Six Flags has done the unthinkable and broken one of the unwritten rules of coasterdom. They have just announced the addition of a Suspended Looping Coaster for the 2010 season at La Ronde. Normally this would be a big deal except for the fact that the Canadian Six Flags park already has a Batman the Ride clone by the name of Vampire.

This will give the park two compact inverted coasters with 5 inversions. Does that seem like overkill to anyone other than me. Not to mention, BtR clones are great! SLCs on the other hand are not. And this one, formerly Serial Thriller at the now defuct Astroworld, has been sitting in a Darien Lake parking lot rusting for the past 4 years.



In it's opporating days it was known to be one of the rougher SLCs anyway. Now, this will be the first ride to be rebuilt after the being trasnfered from SFAW. The others were damaged to badly to be re-constructed and still sit rusting in DL's parking lot. This ride however has been given a second life. Unfortunately it might mean the death of another.



As I stated before, I really makes no sense to have two inverts in the same park. Seeing as it looks like SFI is going back to the old ride rotation system so that every park can have a "new" ride for the chain's 50th, I have to wonder if Vampire may be heading for some other park in the SF chain.



Now wouldn't that be a slap in the face? "Yes, Mr. Shapiro, I would love for you to take my much loved B&M Batman clone and replace it with a crappy hand-me-down Vekoma SLC." Yeah, I'm sure that's how the conversation went. On the plus side, the "new" ride will be built half over a lake. Maybe we'll get lucky and it will just sink!



-CC