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| x California's Great America |
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This article is about the California park originally known as Marriott's Great America. For the Illinois park that was once known by this same name, see Six Flags Great America.
California's Great America is an amusement park owned and operated by...
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| x Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk |
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The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is an oceanfront amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1907 and operated by the family-owned Santa Cruz Seaside Company since 1915, it is California's oldest surviving amusement park and one of two...
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| x Six Flags Discovery Kingdom |
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, formerly Six Flags Marine World, Marine World, The New Marine World Theme Park, and Marine World Africa USA, is an amusement and animal park located in Vallejo, California. It has a variety of roller coasters and other...
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| x Disneyland Park |
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Disneyland Park (Parc Disneyland in French) is a theme park which is a part of Disneyland Resort Paris. Operated by Euro Disney S.C.A., it is one of two theme parks in the complex just outside of Paris, in Marne-la-Vallée, France.
The park is based...
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| x Disneyland |
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Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It was dedicated with a press preview on July 17, 1955, and opened to the general public July...
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| x Magic Kingdom |
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The Magic Kingdom is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort. The first park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1971. The park saw an estimated 17 million visitors in 2008, making it the most visited theme park in the world.
Designed...
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| x Flight Deck |
Flight Deck is a roller coaster located at California's Great America in Northern California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, Flight Deck made its debut March 19, 1993 as Top Gun. It is the park's most popular ride. This was Bolliger & Mabillard's...
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| x Werner Stengel |
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Werner Stengel (born 22 August 1936) is a German roller coaster designer and engineer. Stengel is the founder of Stengel Engineering, also known as Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH (or Ingenieur Buero Stengel GmbH).
Born 22 August 1936, in Bochum,...
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| x Stealth |
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Stealth is a steel roller coaster built by Intamin AG of Switzerland. The coaster is located in the Amity Cove area of Thorpe Park in Surrey, England and opened in 2006. The ride reaches a maximum height of 62.5 m (206 ft), which makes it the third...
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| x Thorpe Park |
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Thorpe Park is a theme park located in Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom. It was built in 1979 on the site of a gravel pit which was partially flooded with the intention of creating a water based theme for the park. The park's first large roller...
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| x Intamin AG |
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Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland. It is best known for creating thrill rides and roller coasters worldwide. The U.S. division of the company is located in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and is headed by...
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| x Giant Dipper |
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The Giant Dipper is a well-known wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. It opened on May 17, 1924. It is the sixth-oldest roller coaster in the United States; over 50 million...
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Bolliger & Mabillard Consulting Engineers (more commonly known as B&M;) is a roller coaster design consultancy based in Monthey, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1988 by Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard, with Bolliger acting as president...
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| x Stengel Engineering |
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| x The Mind Eraser |
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The Mind Eraser is a steel inverted roller coaster at 4 different Six Flags & PARC theme parks. Built by Vekoma, they are of the most common and standard Suspended Looping Coaster model (689m Standard) that is found in many theme parks; at least...
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| x Six Flags Darien Lake |
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Darien Lake is a theme park resort located between Buffalo and Rochester in Darien, New York, United States, south of the New York State Thruway (I-90) on State Highway 77. After being owned by Six Flags from 1999 to early 2007, the park is now...
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| x Six Flags America |
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Not to be confused with Six Flags Great America.
Six Flags America is a theme park located in Mitchellville in Prince George's County, Maryland. It lies 15 miles (24 km) east of Washington D.C., and 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Baltimore. It sits...
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| x Vekoma |
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Vekoma Rides Manufacturing B.V. is a roller coaster and thrill ride designer with its facilities based in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1926 by Hendrik op het Veld under the name "Veld Koning Machinefabriek" (Veld Koning machine...
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| x Six Flags New England |
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Six Flags New England, or SFNE, and formerly called Riverside Amusement Park, is a theme park in the Six Flags chain of parks, named for the New England region in which it is located. Located off of Massachusetts State Route 159, Six Flags New...
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| x Elitch Gardens |
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Elitch Gardens Theme Park, previously known as Six Flags Elitch Gardens, is an amusement park in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by CNL Lifestyle Properties and operated by PARC Management alongside six other former Six Flags parks including: Darien...
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| x Magnum XL-200 |
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Magnum XL-200 is an Arrow Dynamics steel hypercoaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Built in 1989, it was the first complete circuit roller coaster to break the 200 foot barrier. It is considered to have started the roller coaster wars,...
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| x Cedar Point |
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Cedar Point is a 364-acre (1.47 km²) amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, United States on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It currently holds the world record for most roller coasters (17), one of which, Top Thrill Dragster, is the...
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| x Ron Toomer |
Ronald Valentine Toomer (born 31 May 1930) is one of the prominent roller coaster designers in the world.
He graduated from the University of Nevada with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was on the design team for the heat shield on the Apollo...
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Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design company based in Clearfield, Utah, United States. In 2002, the company went bankrupt but was quickly bought by fellow amusement ride manufacturer S&S; Power to form S&S; Arrow. During its peak, Arrow...
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| x Pepsi Max Big One |
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The Pepsi Max Big One is a steel roller coaster located at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in the United Kingdom. The ride was originally manufactured by Arrow Dynamics, a now defunct steel coaster manufacturer, and is sponsored by the soft drinks firm...
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| x Pleasure Beach Blackpool |
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Pleasure Beach Blackpool is a family owned amusement park situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, England. It is the most visited amusement park in the United Kingdom, and one of the top twenty most-visited attractions in the world with 5.5...
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| x Universal Studios Florida |
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Universal Studios Florida is an American amusement park located in Orlando, Florida. Opened on June 7, 1990, the park's theme is the entertainment industry, in particular movies and television. Universal Studios Florida inspires its guests to "ride...
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| x Universal Studios Japan |
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Universal Studios Japan (ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン, Yunibāsaru Sutajio Japan), located in Osaka, Japan is one of three Universal Studios theme parks, owned and operated by USJ Co., Ltd. (TYO: 2142). The park is similar to Universal Orlando Resort, since it...
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| x Universal Studios Hollywood |
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Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is the original Universal Studios theme park. Woody Woodpecker is the mascot for Universal Studios...
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| x Batman: The Ride |
Batman: The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster at Six Flags Mexico in Mexico City. Unlike Bolliger & Mabillard's widely-cloned Batman: The Ride, this coaster was built by Vekoma.
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| x Six Flags México |
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Six Flags México (formerly known locally as Reino Aventura) is an amusement park owned by Six Flags Inc. and the only Six Flags park operating in Latin America. It is located in the Tlalpan forest and borough, on the southern edge of Mexico City,...
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| x Batman: The Ride |
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Batman: The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster found in many Six Flags theme parks, as well as other parks around the world, including Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Fiesta Texas (as...
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| x Six Flags Magic Mountain |
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Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located in Valencia, California north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971 as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company. In 1979, Six Flags purchased the park...
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| x Six Flags St. Louis |
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Six Flags St. Louis (formerly known as Six Flags Over Mid-America from 1971-1996), is an amusement park owned by Six Flags, Inc. It is located in Eureka, Missouri, USA (in what was Allenton). Opened in 1971 as the third theme park of the Six Flags...
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| x Six Flags Great America |
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This article is about the former Marriott's Great America in Illinois. For the one in California, see California's Great America.
Six Flags Great America is a Six Flags theme park in the Chicago metropolitan area, located in Gurnee, Illinois. It...
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| x La Ronde |
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La Ronde is an amusement park in Montreal, owned and operated by Six Flags, and is the largest in the province of Quebec and the second largest in Canada after Canada's Wonderland, with about 2.5 million guests in 2006. The park is under a...
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| x Six Flags Great Adventure |
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Six Flags Great Adventure is a theme park in Jackson Township, New Jersey, located 67 miles (108 km) from New York City, 60 miles (97 km) from Newark and 50 miles (80 km) from Philadelphia. It is located next to Six Flags Wild Safari animal park and...
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| x Six Flags Fiesta Texas |
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Six Flags Fiesta Texas is a seasonally operated theme park located on approximately 200 acres (0.81 km) of land near the northwest intersection of Loop 1604 and Interstate 10 in San Antonio, Texas. Six Flags Fiesta Texas is the major entertainment...
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| x Six Flags Over Texas |
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Six Flags Over Texas is a major amusement park located in Arlington, Texas (USA), east of Fort Worth and about 15 miles (24 km) west of Dallas. It is the oldest park of the Six Flags chain. The park opened on August 1, 1961 following just a year of...
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| x Six Flags Over Georgia |
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Six Flags Over Georgia is a 230-acre (0.93 km) theme park located west of Atlanta, in unincorporated Cobb County. Opened in 1967, it is the second park in the Six Flags chain, after the original opening in 1961 in Texas.
Six Flags Over Georgia and...
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| x Haunted Mansion |
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The Haunted Mansion is a complete dark ride attraction located at Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Park in Paris (as Phantom Manor). Each incarnation of the attraction features a ride-through tour...
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| x Walt Disney Imagineering |
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Walt Disney Imagineering (also known as WDI or simply Imagineering) is the design and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation and construction of Disney theme parks worldwide. Founded by Walt Disney in 1952 to...
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| x Space Mountain |
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Space Mountain is a steel roller coaster attraction in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. After the success of the Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain, the Imagineers made plans to build another on the United States West Coast. The ride...
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Space Mountain is a themed indoor roller coaster at the Magic Kingdom, opened on January 15, 1975. It is the original version of the iconic attraction that now graces all five Disneyland-style theme parks around the world. It is also currently the...
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Space Mountain at Tokyo Disneyland opened with the park on April 15, 1983. It was the first version of Space Mountain to open concurrently with the park. As with the other Space Mountains, this version is also highly popular with young adults and...
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| x Tokyo Disneyland |
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Tokyo Disneyland (東京ディズニーランド, Tōkyō Dizunīrando) is a 115 acre (465,000 m²) theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, near Tokyo. It was the first Disney park to be built outside of the United States and opened April 15...
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| x Invertigo |
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Invertigo is an inverted shuttle roller coaster at California's Great America, Santa Clara, California.
Invertigo is basically a Vekoma Boomerang inverted coaster where riders sit face-to-face.
The track is painted yellow, the supports royal blue....
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| x Vortex |
Vortex is a stand-up roller coaster at California's Great America. It is a slightly shorter version of the one at Carowinds. It was Bolliger & Mabillard's second coaster after Iron Wolf at Six Flags Great America and officially opened on March 9,...
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| x Invertigo |
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Invertigo is an inverted shuttle roller coaster at Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Invertigo was formerly known as FACE/OFF, themed to the Paramount Pictures film, but the name was changed upon the sale of Paramount Parks to Cedar Fair...
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| x Kings Island |
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Kings Island is a 364 acre theme park located in the city of Mason, in Warren County, Ohio. The park is located 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Cincinnati. The park owns close to 775 acres (314 ha), but only 364 acres (147 ha) are currently developed....
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| x Columbia Carousel |
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Carousel Columbia (also known as Columbia Carousel) is a pair of double-decked carousels at Six Flags Great America and at California's Great America (the parks were built by the Marriott hotel chain as sister properties but later sold to separate...
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| x Survivor: The Ride! |
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Survivor: The Ride! is an amusement ride in California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. This ride is based on the television series Survivor. The riders are separated into four tribes who do tribal chants and rituals to spray water on the...
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| x Whizzer |
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Whizzer is the name of two identical roller coasters built for the Marriott Corporation for each of their “Great America” parks at their debut in 1976. One was built in Gurnee, Illinois at Six Flags Great America and the other in Santa Clara,...
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| x Boomerang: Coast to Coaster |
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Boomerang Coast-To-Coaster is a steel roller coaster of shuttle design currently in use at four different Six Flags & PARC themeparks. The ride has one train with a capacity of twenty- eight, two across in each row. When the coaster starts, the...
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| x The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom |
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The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom A Six Flags Theme Park is an amusement and water park located in Queensbury, New York. It is advertised as being located in Lake George, New York. It is approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of Albany, and is...
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| x Zonga |
Zonga was a steel tracked looping roller coaster at Six Flags Marine World (now known as Six Flags Discovery Kingdom) from 2003 to 2005. It was designed by Anton Schwarzkopf. The coaster was previously at Six Flags Astroworld as "Texas Tornado", and...
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| x Six Flags Astroworld |
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AstroWorld was a seasonally operated theme park located on approximately 57 acres (230,000 m) of land (later expanded to over 75 acres) between Kirby Drive and Fannin Avenue, directly south of Loop 610 in Houston, Texas, USA. Opening on June 1, 1968...
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| x Flying Fish |
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The Flying Fish is a powered steel roller coaster located at Thorpe Park in Surrey. The ride was known as Space Station Zero when it was new in 1983 and was re-themed in 1990. It was removed in 2005 to make way for Stealth, a new roller coaster...
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