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Park News - (10/19/09) Details about this year’s Holiday In the Park event has now been added to the official website. New this year is Santa Land where you can visit Santa’s workshop and another new holiday icon called The Tree of Trees which will be lit each night at 6:30pm and perform some kind of light show every half-hour.
    (7/28/09) As promised, a reader has reported that the Sidewinder (Scrambler) has been put back together and is running once again.
    (7/13/09) Local sources tell us that the part needed for the Scrambler at SFOT has arrived and that we can expect to see it come back together fairly soon. Meanwhile Sally Corp. has added a new video online showing off the Yosemite Sam and the Gold River Adventure dark ride they put together for Six Flags over Texas.

    (7/8/09) According to the Dallas News the incident that has closed the Texas Giant was caused ‘when one car lost its proper position on the track and began gouging the rails.” In other words, it sounds like one one of the cars had a partial derail from the track caused when one of the upstop wheels failed. Since then the problem has been repaired and the ride seems to be reopen from the way they talk about it..
    (7/6/09) A SFOT insider reports that they were told Sidewinder is being repaired, not removed. It’s just that the nature of this repair job required the removal of almost the entire ride to allow access to the right parts. Of course another person also reported in claiming that it was removed due to low ridership. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
     (7/5/09) A reader sent in a photo from SFOT last night (see sidebar) showing off the site of the Sidewinder (Scramber) that was just installed back in 2006… where we see that the ride has been taken apart and is now missing. Anyone know what happened to it?
    (7/1/09) Problems have come up with the Texas Giant at SFOT, shutting down the large wooden coaster for the past few days and according to reports, it will likely be closed for at least the next week. According to one witness who was at the park on the day it first shut down, it almost appeared as if a train had valleyed just before the mid-course brake. A crane was on site pulling the cars back up to the top of the mid-course brake run one at a time. At first I was confused as to why it was open at all, until I remember that it was the 2010 season that the ride will be closed for a major rehab to relaunch it in 2011.
    (4/6/09) A power outage hit Six Flags over Texas on Saturday at about 3:30pm, and kept all the rides closed until about 5:45pm when power was restored.
    (3/25/09) SFOT has reported getting an all time record high attendance for their Spring Break Out event during the week of March 14-22nd. In other news Six Flags over Texas has been given final approval to begin beer sales in the park, and will do so starting this Saturday, with a 16oz cup of suds costing you $5.99.
    (2/25/09) Six Flags over Texas is putting the finishing touches on this year’s rehab of the Shockwave coaster, and you can see pictures of the refurbished track being put back into place on the Amusement Today website. They go on to say that Shockwave will not be ready to open with the park this weekend, but should be ready by Spring Break.
    (1/12/09) Six Flags over Texas may be able to start beer sales for the 2009 season after a judge issued his ruling that the park should be allowed to sell alcohol. Despite complaints and protests from local groups, the fact that all the other major parks in Texas do have beer and wine permits (Fiesta Texas, SeaWorld Texas, Astroworld when it was open as well as at three waterparks in the state) sets a precedent.
    According to the plan from Six Flags outline of locations: Six restaurant locations were listed, Johnny Rockets, All American Café, Gator McGee’s Mountain Grill, Papa Johns, Casa de la Banderas and Dry Hole Charlie’s. Beer would be sold in clear plastic glasses so it is easy to identify and guests will not be allowed to leave those locations with the beer. Locations were also selected for Hurricane Harbor.

2009 - Glow In The Park Parade - (9/15/08) Six Flags over Texas has announced that they will be getting the $2.5 million Glow In The Park Parade in May 2009. You can catch a good video full of parade footage on the SFOT website.

2011 - Texas Giant Renovation - Confirmed - (11/2/09) Yesterday was the final day to ride the Texas Giant until it reopens in 2011. Details were still not announced yet, but they did say that when it reopens it ‘will incorporate elements never before used in a wooden coaster.” The remodel will also carry a hefty $10 million price-tag, nearly double what it cost to build the Texas Giant in the first place. If your hoping to take home a piece of the Giant as they shed old wood for new, then you may be in luck, as sections of the ride will be used to make Christmas ornaments to be sold this winter at Holiday In The Park.
    (10/1/09) Amusement Today has reported some new details about the makeover of the Texas Giant for the 2011 season. Six Flags is expected to release all the details after the coaster closes on November 1st. So far they have mentioned that the rebuild will be done by Rocky Mountain Amusement of Idaho, who were the people who installed El Toro at SFGAdv. The layout will actually be modified a bit to feature one of the steepest banks and will be a far faster and smoother ride. Of course I’d got to take that with a grain of salt since they also announced that Gerstlauer will be the ones making the new trains for the Texas Giant… and G-Trains aren’t known for their smooth rides. Still… anything is possible and the Texas Giant is in need of major improvements for sure, so lets hope for the best… and that they don’t rename it Green Bizarro Lantern or something.
    (3/17/09) Six Flags has confirmed that the Texas Giant will be closed for the 2010 season so they can perform a major renovation of the aging ride in time to relaunch it for the 2011 season as part of the 50th Anniversary of Six Flags. Six Flags has mentioned that the planned renovation will cost them $10 million, so I can only imagine that pretty much most of the Texas Giant is going to be “rebuilt” as well as adding all new trains, most likely with an onboard soundtrack if the system going into Terminator Salvation this year works out well Magic Mountain. Now lets just keep Lex Luthor away, shall we?
    (2/2/09) According to a source the big ride in development for Six Flags over Texas may end up waiting for the 2011 season as that will actually be the year that Six Flags and SFOT will celebrate it’s 50th anniversary.
    (1/31/09) Screamscape sources have confirmed that a big ride is in the long term planning for SFOT for either 2010 or 2011. I can only assume that this may be the long rumored plan to add a new wooden coaster to the park.
    (8/1/08) The earliest the park will get a new wooden coaster is now 2010, but a lot can change between then and now.
    (7/8/08) The exact 2009 plans are still unclear as there are just too many rumors going around right now claiming everything from a parade to a new wooden coaster. What seems to be coming in more and more however may be the removal of Flashback to make room for whatever it is. Stay tuned.
    (5/8/08) According to a new rumor posted to SFOT.net, Six Flags may be planning on removing Flashback and dropping in a new wooden coaster in that general location. This does make sense as my sources tell me that Six Flags may very well have two new GCI wooden coasters in the works for 2009, but they also had two originally planned for 2008 which was eventually cut back to just one. I wouldn’t be surprised if this project falls back to 2010 however if true since the park is opening Tony Hawk this year and 2009 may be too soon. The funny thing is that the Bumper Cars in this area of the park were closed down late last year in anticipation of building a new coaster project in this very area of the park… only back then our sources tell us it was a Dark Knight Coaster project that was eyeballing the site. For an unknown reason the Dark Knight project was cancelled and management made the choice to install Tony Hawk instead.