Six Flags Great Adventure Kicks Off 45th Anniversary Season Today With Debut of New 'Bugs Bunny(TM) National Park' Children's A
March 31 2006 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Monstrous 'El Toro' Wooden Roller Coaster, Safari Babies and Major
Guest Service Initiatives Help Celebrate 45 Years of Family Fun
JACKSON, N.J., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A dramatically
different adventure awaits families this spring at the world's
largest regional theme park, Six Flags Great Adventure and Wild
Safari. Beginning today, the park celebrates 45 years of great
family fun with the addition of exciting rides, shows, animals and
new, comprehensive guest service features to commemorate this major
Six Flags anniversary. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060315/PHW003LOGO ) (Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060331/PHF001A ) Third kids'
area celebrating the great outdoors debuts today This weekend,
parents and young children can explore Bugs Bunny National Park, an
all-new, wilderness-themed children's area with tons of fun for
little ones. Located on Six Flags Great Adventure's picturesque
Great Lake, this new kids' area, featuring Bugs Bunny and his
Looney Tunes pals, joins Looney Tunes Seaport and Balin's
Jungleland as the park's third section devoted to the youngest
thrill seekers. Families can enjoy the great outdoors with six
rides, an interactive water play feature, Bugs Bunny Wilderness
Theater with a high-spirited show for kids, plus Looney Tunes Camp
Kitchen with lots of kid-friendly treats, and daily character
visits between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Delivering world-class guest
service in 2006 "To deliver the best guest experience of any park
anywhere, we must provide outstanding service in a safe, clean,
family-friendly atmosphere," said Six Flags Great Adventure Vice
President and General Manager Ron Sevart. "For example, we've
instituted a non-smoking policy across all Six Flags parks to make
walking through the park with your family a much more pleasant
experience, and we have instituted universal training for our team
members to ensure friendly, helpful and efficient service." Other
guest service initiatives include raising the curtain on a major
entertainment program that offers parades, fireworks, exciting
stage shows, strolling street performers, "Brunch with Bugs"
beginning April 8, and more lovable, huggable characters throughout
the park. In addition, DC Comics' JUSTICE LEAGUE characters WONDER
WOMAN, AQUAMAN, GREEN LANTERN and THE FLASH join the DYNAMIC DUO,
BATMAN and ROBIN, as they greet guests throughout the park's
midways this weekend. El Toro charges Plaza del Carnaval El Toro is
an enormous, new wooden roller coaster that incorporates the most
daring features of the world's best wooden roller coasters with the
charging speed of a steel coaster. Its unique engineering, inspired
by the agility and strength of the brave Matadors, features a
hybrid design that marries the fast-charging drops of a classic
"out-and-back" track with the highly banked turns of a beastly
"twister." El Toro also delivers nine "airtime" opportunities,
giving riders the highly sought thrill-ride sensation of
weightlessness. At 188 feet tall, reaching 70 mph, El Toro ranks
among the tallest and fastest wooden roller coasters in the world.
Its 4,400 feet of mountainous track includes records for second
tallest, fastest and longest drop of all wooden coasters in America
and features the world's steepest drop on a wooden roller coaster,
76 white-knuckled degrees. El Toro anchors a newly themed area,
Plaza del Carnaval, that evokes the sights and sounds of coastal
Mexico. Plaza del Carnaval also features a new Mexican restaurant,
La Cocina, new marketplace-style shopping at El Mercado and a new
rocking, spinning family ride, Tango. El Toro and Plaza del
Carnaval are slated to open later this spring. Adorable babies
steal the Safari spotlight On the heels of a winter filled with
births, Six Flags Wild Safari enters spring with a variety of
exotic baby animals on display throughout its 350 sprawling acres.
Three African lion sisters, one endangered addax calf (African
antelope), a fuzzy Bison calf and three romping Black bear cubs
kick- off the spring season that's sure to welcome the birth of
giraffes, yak, eland and more. Six Flags Great Adventure and Wild
Safari's 2006 season runs weekends through May 7, then daily May 11
through Sept. 4 (parks closed to the public June 10). Tickets,
operating calendars and park news are available at
http://www.sixflags.com/. Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, Six
Flags Wild Safari animal park, and Six Flags Hurricane Harbor water
park are located in Jackson, N.J. The parks comprise America's
largest regional family entertainment complex. The combined
2,200-acre facility, located midway between Philadelphia and New
York City, is part of Six Flags, Inc. Six Flags, Inc. is the
world's largest regional theme park company. Founded in 1961, Six
Flags is celebrating its 45th Anniversary in 2006. Six Flags, Inc.
is a publicly traded corporation (NYSE:PKS) headquartered in New
York City. DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is the
largest English- language publisher of comics in the world and home
to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the
Sandman. SIX FLAGS and all related indicia are trademarks of Six
Flags Theme Parks Inc. (TM) & (C) 2006 LOONEY TUNES and all
related characters and elements are trademarks of and (C) Warner
Bros. Entertainment Inc. JUSTICE LEAGUE and all related characters
and elements are trademarks of and (C) DC Comics
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CONTACT: Kristin Siebeneicher, +1-732-928-2000, ext. 2832,
ftp://ftp.com; or Angel Aristone, +1-732-928-2000, ext. 2834,
ftp://ftp.com, both of Six Flags Great Adventure Web site:
http://www.sixflags.com/
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