WOW.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: six flags great america rides history center

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of former Six Flags Great America attractions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Six_Flags...

    Originally operated at Six Flags Great Adventure as Pendulum from 1999 to 2003. A large arm holds the center disk full of riders. The disk begins to spin as the arm swings powerfully back and forth. Maximum height of 65 feet. Removed due to the addition of Sky Striker. Relocated to Niagra Amusement Park along with Mardi Gras Hangover in 2024 [9 ...

  3. California's Great America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California's_Great_America

    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 ...

  4. Freefall (ride) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freefall_(ride)

    On May 22, 1984, an accident occurred on The Edge, a first generation Freefall ride at Marriott's Great America (now Six Flags Great America) in Gurnee, Illinois.A supporting cable snapped, and the mechanism's anti-rollback devices failed to stop the car from plummeting nearly 60 feet to the bottom of the tower.

  5. Shockwave (Six Flags Great America) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockwave_(Six_Flags_Great...

    Shockwave (occasionally stylized as ShockWave or Shock Wave) was a roller coaster manufactured by Arrow Dynamics at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois.Standing 170 feet (52 m) tall and reaching speeds of 65 miles per hour (105 km/h), it opened in 1988 as the world's tallest and fastest looping roller coaster with a record-breaking seven inversions: three vertical loops, a boomerang ...

  6. Columbia Carousel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Carousel

    Columbia Carousel or Carousel Columbia[note 1] are a pair of double-decker carousels at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. Both parks were originally built by the Marriott hotel chain as sister properties but they were later sold off and now are both owned by Six Flags [1] To ...

  7. American Eagle (roller coaster) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eagle_(roller...

    Riders are arranged 2 across in 3 rows for a total of 30 riders per train. American Eagle is a wooden racing roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois. It was the first wooden roller coaster designed by Intamin of Switzerland and was built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright at a cost of $10 ...

  8. Old Chicago - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago

    Old Chicago was a combination shopping mall and indoor amusement park that existed in the southwest Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois from 1975 until 1980. It was billed as "The world's first indoor amusement park", and it was intended to draw visitors all year round, rain or shine. It opened to great fanfare and over 15,000 visitors on ...

  9. Mardi Gras Hangover - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_Hangover

    Mardi Gras Hangover is a fire ball attraction currently in storage at Niagara Amusement Park & Splash World in Grand Island, New York, United States. The attraction was previously located at Six Flags Great America from 2018 to 2023, before being delivered to Niagara Amusement Park in February 2024. [1] Manufactured by Larson International, it ...

  1. Ad

    related to: six flags great america rides history center