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Gurnee park to get new highway sign Daily Herald: http://www.dailyherald.com/news/lakestory.asp?id=227306&cc=l&tc=&t= The print edition had a rendering of what the new sign will look like. The white base will be the same, just the top will be different. It will be squared on the bottom and curved o...

That's a Monday. They'll probably wait until June 14 or 21 for Coasters After Dark.

Wisconsin Dells. Right here.

They have been scrapped. http://gallery.weezil.com/index.php?gal ... C_1772.jpg

I like how it resembles the original Marriott's star logo.

Milwaukee isn't too far from Mt. Olympus, about 2 hours. Great America is probably just as close, though.

I don't know. I thought maybe they could melt them down with Shockwave, but the only metal parts would be the chain, floor, and maybe ceiling. The rest was fiberglass, I think. Assuming they had to pay a company to haul them away, it would seem logical to let guests take them away. Jon, you got a pi...

That's too bad. I'm really suprised, actually. I wonder what the park ended up doing with them.

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segerken wrote:"I Survived the Title Wave"

You mean tidal.

Usually anything in the boneyard is up for grabs. (But make sure you get permission from the park first!) The park is willing to give it away because otherwise they'd have to pay a company to haul it away, if guests do it for them, they don't have to pay anything.

It was a return envelope for a season pass offer. Someone probably kept it but never used it, and since there is no use for it today, just threw it out.

Does anyone know what the parks did back in the Marriott era or do nowadays with the leftover prizes. Hopefully, they're donated to organizations like Toys for Tots that could use stuffed animals and not just thrown away instead.

Vekoma is out there periodically during the entire summer. My guess is Six Flags threatened to no longer do business with them if they didn't fix it.

I'm not sure when, but sometime since the ride opened, everything was switched from semi-automatic to fully-automatic. Ride operators can no longer set and release brakes manually without shutting everything down.