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- Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:10 pm
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Sky Whirl downside
- Replies: 29
- Views: 46676
When I worked at the park we had a couple names for Sky Whirl. One Was ---- buckets. I left the first word out for obvious reasons, but I hear that vomit was not the only thing that was occasionally cleaned out of the buckets. I had mentioned that as well in a different Sky Whirl topic. It's scarey...
All I can tell you is that isn't what my supervisor told us had happened. She said that the brakes at the top of the lift side of thetower failed, and the car fell back down the lift tower. Of course, this was in '96 and I don't know if she had the details all correct, but she was just telling us th...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:17 am
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Sky Trek Tower Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 26106
I can tell you exactly what that door is at the base of the tower. It goes into the tower...there is a spiral staircase in the tower for maintanance to get access to parts inside. I didn't work Tower when I was there, but I worked on the North side of the park, and I often worked at Space Shuttle Am...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:09 am
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Sky Whirl questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17419
I think that the grass in the middle may have been removed just because it was just easier.....maintenance didn't have to drag a lawn mower there for just that small patch. But don't quote me. The wooded arch in that last picture looks like the entryway into Southwest Territory. The words Southwest ...
- Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:05 am
- Forum: Remembering Marriott's GREAT AMERICA
- Topic: Question for the Gurnee folks
- Replies: 15
- Views: 27940
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:06 am
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Sky Whirl questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17419
- Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:42 pm
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: A Techie from the "good old days"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19383
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:06 am
- Forum: Gurnee
- Topic: A Techie from the "good old days"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19383
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:24 pm
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: santa clara whizzer
- Replies: 27
- Views: 40698
Six Flags won't get rid of Whizzer until it is dead. Too much of an uproar over the possiblity of losing it for S:UF, sadly, the public was less worried about SW eventual demise than that of Whizzer. I am sure it will be around for many years to come. Although S:UF would've been cool over the pond, ...
- Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:19 pm
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Triple Play in Santa Clara lot
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27285
- Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:46 pm
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Triple Play in Santa Clara lot
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27285
- Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:40 pm
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: Rides No Longer in Gurnee
- Replies: 42
- Views: 64071
The heart condition was officially announced, but it wasn't as big a news story anymore. But the family never intended on sueing the park either, yes it was tragic, yes it was an accident, but in no way was Six Flags responsible for the accident. If she was chewing gum, she was violating a rule that...
- Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:57 pm
- Forum: Rides
- Topic: The Fate of the Gulf Coaster (Gurnee)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14443
Yeah, well fires don't generally close a ride down for good. Do you know how many fires they get on the cars on Raceway a year? My friend's Christy and Brad worked on those rides the year we worked there, and at least every other day they told me about how one of the cars caught on fire, or jumped t...
- Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:09 pm
- Forum: Remembering Marriott's GREAT AMERICA
- Topic: First Visit Date and Memories
- Replies: 29
- Views: 45241
Park: MGA Gurnee/may even have been around the time Six Flags bought it, but the Marriotts logos were still there Year: 1984 I was only 4 so I have forgotten most of it....tell you the truth, I think it's amazing I remember at all. But I remember that was the year that White Water Rampage opened, an...
- Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:56 pm
- Forum: Santa Clara
- Topic: Trivia Game
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17429