Shockwave vs Superman

[Timmy179]

Yeah, smart.

dont be stupid!

[Mr. D.T.]

I would say Superman -- IF -- they totally re-did the track after the pretzel loop. If they could fix the Steel Phantom at Kennywood, they certainly can do this. After the loop, the ride is ho-hum. Shockwave keeps it more active by all its inversions. I DO like the loop.

[Virtua Tennis]

S:UF, the rides perfect (besides the bumpiness in the back).

[The Beast]

Hey the mention of Steel Phantom got me thinking...Could they redo Shockwave to something like Phantoms revenge? I don't know about you but that woud be awesome.

[w00dland]

Why not build a whole new coaster, they would have to re-do everything after the lift hill...

[Timmy179]

Im sure it would be rather expensive to find someone to fabricate Arrow style track, as they would have to math the track exactly.

[aejanis]

Im sure it would be rather expensive to find someone to fabricate Arrow style track, as they would have to math the track exactly.

Actually it would not be that hard...just need the exact engineering specs which I am sure is prettly much easily avaliable with the amount of Arrow track out there.....B&M outsources their track manufacturing to a US company for the local US installs, so there are places that will fabricate track.

There would be some initial cost in creating the templates for the tooling process. After that is is not that hard to do.

FWIW, I bet that Arrow assembled their track...they probably didn't tool it from scratch in house...which would mean that the parts for their track were outsourced. Arrow was probably only bending the tube track and adding the cross supports. If my hunch is correct, that means someone out there can make the track...because Arrow probably didn't "make" it, just put the piece together and shaped it.

...now would someone actually do the foot work to get that done...I doubt it.

[Kiwigoodkid]

I have Just finished working on a video of shockwave and to tell you the truth i think superman was a wast of space and superman just wasnt worth it

[sfga_24/7]

Im gonna have to go with Shockwave because the drop is the coolest drop out there I think and It was more enjoyable, Superman the only part that I really like is the pretzle loop and the swooping turns bu that's about it.

[DejaVu The Ride]

A lot of people like Superman. It will have hour lines for at least 5 more years. Right now, it is still the most poplular ride in the park.

[coasterzak]

I love Arrow Megaloopers. Although I never got on SW, I wish it was still there at S:UF isn't appealing to me at all.

[Raptor Guy]

Shockwave....in a heart beat. It is bigger and taller and faster than SUf. I just wish there was a way were we could have both.

[DejaVu The Ride]

There was, but a lot of people didn't like that plan.

[planea380]

Its called intertwining....not removal of Whizzer. Imagine flying aroun the corckscrews

[coasterzak]

Imagine flying over that lake that Whizzer owns. That my friends would be awesome. I'm thinking CP is going to do that with a little lake they have.

[SFGAMkid]

Shockwave anyday. Now that we have Superman, the inversion count at the park went down. Hopefully, we'll see a coaster soon that can bring the count back up. *Cough Cough Custom Floorless Cough Cough*

[katydid]

Its too bad that they couldnt keep shockwave and build SUF, but if I had to choose I would go with SUF. Its much smoother and I rather have a new coaster than keep and old one thats rough.

[Virtua Tennis]

Shockwave anyday. Now that we have Superman, the inversion count at the park went down.

Oohhh not the inversion count! So many people that go there care about the inversion count...

[HiSpAnOwAy]

I like both but Shockwave was faster and taller and had more inversions. Plus the line was short so whenever you would want to cut you can when the door was open that was one of my favorite rides. But now batman and ragin bull are. But S UF is still good just the loop though and the fact that you lay down.