Six Flags Great America to build 13 acre waterpark

The lazy river looks long...that's hella cool ;)

I garantee you that it won't be that lush.

Next year.

Compare some Opening Day pictures of SFGAm with pictures of today... Unless my home park has totally lost its touch, it'll fill out nicely in a few years.

This really is amazing! If it's as big and high-quality as it looks, the whole Chicagoland area might have to reconsider the "Every family goes once a year" thing I'm always prattling on about. It sure looks like A., you'd need more than one day to do this and the park, and B. this thing is good enough that you'd want to spend the better part of another day there.

So if this in being built in the bus parking lot, where will the buses park?

They are re-configuring the rest of the lot and the backlot to accomodate 500 more vehicles then it originally could hold so putting the busses somewhere else won't be a problem.

2 million gallons of water?

There dries up Lake Michigan. :) (making the joke because the water level of Lake Michigan is low).

A model display of the project will be on display this weekend between the grand music hall and the fastlane window.

really...thanks for the newsflash...there must be an echo in here Coasterman...

because Mach5 said the same exact thing in a post at 3:40 yesterday in this news item...

Ease up on the coffee Georgie boy. :)

A simple "that was already posted above, maybe you missed it" would have sufficed redman - obviously he just missed it, or maybe it's because the article that he linked to did not specifically mention a "model display" of the new waterpark? I just don't get the need to make a sniping post at someone because their post may be "echoing" someone else's.....

Anyways, back to the news topic, I keep on wondering exactly what it was that finally got Six Flags to decide to do the water park? Obviously it's been talked about for years - but now they're actually going to do it. Could it be the new GM making an impact THAT quickly? Or was this actually in the planning stages before he came aboard? Not that anyone will really know, I just wonder.

This is a really exciting development - it's neat to hear how truly excited everyone at the park is as well about it. Very cool.

..guess it would be ok for people to wander around aimlessly looking for the "media preview center" since it was so clearly identified in the linked article. geez

The post that kyster made about the biggest park expansion since 1977, wasn't that the year that Six Flags purchased the park? Maybe he said 77 instead of 76 because that was when it was owned by Marriott?

Great America was purchased by Six Flags in 1984.