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Park News - (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 - (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.