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Park News - (7/9/10) Crazy news from Six Flags America this past week as park officials are looking for anyone who may have come into contact with a rabid fox that bit a guest the last week of June. It was caught shortly afterward and tested positive for rabies. “Any person or animal who may have come in contact with the fox should call the county's health department at 301-583-3750.”
    (6/28/10) Local sources tell us that the various pieces of the old UltraTwister coaster (Six Flags Astroworld) which have been sitting unused at Six Flags America for years now are slowly being loaded up onto flatbed trucks and hauled off. We’ve heard that global price of steel has risen dramatically (up to a third) since late spring, so it’s very likely the park has sold the pieces to be scrapped as there really has been no intention of reinstalling the ride for some time now.
    (5/7/10) Six Flags America will open Hurricane Harbor on May 22nd this season, a weekend early for a little extra splashing fun.  I’ve been told that there will be a few new surprises this year with a new look at the wave pool and a new daily show.
    (4/23/10) Six Flags America has indicated on their Flash Pass page that they will be upgrading their park to use the Lo-Q system that has been so successful at most of the other Six Flags parks. In other crazy news… some job applicants to the park are complaining to the media, yet again, that they are being disqualified for employment because they choose to have dreadlocks.
    As I recall, this story pops up every other year at the news outlets around Six Flags America who put their own bias spin on it every time that it’s discriminatory and possibly racist… but when you come down to it, Six Flags and any other theme park has the right to set certain grooming standards for their staff who represent them to the public.
    They also seem to forget that until just a couple of years ago, Disney’s theme parks didn’t even allow their cast members to have any kind of facial hair at all. Sure, it was a funny practice when your founder was known for having a classic mustache for most of his adult life, but that was the rule if you wanted a job. The same thing applies to people who are seeking jobs at Six Flags or any other theme park chain… if your unwilling to fit into the grooming guidelines… no job for you. I don’t care how “schweet” you think you Mullet may be… if you can’t handle any given companies dress or grooming standards, then your not that serious about having a job in the first place.
    (3/29/10) A trip report from the season opening of Six Flags America can be found over at SFA Fans.
    (3/6/10) Six Flags America will open for the season on March 27th, kicking things off with 10 back to back days of Spring Break fun. The press release also mentions a few other new features coming to the park like a new Rock Wall, Quarterback Challenge, the return of the High Striker, a Bone’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant and a new Treasure of Pirate Cove stunt show. The new Thomas Town however wont be ready until Summer 2010.

2010 - Thomas Town - Confirmed - (6/8/10) The new Thomas Town at Six Flags America has opened. You can see pictures and a report about the new land posted to SFA Fans here and here. I’ve got to say that it finally looks like Six Flags got the Thomas Town concept RIGHT for once and built something the right size with a good number of attractions for once.
    (3/22/10) We’ve heard that Six Flags America may be shooting to open their new Thomas Town on June 5th, just in time for Thomas’ 65th birthday celebration. This date has also been confirmed on the official Thomas and Friends website which adds that other birthday party celebrations will be held at all the other Six Flags Thomas Towns.
    (2/11/10) Six Flags America has confirmed their plans for Thomas Town to open this summer. The largest Thomas Town in all of North America, it will feature 8 rides and attractions including a ride on Thomas The Tank Engine around the Island of Sodor. Other rides include: Harold the Helicopter, Cranky the Crane Tower Ride (30 ft kiddie drop tower), Bertie the Bus, Diesel Derby, Sodor Carnival Ferris Wheel, Thomas Town Play Structure (aka: playground) and the Thomas Town Pop Jet Fountain.
    (1/31/10) Six Flags America will hold the press conference to announce all the details of their new Thomas Town land on Wednesday, February 10th at 11am. They say that this will be SFA’s largest expansion in the past decade and will feature the largest Thomas Town in North America.
    (1/8/10) Six Flags America has posted a small contest on their Facebook page about how you can enter your child to help with the ground breaking ceremony for Thomas Town. They say that the details will follow on Monday… which means that the official press release and all the details can’t be too far behind.
    (12/18/09) A photo posted over at SFAFans.com shows the park’s balloon themed Ferris wheel cars being shipped off from the park to somewhere off-site for a ‘rehab’.  Of course we’ve already seen the artwork put on display by the park that clearly showed the ride was to be rethemed as part of Thomas Town, also posted to SFAFans.com.
    (10/9/09) Artwork for the Thomas Town expansion can be found over at SFAFans.com.
    (10/7/09) We’ve got details on the new Thomas Town coming to Six Flags America next spring. A display now set up at the Looney Tunes Emporium shows off five official elements so far: the Thomas train ride, Harold The Helicopter (Zamperla Mini-Jet), a Pop-Jet Fountain w/ Thomas Town water tower, the Sodor Carnival Ferris Wheel and a Diesel themed Zamperla Convoy ride, where the big rigs are themed instead to look like Diesel Train Engines. There were also pictures showing off playground structure from one of the other Thomas Towns as well as a Zamperla Jump 16 kiddie tower ride.
    While the exact location of the new Thomas Town hasn’t been announced, a reader did tell us that they noticed that the area behind the Joker’s Jinx looked to have been cleared out and had what looked to be survey markings on the ground.
    (7/22/09) Screamscape sources have confirmed to us that Thomas Town will indeed feature 10 rides in this super-sized attempt at building a proper Thomas Town.
    (6/19/09) In a talk with Mark Shapiro, the About Theme Parks site tells us that he confirmed that the plans for Thomas Town were not only still on for 2010, but that the land would feature 10 new rides. This is a far cry above all the other Thomas Towns we’ve seen them put in so far with only 1 or 2 rides total.
    (4/7/09) According to one of our readers, the plan right now is to place the new Thomas Town somewhere back near the Superman: Ride of Steel station. Not only could this back end of the park use a more kid friendly attraction area, it’s also close enough to the park’s train tracks to allow for them to be transformed into a Thomas themed train ride. From what we’ve heard, this could become the biggest Thomas Town in the entire chain when it opens in 2010, but that’s not saying much since the rest of the them are all fairly small projects.
    (4/6/09) According to this picture taken by SFA Fans, the park posted a large posted confirming that Thomas Town was coming in 2010.

2011 - New Coaster - Rumor - (5/12/10) I’ve been told that Six Flags America has high hopes for 2011. If the park performs well for the 2010 season, it seems that there is a plan in place to possibly add a Tony Hawk Big Spin coaster to the park next summer. Two locations are said to be under consideration… either in the former Two-Face location or somewhere over near Roar.
    (10/07/09) During an ACE event at the park last weekend the park President mentioned that if all goes well with the bankruptcy, the park hoped to add a new attraction that would make ACE members happy in 2011.