Six Flags Great America |"X-Flight"| B&M Wing Coaster

[furie]

Double post! Oh well, report me.

Testing with riders <3

OMG!!!! ALL those people have lost their limbs! LOST THEIR LIMBS!!! Then they've been drained of blood and gone all pasty* white. Somebody call the the press, quickly!!!

The ride area looks a bit dull and concrete, but the trains are simple but effective



*Pasty in this sense meaning "pale", not "filled with various left over meat products at Greggs"

 

[B&MintaminGCI]

Someone from Advocate Health Day, took this.

 

[rollermonkey]

OK, that looks really nice. I'm pleased to see 6F finally living up to the promise of a concept image.

 

[Jarrett]

This looks sweet! Love the keyhole tower, SO glad I was wrong and they kept it. I also like how the queue goes through it as well as that striped support.

 

[ECG]

10 days & counting!

 

[D1993]

Just 10 days?!
Wow ... has there been any surprise theming?

 

[rollermonkey]

The park is still in corporate buyouts. Unless an employee posts something, we're probably not going to get any more info until opening day.

 

[B&MintaminGCI]

WATER FEATURE (taken from SFGAm's twitter)

 

[reddude333]

Wow, love the tower theming and the water feature is an added plus! (at least I hadn't heard of it previously)

 

[ECG]

In anticipation of next week's opening:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtc-j-Snic[/youtube]

I really wish that the Chicago Tribune would post this one on youtube. Click the link, it's more than worth it. :wink:

Spoiler

POV, interview with the Director of Park Operations & a reverse POV

http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/69761990/News/Soar-with-the-'X-Flight'-wing-coaster

 

[Hixee]

Well it looks a lot better than Swarm, that's for sure.

 

[Lofty]

These trains <3

 

[Snoo]

Loving it. Wish I could get on it this year.

 

[rollermonkey]

Wow, love the tower theming and the water feature is an added plus! (at least I hadn't heard of it previously)

Um, the water feature was discussed previously in this thread.

It was spotted on the park map before the track was complete.

 

[reddude333]

Oops! Well, it's still an added plus.

 

[JAMMYD777]

Here it is on Youtube ECG :--D

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dANVVIzBWo[/youtube]

Edit - Let's embed it then :wink: ECG

 

[Frank]

That looks fantastic! The trio of near-misses at 1:12-ish look like they'll be amaze

 

[Brett7710]

This is definitely my favourite Wingrider layout so far, I actually hope they start cloning it for other parks as Six flags tend to do. At the same time a couple of the finishing touches look disappointing. What happened to the ground after the first zero g? it just looks like they accidentally spilled a big puddle of concrete on the ground and never bothered to clean it up.
The other thing is the water effect, sure its great that they've taken the time and effort to actually install an effect, but why are these latest water effects all a bit . . . crap? It's the same with The Swarm and even Shambhala from the obscured video shots i've seen so far, when you compare the effects to Manta and even the Vanish Coaster, these newer efforts look like they've been bodged together on a tiny budget.

 

[billybobjoebob]

Looks really intense!

 

[Ethan]

^ How does it look intense? It looks fun, but I can't say it looks overly forceful.