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American Eagle is a wooden racing roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois. It was the first wooden roller coaster designed by Intamin of Switzerland and was built in 1981 by the contracting firm Figley-Wright at a cost of $10 million. While most of the records have since been broken, American Eagle had ...
Six Flags Great America is a 304-acre (123 ha) [note 1] themed amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois, within the northern Chicago metropolitan area.The amusement park originally opened as Marriott's Great America on May 29, 1976, as one of two theme parks built by the Marriott Corporation.
Whizzer, originally named Willard's Whizzer, is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, United States.Designed by Werner Stengel and built by Anton Schwarzkopf, the Speedracer model was one of two identical roller coasters built for the Marriott Corporation in time for the debut of their Great America parks in 1976.
Originally located at Six Flags Great Adventure as Sarajevo Bobsleds. It was removed from Great America to make room for Southwest Territory. Was relocated to Six Flags Great Escape in 1997 and reopened the following year as Alpine Bobsled. It operated at Great Escape until it was removed in 2023 to make way for The Bobcat. [3] Shockwave: 1988 2002
In early August 2013, Six Flags Great America released a teaser campaign entitled "Follow the Journey". [6] [7] Later that month, it was revealed Six Flags Great America would be building a 165-foot-tall roller coaster (50 m), with plans to lobby the local zoning committee to exceed the 125-foot (38 m) height limit imposed on the park.
Viper is a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, which opened in 1995. Viper is a mirrored replica of the Coney Island Cyclone and is the only roller coaster ever to be built directly by Six Flags. [1] It was built by Rygiel Construction.
The carousel is known as Carousel Columbia at California's Great America and Columbia Carousel at Six Flags Great America. [4] [5] In 1994, Santa Clara's Columbia received some minor renovations for its appearance in the movie Beverly Hills Cop III, filmed at the theme park. [6]
Demon is a multi-looping roller coaster at both Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois and California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. [1] [2] Both coasters opened in 1976 as Turn of the Century, when both Great America parks were owned by Marriott Corporation. [3]