Great America's Best And Worst Ideas

[Coaster Justin]

What Would you say were Great America's Best Addition To The Park and the Worst Addition to the park.



IN MY OPINION

Best: Raging Bull or Hurricane Harbor because their investments have paid off significantly.
Worst: Deja Vu or V2 because they have low ridership and high Maintenance costs.

[onyxhotel08]

V2 is more reliable than Deja Vu ever was and has a lot of people on it each day. V2 is very expensive to maintain because it uses so much energy so quickly but it seems to be sufficient enough. With so much land around Great America, they should expand the water park and re-apint Raging Bull darker colors that don't seem so faded and south of the border. Perhaps red and black like X2 at Magic Mountain?

[Coaster Justin]

1: That has almost nothing to do with the topic

2: Where would they expand the waterpark? To the Buildings across I94 that Gurnee wouldn't let them build there anyway because they have an "Aquatic Center"?

But on the Subject of Repainting Raging Bull, How about Bright Red and Silver Supports?

[bigb7965]

i believe the colors of bull are fine the way they are

[Colonel Mustard]

A. The Colors on Bull are great and fit the section and ride perfectly, don't change them please Six Flags.

B. They can Expand HH into Shuttle Area.

C. In 2005, V2 actually had more downtime then Vu.

[yankee Clipper91]

I agree that Raging Bull was the best thing.

The worst I would have to say would be tear down of the Haybaler and the Sky Whirl and tear down of the Shockwave.

[frightfestkid]

I think V2 was a good investment the first year when it had alot of intreast. Bull is always a popular ride being tallest, fastest and longest in sfgam

[Bob O]

Adding Raging Bull was a great investment, and adding DeJaVue had to be one of the worst additions.
The colors of Raging Bull to me are fine, and I think the water park is more than big enough and I wouldnt want any more land taken away from the park itself to add to the water park. The shuttle arrea ccould be used for something much better than making the water park bigger.

[rct2wizard360]

Oh coasterboy...

Best and Worst idea was Deja Vu.
Awesome ride, a lot of people loved it.
But...along with that came the problems.

[Coastermonkey61]

-The Worst wasn't the creation of Deja Vu, but what they took away to build it. I'll never forget the first day I went and had no idea where Sky Whirl was. It was always a tradition with me and whoever I went with to have the final two rides of the night by Sky Whirl and Sky Trek Tower.

-The Best, I'm gonna branch off here and say the creation of Viper. Rarely were wooden coasters built from scratch like this one was in the mid 90s, the park needed another woodie, and they managed to take the Cyclone format and twist it into their own ride. One of my favorite rides in the park.

[Goku1910]

Worst Idea is to make us pay one dollar for us to put our stuff away in a locker!!!!!

I'd rather put it in the fricken bins and ride the ride I want to, i spend enough money there as it is!!!!

[yankee Clipper91]

I agree what Coastermonkey61 said. I think everyone misses the Sky Whirl and the Haybaler.

[Goku1910]

TATSU!!!!!!!

In my Dreams

[Mr. SFGAm]

Best: I think that Great America's best investment was B:TR. Seriously, this ride is one of the greatest products of the 90's, and it is still one of the most popular rides in the park 16 years later. I'd have to say that Hurricane Harbor and the entire Southwest Territory (including Bull and Viper) is right behind it.

Worst: I'd probably also have to say that Deja Vu is the worst investment they made. From the construction delays, to the lawsuits, to the maintenance/reliability/capacity issues, it was just doomed from the start.

[diggerg56]

I'm going to steer away from the coaster theme a bit and say that Hurricane Harbor was a great investment. It gets some of the crowd out of the main park and it's kind of nice to go over there and relax a bit.

I thought Spy Girl was a terrible waste of money-Definitely a bad investment.

[CoasterDude12-2]

Best Idea: Hurricane Harbor.
Worst Idea: Advertisements on Rollercoasters. I don't care if they bring in more money, they look hideous.

[Trailblazer Tony]

Best Ideas:

1) Batman, i'd say it was the first time our park was truely recognized
2) Raging Bull, definitely upped our thrill status to an appropriate level
3) Hurricane Harbor, such a huge year in general for Six Flags

Worst Ideas:

1) Deja Vu, for obvious reasons
2) Operation Spygirl, once again, for obvious reasons
3) Removing Hometown Park....if they weren't going to do anything with the space, why remove something that would always get riders?

[coaster_dude14]

The best would Raging Bull and V2!! And for the worst, I would have to agree with GoKu and say making us pay $1 to leave our stuff in some locker

[TonyMichaud]

Best: Raging Bull, Terror Twister, Demon logos, Crazy Buffalo Saloon.
Worst: Removing Shock Wave for Superman, painting Batman yellow, Jester's Wild Ride, Not having the Boo Line.

(Yeah I know, the "worst" catagory has things in it they did for obvious reasons, but I can still cry about them)!



See you all in line very soon!

[guitarhero119]

Best: This is a toss up but i give the decision to build BTR the slight edge over building RB.

Worst: I would have to say Deja Vu was the biggest blunder in our park. It was a great ride but it took forever to get constructed and then in its early years it had major downtime issues.

[michael]

Best:American eagle(i dont know one person on the earth that doesnt like this ride) B:TR,and RB
Worst:Deja Vu, 1$ for lockers...

[acm21]

I don't get how people can say DejaVu was a bad idea at all

1. 2nd most popular ride in the park next to bull
2. 2nd most intense ride next to bull
3. With V2 attendence soared
4. It's not like SF could put anything more thrilling in that space without taking down SWF which was still popular at that time

Best Idea: Southwest Territory including all add-ons

Worst Idea: Having 2 mouses right next to each other

[Colonel Mustard]

^Deja vu wasn't even in the top five for popular rides

[demonbulleagle]

Best thing; adding hurricane harbor
Worst thing; wiggles world, this is a theme park that in the past has been known for some of the best coasters in the country! Why do we need another kiddie area when we already have two of them!

[DejaVu2001]

^ Lets see, Cedar Point is the roller coaster capital of the world. What are they getting this year? Oh yeah, their fourth kiddie area. When will you people accept the fact that the world does not revolve around coasters?