After a long 21 year history at the park, we will be removing Iron Wolf. Make sure to get your last rides in – Iron Wolf’s Last Stand is September 5.
Well this is it for Iron Wolf at SFGAm. I'm glad they are supposedly moving it though.
So yeah, recently the rumors of Iron Wolf being moved to Six Flags America came back. In the SFA front, Skull Mountain is closed and construction walls are built around it. Permits have also been filed for a "Stand Up Coaster:"
So Iron Wolf will still live. I'm glad for that, because of nostalgic value. It is B&M's first coaster. Sure, the ride is supposedly painful, but I respect B&M history! =P And supposedly (Screamscape):
(7/25/11) I’ve heard a new rumor claiming that when Iron Wolf comes to Six Flags America, it will likely feature new modern style B&M Stand-Up trains and be renamed / rethemed to have some kind of Apocalypse theme. Could they possibly reuse the same basic theme that was used on the former Terminator Salvation wooden coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain earlier this year?
This is exactly what I wanted to happen to Iron Wolf. New trains would be cool. And is it just me, or are parks getting in to Apocalypse themes (I wonder what will happen once December 21st, 2012 passes and the world doesn't end ;P)?
On the SFGAm front, it looks like it will receive a much better replacement (Screamscape):
2012 - X-Flight / New Coaster - Rumor - (8/12/11) Six Flags has just filed for a new trademark on the name X-Flight, which sounds perfect for the rumored B&M Wing Coaster for 2012 I think.
(7/29/11) With all the coaster swapping taking place in 2012 at Six Flags, it’s almost like the old Six Flags Ride Rotation Program is back again isn’t it? Iron Wolf may go to SF America, Déjà Vu at Magic Mountain may go to New England… and then there is that long rumored coaster for Great America.
Rest assured fans… 2012 may very well be the year you have been waiting for, when SFGAm will have the eyes of the world upon it to check out a fairly new piece of coaster technology coming to the US for the first time in 2012. And since the park is losing the first ever B&M coaster, it’s only fitting to replace it with a new B&M coaster don’t you think? How would you feel about a B&M Wing Coaster coming to the park for 2012? It just may happen… stay tuned!
So for 2012, Wing Coasters are starting to take over America (Dollywood is rumored to get one and now SFGAm)! I hope this is true, and hopefully one will come to Florida in the process (Pteranodon-themed Wing Coaster in IOA's Jurassic Park... just saying)! Out of the country, Thorpe Park announced THE SWARM recently (yes, I'm going to post about that).
About "X-Flight"... time for some history. Originally Six Flags built a Vekoma Flying Dutchman in Six Flags Worlds of Adventure (now Geauga Lake which became Wildwater Kingdom) called X-Flight. In 2004, however, Six Flags sold the park to Cedar Fair, though afterwords the name was kept. I hope this is the name of the coaster; sounds like a really cool name!
So I'm looking forward to finding out what comes to SFGAm in 2012! =)
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