Talk:California's Great America

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[edit] Name Change

Because Cedar Fair L.P. has purchaced Paramount Parks, this article will need to be renamed to just "Great America". Seeing that there is a page already called Great America, It will need to be Great America (California) or something.

Maybe. Cedar Fair might also rent some of the names from Viacom, especially with rides and attractions named after film properties. They might try to rent the Paramount name, too, to go with the movie theme.

As of today, Great America will continue to bear the name "Paramount" until at least through the end of the 2006 season. Therefore, naming the article "Paramount's Great America" is still current and up to date. The Cedar Fair website [1] also lists PGA as its current name. --Deege515 11:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Landfill

Is it true it was built on a landfill? I know some of the surrounding area (like the golf courses) was.

I don't have any definitive information, but it does not appear to be built on landfill. It seems to be at the same ground level as a very large amount of the surrounding area, while the golf course is quite obviously on top of an artificial hill. I also don't believe that any of this area is "fill", as it is too far from the bay. Shoreline Ampitheatre, on the other hand, is definitely built on a landfill, and it is reported that in its early days there were problems resulting from that. --Brouhaha 01:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

It was built on a onion field. I saw a video of the history when I worked there in the mid 80's. The whole area was fields before Great America existed.

[edit] Name change is speculation, Knott's should not be in name

The park's name is Great America, according to a park administrator in Santa Clara whom I met with today. Any speculation about the Knott's name should be identified as such and needs proper attribution to reliable sources. The logo needs to be reverted back to the official logo, or at least moved to a new "name-change speculation" section, if proper attribution is found.

It is not unusual for name changes to take time due to their costs. For example, I was told that the park's Paramount Theatre, which we will be using, retains that name in the 2007 season.

KerryVeenstra 21:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] urrrrgh

This sentence hurts me to read: "However pages of the Great America web site continue to lack the Knott's name." Sheep81 11:36, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] numbers of rides

not sure about the numbers of roller coasters and water rides, list them all:

  • 7+ roller coasters:
  1. Vortex
  2. Top Gun
  3. Rugrat's Runaway Reptar
  4. Psycho Mouse
  5. The Grizzly
  6. The Demon
  7. Invertigo

not sure about "SURVIVOR The Ride" and "Taxi Jam".

  • 3 water rides:
  1. Whitewater Falls
  2. Rip Roaring Rapids
  3. Logger's Run

--Kerry7374 08:09, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Great America 2007.PNG

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BetacommandBot 23:26, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I added appropriate rationale. — KerryVeenstra 05:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Six Flags? Pgathrills.com? And a flag...

I visited this park in 1999, and at that time I seem to recall it being named "Six Flags Great America". And no, I'm not confusing it with the one in Chicago. Was this park ever part of the Six Flags chain?

I noticed that the official park web site is pgathrills.com. Say what? Golfing? I looked up the whois record, and discovered that the domain still belongs to Paramount Parks. Aha! "Paramount Great America Thrills". Curious that Cedar Fair hasn't gotten its own domain.

Near the entrance to the park is a circular plaza. In keeping with the Great America theme, the plaza is surrounded by all the historical national flags of the USA. The first one is supposed to be the US Union Flag. But when I was there, they were flying the British Union Flag. How unpatriotic! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.18.43.225 (talk) 15:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)