RobertDavid

It's very cute. If the park had a 50s section it would be great. This is the problem with whoever designs the parks, they place all kinds of random things that do not go together in sections that are not themed to match them. Its like they design things in an office somewhere, having no idea what park it's going in, and then throw a dart at the park map to decide where to put it.

I think the Flying Wave pad is a really bad location for a tall tower like that. I would much rather see another Flying Wave placed there. Flying Wave is also more fun. There is nothing "thrilling" about SkyScreamer. Since it doesn't tilt like Flying Wave, it is just a boring swing that goes around in a circle, and that big metal tower sticking up out of that spot is going to be ugly as sin.

I couldn't agree more. The last thing the park needs is another tall scaffolding sticking up out of the park. The tower is not even a pole, like the Parachutes, it's a cheap-looking group of metal poles. It's also way too close to the Big Wheel and it IS very boring, just turning around with no tilting or anything that makes it "thrilling" other than the fact that it takes place up in the air. It's a cheap-looking, ugly carnival ride.

Check out all the trees outside.

The only damage we spotted was a Snickers poster that had been blown off its post. Not that that is a bad thing!

Couldn't someone run through the park and tear down all the advertisements and just claim the wind did it?

^^^ I couldn't agree more. Half massage chairs and half storage? "Flags"? That's as creative as they can get? The stores, the restaurants, the atmosphere; the park IS becoming more like a mall than a theme park. Who wants to drive a long distance and pay a lot of money to go to a mall?

The parks just need to get good rides and keep them. It ticks people off when a park gets a ride that they like and then takes it out and sends it somewhere else. If a ride is no good anymore, get rid of it. If it's not good at one park, it's not going to be good at another.

While a train is a huge asset for any park to have, I can not imagine how they could fit one into Great Adventure.

Does anyone know why these signs were removed?

I imagine they may not have been very effective. While they were very attractive and the artwork was excellent, I can not imagine people would stop heading toward the front gate to go over and look at them. There was nothing about them that would grab you from a distance and redirect you from heading into the park.

It was nice, however, that they advertised what the park had to offer instead of M&Ms and Discover Cards.

^^ No, you're not alone. That's more than a little strange. Also, what does TOP CHEF winners and restaurant owners have to do with giving thanks to the military and first responders?

They should stop theming things to the latest movies altogether and use themes that do not depend on box office or how long a fad will last, like Runaway Train, Rolling Thunder, El Torro, ect.. Themes that actually fit the park instead of the whim of some comic book geeks that seem to be making decisions in the company.

Dining should be an "experience" at a theme park, just like the rides and shows. Unfortunately Six Flags does not understand this concept and have chosen to just offer the same food, in the same restaurants, that you can get at the local shopping center. The original restaurants, built before Six Flags, were great. I always eat at Best of the West because of the atmosphere, which I think has been ruined by the LCD screens which they did not have in the old west. I used to love getting ice cream at the Yum Yum Palace, which had a great turn-of-the-century soda fountain atmosphere, but they ruined that by gutting the interior, painting it dark and gloomy, and calling it the Character Cafe.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks coasters should have atmosphere, and not just be plopped on a slab of cement. Busch Gardens Tampa is extremely limited on space, built out to the streets on all sides, and yet they just added a new coaster, Cheetah Run, that dives over hills and into trenches, under rocks, past waterfalls, and dodges trees.

While I think the lake would be a great atmosphere for a coaster, I hate the idea of eliminating the last signs of virgin forrest in the park, and really would hate to see anything built around the Yum Yum Palace.

If they insist on building rides in the parking lot, couldn't they at least plant some trees around them, and maybe some rock formations with waterfalls and ponds. At least make it look like it's not a parking lot anymore.

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I Rode Your Guy's Log Flume this year and Loggers Run at Six Flags Great America is MUCH BETTER. It Gets You Wet.

Great Spotlight Otherwise.

If all you want is to get soaked, there are plenty of ways to do that. What makes this ride so great is the ride, not how wet you may or may not get. It's a great ride in a great atmosphere that's unparalleled in the industry.

I think most people are not voting for the logo they think is best, but are voting for the logo that brings back the most memories for them because it was the logo of the park when they started going.

While the rainbow brings back the most memories for me, I believe the lion is by far the best logo. It's the only one that actually represented the park itself. It represented both the theme park and safari and used elements you actually find in each park, as well as being colorful, fanciful, and imaginative. Rainbows have been overdone and have nothing to do with the park, and all the other logos are just boring corporate symbols.

If they have different Coke products from around the world, try Beverley from Italy, it's disgusting! You have to drink at least 5 other flavors just to get the taste out of your mouth.

I hope that was just a marketing campaign for the parks and he doesn't really believe what he was saying. The parks are in perfect condition and focused on families and not teens, and have been for years? The problems were 5 to 10 years ago and everything has been great for the last 3 years?

I'm also concerned with a previous interview he gave where he said Six Flags was just going to ride the wave of increased theme park attendance nationwide. Six Flags attendance is up, because the industry is up as a whole. Six Flags attendance is not increasing as much as other parks, which have had record attendance.

It seems he is perfectly content just with the fact that attendance has increased and doesn't think the company has any problems or needs to do anything but sit back and do what it has been doing and people are going to come flocking to the parks. This could prove dangerous in the near future.

I definitely appose NY train to the park! The buses bring in too many people now, adding trains will be a bigger mess.

Too many people?? I know we would all like to have the park to ourselves, but isn't the idea to do more business and make more money so they can make more improvements?

1976?

They were running the ride all day today with test dummies. They sent it at different speeds. There are 3 launches. The first one is out of the station and just slightly uphill and around a turn. Then it goes down into a ditch where it is launched uphill into a pretzel-like turn up in the air, then downhill over the Seringhetti Plain through several inversions, where somewhere there is another launch I haven't seen which sends it back. Most of the ride is close to the ground, or in trenches, except for the pretzel-turn up in the air. There are supposed to be cheetahs running beside it. They've done a great job with the station, which used to be the monorail station. It is also the skyride station. It was very 70s and needed help. Now it looks like like some archeological expedition. The skyride has been closed while they've built the coaster. They are both scheduled to open in a couple of weeks.

I can't wait for this coaster to open. It looks great. I took a lot of pictures, but when I click the "insert image" icon above, nothing happens. The coaster runs practically the length of the park. It runs around and over trees, through rocks, over hills, and down into ravines. THAT's how you build a coaster, and it's themed and named to match it's surroundings, and painted colors that compliment each other and everything around it.

Skyride?

I Had an Idea for a Great Adventure History Museum building in the shape of a Teepee built where the Teepee Was.

That would be amazing, but they would never do it. Too much of an expense and no return on the investment.

Bring back the Enterprise, Flying Wave and the Teepee.

Lets start a petition!!! Unfortunately, they'll never build another teepee, not unless some indian superhero movie comes out.

I agree about having a buffer between the parking lot and the park (and between rides), but the skyline of any park today is not the same as it was 35 years ago. Few coasters (and rides in general) today are built that fall under the level of the treetops. Most rides easily exceed the 50' +/- mark so most things will be seen from afar, unlike 1974 when only the Giant Wheel and Skyride were visible.

Of course the skyline is going to change. Coasters rising above the trees is great, but at GA they don't rise above the trees, they replace them. There are no trees to rise above. You pull into the parking lot and all you see is coasters, not coasters rising above trees.

The forrest the park was built in was it's greatest asset, and it has been destroyed, and for the most part unnecessarily. Every time they build a coaster they cut down every tree in sight, instead of using the trees to make the ride more exciting and less obtrusive.