Author Topic: GCI Prowler Announced For WOF (Read 4838 times)

GADVwow · « **on:** September 01, 2008, 08:46:56 PM »

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/776867.html

AV Matt · « **Reply #1 on:** September 02, 2008, 06:32:40 AM »

Wow, this looks pretty good. At long last, something possibly worthy of the loss of Zambezi Zinger.

GADVwow · « **Reply #2 on:** September 02, 2008, 06:33:44 AM »

..and the Orient Express...

GADVwow, one of the few who loved that thing

Dubya91 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 02, 2008, 05:58:53 PM »

So a Renegade with a Boulder Dash environment?

ChuckR · « **Reply #4 on:** September 02, 2008, 06:55:03 PM »

This thing looks really good! Better try it out when it's new though...

David Jr · « **Reply #5 on:** September 02, 2008, 08:12:11 PM »

I like.

Quote from: RobbW on September 02, 2008, 05:58:53 PM

So a Renegade with a Boulder Dash environment?

Nothing wrong with that.

AV Matt · « **Reply #6 on:** September 02, 2008, 09:17:19 PM »

Ugh, I hope this thing is nothing like Renegade, unless it improved significantly over last year. Hopefully it's more along the lines of Thunderhead.

I was a fan of the Orient Express as well, but this ride kind of fills the void left by Zinger. Wish they would have ended it with an underground tunnel. The ending turn looks pretty weak to me.

Robert T Ackerman · « **Reply #7 on:** September 03, 2008, 12:19:21 AM »

This looks like the only other GCI that I'd like to ride other than Ozark Wildact... I'm thinking I'll give until it's 2nd season to make a trip out there so it's nice and broken in.

Dubya91 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 03, 2008, 02:08:16 PM »

It could be a very intense or very boring ride with that turn drop...

AV Matt · « **Reply #9 on:** September 03, 2008, 07:18:43 PM »

Thunderhead's first "turn drop" is very good in the back seat, nothing like the boring one on Hershey Wildcat...even Renegade's first drop is better than that one.

Dubya91 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 04, 2008, 12:04:24 AM »

I enjoyed Wildcat at Hershey actually. Great Bore's drop annoys me

Robert T Ackerman · « **Reply #11 on:** September 04, 2008, 12:21:29 AM »

I used to LOVE Hershey's Wildcat... but they chagned the trains, and it went from a possible top 20 overall to barely in my top 50 wood.

AV Matt · « **Reply #12 on:** September 04, 2008, 06:08:10 PM »

Quote from: Frissbeking on September 04, 2008, 12:21:29 AM

I used to LOVE Hershey's Wildcat... but they chagned the trains, and it went from a possible top 20 overall to barely in my top 50 wood.

For me, it went from a top ten to a top 110.

David Jr · « **Reply #13 on:** September 05, 2008, 07:56:28 PM »

Am i the only one who thinks the new trains on HP Wildcat made it a better ride? Wait 'till you get to my age, then your tune will change. Of course the MF trains are friendlier to fat guys like me.

AV Matt · « **Reply #14 on:** September 05, 2008, 09:57:33 PM »

The new trains made the ride smoother, but they also took away the powerful jolts of airtime that the longer base cars of the 2-bench PTC trains provided.

A smooth ride with no thrills is no more exciting than, well... Millennium Force. I'd rather sit in a comfy computer chair where I can spin around and simulate a drop ride by pulling the lever.

Dubya91 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 06, 2008, 12:55:58 AM »

Oh comon, why does everybody hate on the Force

GADVwow · « **Reply #16 on:** September 06, 2008, 07:56:16 AM »

I must agree that of all the major steel coasters I have ridden, Millennium Force is among the three biggest disappointments (compared to what I thought I was going to experience). The other two would be Raging Bull (which also does nearly nothing compared to what you would think) and Apollo's Chariot (Nitro, it ain't...). Millennium Force is tall, has speed and an awesome second hill....but other than that, I'd just as soon ride a park bench.

darkridedan · « **Reply #17 on:** September 06, 2008, 11:30:56 AM »

I understand why people like MF, but I agree that it and Raging Bull, along with Raptor and Alpengeist were big disappointments. They are "marketed wrong" as the kids like to say about TDK. Prowler looks... very easy to maintain

AV Matt · « **Reply #18 on:** September 06, 2008, 12:56:29 PM »

OMG Dan!

Quote from: darkridedan on September 06, 2008, 11:30:56 AM

Prowler looks... very easy to maintain

LOL!

Robert T Ackerman · « **Reply #19 on:** September 06, 2008, 07:49:09 PM »

^ Funny you say that... I do the same thing at work when I get extra bored, like nights like tonight...

Weeee, that was fun

Dubya91 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 06, 2008, 08:02:59 PM »

Wouldn't it be ashame if its another Rolling Thunder

GADVwow · « **Reply #21 on:** September 06, 2008, 08:31:26 PM »

EXCUSE ME.....Do I beat you up or do we let Sue and Rich do it?

GADVwow, who thinks Rolling Thunder a masterpiece, and wishes Six Flags would treat it like one....

Millennium Force 44 · « **Reply #22 on:** September 06, 2008, 10:15:13 PM »

Quote from: GADVwow on September 06, 2008, 07:56:16 AM

Millennium Force is tall, has speed and an awesome second hill....but other than that, I'd just as soon ride a park bench.

I doubt that. I would ride any coaster before a park bench.

AV Matt · « **Reply #23 on:** September 06, 2008, 10:23:11 PM »

Quote

I would ride any coaster before a park bench.

I'll take a bench over a boomerang or a Chance toboggan any day!

GADVwow · « **Reply #24 on:** September 06, 2008, 10:32:02 PM »

And I would ride a one speed bicycle up a steep hill of several miles long before I voluntarily rode Ninja at Six Flags Over Georgia, or any Hang and Bang from Zamperla (see Elitch's, Rye Playland or Canada's Wonderland, for example).

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