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  2. California's Great America - Wikipedia

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    California's Great America is an 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park [1] located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation. Great America features over 40 rides and attractions, with Gold Striker among its ...

  3. RailBlazer - Wikipedia

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    RailBlazer is the ninth roller coaster at California's Great America, and features a 90-degree drop, three inversions, and an off-roading adventure theme. RailBlazer was one of two prototype single-rail coasters to open in 2018, the other being the Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, whose layout is a mirror image of ...

  4. Gold Striker - Wikipedia

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    Gold Striker is a wooden roller coaster located at California's Great America amusement park. Built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike, Gold Striker was the park's eighth roller coaster which opened to the public on May 31, 2013. Its 174-foot-long (53 m) tunnel is the longest in the world to be featured on the first drop ...

  5. Demon (roller coaster) - Wikipedia

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    Demon (roller coaster) 3 trains with 6 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 24 riders per train. Demon is a multi-looping roller coaster at both Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. [1][2] Both coasters opened in 1976 as Turn of the Century, when both Great ...

  6. Flight Deck (California's Great America) - Wikipedia

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    Flight Deck (formerly Top Gun and briefly as Soaring Chiefs) is a steel inverted roller coaster located at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by Werner Stengel, the roller coaster made its debut on March 20, 1993, as Top Gun. The roller coaster was built as Paramount, who had ...

  7. Great America was the Bay Area's Disneyland. Now it's a ... - AOL

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    When Great America amusement park in Santa Clara opened in 1976, it quickly became the Bay Area's version of Disneyland. It was never as popular or iconic as Walt Disney's Anaheim landmark, but ...

  8. History of California - Wikipedia

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    The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...

  9. Invertigo (roller coaster) - Wikipedia

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    Stinger when it was at California's Great America as Invertigo. The first installation of an Invertigo roller coaster occurred at Liseberg in 1997. HangOver was originally scheduled to open in 1996 as a launched roller coaster, however, the technology at the time prevented this from occurring and forced the opening back by a year. [2]