SIX FLAGS OVER GEORGIA
& WhiteWater Atlanta
Six Flags Theme Parks
Atlanta, Georgia
 Park News - (10/13/2026) A quick update on the Goliath incident at Six Flags over Georgia. Witness reports and interviews are now hitting various news agencies from those who claim to have been on the coaster during the time of the incident who say that “a man slips out of his seat, and turns sideways, and he’s flipping in the air. He comes down, he slams down onto our cart.” “People reached out trying to grab him, but we couldn’t.” Other witnesses confirm that his body struck several other riders during the process, causing injuries.
In the station, before dispatch one witness described hearing that the man’s seat “kept clicking” and “it kept’s clicking like it was unlocking and relocking” and that the ride-ops “checked it multiple times which is really unusual.” Unfortunately, this matches up with an unverified report that the restraint may have been in the UP position when the train returned to the station. There is also an unverified picture going around that appears to be a screen shot from the on-ride photo display showing the rider out of his seat, striking the people in the row behind him, and if you look at the empty seat, the restraint clearly clearly appears to be in the upright / unlocked position. Out of respect, I’m not going to link to it, but I did have it scanned for AI generation or tampering, and so far it has passed my light scans as being a legit photo.
A possible restraint failure may be the early theory from Six Flags as well. While they have not stated anything to say that, a news update did confirm that the company has “temporarily closed similar rides at all of its parks out of an abundance of caution.” Social media reports on the net have been confirming that not only has Six Flags closed all of their B&M Hyper & Giga coasters that feature B&M’s clamshell style lap-bar restraint, but that many other parks across the globe may have also opted to close their own as well, or it is possible that B&M may have sent out a safety notice to all of their customers to close them until they have a chance to properly investigate what took place at Six Flags over Georgia.
To my knowledge, this may be the first recorded death of a rider on a B&M roller coaster where a potential restraint failure may have resulted in the ejection of a rider. The incident appears to have taken place at the very end of the ride, somewhere between the final bunny hops and that final left turn into the brakes. News chopper footage from yesterday did show several people on the rooftop of a small building located at the back of the Crystal Pistol music hall, standing around an object covered in a black tarp on the roof, which was likely where the man’s body landed as the train turned sharply to the left into the brakes.
This is truly a horrible situation and our thoughts go out to everyone involved from the family, to the guests that witnessed this and to all the staff at Six Flags and the Goliath team. Please seek out help and someone to talk to if you are struggling to process what has taken place.
(10/12/2026) Horrible news has been confirmed by Six Flags over Georgia today as it has been confirmed that a male rider on Goliath (a B&M Hypercoaster) somehow fell out of his seat on the ride and has died. A witness on a newscast who claimed to have been on the coaster at the time reports that he fell out and struck other riders and the train about 3 times along the way, said to have happened right in front of the on-ride cameras. There are pictures out there claiming to be from these cameras, but as we are unable to verify the legitimacy of these images, I won’t provide a link to them at this time.
Local media reports however do confirm the death of the man and possible injured to up to 4 other riders from the incident, though most of the media footage from the chopper cameras over the park remained focused on staff who who were busy evacuating the riders from the second train that was stopped on the lift hill.
(10/8/2026) Six Flags over Georgia has added a special pink boat to the park’s Monster Mansion attraction to honor park team members and their loved ones who have been impacted by Breast Cancer.
(8/24/2026) Six Flags over Georgia has revealed their Fright Fest line-up for 2026. It will feature five haunted mazes (Finklestein’s House of Fun, Infestation, Camp Slasher, Saw Legacy of Terror and The Conjuring Universe) along with five scare zones (Disciples of the Beast, Dreadwell Brothers Carnival of Curiosities, Nevermore, Rockville Festival of Fright, The Rotted Ones). Look for it to take place on select nights from Sept. 12 through to Nov. 1st, 2026.
(6/30/2026) Six Flags over Georgia surprised everyone with an announcement earlier today. This is a bit of good news / bad news… as the park confirms that the Georgia Gold Rusher ride that just opened in 2025 will now be closed for the remainder of the 2026 season.
“To improve the ride’s performance, availability and reliability, the manufacturer will be making enhancements to the ride’s vehicle. Unfortunately, these enhancements will not be complete until the 2027 season.”
So the good news is obviously, we should be able to expect and better and more reliable ride experience going forward, once Georgia Gold Rusher reopens. Let’s just hope that it will be ready in early 2027 instead of by the end of next year.
(6/28/2026) This has been a long time coming, but at long last it is being reported that the pieces of the closed Kid Flash coaster are now being taken down at Six Flags over Georgia.
(6/20/2026) According to some posts on social media several of the B&M Stand-Up train cars used previously on Green Lantern at Six Flags Great Adventure have been spotted in a staging lot at Six Flags over Georgia. We can only assume they’ll be either repurposed for use on Georgia Scorcher, or stripped down for parts to maintain the existing trains on the Scorcher.
(6/3/2026) The new Park President of Six Flags over Georgia, Richard Pretlow II, says that he wants the park to be the best it can be, and that includes making it safer than it ever has been. “We're not blind or oblivious to the things going on in the world. We know about the takeovers and all those things. Having the relationships with the local authorities is critically important, but also our staff here on the ground.”
According to Pretlow, there is a renewed sense of security at the park, both in terms of guest safety on the rides, as well as in relation to the general guest experience within the park itself. “The biggest part of correcting any problem is acknowledging you have one.” “We know we’ve had one, and we’re taking the right steps to fix them.”
If the name Richard Pretlow sounds familiar to theme park fans, you have heard it before, as he also previously served as Park President of Six Flags America for one year during the park’s 2021 season, where it was often said that he led a remarkable turn-around of that park for the season he was there.
(5/10/2026) Six Flags had some good news last week for fans of Six Flags over Georgia and Six Flags Great Adventure. The company announced that they were going to bring back the “Holiday in the Park” winter festival event after cancelling them last season. The returning events will be “reimagined” and feature new themed lands, live entertainment and more family friendly activities. Six Flags says they are now planning on making this a multi-year investment to bring the Holiday in the Park event back to these two parks, so you can expect the experience to grow and add new features each year for the next few years.
According to Six Flags, this version of Holiday in the Park will have been “completely redesigned from the ground up”. The exact line-up of entertainment and rides that will be available will be announced at a future date.
Now… you may be wondering… who is being left out here? The answer is Kings Dominion, who saw it’s WinterFest event cut from the 2025 schedule and it will not be returning for 2026 either. Kings Dominion was also left out of the list of major parks who were bringing back the Park President position, so it does make one ponder what Six Flags has in store for Kings Dominion going forward. As such… I would think that the 2026 Summer Season is going to be a very important one for the park, as I think they will be keeping a very close eye on how operations go this year.
2027 - Six Flags Entertainment will exercise the Option to purchase 100% Ownership of the Six Flags over Georgia property. For more details, click here.
???? - New Attraction Guest Survey Concepts - (10/18/2025) I don’t know all the details, but apparently a guest survey sent out to some Six Flags over Georgia guests was showing off a proposal that seemed to indicate that the current Dahlonega Mine Train (1967 Arrow Mine Train) could be replaced by something more modern. The idea was to keep it as a themed family coaster experience, but replace it with a new “hybrid” family coaster experience that would send riders through a terrain or “twisting wooden trestles, dive through steel-forged canyons, and race along a breaktaking mix of airtime hills, banked curves, and family-friendly drops.”
Other proposals for Six Flags over Georgia included a new Launch Coaster (artwork of AlpenFury at Canada’s Wonderland shown), a plant to fully retheme all the park’s kiddie areas “under one cohesive and exciting new story”, as well as a proposed expansion to the waterpark. For the later, it wasn’t clear if they meant to expand the nearby WhiteWater waterpark, or if this was intended as an expansion of small internal Hurricane Harbor waterpark.
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