12:43 am
Drkstarboard wrote:Me too. Look at my signiture. If any of you are thinking of going on Deja Vu first. your wrong


Er, um, there's 32 seats. That should be enough for both of us.
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