Six Flags Darien Lake's Cancelled RMC (Ft. Elite Coasters)
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2024
- Nearly a decade ago Darien Lake seemed to be in the process of getting a state-of-the-art wooden coaster that would've likely put the park at the forefront of the amusement industry. Unfortunately, this never came to be, and this story is commonly overlooked and forgotten by many coaster enthusiasts. To this day, no one seems to know exactly what this ride was supposed to be, and why it never happened. Today, I will give you my thoughts and potential answers to those questions, along with a modernized concept for this roller coaster with the help of @EliteCoasters .
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I just wish that the park managment would at least try to make the park LOOK better. U got the empty Cuda falls area just sitting there. The grizzly run area just sitting there wasting away. Even where the ferris wheel was is just crappy looking. Just painting the rides and or bulldozing those areas and making them just a grassy field would b better
unfortunately i feel the same way about the majority of this six flags parks. i’d put this more on company management rather than park management. park managent doesn’t get any say in that type of stuff
@justinhill- I get it. Just a shame to see this park as a shell of what it once was. It has alot of potential. It doesn't have to have the tallest or fastest thrill rides but it would b nice to see new attractions open here and there to fill in the empty spaces
For real though! Barracuda Falls has been closed since I was like 7 years old- I’m now 28! I have no idea why that ghost town of a water park is still just sitting there, dead smack in the middle of the park.
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We rlly need more coasters here I'm tired of riding the same ones over and over again
Id take some good new flat rides at this point
RMC or an Intamin Blitz/S&S launch is what the park needs to be revitalized. I'm a born and bred Buffalonian, and it's sad to see the place I developed my passion for coasters being such a red-headed stepchild. I fear DL is a park that will be negatively impacted by the recent merger.
Rochesterian here (not born and raised but I've lived here since 2013, Also lived in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area from 2001-2008.
Anyway, I was admittedly kind of excited when SF reacquired Darien Lake, hoping to see the DC and Looney Tunes theming come back to the park. Alas... No theming changes have occurred. That said I did find out that Mind Eraser has been closed for the 2024 season, getting an overhaul, so maybe SF is going to start making more improvements to the park? Fingers crossed...
Thanks!
The fact that they were going to call it anything but APEX PREDATOR is just ridiculous.
EDIT: I never even considered the possibility that this was a ground up new coaster… I was fully convinced it was an RMC Iron Horse conversion.
I think a good coaster choice would be a RMC Wild Moose that would be located in the former Grizzly Run area seeing that Darien doesn't have any family coasters in the park. I also wish they would hurry up and finish the Titan Track on Predator as it shouldn't take this long to complete it.
At the rate their putting it down the park might be closed before it’s even completed
I always thought it would be sweet if the park built and RMC single rail coaster. Maybe have it built to have it go along the lake between Predator and the hotel.
Very nice video. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks!
This is a very nice video!
I appreciate the solid info on the recent history of the park. It’s sad to see what happened with Herschend because I hear Dollywood is one of the best parks in the country!
Regardless I would love to see Six Flags go big and give us a B&M flying coaster. I know it’s way outside of their budget but one can dream,right!?
That said I think an RMC wether it is a conversion of predator or not would’ve my second choice, and an awesome coaster for the park.
Also the RMC you have in this video here is beautiful.
Thanks for the kind words! I’d be behind anything creative and fresh! I’m not a huge Flyer fan, but put it on the water and you ought to have yourself a great ride!
As an employee at SDC, I wish it could have worked out for HFE to keep Darien in their company. I know you would have enjoyed riding an RMC a little closer to home.
We need something new at the park. Been like 3 years now
Nice document Lukan and Derek!
Thank you!
I was a ride operator at SFDL during the 2004 and 2005 seasons, operating, training on and team leading Grizzly Run and Mind Eraser mostly. Even then the place needed new coasters. Predator needed to be replaced (maybe it still does?) and though I operated it I hated Mind Eraser. I'm just not a fan of stock designs and, for me, Vekoma stock design coasters are about as boring and generic as they get. We had always heard rumors about a new coaster coming to DL One rumor was that a newer style coaster was going to one of their eastern US parks, and it turned out to be Kingda Ka. Hearing about this RMC though, that would have been a real nice addition.
SFDL has so much potential to be a standout regional park if they could just get a vision for it. And it would be a real money maker too with the camping.
So I literally thought up this exact concept one day. Everything was the exact same, and I never new this was really planned. What kind of crazy coincidence is this?
Wish they would’ve renew the lease (hershed family entertainment)
Didn't even realize you switched channel names
Darein lake needs a new metal roller coaster
Ofc
Having Darien Lake as a home park is like a toxic relationship… the titan track on Predator is fine but the layout of the ride was never that great to begin with. Oh what could’ve been
They cheapened out and are just putting down steel titan track a little at a time so it’s gonna take 10 years just to put steel track on an existing layout
Chat is chat
What's the name of the intro music?
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The lineup there is underrated ride of steel tantrum predator boomerang viper etc: its kinda deep
Wish they could make predator into a steel hybrid.. That thing is painful to ride. I completely avoid it.. The rest of the rides are aging. Viper (Arrow) is ancient and a head banger. The giant wheel is gone. The pirate ship was not operating on my last trip.. The park is often a ghost town. And yes it looks awful… Someone needs to take control and put some effort into the park. Six flags has not done the park any favors. I skip the park altogether, and it’s my home park.
Lies mine was open today
Darien lake is so cheap I'm sad to say and this is my home park
Yeah... Herschend would have put their first job with RMC at one of their smallest (and ON LEASE for 3 years, smh) parks. nah lol
Ofc