One of the parks sections will get a new theme and attractions while other sections will receive slight rehabs.
Orleans Place, which was built to allegedly re-create life in 'The Big Easy', will receive a $6 million plus mass makeover to look like a Mardi Gras festival. This section will feature a new mouse coaster, four new flat rides, a newly-renovated restaurant to accomodate the new theme, and a band shack where jazz music will fill the air.
The new mouse coaster will take 2-acres of space in front of the Roaring Rapids ride. Reverchon Wild Mouse, also known as Rajun' Cajun, will stand at a maximum height of 43 feet with a top speed of 29 miles per hour. Each car is built to carry four passengers. The track will feature multiple small drops and 360-degree spins. Does size matter? hehe
The makeover will also feature three new or imported flat rides (from other SF parks, that is). The 'Big Easy Balloon Ride' gives riders a spinning trip. The 'Jester's Wild Ride' is a replicated Mardi-Gras float which rocks riders back and fourth. Finally, 'King Chaos' will bring riders 42 feet in the air.
Last but not least, the newly renovated Orleans Place will transform the Looney Tunes Meet-n'-Greet Gazebo into a band shack. There, the sounds of jazz and bluegrass will fill the air daily. And the Orleans Grill will become a Mardi-Gras themed restaurant, which will serve a kind of meal you would find in the swampy southern state of Louisiana (I suppose).
In addition to this newly-themed makeover, a few other sections of the park will receive a change.
A Huss Frisbee ride, The Revolution, will take the place of an antique carousel in the old-fashioned County Fair area. The Revolution is a pendulum which will spin and thrill riders at 65 feet in the air. This ride was a former resident of the park's New Jersey counterpart, Six Flags Great Adventure.
The carousel, Ameri-Go-Round, will be rebuilt elsewhere.
Two other sections will receive minor upgrades: a children's area (probably Hometown Park) and Southwest Territory.
The deadline for this makeover is on May the 3rd, when the park opens for the 2004 season.
(I got this information from the following web address: http://www.dailyherald.com/news_story.asp?intid=38003303)
Funny name.
That carousel needs to be put to a place where it could be USED. It wasn't built to sit and deteriorate. lol. For most of the past few seasons that thing has been closed, and I'm glad to see it go. It's too bad because it's a historical landmark. It once sat in Chicago's late Riverwood Park.
Nay. Because it draws a pandemonium.
-- The section of Orleans Place which will be made over is the area between the Yankee Harbor boundary and the train trestle. Everything else will remain the same.
-- Big Easy Balloon Ride will replace the gazebo. I thought the gazebo was gonna be the band shack.
-- Ragin' Cajun will stand where the virtual reality booth used to be.
-- King Chaos will take the place of Power Dive. Put something there already; that space has been unoccupied with a deteriorating queue for two years.
-- Jester's Wild Ride, the gigantic swing, will sit where Cajun Cliffhanger used to sit. Sounds like a kiddie ride.
-- The band shack will be newly built, not a renovated gazebo.
Mooseburger would be nice.
I hope I don't get a full-time position at Demon Nachos. When I gave it a try last September, that place was turbulent. I had no help except from a flippin' fundraiser! Add that to no phones or walkie talkies...!
Viper Nachos, now that's a different story.
Picnic Grove would seem brilliant, if the ice makers were working. Last August, the soda dispensers had no ice and when the guests noticed me with the ice cart they came to me as if I was Russel Crowe having to autograph.
Perhaps the new Orleans Grill makeover will shell out unique cusines worth the high price.
Sad to say, the opening of the new Mardi Gras makeover has been delayed a couple weeks.
Expect to see the park different than the way it was last year -- entertainmentwise, that is. The parade, Jumpin' Jammin' Jubilee, will linger. There's a new Imax film called Top Speed in the Pictorium. There will be several new shows, including one on the Reflection Pond near the carousel. A DJ will play tunes across from the Farmers Market. (By the way, that's my department.)
Of course you Six Flags fans know the semi-celebrations which happen in the park annually, such as Mardi Gras and Fiesta Mexicana. There will be two new additions to the list: Joyfest and Gospelfest. More information is available at www.sfgamworld.com.