After posting numerous teasers online and throughout the park over the past few weeks, Six Flags America, located near Washington, DC, officially announced that Apocalypse: The Last Stand will be closing forever on September 8, 2018. The B&M Stand up coaster debuted at Six Flags America in 2012, after being relocated from Six Flags Great America. At the Chicago-area park, the coaster was known as Iron Wolf, and was the very first B&M roller coaster in the world when it opened in 1990.
The coaster features a 100-foot lift hill, 2 inversions (loop and corkscrew), and a top speed of 55 MPH, not to mention those immensely comfortable bicycle seats, headache inducing over the shoulder restraints, and glacially-slow loading process. Six Flags did not announce whether the coaster would be torn down or given the "Rougaroo" treatment, where the stand-up trains are replaced with sit-down floorless trains. I would expect Six Flags to reveal those details during their annual chain-wide "New for 2019" announcement at the end of the month.
So, if you want to get one last ride the oldest B&M roller coaster on the planet, make sure you get to SFA by September 8th.
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Six Flags Great America is my hometown park. Goliath was put in its place, but it is sad to see that it is leaving :-(
It's not leaving, just getting new trains to alter the experience from a stand-up one to a seated one. None of the track is being replaced, and there will only be a few minor modifications made to the station to accommodate the loading of the floorless trains.
Ahh, this might help with the most common complaint I heard around its Iron Wolf days: "It really hurt my neck/head". The Great America park goers would love to hear this!!
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So our National Roller Coaster Day new coaster announcement count now stands at... -1.