New Ride(s) for 2015

[Chitown]

Just like most here, I am totally lost with the teasers, but I do like the idea of converting Buccaneer Battle into a dark ride. It makes the most sense since the trough is already in place, BB doesn't seem to be popular, and SFSTl dark ride was a water attraction.

A dark ride appeals to all ages and types. We will find out in 5 days.

[Banky]

I think the main reason people don't support BB is that you have to remain seated at all times which means that 36"-42" kids have no chance of reaching the crank to turn to get the water to shoot without getting out of the seat for most part. Also those cranks can be a bit of a pain to turn even as an adult. even my 8 year old nephew has to use both arms to turn it which makes targeting rough if at all. if the boats had made it easy to turn on the water then let you just aim as it shoots the water then i bet it would have been much more popular. Also if hitting the targets actually did something recognizable it would be more fun too.

[Foltzy]

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Agreed. I see multiple adults rubbing their arms because the cranking is extremely hard on your arm

[ilrider]

^^I think everyone who dislikes it pretty much agrees with you, hence the lack of any line for the ride. I know these are my main beefs with it. It is poorly designed. I still feel the park will convert or remove it soon. Just a waste of money to operate for so few riders each day. They need to cut their losses and try again.

[SFGAMNUT9302]

^^I think everyone who dislikes it pretty much agrees with you, hence the lack of any line for the ride. I know these are my main beefs with it. It is poorly designed. I still feel the park will convert or remove it soon. Just a waste of money to operate for so few riders each day. They need to cut their losses and try again.

I Completely agree! It's a shame that BB didn't take off with the General public, but it is what it is, it's a complete waste of money paying people to stand there all day. To this day, I still think the park would have been better off never even removing sky whirl and just spending the money to get the custom parts made to fix it up. It was nothing but a disaster financially with Deja Vu and Buccaneer Battle.

[Goku1910]

simply adding pumps to the boats would resolve the issue. But I'm afraid the damage has already been done with the public. Even if they did modify it to fix it's issues, getting that information out to the public wouldn't be an easy task. So even modifying the ride would be far too costly in terms of advertising and promotions.

and whoever mentioned the targets....They did have function back when the ride opened, but I've been seeing less and less of the effects actually working over the years.

[SFGAMNUT9302]

I wouldn't mind seeing a "war on lines" like Great Adventure had in 1999 where they just add a whole bunch of flats around the park. Screamscape is speculating that great Adventure is going to get a Super loop like brain drain at Elitch gardens, one of those would be great in Trail Blazers spot with a Lasoo theme in my opinion.

[FParker185]

SFGAdv's war on lines was an absolute failure, nearly every single ride added is now gone besides the coaster. I also don't see the point of SFGAm or any fixed site amusement park added such a common portable flat ride, and regardless what Screamscape says, these park models are not bigger then the portable ones, they are exactly the same size.

[anewman35]

According to GreatAdventureHistory.com (which is a great site even if you just care about amusement parks general and don't care about Great Adventure at all, like me), about half of the rides are still there, although most of those are kiddie rides (see http://www.greatadventurehistory.com/WarOnLines.htm). But, yeah, while it's great in theory to get 25 or whatever new rides at once, #1 we just don't have the room for something like that - Great Adventure was (and is) sprawling place with room for new things all over, we're not and #2, it seems like the reason it failed was in large part because they didn't have the staffing to run so many new rides. I suspect we'd have the same problem.

[SFGAMNUT9302]

I should have worded that a little bit better, something simmilar to what Great Adventure had, not a full blown 27 new rides in one season, but like 6 or 7 reliable, non proto-type flats to fill in blank spots around the park (Trail blazer, slab in front of X-Flight, Hometown Park, Center of HTS, etc) and help reduce lines. Exactly like they did in 2004.

[JT3]

Does anyone think, with the old throwback footage, we could be seeing a large park museum? I don't think I would put my money on it, but I think if they make it elaborate enough they could market it. They have lots of old pieces from old rides, like the Sky Whirl buckets that they could put in it. They could also have a large projection screen in the museum that could play the "Screams and Dreams" series. They could put a café in it also. I think it would be cool.

[Iron Wolf 90-11]

Does anyone think, with the old throwback footage, we could be seeing a large park museum? I don't think I would put my money on it, but I think if they make it elaborate enough they could market it. They have lots of old pieces from old rides, like the Sky Whirl buckets that they could put in it. They could also have a large projection screen in the museum that could play the "Screams and Dreams" series. They could put a café in it also. I think it would be cool.

Not going to happen ever, at least not to that extent.

[sierrajinx9]

According the Gurnee Village Board: http://www.gurnee.il.us/node/99858

Six Flag swill be holding an event to announce what's new for 2015 on Thursday, August 28th at 10:00 a.m. in the Hometown Square area of the park. In addition to hearing the new announcements, residents will be granted free access to a limited number of rides and snacks. To take advantage of this event, residents should arrive at Six Flags using the main entrance starting at 10:00 a.m. Please note that proof of Gurnee residency will be required to enter the event.

[Iron Wolf 90-11]

According the Gurnee Village Board: http://www.gurnee.il.us/node/99858

Six Flag swill be holding an event to announce what's new for 2015 on Thursday, August 28th at 10:00 a.m. in the Hometown Square area of the park. In addition to hearing the new announcements, residents will be granted free access to a limited number of rides and snacks. To take advantage of this event, residents should arrive at Six Flags using the main entrance starting at 10:00 a.m. Please note that proof of Gurnee residency will be required to enter the event.

That is very interesting. So does that pretty much confirm that the new show/attraction is going to be in Hometown Square?

[sierrajinx9]

Possibly... I was going to say, its the one spot they can crowd in a bunch of people... But they could always do the announcement around the pond... or in the Amphitheater... I would say there is a reason

[Superman]

It's probably just because that's at the front of the park

[CoasterCale]

But it's not really. You have to go under the Tracks. If they were to do it in the front, wouldn't they just set up a podium by CC and hold it around Carousel Plaza?

[Iron Wolf 90-11]

Does anybody know or have an idea as to why only Gurnee residents are invited?

[CoasterCale]

Well, the most obvious thing is that the park isn't open to the GP. Also it is hinting (if it isn't obvious already) that we aren't getting a coaster. No ACErs or TPR members seem to be invited.

[Guy_With_A_Stick]

What about Grayslake residents? I live literally on the border of Grayslake and Gurnee. Well I'll be in school anyways. Oh well.

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[anewman35]

This pretty much confirms for me that the new attraction will be some sort of makeover of Hometown Square (I'm guessing the reason that it's only Gurnee residents is because Gurnee is the "Hometown" of SFGAm or something?)

The silly thing about the "announcement", of course, is that if Six Flags does things the way they have the last few years, the announcement will be made on the web early that morning so there's really no point to having the event except to get some free publicity. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm thinking they wouldn't do anything like this unless it was a fairly significant announcement - I know they did a "groundbreaking" thing for Goliath last year, but does anybody know if they've ever done these things before for anything that wasn't a big thing?

Also, this is probably just a badly worded statement, but if the announcement is AT 10:00, I'm kinda thinking that residents should not "arrive at Six Flags using the main entrance starting at 10:00 a.m. "

[Iron Wolf 90-11]

Hopefully Hometown Square will be returned to its former glory, pre Ig-Night, and hopefully we will have the Hometown Square train station back.

[Guy_With_A_Stick]

Yeah, HTS was a great place to just rest in shade after a long walk. It's also a good meeting place.
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[stockboy300]

I seen a guy painting Aunt Martha's today so I'm guessing that building isn't going nowhere.

[DeathbyDinn]

I'm sure we'll see a rumor about us getting a Super Loop ride soon, cause that's what Screamscape thinks nearly every Six Flags is getting next year.