World’s First DC Super Friends Kids’ Area to Headline Major Park Renovation for 2016 Season
12 Rides and Attractions within Two New Themed Areas at Six Flags Over Georgia
AUSTELL, Ga. — September 3, 2015 — Thrilling family fun is in the works, as Six Flags Over Georgia today announced the all-new DC SUPER FRIENDS themed area and the all-new Bugs Bunny Boomtown for the 2016 season. The two new areas will feature 12 rides and attractions, in what will become the perfect family destination spot within the Thrill Capital of the South.
“These two new sections of the park will offer families hours and hours of fun with attractions mom, dad and the kids can experience together,” said Park President Dale Kaetzel. “This latest expansion continues our multi-year plan to provide thrills for guests of all ages and includes the addition of Hurricane Harbor in 2014, two new devious rides in Gotham City in 2015 and other additions planned for the future.”
The original Dolphin Show area, which has remained at the park since the 1990’s, will be transformed into the epicenter for the all-new DC Super Friends kids’ area and will feature 5 new attractions, including:
The park’s current children’s area, Bugs Bunny World, will be re-themed to Bugs Bunny Boomtown and feature seven attractions, including:
Bugs Bunny Boomtown is scheduled to open for the 2016 season in early spring and the DC Super Friends themed area is scheduled to open Memorial Day weekend.
For more information about upcoming 2016 Six Flags rides and attractions, including a video highlighting the new rides, visit www.sixflags.com/2016news.
Six Flags Over Georgia is also announcing the start of 2016 Season Pass sales with its special Flash Sale through Labor Day weekend featuring the best deal of the year – savings up to 65% off on 2016 Passes! September 3 through September 7, guests will receive a free upgrade to a Gold Season Pass with every Pass purchased. Gold Season Passes include admission to both Six Flags Over Georgia and Six Flags White Water, and any other Six Flags theme park, as well as free parking and special admission for friends. 2016 Season Passes provide unlimited visits to Fright Fest® and Holiday in the Park® at Six Flags Over Georgia in 2015 and all of 2016. Passholders may also purchase a Gold Season Dining Pass, which includes a lunch, dinner, and snack during every park visit, plus they will receive a 2016 All Season Sport Bottle for unlimited drink refills. Gold Season Dining Passes may be used at any Six Flags theme park. About Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional theme park company with $1.2 billion in revenue and 18 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada. For 54 years, Six Flags has entertained millions of families with world-class coasters, themed rides, thrilling water parks and unique attractions. For more information, visit www.sixflags.com. About Warner Bros. Consumer Products Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world. About DC Entertainment DC Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating its content across Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment and interactive games. Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is one of the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world. BATMAN and all related characters and elements © & ™ DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.. LOONEY TUNES and all related characters and elements © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Intense and Snake-Like Mega Water Slide Complex to Debut in 2016
Pits Six Riders Against Each Other and Stands Nearly 60-Feet Tall at Six Flags White Water
MARIETTA, Ga. — September 3, 2015 — Recently named one of the Top 10 Amusement and Water Parks in the country, Six Flags White Water is off to the races in 2016 with the addition of the all-new Wahoo Racer. The thrilling multi-lane water slide complex will be the largest in the world and add to the park’s impressive line-up of more than 50 slides and attractions at the South’s Most Thrilling Water Park.
“This new massive water slide complex will provide our guests the chance to challenge friends and family members for the ultimate crown of Wahoo Racer champion,” said Six Flags Atlanta Properties Park President Dale Kaetzel. “Our new slide complex continues our commitment of providing Six Flags White Water guests with the best water park in the Southeast.”
The two-tiered mat slider will send racers through an intense, snake-like stretch of multi-colored tubes and then into track-like style sprinting lanes and will feature:
· A tower standing nearly 60-feet and easily visible from Interstate 75 where the park is located; · Speeds of up to 40 feet per second; and · Six aero-dynamic designed water toboggans for the ultimate competing thrill. Six Flags White Water and Wahoo Racer will open for the 2016 season in mid-May. For more information about Wahoo Racer, the recently added 100-foot tall Dive Bomber and other exciting attractions at White Water, visitwww.sixflags.com/whitewater.
Six Flags White Water is also announcing the start of 2016 Season Pass sales with its special Flash Sale through Labor Day weekend featuring the best deal of the year – savings up to 65% off on 2016 Passes! September 3 through September 7, guests will receive a free upgrade to a Gold Season Pass with every Pass purchased. Gold Season Passes include admission to both Six Flags White Water and Six Flags Over Georgia, and any other Six Flags theme park, as well as free parking and special admission for friends. 2016 Season Passes provide unlimited visits to Fright Fest® and Holiday in the Park® at Six Flags Over Georgia in 2015 and all of 2016.
Passholders may also purchase a Gold Season Dining Pass, which includes a lunch, dinner, and snack during every park visit, plus they will receive a 2016 All Season Sport Bottle for unlimited drink refills. Gold Season Dining Passes may be used at any Six Flags theme park. About Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional theme park company with $1.2 billion in revenue and 18 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada. For 54 years, Six Flags has entertained millions of families with world-class coasters, themed rides, thrilling water parks and unique attractions. For more information, visit www.sixflags.com.
The day is finally here, this morning Six Flags announced all of their 2016 additions. We've got all the info for the parks below as well as links to full releases from the parks that sent us their info. We've been posting them all morning, hope you enjoy.
If you'd like to see the full corporate press release, click here.
The New Revolution, the beloved steel roller coaster that has thrilled over 45 million guests in its 40-year reign at the park, will be repainted a brilliant white and blue color, while newly designed trains will be fitted with lap and calf bars, and feature Americana red, white and blue colors with a silver eagle hood adornment. For coaster fans, the elimination of shoulder harnesses will provide a smoother, sleeker ride experience with more airtime.
The Joker ride is the second DC Comics-themed attraction at the park after SUPERMAN™ Ultimate Flight opened in 2012 and the villainous character’s personality is evident in the coaster’s chaotic twists and turns including a first ever “step-up-under-flip inverted roll” that takes riders horizontal. The Joker ride also features the ultimate “fake-out” with a unique breaking wave turn, the only one of its kind on the West Coast.
Six Flags Over Texas - Three new Flat Rides
We are expanding our GOTHAM CITY section of the park with attractions themed after popular DC Universe Super-Villains. THE RIDDLER Revenge will send you on a swinging adventure atop a giant swaying pendulum. The round disk will swing back and forth up to 147 feet in the air while rotating counterclockwise. You'll rise up higher and higher on each swing with an unbelievable feeling of weightlessness at the highest point.
Six Flags Fiesta Texas
Fireball will feature an astonishing 72-foot loop and deliver unanticipated weightlessness. On this new adventure, you'll sit face-to-face with other riders and rocket back and forth up each side of the loop, then flip completely upside down during a series of 360-degree inversions. At any surprising moment, your train will suddenly change directions and send you back around full-speed in reverse.
We'll also introduce Hurricane Force 5, an innovative spinning attraction that's the first-of-its-kind in the state. With unique outward-facing seats, this giant hurricane-shaped disc will rotate around while moving side to side along a five-story half-pipe track. Additionally, Spinsanity will whirl and twirl you around all the other spinning riders.
Six Flags St Louis - Fireball
In 2016, Six Flags St. Louis will debut a brand new looping thrill ride, Fireball. The ride will feature an astonishing seven-story loop and deliver incredible weightlessness like you've never experienced before. On this new adventure, you'll swing back and forth pendulum style up each side of the loop, and then flip completely upside down during a series of stomach-tightening 360-degree looping revolutions.
Six Flags Great America - Justice League: Battle For Metropolis
Click here for the full press release
Slated to open at Six Flags Great America in 2016, guests will become members of theJUSTICE LEAGUE Reserve Team, and engage in a full-sensory journey as they battlealongside BATMAN™, SUPERMAN™, WONDER WOMAN and GREEN LANTERN against LexLuthor, The Joker and his henchmen. Traveling in six-passenger vehicles, riders must outsmart Lex Luthor and The Joker and save the city of Metropolis.
After being lifted straight up a 12-story, 90-degree hill, this 4-D, free-fly coaster will wreak havoc as riders flip head-over-heels at least six times along the weightless journey. Thrill seekers will experience exhilarating leaps and dives along a horizontal plane, along with unexpected drops as they tumble from one level to the next. The wing seats amp up the pandemonium since riders will experience all of this chaos with no track above or below – just the sky, ground and adjacent Great Lake churning around them.
Six Flags New England - Fireball and Return of Superman: The Ride
The Coaster Capital of New England is proud to add a giant looping roller coaster to its already impressive lineup of thrills. The Fireball will offer the ultimate in adrenaline and thrills as the theme park continues to introduce the latest in ride technology for its guests in New England.
Thrilling family fun is in the works, as Six Flags Over Georgia today announced the all-new DC SUPER FRIENDS themed area and the all-new Bugs Bunny Boomtown for the 2016 season. The two new areas will feature 12 rides and attractions, in what will become the perfect family destination spot within the Thrill Capital of the South.
Recently named one of the Top 10 Amusement and Water Parks in the country, Six Flags White Water is off to the races in 2016 with the addition of the all-new Wahoo Racer. The thrilling multi-lane water slide complex will be the largest in the world and add to the park’s impressive line-up of more than 50 slides and attractions at the South’s Most Thrilling Water Park.
Six Flags America - Splashwater Falls
In 2016, Six Flags America will debut a brand new interactive play area at our free water park, Hurricane Harbor. Splashwater Falls will be a multi-level play structure with more than one hundred features to keep families entertained all summer long. Kids will climb up ladders, swish down open and enclosed slides, and navigate varying platforms and net structures.
The Great Escape - Greezed Lightnin'
The ride will feature an astonishing seven-story loop and deliver incredible weightless hang time you've never experienced before. On this new adventure, you'll swing back and forth pendulum style up each side of the loop, and then flip completely upside down during a series of stomach-tightening 360-degree looping revolutions
La Ronde - New Flat Rides and Vampire Backwards
Visitors to La Ronde can experience three new rides in 2016. First, the Vampire rollercoaster ride and emblematic of our fleet will be more intense than ever because the seats will be facing backwards, ensuring that the ride will be in the opposite direction. In your seat suspended from the rail, you will climb and backwards at a height of 32 meters and then you will be propelled into five inversions, without having any idea of what awaits you after. We also added a new area called Adventure Avenue where you will find two new Really amazing rides. The first of these rides is Phoenix, a flying scooter that passengers must take orders while the machine is elevated in the air. The second is Gravitor, a suspended platform which rotations 360 degrees.
Six Flags Mexico - Justice League Battle for Metropolis
In 2016 Six Flags Mexico present a new interactive 4D attraction: JUSTICE LEAGUE: BATTLE FOR METROPOLIS. This new adventure will feature the most advanced, high-resolution video graphic technology and a whole sensory experience that will put you in the middle of the action. After strolling through the Hall of Justice, you will board an armored vehicle with a laser gun, you will travel through incredible scenes around the entire city of Metropolis, interacting with animatronics and 3D animations to save your favorite superhero fearsome villains . Expect it this 2016!
Be sure to check back early Thursday morning as we'll be updating this article with all of the 2016 announcements and be sure to join us Thursday night for our live chat.
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