What's wrong with the Six Flags in Dallas (Arlington)? The "new" Texas Giant has been reworked so it now has the steepest drop of any coaster (79 degrees), and 2 95-degree turns. Then there's the Titan, which is almost the tallest structure at the park.
Granted, I haven't been there since I was a kid, though I drive by it every day to and from work. Still, looks like it'd still be a lot of fun. But yeah, I've heard the prices have gotten a bit out of hand.
The new Texas giant is supposed to be excellent. The Titan is a fine coaster. The problem is that neither of them are spectacular and they're the two best rides out there, by far. Batman and Mr Freeze aren't bad, but they're pretty generic in theme park terms. Shockwave and JRS are both antiques (though Shockwave is still a lot of fun). Flashback never works. That's it. 7 coasters, only two of which are standouts and they're fairly average. Compared to a real coaster park, like Magic Mountain, it's just disappointing. To be fair, it's still worth it to ride what they have, and I'd certainly recommend it to someone who's never been. At the same time, I grew up here and going to Six Flags was a awesome thing to do, and once I went to a really good theme park, it made it clear how substandard ours is. Like I said, of the 12 real coasters at SFMM, Dallas's best ride by far would be in the bottom 6.
I grew up here too, Barto. The Batman coaster looks very cool. But it now makes sense why I never see Flashback working. Most days I'm driving home just in time to wave at the people upside-down on the Shockwave.
The old Texas Giant would've never seen me again after what happened. What turned out to be the day Princess Diana died, my wife and I took an out-of-town niece to the park. We rode the Giant, JRS, etc. But at the end of the day, her niece wanted to ride the Giant one more time. No problem. So I thought. When the coaster hit the bottom of the first dip, the bar holding my wife down... popped up.
I grabbed the handle on the other side of her in the car and held her down with everything I had with one arm, while trying to push down and re-engage the bar with the other. With the force of the coaster, centrifugal force swinging me around in the corners, I never could secure it. We made it to the end of the ride, freaked out. We told the kid manning the ride what happened. He kinda shrugged his shoulders when we told him NOT to sit anyone in that car until it got fixed. Of course he ignored us.
But it was enough to scare us pretty good.
Only been back once since then, and that was about 10 years ago.
Topic: Six Flags is such a ripoff (Read 4962 times)
