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Park News - (5/1/08) Six Flags over Georgia has reduced the cost of an adult ticket by $10, bringing it down to just $39.99 for the rest of the season. Oh… you will have to pay an extra $39.99 for every firearm and $19.99 for every blunt weapon you want to bring with you. (Okay, not really… that was a very tasteless joke on my part. I just couldn’t help myself. Bad Screamie!!) I do find it interesting that in other markets with Six Flags has been dropping the price of admission for adults, they’ve only applied it to pre-purchased tickets on the internet, while this is a general cut right at the main gate for everyone. Are they suggesting that their normal clientele doesn’t have internet access?
  (3/12/08) We’ve been informed that mandatory lockers have been installed at Goliath, Superman, Georgia Cyclone and Georgia Scorcher.
  (3/4/08) You can find some great pictures of Six Flags over Georgia taken over the weekend and posted to CoasterForce. Here you can see the nice new bright paint job Mindbender received as well as the large dirt field where Thomas Town will be going. Looks like they’ve gotten about as much work done on this one as Six Flags Magic Mountain has. As for yesterday’s reports about the return of the overly aggressive locker policy, it seems that all of the problems reported took place on Goliath and may have been the work of one employee in particular as additional reports claim that they had no problems anywhere else in the park.
  (3/3/08) Bad news from the opening weekend of Six Flags over Georgia it seems for anyone hoping that the Locker Nazis were gone for good when the park relaxed their new overly aggressive mandatory locker policy last fall. I’ve been told that they’ve come back in full force over the opening weekend and were apparently even worse than before.
  From the stories told people were being asked to rent lockers just for their sunglasses and one fellow with a crutch and a removable “air cast” was being told he had to rent a locker for his crutch and cast even though they pointed out that the crutch wouldn’t even fit into the small lockers.
  As for American Adventures, while nothing has been officially stated by Six Flags yet, my sources tell me that it’s been confirmed internally that the indoor kiddie attraction will not open for the 2008 season.
  (2/29/08) Six Flags over Georgia has announced that when they open the gates for the season tomorrow on March 1st they will be allowing kids in free with an advanced purchase of an adults ticket at the local Publix supermarkets.
  (2/25/08) Six Flags over Georgia will open their first Johnny Rockets restaurant in 2008.
  (2/22/08) Six Flags has made a new agreement with Cobb County over water usage this summer. In exchange for installing new low-flow toilets, urinals and faucets throughout the park they will be allowed to operate their water rides when the park opens for the season on March 1st. Six Flags estimates that previously over half of their water usage came from the restrooms and these measures would cut back usage by 18% for years to come. Closing the water rides would only have saved 13%.
  (1/25/08) Screamscape has heard another odd bit of Six Flags news for the Georgia area. Screamscape sources tell us that they believe there is a chance that Six Flags may opt to not open the American Adventures attraction next to the WhiteWater waterpark. A quick look at the park’s website will show you that unlke the rest of the Six Flags parks, American Adventures has not yet set their 2008 hours. There is a 2008 calendar up right now but every date is listed as TBD. A local source tell me that typically the attraction has opened in March, but right now not only are no hours listed but apparently they haven’t contacted any of their past employees about working in 2008 either.
  Trying to dig a little deeper, I called hunting for information about trying to book a birthday party event at the attraction and when I finally got a live person on the phone I was told that the operational calendar had not yet been announced so they couldn’t book anything. I asked if they typically were open for April birthdays and was told that, “Normally we would be opening in March but… ummm …**pause**… we just really don’t know what’s going on yet.” I’ve got to admit things don’t look good.

2008 - Thomas Town & Video Music Shows - (5/2/08) A countdown timer has been added to the official SFOG site confirming May 17th as the grand opening date for Thomas Town.
  (3/31/08) Johnny Upsidedown has posted new pictures taken at Six Flags over Georgia on Saturday at the Spring Fling enthusiast event. He’s got some great new shots showing off the current status of Thomas Town which they were told should open by May 17th. He won an exclusive tour which also provided the opportunity to take park photos from locations that are normally off-limits to guests, so take a look and enjoy! Meanwhile a Screamscape reader also sent in one of their own pictures of the Thomas Town construction.
  What I still find odd however is that the official website only mentions the Thomas the Tank Engine train ride as the only “ride” in the description of Thomas Town. Otherwise it only talks about characters meet ‘n greets, a gift shop and the construction page mentions a “Thomas Town playground”, but no mention of the two other Thomas themed rides that Six Flags New England and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom got last year: Bertie The Bus and Harold The Helicopter. Lets hope this is just a mistake and that details will be coming soon.
  (3/28/08) Thanks goes out to CoasterForce who sent us a shot showing off the state of Thomas Town taken two weekends ago. As you can see the old Déjà Vu location is being used, but they don’t appear to have made very much progress.
  (3/27/08) While I haven’t seen any new construction updates lately, I’ve heard that the plan is to open the new Thomas Town at Six Flags over Georgia by the first weekend in May. Anyone have any new construction pictures of the site? Things have got to start showing up soon if they’re going to make that date.
  (1/23/08) A new page on the Six Flags over Georgia website is giving off details about some new shows that will take advantage of all those music award shows Six Flags and Daniel Snider purchased along with the rest of Dick Clark Productions. On a page showing off 40 Fun Things for Kids! the list includes: #6 – “Crystal Pistol Music Hall: Enjoy the “Academy of Country Music Awards: Back Trax” at our historic music hall!”, #10 – “Drive-In Theatre: Enjoy the “American Music Awards: Rewind” and check out all the greats from years past!” along with the mention of #20, confirmation of a new Johnny Rockets location.
  (9/27/07) Six Flags over Georgia has confirmed that Thomas The Tank Engine will become part of a new Thomas Town play area that will replace the Déjà Vu coaster, and will offer a train ride on Thomas himself, with up to 30 guests riding in replicas of his two passenger coaches, Annie and Clarabelle.
  (9/25/07) The early rumor from Six Flags over Georgia is that the live performance shows at the Crystal Pistol and Drive-In venues are likely going to be replaced with video based shows. This comes as no surprise though as Six Flags mentioned this move was coming chain wide in their July conference call when they mentioned they were planning on replacing a show or two at each of the parks next year with more “video” style shows featuring “Best Of” content from the various music awards shows obtained from the Dick Clark purchase, which they feel will be cheaper to run than a traditional show but “just as entertaining.” As far as future entertainment at SFOG goes, we’ve heard that the only live action shows in 2008 may be the Six Flags Summertime Beach Blast show and the Looney Tunes show in Bugs Bunny World.