Six Flags Over Georgia | Georgia Surfer | Intamin Ultra Surf | 2025

[AaronWaugh]

The trough looks so unnecessarily wide

i think its the angle. Its looks a lot different in person.

 

[TheTalbotHound]

A wild Georgia Surfer train has been sighted chilling in its natural habitat;
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Photo from a friend

I think those are the same wheels from Falcon's Flight. Seems a little bit overkill, but i guess they already had the design ready.

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Train is in the station, gates have been seen in motion;

 

[Matt N]

Out of interest, is this like Intamin's take on a Mack PowerSplash? Or does it not actually get you wet?

 

[CanobieFan]

It doesn't actually go in the water or make a splash. it has fountains that will spray up. Who knows if you'll get wet on the ride or just from watching it.

 

[Matt N]

It doesn't actually go in the water or make a splash. it has fountains that will spray up. Who knows if you'll get wet on the ride or just from watching it.

Ah, that's interesting! So it's more like the fake splash effect on, say, Shambhala?

If that's the case, I imagine you might get a little bit of mist depending on seat, but not properly wet in the sense you would on a water ride.

 

[AaronWaugh]

The station is in and the car is in the station

 

[oriolat2]

View attachment 34707 The station is in and the car is in the station

I have seen videos of testing as of today. I don't think it was running at full speed or if it was the final cycle setup but it didn't look that special.

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Here’s a video of it testing, not the OG source. Cars aren’t spinning yet, cycle is under a minute;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1850629676831474012

 

[AaronWaugh]

Here’s a video of it testing, not the OG source. Cars aren’t spinning yet, cycle is under a minute;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1850629676831474012

WOOWWWWWWW SO AWESOME!!

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Test dummies in the seats;

Source

 

[CanobieFan]

Went to the park Saturday.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1857941521959383454

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

A handful of SFOG updates that don't really have to do with Surfer;

There was just a trademark filed the other day by Six Flags for GEORGIA GOLDRUSHER... perhaps the mine train is being renamed?


Blue Hawk - The old queue house (originally built for Z Force) has been torn down , per the park this is for better visibility from the pathways. The second train will also be receiving new axles after the first did earlier, and a new control system is incoming for 2025.

Source & Photo Source

Goliath - What is this, Leviathan?

Source

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

Well THAT was unexpected;

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Seems like they've opted to rename and repaint Georgia Surfer three months before it was due to open?

 

[Hixee]

Well THAT was unexpected;

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Seems like they've opted to rename and repaint Georgia Surfer three months before it was due to open?

Haha, what the ****?! Amazing.

 

[CanobieFan]

Lololol

 

[emoo]

They had a general public naming competition and advertise opening along side annual pass sales for least year yeah? It's gotta make sense in the board room.

 

[Boodangy]

Now watch them have issues with the supply chain in regards to the repaint/retheme causing this to get delayed another year till 2026

 

[Matt N]

That was unexpected!

The new name and theme makes far less sense to me than the old one… Georgia Surfer seemed logical with the water feature and the surfing-styled train, but Georgia Goldrusher seems like it would be more befitting of a mine train or something, in my view.

 

[TPoseOnTantrum]

There might be a little bit of method to this madness.

Six Flags would never have signed up for an orange and blue coloured Surfing Themed Coaster in their Steampunk area, but if you can't make your own options you play the cards you’re given. Especially when you’re already paying checks notes… $15 million for a shuttle coaster.

Team Zimmerman however doesn’t play ball like that and has found a working strategy in well themed areas and presentation. There’s a reason why you’re seeing three different hyper coasters being repainted across the Legacy Chain right now, and according to SFOG’s president those new colour schemes directly came from new corporate management. They'd rather bite the bullet to integrate it into the existing area rather than have something appear so out of place.

At the end of the day it's still a head scratcher, but it must have been enough of an itch for corporate that they were willing to throw extra money to scratch it.