History
Name That Year
Flat Rides
Fright Fest
Roller Coasters
100
This was the first company to own Great America.
What is Marriott?
100
Hurricane Harbor opens; Hurricane Katrina shuts down Six Flags New Orleans.
What is 2005?
100
This ride turns you head-over-heels in the Mardi Gras section of the park.
What is King Chaos?
100
The Carousel pool is turned this color during Fright Fest.
What is red?
100
This is the tallest roller coaster at Great America, built in 1999 by B&M.
What is Raging Bull?
200
This American bicentennial was also the opening year of Great America.
What is 1976?
200
B&M builds its first coaster at SFGAm; Delta Flyer a.k.a. Yukon Yahoo closes to make way for Condor.
What is 1990?
200
This iconic structure with two floors stands near the entrance to the park.
What is Columbia Carousel?
200
This creature stands on top of Sky Trek Tower with silhouettes of people in the car below him.
What is a gorilla?
200
This roller coaster has a unique spiral lift system and can be found near the Orbit.
What is the Whizzer?
300
This man is the current CEO of Six Flags (as of 2013)
Who is Jim Reid-Anderson
300
Six Flags buys Great America, two days later an accident on the Edge occurs.
What is 1984?
300
this 1976 original in Hometown Square was originally located in Orleans Place where Roarin' Rapids is today.
What is the Orbit?
300
This is the oldest haunted house in Fright Fest, located in Necropolis.
What is the Mausoleum of Terror?
300
this ride by Arrow Dynamics originally opened as the turn of the Century in 1976.
What is the Demon?
400
Great America had a sister park built in this "Golden State".
What is California?
400
Hometown park closes; a roller coaster opens on the site of a lighthouse and Whirligig (which is moved).
What is 2001?
400
This ride originally opened as the lobster but was re-themed and renamed when Batman: the Ride opened nearby.
What is the East River Crawler?
400
This is the name of Revolution at Fright Fest.
What is the Pit and the Pendulum?
400
This Arrow looper opened as the tallest looping coaster in the world in 1988.
What is Shockwave?
500
Six Flags Great America's newest coaster, Goliath, was built by this coaster who built its first coaster, Outlaw Run, in 2013.
What is RMC/ Rocky Mountain Construction?
500
Looney Tunes National Park and Camp Cartoon open; a car on the Demon gets stuck upside down.
What is 1998?
500
This ride whose spot is now taken by an overflow queue line for Buccaneer Battle opened in 1977 next to Sky Whirl.
What is the Hay Baler?
500
This is the name of the "graveyard" for all of the rides gone from Six Flags Great America.
What is the Six Saints' Cemetery?
500
This kiddie coaster only operated for one year before being replaced by the Southern Cross sky ride.
What is the Gulf Coaster?