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New Ride(s) for 2015
A HTS revamp would be great! I don't think many new rides would be added, but I think Whizzer would get a new paint job, Allies trollies would be returned to daily operation, A new flat would be added in the center, along with the return of the Gazeebo, Home Town park would have the kids rides returned, along with Ameri-Go-Round and the basket ball game and ladder game moved. My imagination is running wild right now, lol. I can't wait until Thursday!
I would be floored if the park went to these lengths on social media to tease a paint job. That'd be foolish business practice, frankly.
I think some areas of the park desperately need from TLC, Hometown Square included. And maybe it's part of the announcement, but a new attraction is coming regardless. Maybe in Hometown Square, maybe elsewhere. But you don't create a rather inventive social media campaign to announce you're running to Lowes in the offseason.
If they're painting Aunt Martha's, it might just be so it looks good for the media on Thursday...
Among people here, some people seem to really want Hometown Square to be restored to how it used to be, and some people seem to really want a flat ride in the middle of it. Being that these are basically opposite things, I think at least some people are going to be pretty disappointed.
The last teaser is going to be posted today on either Carousel Plaza or Hometown Square. I personally think it will be Hometown Square since that is where this announcement will take place. Hopefully some clues will come out of today's video.
It looks like we're going to be doing a 40th anniversary celebration in 2015 similar to the one Kings Dominion did this year. Not sure what all will be involved.
Isn't the 40th Anniversary of the park in 2016? Six Flags brand's was in 2002, 50th in 2012. This will be the 53rd season for Six Flags Our park was purchased in 1984 so that anniversary is in 2024 Parked opened in 1976, so 2016 marks 40 years Am I missing something?
2015 is the 40th season. It is confusing, but correct. Also remember the 25th anniversary celebration was in 2000.
I'm hoping for no new flat in the center... It be closed rather early so that people can gather for the nightly show
^ Screw the show and closing early, I'm hoping for no new flat ride in the center because that would destroy Hometown Square even more.
It appears as if someone over at Coaster-Net has figured out the names of all the Six Flags 2015 attractions according to code and mapping on the official website (I don't quite understand it, but there is a brief explanation on the link: http://coaster-net.com/forums/index.php ... lags-2015/
SFGAm's big 2015 addition is... ... ... ...40 Seasons!!! No clue what that means, but I have a feeling that it will be a bunch of smaller updates around the park instead of a ride, which a lot of people on here, myself included, have been wanting.
^ If you want an idea, look at what Kings Dominion did this year.
This makes that last teaser make a lot more sense. I always kept saying that you can't market basic improvements, but the exception to that is probably as part of an big anniversary year, and it's my fault for just believing what I read about 2016 being the anniversary year without realizing that 2015 is actually the 40th season. With this new info, I'm thinking less that it's just a Hometown revamp and probably just a bunch of things all over. I do hope that it includes some of the previously discussed ride returns and not just paint and such things.
So, 2016, SkyScreamer or Super Loop, right? (Yes, I'm joking about discussing this already, but we all know how Six Flags works. Guess they don't hate SkyScreamers after all!)
I'm not sure how legit these are cause the 40 seasons thing makes no sense and the only one that seems correct is new England's but then again who didn't guess an rmc cyclone
So it looks like they also leaked the first paragraph of the press release. Oops.
Six Flags Great America to Celebrate 40 Seasons in 2015 A Look-Back on the Evolution of a True Americana Theme Park Gurnee, Ill. — August 28, 2014 — Six Flags Great America is excited to announce a celebration of 40 seasons of thrills in 2015. Built on a $50 million dollar investment, thousands workers and countless details, Great America embodied the country’s bicentennial with classic Americana themed territories. Join us as we look back at guests’ favorite shows, classic rides, plus weekly festivals of our world-class roller coasters. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... en&ct=clnk
This seems legit. And Kings Dominion did a very similar "40 seasons" thing this year, so I don't see why we couldn't. Digging through that page, there's also a press release from SFA that refers to their Super Loop as a roller coaster. That's going to go over well.
Based on what Hank Salmei said about "We might see Buzzy bee's returning" A 40th season celebration is a perfect way to bring back hometown park, as well as the Ameri-Go-Round (Finally getting rid of that eyesore under Superman) as well as many much needed park updates (Paint jobs) and actually market it. A Kings Dominion style revamp would be welcomed in my opinion.
Not SFGAm related, but Six Flags 2015 related. If the rumors hold true and several parks get the 'giant looper' ride, would those count as a coaster or a thrill ride?
^ Six Flags will be marketing all four of them as roller coasters. They are not roller coasters.
I don't think we'll see Hometown Park literally come back. If they did bring any of the old kiddie rides back, they'd most likely go where Sky Trail is.
And I second that, but I really believe that this area is never gonna see a ride in the center square as this is the place where the night show goes.
I still think bringing back Hometown Park makes a ton of sense. It's one of the few destroyed areas of the park that could be remade easily (just move the games, maybe to the Sky Trail spot, plop down the bees and another flat ride, and, bam, Hometown Park is back). Bringing back rides is nice, but if you really want to celebrate why not bring back a whole area?
I would honestly be pleased if they just refreshed the park and made the park look better for the 40th season especially Hometown Square.
Agreed! I was just looking at Hometown park on Google Maps, and if the games were moved, there is plenty of room to reinstall the kids area as well as the Ameri-Go-Round in that plot of land. It would cost very little money (Seeing as that they already have the rides) and it would be a great Nostalgic way to celebrate the 40th. Having a classic kids area back as well as a historic carousel. By the way..... does anyone know if great America owns those containers that Ameri-Go-Round has been sitting in? or do they rent them?
The park also needs to ditch the blacktop. It's one of those little things that really makes the park look terrible.
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Thank you! The blacktop looks terrible! If they ripped that out and replaced it with pavers (Like what Kings dominion is doing) It would boost the parks image tremendously.
^ Agreed. SWT needs new paving too so the entire area is the same, not the weird patch work look it has now.
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