June 12, 2006

Six Flags Great America


Welcome to Six Flags Great America.

First coaster of the day is Superman: Ultimate Flight.

B&M flying coasters are always fun.

Next door is The Dark Knight Coaster.

It's basically a "mouse in a box"

Spacely Sprocket's Rocket.

It's the typical Vekoma Rollerskate layout.

Iron Wolf is the park's B&M Standup.

Raging Bull is the park's hypercoaster built by B&M.





The park has a great Schwarzkopf coaster called Whizzer.


American Eagles is the park's large racing wooden coaster.

V2

Viper

Demon

The final ride of the day would be Batman.
I love this park.

June 11, 2006

Hurricane Harbor Chicago

Welcome to Hurricane Harbor Chicago.

Skull Island is the huge waterfortress at the park.




Wahoo Racers is an 8-lane mat Octoracer.


This complex is called Hurricane Mountain

The different slides are called Agnes, Lola, Bertha and Marge.

These two speed slides are called Riptide and Paradise Plunge.

The two slides on the left are Barracuda and Hammerhead.
The two bowl slides are Typhoon and Vortex.

This tower features two family raft slides.

Bahama Mama and Bubba Tubba.


Bubba Tubba. 

Bahama Mama.

Castaway Creek circles most of the park.






The final attraction is Hurricane Bay wave pool.

June 10, 2006

Valleyfair

Welcome to Valleyfair!

This is the front gate area for the park.

The park's classic Carousel.

Scrambler.

Enterprise.

Chaos

The Wave.

Skyscraper is an upcharge attraction at the park.

There are two seats on each end of the boom.  Once loaded, the ride windmills the seats around at high velocities and the seats have the ability to flip while going around.

Lady Luck.

Looping Starship.

Raging Rapids is the park's rapids style ride.

Flying Trapeze

Balloon Chase.

Foam Ball Factory.

Rockin' Tug.

RipTide is a Huss Top Spin.

For added thrills, they have incorporated water elements.

The park has a collection of 3 S&S tower rides called Power Tower.

The 2 red towers are turbo drops and the 1 blue tower is a space shot.


I find the turbo drops to be more fun on this tower as I think the space shot side is too tall to really provide any "pops" of intense airtime at the top.

Hydroblaster.

Ferris Wheel.

Monster.

Steel Venom an Intamin Impulse Coaster.




The kiddie coaster at the park is called Mild Thing.



Mad Mouse is an Arrow built mouse coaster.




High Roller - the park's classic out and back wooden coaster.





Excalibur - a strange Arrow built coaster.




Corkscrew -  built by Arrow.




Wild Thing is the park's Morgan built hypercoaster.





I had a great day at the park.