Six Flags Great America today announced plans to open Maxx Forced, a triple-record breaking launched steel coaster in 2019. Maxx Force will be the fastest launch coaster in North America with the fastest inversion and highest double inversion of any...
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Six Flags Great America 2019 Theories and Land Clearing – UPDATED
UPDATED (8/30/18) — Six Flags Great America has announced Maxx Force, a triple record-breaking steel launched coaster for 2019. Learn more about it here. UPDATED (8/16/18) — We’ve updated this post to include the teasers videos that the park is...
Continue reading...Six Flags Great America Announces Holiday in the Park Event
Six Flags Great America today announced plans for its first-ever Holiday in the Park event that will kick off in late November 2018. This marks the first time in the park’s 42-year history that it will extend its operating season...
Continue reading...Shortened Last Call Fall Festival at Six Flags Great America
On Saturday, I visited the inaugural Last Call Fall Festival at Six Flags Great America. While I expected to spend the entire day at the park, my stay was cut short — four hours short. Warning: this post contains some ranting....
Continue reading...What We Think About the 2018 Six Flags Announcements
A couple weeks ago the whole Coaster101 team got together to share our mostly positive thoughts about the 2018 Cedar Fair announcements (which included four pretty awesome looking coasters). Now it’s Six Flags’ turn, as they made new attraction announcements...
Continue reading...Six Flags Great America 2018: “World’s Largest Loop Coaster”
Six Flags Great America today announced 2018 plans for the “world’s largest loop coaster.” The ride (not technically a roller coaster), standing 100 feet tall, is a larger version of Larson’s “22m Giant Loop” model that nearly every Six Flags...
Continue reading...Joker 4D Coaster Opening at Six Flags Great America 2017
Six Flags Great America today announced Joker, a fourth-dimension (4D) Free Spin coaster will debut at the park in 2017: Joker will stand 120 feet tall and will feature a vertical lift hill. Riders will invert at least six times as...
Continue reading...Six Flags Announces New Interactive VR Coasters
Six Flags announced today they are expanding their collection of virtual reality roller coasters. Last year Six Flags introduced virtual reality to roller coasters at nine different parks using Samsung Gear VR Headsets and partnering with VR Coaster. The rides had one of...
Continue reading...Coaster101 Roundtable: Our Most Underrated Coasters
This is the first post in the Coaster101 Roundtable Series, where the Coaster101 team takes a topic, and all present our opinion. Recently, About.com Theme Park Expert Arthur Levine published a list of his “Top 10 Most Underrated Roller Coasters in North...
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