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0 Rating Posted by: ILoveWood on 4/6/2003 11:49:00 PM

Well Id better review this ride before the new season starts. In one word, "OVERHYPED". Six flags made this sound like the second coming of the ultimate coaster god. Sorry but the emporer has no clothes. I realize that BTDK has a lot to live up to, especially if compared to Superman, the ride it would help out by reducing queue line length. Well its all bull****. You get on, you do some loops, big friggin deal. The much hated Mind Eraser (which I LOVE) has it all over this ride, specifically in INTENSITY (and please dont give me your garbage about comparing one coaster to another, I know we SHOULDNT, but we all do). Mind Eraser may have a weak ending, but when its over, you KNOW YOUVE BEEN ON A COASTER. Batman is like an oreo cookie. Tastes good going down, but when its done you say to yourself, "what was that, its all oveeeeeeer? theres more right? No theres no more....... youre kidding me, what the..... thats IT!!!!!!!!?????" And by the way, Mind Eraser has the SAME amount of invesions as BTDK. Mind Eraser has Loop into in line twist (two elements) into half loop into partial corkscrew (one more) into DOUBLE in line twist (two more). BTDK has Loop into Immelman (thats two elements) into zero g role into two corkscrews (thats three more). BOTH have FIVE inversions, no more, no less. Batman has the zero g roll, its only saving grace, and the only reason Ill wait a half hour for this coaster, and no more. Also the "floorless" theme is garbage. An inverted coaster is MUCH more intense. To have NOTHING underneath you on a coaster is great fun. You truely feel like your body is dangling in thin air. On the floorless, big f***ing deal. Youre packed in four to a row and cant move your arms at all, if your a normal sized adult. And last but not least, this B&M (maybe like ALL B&Ms) looks like cheese. The track on the Intamin SUPERMAN and the VEKOMA Mind Eraser looks like it was meant to last for EVER!!!. The B&M track on BTDK looks like cheese sheet metal, it will rust, fall apart, fall into the Earth, and well build a new coaster (maybe even an ACE classic woodie) where Batman used to be. That wouldnt be a bad thing at all. Six Flags New England is my home park and I love it. Superman is such a great coaster it is beyond description. But Six Flags better do more than this cheese puff throw away to keep its loyal fans happy (how about bringing back Cyclone to its original status). Otherwise Lake Compounce becomes my favorite park here in western New England. Batman has a very nice station house and I love that zero g roll, so it gets a "6" rating from me, which means above average, but probably more thatn it deserves.

I ask this of everyone. dose the fact that this is at SF affact you rating. I man if Canobie of Compounce built it would you think deferantly. also an imallman is 1 inversion. bu tyou got the total right.

No, I dont think its because BTDK is at a Six Flags park that makes me think less of it. I just dont think its that great a ride. I will say this, Six Flags attitude about this coaster being sooooooooooo fantastic doesnt help at all. Matter of fact I think it hurts the ride even more because expectations become too high. Oh, and on a side note, didnt I call the first loop into the immelman two inversions, meaning two seperate elements? Thats what I meant to say in any case. I didnt mean to imply that the first loop and immelman were somehow related as one inversion.

i might think of it differently cu SF has a rep for great coasters. no offense mrc but canobie doesnt have that reputation considering they have 3 coasters, one of ewhich is really good. when SF pulls out medusa and Superman:krypton coaster, they set a standard for themeselves and this coaster is below that standard. canobies coaster standard isnt that high.

ok, what i got is you though an immelmen was two inverstion(its not) but an easy mistack.Ram I wasnt trying to say that canobe was shooting for better rides. oh and they have 4 coaster not 3. I was wondign ing if a smaller park had put it in would he feal deferant.

rocknride,corkscrew,yankee cannonball, whats the fourth. i would feel different cuz its a small park gettin it whereas SF is a larger chain known for great coasters.

Dragon Coaster, double helix Zamperla modle. keep in mind that River side had practicly nothing before geting bought by premier. they didnt add anything majer untile goign to the SF. this mager coaster arent a mager part of the parks around hear. so they ned tome to get up to somthign liek that.

but do you get what im sayin how when it SF you expect a great coaster. anyway, i think riverside could survive. i went while it was riverside. theyd might need to add some more but they could go on black widow,cyclone and thunderbolt for a little whiel

Thow Canobie woudl be the much better park. also anyone form NY would go to great escape of Compounce. River side was havign mager problems in its managment and the Emplayes. I don think it coudl have. i mean Premier bout it for a mear 80million. canobie turned down 160 millio for them.

and canobie was just gonna be storage right?

I think my attitude about BTDK would be the same no matter who built it. But yes, Id probably give it a bit more credit if it was in a smaller park that normally couldnt afford such a ride. But I still say the track has a cheesey sheet metal look that gives the impression the thing is going to rust and rot.

the queue area is pretty bad too.

Yes they were goign to make canobie Storage. adn is it the boxed spin that your talkign aobut? that park is acualy stroncer becase theri are X shaped barsin side. I do agrethe que is badly set up. they shoudl have I woudl have prefered a maner, of a wayn owned building. that would have been an easy way to to have shade.

the theming on it is bad. then again supermans isnt too much better

Actually Superman has a very clever piece of theming to it, but most people dont seem to "get it". Standing above the DC area, for example by SROSs second tunnel, the buildings form a skyline and Supermans camelbacks span over them. Thus the train "leaps over buildings in a single bound".

That is a massive streatch. but not a bad obsorvation. They really dont have theming. the station as in on batman is verry plain and in no way suports a theme. a Daily planet building would have been better.

i think its a stretch and prob not intended. the only real themeing with superman is sorta the entrance building but its tiny. batman has a cool entrance but the building and the queue lack themein. ive never been but i understand eith BTR oir B&R: the chiller has a good queue

They do, Superman has one more thing the Que and flowers inthe frunt of the line make out the superman simble. dumb thing to do because you can only see it from nightwing.

lol. they trid. for superman they shoulda just gone through the daily planet. i cant wait to see the batman queue. they shoulda made like wayne manor or the streets of gotham

I really thing they is too much que at SFNE for Superman. if you reformed it you coudl fi in anothe ratraction.

But they realy need to work on the themeing especialy at SFNE.

well ive been to 2 SF parks (SFFT, SFNE) and both had pretty bad themeing. SFFT was worse but SFNE needs themeing. crackaxle canyon is good but theres not much there. the only reason i go there is for tomohawk. rockville has good themein but once again, only one good attraction. DC isnt that bad but like you said they ned to work on the superman queue and theme it better. same with batman. hpws poison ivys themeing. they should make all the land beneath it ivy or somethin.

Acualy I woudl inclose it is abuildign htat looks liek a green house. then hand adn pland lots of plants.

hmm. yes that would be good.

Th ething is i can think this things u p liek that. how come SF with all their people cant think up a good theme to sve theri lives.

maybe they can but dont want to spend the money

Exactly they dont wan tot spend the money whitch is why their parks suck half the time. and their still in debt. they badly need to restructure the intir eark systum . but , unfortunatly the bigist problem is te owner so the only way to complitly fix the parks problems would be for sombudy else to buy the intire company.

the parks arent that bad. just the themeing isnt great. i loved SFFT it just had bad themeing.

yes thou not as populare SFFT is a prime park as is SFOG , SFFT, I have also herd alot of good things about SFSL. but alot of the cross aver parks are terably bad. SFNE is the worst SF property I have been to. I like many of teir rides. but they are a theme park adn barly theme anything in the intire park.

crackaxle is good as is rockville. ive only been to 2 SF parks. i liike SFNE better cuz of S:ROS tho poltergeist is verry good.

Screw the rides. SFNE has some good rides tat they are ridign on. thou everything else is half a$$ed. SF is a theme park chain. that is what they were started as. SFOG is a thousand times the park SFNE is. Crackaxleis decent I have been to much beter western areas. it has 1 really mood ride, 2 decent ones, and 1 htat is completly out of place. Rockvill is good but alot of it was their wen riverside was there.

i think all SF parks are ridin on their rides. hell so is everypark.

would you say that for parks like Lake coumounce has only 2 majer rides "boulder dash and Thunder river." Canobie gets a 1/8 atendance of seniors that dont ride the rides. SF may be goign of their rides. but every other park thta dosnt have a majer name attached to then need to give that extrea effert.

why would you pay to go to a park without ridin anything? still, if you are a park you are riding on your rides. i mean without them you wouldnt be a park.

No rideing on your rides means you are buildign rides and addign littel else. SF adds rides but has bad food, nasty employes, no to little shade, and bad landscaping. they are ridign on their rides. liek the parks i have mentioned people go to the park for mor then the rides. they go and see the shows, injoy the landscaping, and just get way frothe house.

i dont think they have bad landscaping. north ends landscaping is nice along with the DC area.

The north end isnt hthat landscaped. subtrack out Flashback and the openign of the kidie area. you have nothing. its mostly pavment. Dc is also mostly pavment. the only area with landscaping it the Poison Ivy ride. they also removed foutains form this areas witch I find verry disapointing.

nice landscaping i think by the base of skycoaster and in DC along supeman.

Teh base of the skycoaster is fact rock. thei is no landscaping. oh and the rock wall. DC has grass arougn superman and a few trees. mot exaclty extensive landscaping.

ok im not sayin good landscaping, they have ok landscaping. i think that the base of skycoaster is nice and at least theres grass around superman. and they have the superman symbol that you pointed oiut. it could be worse. look at this coaster. i think this is the ugliest lookin coaster ever:http://rcdb.com/installationgallery53.htm?Picture=1

Ill look if I get a chance. RCDB isnt loadign for me right now. but yes OK landscapign I can agree with.

i was just browsing rcdb and i saw it and i was like wow, no effort whatsoever on anything.

Ya I know that coaster well. it was in SFGAdv and SFMM as well. it was black at on point. why was it ever kept it white I dont know.

white is an ugly color for a coaster mostly cuz it gets dirty easy. that coaster looks old, dirty and in despertae need aof a paint job. plus theres just dirt under it.

Ya I noticed. i remebmer the caster. was never empresed withthe color or the way they set it up. I would put a small pond to the right of the ride along the strees. plant grass. and then pland srubs and trees arounf it. repaint in black.

actually, not to sound like a queer but i like the purple color of BTDK. id paint it that.

Assosiatign a color with sombadys sexuality is stuped. I two thing is is an interesting color shema. I hinf it verry eye catchign so it draws you t the coaster.

i know but a lot of ppl i know are like "you like somethin thats purple, thats a fag color" but we wont get into that. i think its a good color especially for batman. more interestin then the normal batman grays and blacks.

No I agree. like I said asotiatign color wtih sombadys sexuality is unbalivibly stuped. it nice to see a change.

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