Ride Rotation Program – Stupid or Not??

The ride rotation program might have not been a real program at all. That’s not what I’m going to talk about. I don’t care if it was real or not. What the ride rotation program or not was about is the fact that Six Flags would trade rides from park to park. Sarajevo Bobsleds at Six Flags Great Adventure went to Six Flags Great America as Rolling Thunder, and than it went to Great Escape as Alpine Bobsled. Corporate also did this with a shuttle loop called Tidal Wave, an Intamin Space Diver ride called Z-Force, and so on.

The thing is this. Why did the company remove a particular ride at a Six Flags park? Why did Six Flags Great America remove Z-Force? It was there for 2 years, and they just moved it to Six Flags Over Georgia. Was it a horrible ride? If so, why would you move a ride if it absolutely stunk? I have never been on this ride, and I can’t tell you whether it was horrible or not. I haven’t even been on it at Magic Mountain as Flashback with it’s final resting place.

If the ride stinks at one park, what is going to make it so much better at another park?? The only thing I can think is that they are trying to correct the ride, and thus they feel new people will like it better because they correct. How would they fix a ride? Well, they can give it new trains, or new harnesses so the person’s head doesn’t hurt bad.

For the Sarajevo Bobsleds, it went to Great America as Rolling Thunder, and than moved to Great Escape. Rolling Thunder was a low-capacity ride, but didn’t they realize this when it was at Great Adventure? Why in the heck would you give it to a park, and than move after only 6 years. The thing is now that Great America has a new section in the place where Rolling Thunder was. Than, why would you put a ride that big in a place in which you were going to expand. It just makes no sense whatsoever. The ride had a line definitely. It wasn’t a walk-on type of ride at all.

Why would you give a ride from a particular park to another park? As soon as the next park gets it, it’s going to be rough, or old technology. If Six Flags Great America dumped Demon, and sent it Six Flags Great Adventure, don’t you think that the people at Great Adventure will either think it’s too short of a ride, or it’s too rough of a ride? How much popularity will it really gain at Great Adventure? You also have to pay for removal of the ride, and putting it in another park. There is a reason why it would leave Six Flags Great America. It’s not because it’s spectacular, or brand spanking new. I don’t think this “program” works.

The only time when I think rides should be sent to another park is if they can fix them. Iron Wolf at Great America is really rough in one spot. Let’s say they buy a new train for the ride. It’s not going to help Great America because people associate that ride with roughness. You would have to put a new name on the ride, and they probably rather buy a new ride instead of fix an old ride. Let’s say they send it to SFStL with the new train, and the SFStL people really love it. I also think they could try to persuade B&M to get more track for that ride, and add other inversions to it. Heck, that’s worthy of SFStL getting it, and advertising it, and getting a lot of people interested in it.

Let’s say you have a park that’s closing for good, and you want to move them to other parks. Why did that park close is the first question I would want to be answered? Six Flags Astroworld was closed. It had a lot of roller coasters. It didn’t do that great according to the numbers I have for that park. It should have done much better.

Heck, that was one of the first parks. Six Flags gave that park a lot of used stuff, and I think, that the particular park didn’t do too good because the rides don’t look that great. I have never been to that park, but I could guess on the rides not being spectacular. So, distribute those rides to another park, and what’s the point. If they stink, they stink. No other park is going to want them.

I personally believe that Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom isn’t doing good. What rides are worth taking if it does close? The wood wouldn’t be sensible to move. I don’t even think they are that good. The SLC in my opinion stinks, and than you have a mouse, a stand-up coaster, and Greezed Lightnin’ which is a used ride that’s been passed from park to park. If Greezed Lightnin’ is failing from park, why save it? Mice are good, but they are very low capacity. It takes a long time to get on them. I think it’s okay to have a couple low capacity rides at a park, but I don’t think they should have that many. Than, you have the stand-up coaster which I think is worthy. Two rides out of a whole park I think are worthy?

So again, I think this “program” was stupid what they actually did. They didn’t do much to the rides when passing around the rides from park to park. If the ride stunk at one park, it stunk at another park. If a ride was low-capacity, it was low-capacity at another park. So, why redistribute it to another bunch of people if it’s a bad ride to redistribute? I think they only should pass around rides that people will like. They also shouldn’t be really old technology, the rides aren’t short, and the rides aren’t rough. Otherwise, just sell them off. If they were to rotate Revolution, I go what the heck is Six Flags thinking if they ever did this. That ride has only one loop, and it’s supposed to be painful. What other Six Flags park would love to get that ride?

It’s POINTLESS to rotate the rides unless it’s from a park that is being sold to another company, and the park has something great or good left, or you fix the rides somehow! There is a reason why rides leave a park!! If they were still great, or mechanically sound, than they wouldn’t leave.

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