Six Flags Great America
Gurnee, Illinois
August 4 & 5, 2011
Page Five






One frustration for Vertical Velocity lovers is that for the last three years the holding brake that just let you hang there on your restraints for a few seconds has been disabled.  If you asked why it was down the ride operators responded that they needed to get some parts from Europe.  Well after three years of the holding brake being "broke" I asked again and finally got a honest answer from a ride op.  It seems that holding the train up there was causing structural damage so the park decided to just turn it off.  So there you have it...typical Intamin engineering like on numerous of their other coasters that eventually need modifications or fixes like this one.



With our visit being on a couple of typical stifling hot Chicago summer days we needed to cool off.  So we took several rides on Loggers Run and the Yankee Clipper.  Out of the two the Clipper got us the wettest as you can see Bond here is all drenched.



Even though the Yankee Clipper will get you wetter Loggers Run is still a blast.  But as the Clipper's entrance is kind of hidden by Vertical Velocity if the park is crowded head there as it will have a considerably shorter line.



For the last year the rumor going around has been that Iron Wolf, the parks stand up coaster was going to be leaving and heading to some other park in the chain as Six Flags has decided to start up the old ride rotation program to give a few parks some "new" not so new rides.



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