Space Mountain????

[jmarc63]

Originally posted by Tom Morrow


Marriot opened two "Great Americas" in 1976. One was in Illinois, and the other is in California. The parks were identical at the time, and even had the same 2 roller coasters, The Whizzer and the Turn of the Century (now the Demon). Six Flags bought the Great America in Illinois and Paramount bought the one in California, so now they are different parks.

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Thanks tom Morrow2.0 for clearing it up

 

[Dizknee_Phreek]

Originally posted by bearboysnc
In the area where the lifts pass by the TTA there isn't there a little scene with a windowed control room, with an animatronic figure inside?

yup! bearboysnc's right!! it's pretty much the first thing you come to when you're on the ride...you get on, turn a corner, get ready for 'launch', then take up off the lift! i think the scene is pretty much the same on both tracks. usually, i can't take a look around while lifting cuz i'm too busy trying to see when we fall immediately afterwards!
thanks for posting the question, TiggersPooh! it was a good one to test our trivia!!

 

[cymbaldiva]

Seriously ya'll! Why would they use videos to promote something that doesn't even exist in the form that they promote it in?

Don't laugh (too much!) I take this stuff seriously!

 

[Lord Alfred]

Chocolate Chip???

I don't know if this is common knowledge or what but can someone tell me if the "asteroids" projected on the walls in Space Mountain are actually chocolate chip cookies as someone once told me?

 

[Justin]

Choclate Chip Cookies?! lol. thats pretty cool, but i dont think they are, I think its more of like some kind of figmental desighn they made... Of course, i havent' seen the asteroids in a while, it would be hard to make the holes and stuff.... It might have just been cookie dough, and some other "Special effects" haha. :hammer:

I think it must have been a drawing or something... where did u hear that from?

ah im fixing to go to bed. :snore: :snore:

 

[Tom Morrow]

Nope, they are chocolate chip cookies. I wonder if they ate them after they filmed them.

 

[Justin]

Hmmmm thats weird, I am going to have to check out how they did that when i go back August 16th to do Space Mountain.....

 

[CmdrTostada]

Originally posted by cymbaldiva
Seriously ya'll! Why would they use videos to promote something that doesn't even exist in the form that they promote it in?

Don't laugh (too much!) I take this stuff seriously!

It wasnt a promotion, it was on Vault Disney which plays old Dsiney cartoons, movies, or shows. And on that night they played an old Mickey Mouse club from the '70s.

 

[kaos]

Originally posted by Tom Morrow


Marriot opened two "Great Americas" in 1976. One was in Illinois, and the other is in California. The parks were identical at the time, and even had the same 2 roller coasters, The Whizzer and the Turn of the Century (now the Demon). Six Flags bought the Great America in Illinois and Paramount bought the one in California, so now they are different parks.

Don't forget the American Eagle... both parks got one before SF bought them... but GA's, if I remember correctly, is the only racing one...

Here's a great way to see what we're talking about...

National Lampoon's Vacation and Beverly Hills Cop III... Both movies are filmed in both theme parks. You can see that they are IDENTICAL in every sense of the word. It was weird walking around in Cali andknowing exactly where everything was, at least until the mid-80's when SF took over GA. Is the Tidal Wave still out in Cali?

 

[cymbaldiva]

Originally posted by Turbogames


It wasnt a promotion, it was on Vault Disney which plays old Dsiney cartoons, movies, or shows. And on that night they played an old Mickey Mouse club from the '70s.

I beg to differ - that is the clip of Space Mountain that is on the promotional videos...you know, the ones advertised on television?

 

[Merlin]

Originally posted by kaos



Don't forget the American Eagle... both parks got one before SF bought them... but GA's, if I remember correctly, is the only racing one...

Here's a great way to see what we're talking about...

National Lampoon's Vacation and Beverly Hills Cop III... Both movies are filmed in both theme parks. You can see that they are IDENTICAL in every sense of the word. It was weird walking around in Cali andknowing exactly where everything was, at least until the mid-80's when SF took over GA. Is the Tidal Wave still out in Cali?

A couple of minor corrections: I actually live in No California and have been going to Great America (in Santa Clara) for years. That park has never had an American Eagle. Also, Vacation was not filmed there. It was filmed at SF Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA.

And yes, Great America in Santa Clara does still have the Tidal Wave.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Yes, American Eagle was the first ride Six Flags built when they took over Great America in Illinois.

 

[jmarc63]

Originally posted by kaos

Here's a great way to see what we're talking about...

National Lampoon's Vacation and Beverly Hills Cop III... Both movies are filmed in both theme parks. You can see that they are IDENTICAL in every sense of the word. It was weird walking around in Cali andknowing exactly where everything was, at least until the mid-80's when SF took over GA. Is the Tidal Wave still out in Cali?

Do you have any idea which park they used for the 1970s movie "Rollercoaster" that stared George Segal and Timothy Bottoms and a very young and unbilled Steve guttenberg as a page at the park(Only in one shot). ?

they say in the movie that there at Magic Mountain But all the recent pic I have seen of the park I cant seem to find the steel Coaster Billed in the movie as "The Great American Revoloution"

do you know??

 

[Justin]

Is that the one where he puts the bomb under Revolution and it blows up a guy and stuff like that? I have heard about it but i wasn't sure about it all...

 

[Tom Morrow]

Originally posted by jmarc63


Do you have any idea which park they used for the 1970s movie "Rollercoaster" that stared George Segal and Timothy Bottoms and a very young and unbilled Steve guttenberg as a page at the park(Only in one shot). ?

they say in the movie that there at Magic Mountain But all the recent pic I have seen of the park I cant seem to find the steel Coaster Billed in the movie as "The Great American Revoloution"

do you know??

The Great American Revolution is now known simply as "Revolution", at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and is still opperating. In the movie Rollercoaster, the two parks seen are Six Flags Magic Mountain and Paramount's King's Dominion. (Both were known simply as Magic Mountain and King's Dominion in the 70s though)

 

[jmarc63]

Originally posted by Justin
Is that the one where he puts the bomb under Revolution and it blows up a guy and stuff like that? I have heard about it but i wasn't sure about it all...

Well........................sorta................but that happens in the beginning of the movie at a diffrent park. the magic mountain coaster is in the last 20 min of the film. at the end he is foiled from blowing up the coaster since they find the first one which he planted on the straght-a- way after the loop. but he tryes to plant a second bomb under a seat and they jamb his frequency and he is in a no-win situatuon so he runs and hops a fence and the coaster hits him and he goes flying off to the side.

 

[jmarc63]

Originally posted by Tom Morrow


The Great American Revolution is now known simply as "Revolution", at Six Flags Magic Mountain, and is still opperating. In the movie Rollercoaster, the two parks seen are Six Flags Magic Mountain and Paramount's King's Dominion. (Both were known simply as Magic Mountain and King's Dominion in the 70s though)

thanks tom i knew they we LA area parks I just wasn't shure which ones.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Paramount's King's Dominion is in Virginia, not the LA area

 

[jmarc63]

Originally posted by Tom Morrow
Paramount's King's Dominion is in Virginia, not the LA area

isn't there one in ohio as well. thats where the "Banna splits show" filmed exterior amusment sceans for the opening and closing credits as well as some filler

 

[bearboysnc]

isn't there one in ohio as well. thats where the "Banna splits show" filmed exterior amusment sceans for the opening and closing credits as well as some filler

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