Six Flags Television

[29yrswithaGApass]

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[29yrswithaGApass]

I’d love to know how many miles of pipes, conduit, and wiring there are underground in the park.  It must be an impressive number.  

[GAcoaster]

It must be a nightmare for any construction! 

[I Have No Name]

1. Certainly a change with people on their smartphones nowadays.
2. That picture which shows where the monitors were located; looks like that map was from 1991 or 1992.

[29yrswithaGApass]

The map is from 1991, the year the monitors were installed. 

[Yoshi]

I remember the TV's when waiting in line for Rolling Thunder in the mid 90s. Even though the line moved fast back then, I liked Six Flags Television to help pass the time.

[29yrswithaGApass]

10 minutes ago, Yoshi said:

I remember the TV's when waiting in line for Rolling Thunder in the mid 90s. Even though the line moved fast back then, I liked Six Flags Television to help pass the time.

 

Whenever I hear this song I think of the back queue (left side) of Rolling Thunder at night waiting to ride.

 

 

 

And I remember the Waltons theme song (a Time Warner show) playing by the Flying Wave while they displayed trivia questions about the show.

 

 

[The Master]

I mostly remember these being nonoperational around the park. I imagine the TVs were prime targets for vandals. Surprised you know who isn't posting in this thread.  

[29yrswithaGApass]

Actually the park strategically placed the monitors so they were all out of reach of guests.   I don’t recall any being vandalized but in the end more and more were inoperable.   

[GAcoaster]

Those old cathode ray tube TVs weren't designed to withstand the elements. They were protected, but I'm guessing they were the victims of overheating as much as anything. 

 

I just always remember them being SO LOUD, especially when the queue was empty. 

[I Have No Name]

When were most of the monitors removed?

[29yrswithaGApass]

21 minutes ago, I Have No Name said:

When were most of the monitors removed?

~1999

[The Master]

Those enclosures probably did trap heat in, both waste heat from the CRT as well as heat from the hot sun. They also likely trapped moisture if they lack proper ventilation and humidity control. Sometimes cars can rust out worse when they are kept in garages with poor ventilation trapping mositure instead of outdoors. I remember when I was at SFMM in 2002, all of their old Sixflags CRT TVs were still working, perhaps due to the drier climate? 

 

Were the old CRT TVs at GAdv taken down and stored during the harsh NJ Winters? 

[ericthewanderer]

My first time at Great Adv, was in 1999,so I never got to see the TVs operational.I spent a few years wondering exactly what those "boxes" were around the park before some one said they were old TVs.With the technology available now maybe SF could do a bigger,better version of the TV channel.

[29yrswithaGApass]

Here is another photo from inside the control room under the Great Lake Grandstand bleachers.