Great America announces new name, Huss ride, wood coaster for 2009

^Existing at a park on the other side of the country. Like any of the GP in CA are going to notice.

I'm jealous of all the CGII goodness other CF parks are getting. I hope to someday see one at CP...maybe in place of the aquatic stadium.

Having never been to any of the CA parks, is the "newly named Great America Theatre" a different venue than the IMAX? Just curious as Cedar Point's IMAX became the venue for their ice show.

Does another Huss giant top spin exist somewhere? I thought KI's was the only one.

I'm not optimistic that there will ever be another Giant Top Spin.

I *thought* there was a park in Asia that had one or two of the Huss Giants, including a Top Spin...

Maybe that was one of those times where we saw a bunch of "drawing board ideas", but that it didn't come to fruition? Thinking it was back 2-3 years ago....hmmmm.

I'm glad I didn't announce the new "Firefall" ride on a day that, well, a good portion of California was actually on fire.

But, yeah for a new woodie.

IntaminHater, the fires will have almost ZERO effect on Six Flags Magic Mountain. The fires are one week out of the entire year and actually only a VERY SMALL portion of California is on fire. I live here. On topic, the announcement of the roller coaster is clearly out of character, but in response to the stadium plans. Cedar Fair is showing how committed they are to this property for the long run and that will hopefully persuade some that the stadium should be built elsewhere.

When was the last time they had a wild fire in Santa Clara County?

The Paramount theater will become the Great America theater.

I see several reasons for the 2009 anouncement:

1) The uncertainty with the 49'ers Staduim issue.
2) The dropping stock price.
3) To build excitement for the ride during the construction ( if it is going wherer the whizzer and Imax building were, that is at the entrance of the park, it abit noticable)

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I'm not optimistic that there will ever be another Giant Top Spin.

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I second that. There are some design flaws inherent to the Giant Top Spin rides. Unless they're completely re-engineered from the ground up, I don't see them keeping it in their product line. Seeing the small demand for them in the first place, they'd be better off working on something else.

After all the possible sale rumors I'm glad Great America name will ring stongly for years to come. While my home park is Six Flags Great America I have visited the Calfornia Park and at the time was very charmed by it. The last few years have been a mess but never would i want to be home to the only Great America. Besideds in Illinois 50% of the guests call the park Six Flags. The other older guests have never let go of Great America. We are lucky to still have Whizzer and a functioning I-Max Venue. Cedar Fair is very aware that Great America Gurnee was and can again be a force compete against. Owning Santa Clara only paves the way for Gurnee's possible future, under Cedar Fair Ownership. Until that day comes may California's Great America and Six Flags Great America keeps the greatness of Marriott's 1976 Naming.

The way Six Flags Great America usually is run, you would think it was already a Cedar Fair park. Maybe not quite Cedar Point caliber but definitely in the upper echelon.

Here is to hopig that the new rides going to California's Great America will be only the tip of the iceberg. The announcement I think was more or less a statement to those that want to see the stadium built there. As the sister park to my home park, I want to see CGA succeed. And I think Cedar Fair is actually playing ball the right way with this park. If I must say that I think the wooden coaster from GCII is quite a good replacement for the long since gone Whizzer. I still cant see the stadium being a good thing for Cedar Fair unless the stadium builders also build a parking garage and IMO it would have to be built before the stadium construction starts just to ease on the parking woes that would be incurred from the construction. I am sure the construction would problem eat up more parking spaces than the actual building will once completed. I could see the park and stadium co-existing if the parking issues were somehow mitigated.

Does anyone really think that the 49ers are going to change their minds about building their stadium in Santa Clara because Cedar Fair is planning to put a coaster in the park in 2009? It's possible the "statement" CF is making is "If you want to buy this place, the price just went up."

^My thoughts exactly...almost surprised they didn't "announce" right up through the 2012 season.... ;)

Yeah, it is a little strange that the 2008 and 2009 additions were advertised. But I won't go any further since I don't want to spread any conspiracy theories ;)