I don't think we always had a seatbelt for the lap bar on Grizzly. Pretty sure we added it after too many cases of people standing up while on the ride.
Also, they’ve rethemed Boomerang Bay to South Bay Shores, and made it a kayfabe town like Calico at Knotts. That’s pretty neat-and unlike Knott’s, it’s part of the main park so you can go in with no added fee.
I grew up going to Great America in the summer time as much as I could. Flight Deck was called Top Gun. I remember feeling so awesome when I got brave enough to ride it. Thanks for the video, great memories.
My 6 year old road railblazer with me and holy you know what was this ride intense. He loved it and we went on 2 more time throughout the day. Bonkers is the correct word for this ride!
I'm going to California's Great America for the first time. It will be Monday, June 6th and I'm so excited! I love rollercoaster & water rides, I've never ride of the down tower where you go up and down all the way but really fast so that would be my first ride. ❤
The cedar fair platinum pass is the best pass I've ever owned. I live in florida and in 2019 I went to CP twice, carowinds, KI, WoF, and Knott's (including scary farm) and every time I was able to get my friends that traveled with me in for $15-20. Add in the free parking and all the discounts. Totally worth it. I was paying monthly like $30something a month. Hoping 2021 is better so u can get to more of their parks.
Long overdue for Grizzly to get an RMC makeover. Without a doubt the crummiest wooden coaster I’ve ever been on. At one point we were just coasting at one of the turnarounds; sluggish is an understatement. Surprised so many people ride it.
I think people, like myself, ride it because of the nostalgia. It's a lot more fun at night and if you happen to ride it in the rain it adds some speed. A cool autumn night during Halloween Haunt with a bit of rain and the Grizzly takes on a whole new atmosphere. You've gotta try it if you get the chance.
I miss when this was paramount 😔 the Nickelodeon shows were amazing. I saw Aaron Carter perform at a Nickelodeon show once and he brought Shaq on stage!
Paramount was pretty damn good. They had the movie props all around the park and Top Gun had good theming. All the same stuff is there but it just reminds me of a ship in a mothball fleet now. No music, no audio, dusty old displays. Kinda sad.
@@darklordojeda i agree. I liked when it was Top gun and they played the soundtrack music while you waited in line. It was more intense. The park looks so empty nowadays. 😢
Nice Tour.Nice Camera work. Informative. Pleasant Narrative Voice and Awesome Co-Host. Hey Molly Looking Good Doing Good! I worked here a looooooong time ago when it was Mormon owned.
If it makes you feel better, you can come down to Illinois and still ride the Gurnee version! It’s aged absolutely well and still has decent lines to this day! It’s amazing how much SFGA has been taking care of it compared to the other rides. Long live Schwarzkopf!
Cedar Fair this year purchase the land that the park sits on from the city of Santa Clara. so they now own the park fully and have some big plans for it. they most likely will be putting In a B&M hyper in the next year or so and already underway with plans too build higher ,up too 250 feet. Before they where restricted by air space (flightpath into San Jose airport ) and zoning laws which the city of Santa Clara in the last two years rezone the area too allow for taller structures.
18:38 You should see it on opening day, half of everything was closed and on weekdays there are lots of rides closed or in rotating operations. In this tour there was sign near Woodstock Express that said there were rotating operations in effect. SFDK has good operations.
My visit to Discovery Kingdom on this trip was by far the worst operation day I have ever seen at any theme park. With the following rides closed all day or at some point: V2 Medusa Superman Joker Harley Quinn The entire Tava’s Jungleland section Penguin Ride Monsoon Falls White Water Safari Train Monkey Business Thrilla Gorilla Tasmanian Devil Skyscreamer Dare Devil Dive Iwerks Theater Top Spin
@@IntheLoopPodcast Harley Quinn has always been plagued with issues. I don't expect it to be open when I go. The train is barely open cause it's hard to get the gas and parts for it. They run it sometimes though. Taz has some parts issues, the main problem with hanging on to old rides that aren't Schwartzkof. The Top Spin (VooDoo) closed 2 years ago due to devastating damage to the ride's comp. The park has no plans to reopen it at this time.
Growing up the lines at these rides were INSANE. I remember standing in top gun/“flight deck” and standing past the food court area! Now I can walk on and ride it twice in a row if I want and still rode everything else. I think that’s why I prefer this park, the lines are so short! Vortex was way better before switching it to the patriot, we don’t ever bother riding the patriot because it’s a rough ride. Grizzly was my first roller coaster ever but now I hate it again because it’s rough. There used to be a short lived ride called stealth and it was amazing! Although I was stuck on that ride in the past for well over an hour at night in the cold, I truly miss this ride.
The Grizzly at night and a light rain is awesome. It's so much faster. Stealth, lol yeah the ride that was there 2 years I think and broke down 3 of those 2 years...I hope you get that joke. I used to work at Invertigo, White Water Falls and Berzerker was the area I supervised. Met my wife and best friend there. It was a lot of fun. I still hold season passes annually.
Good to hear you had a pretty good time there and great video! California's Great America is my home park and I don't have many positive things to say about it lol!!
Same here. Back when it was owned by paramount it was a good park. It was very clean and the themeing was good. When they sold it it went downhill..i went about 8 years ago last and never came back. I couldn't beleive how bad the park got. But looks like they cleaned it up a little.
@@pauleckert4321 Actually I think the Park was going downhill way more during the Paramount years, CEDAR FAIR has big plans for this park, Look up CA Great America Masterplan.
Cedar Fair this year purchase the land that the park sits on from the city of Santa Clara. so they are the now own the park fully and have some big plans for it.
@@johnnboy2000 It's Good that they own Both the Park and the Land, so working with the Santa Clara Zoning, they can build anything that they want as long as it;s under 245 ft ;) .
Since this park and Great America in Illinois were both owned by Marriott's and later Paramount, and were nearly identical parks at their birth, I think it would be really interesting for you to compare and contrast which is the better park now, considering one is now operated by Six Flags, and the other by Cedar Fair.
michael veloz It’s funner then six flags and less crowded. Amazing top 3 as well. In order I would say 3.Flight deck 2.Railblazer(incredible) 1.Goldstriker(best ride in the park)
I’m here just binge watching great America vids because I’m excited to go with my friends next week 😎 Edit: I’m so excited!!!! I’m going tomorrow!!!! June 15!!!!! I’m excited and scared because I’ve only rode the small rides last time I went there but now is going to be my first time to ride the big rides like gold striker and I’m really scared AAAAAA I’m not mentally prepared eeeeeeeeeeeee! Edit 2: AAAAAAA THAT WAS SO FUN!!!! I rode almost all the rides except gold striker just because I didn’t have the guts for it lol. The ride I rode first was flight deck, and since I haven’t rode a roller coaster in a long time I almost died when it came to the drops. Tiki twirl and demon were unavailable sadly but my favorite ride has to be idk I enjoyed every one of them. Delirium was pretty fun I guess because I got to see my cousin’s scared face it was hilarious! I’m looking forward to ride gold striker if my sister comes lol anyways that is all for my great America trip!
7:27 Used to work there in 1989. It's sad what this place has turned into, I miss the times when they had themed areas like, Carousel Plaza, Orleans Place, Yankee Harbor, Fort Fun, Yukon Territory, Smurf Woods, County Fair, and Hometown Square, where everybody wore costumes that matched the area, in County Fair you'd wear argyle socks and suspenders, Yankee Harbor would wear a pirate hat and a flared white shirt, in Yukon Territory we wore a brown plaid shirt and brown pants, and everybody had to wear plain white shoes, and maybe you've heard this phrase before, well, I doubt it, that place has totally changed for the worse, for example, a water park? seriously? You know how cold that place gets, we'd have to wear our jackets in the middle of July, but we'd always say, "Have A Great Day!", that was said all over the park, in rides, foods, games, and how about that annoying music they'd play all the time, and would you believe, I actually kind of miss it, but I bet they don't do that anymore. I miss the train, I miss the trees, I miss the grass, I miss the old Great America. Just sad
The train was great and how could you forget The Edge? I worked at County Fair 4 back in early 2000's when the Invertigo was there. There wasn't much theming even that far back. I think all the real theming was gone by the mid 90's. I miss Yankee Clipper and Logger's Run. I loved how they would run head to head almost.
@@empjustin6560 Except the Mass Effect ride isn't a water ride. It's a motion theater ride. Some giant centipede thing pops on screen in 3-D and spits some "acid" and the vents spray you with mist but it smells foul. Luckily it can only be smelled for a few brief seconds. Still nasty though.
The Berzerker attraction cars where part of the old Roller Coaster called the Whizzer which was built by Anton Schwarzkoph and was also at California Great America who also built the Tidal Wave.
Wow, I never knew the Berzerker cars were formerly the Whizzer cars. I was supervisor of the ride area that Berzerker was a part of back in 2002 or 2003. Been so long now I can hardly remember.
@@chrisandneke that’s really cool. Thanks for the information. I wish I had known that when I worked there. I would have told the older guests about it.
We were here the same weekend as you! Just saw the end, and we were there for that petting zoo! Did you film your ride on rail blazer?! I feel I saw someone on the ride filming that day!
In defense of Vortex, I believe it was the very first stand up coaster so it wasn't going to be great but it really didn't age well and Patriot was rebranded and they tried to play it off as a brand new ride. I was pretty angry when I found that out.
Where is Mass Effect theatre is was the original location for the Tidal wave roller coaster. When they removed it they built the theater and it was used for a Days of Thunder simulator attraction.
@@darklordojeda from what I remember they built the theatre on the same land were Tidal wave was located. The last time I was there was over 20 years ago and Days of Thunder was in a theatre what the seats moved to the motion of the movie ride in 1999.
I miss coming here I miss coming with my family seeing all the places where you stood at all the memories coming back ❤️🤟 I’ve been everywhere in grate America so seeing all this wow brings back so much 👍 especially the fact I moved so seeing this makes it much more better for me too come back down to the stores and arcades I miss this so much I’ve been here an coming for 4 years Straight never missed until I moved😭😭 I’ll forsure be coming back if it’s open
I remember going to Great America as a kid and being awestruck by Top Gun/Flight Deck. There was something special listening to the Top Gun Soundtrack while in the queue. Hearing Danger Zone or the Top Gun Anthem on the loudspeakers really got me pumped up for the ride. Hearing Bruno Mars here makes me wanna dance...fun but not the same, haha. I do miss the Paramount Days, when they were really able to take advantage of the IP.
They had props from Paramount movies scattered around the park as well. They had one of the film used Deloreans from Back to the Future on display one of the times I went back in the 90's. The world has changed so much.
Just went for my first time yesterday. Railblazer was great (by far the longest wait time), goldstriker was great… demon was ok, flight deck was meh, grizzly was meh. My whole party enjoyed the Mass Effect experience. Overall clean and well maintained park, food options are the usual… I recommend getting a souvenir cup btw. For $40, definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area!
Flight Deck was originally called Top Gun and I was a kid when it opened and I stood in line like everyone else but someone who didn't like me ratted me out because of a medical condition and I was told after standing in line for almost 3hrs that I couldn't ride. I was beyond pissed as she climbed on the ride smiling because I couldn't go.
I used to go to this park all the time in the 80's growing up in the Bay Area. I remember getting stuck on the demon, at the end, the bar wouldn't release and pull up, so I was about to go on it again. I didn't want to in the first place. I do remember there was a place that you go into and you could get a big mug of root beer for a nickel and a hot dog for 10 cents. I'll have to go back one of these days
If you do go back don't expect a root beer and hot dog for .15 cents. The park is nice and completely different from the 80's. The Grizzly and Demon are still there though. The carousel, sky tower and basket ride over the park are probably all that's left of the 80's park. Other than the picnic grove area and the theaters. It's worth it in my opinion, especially if you go during Halloween Haunt.
I thought this was a five-year plan in reinvesting in the park as well and putting a new hyper roller coaster in the Parkside thought they were not finish getting involved with that Park as well
I believe those plans have been scrapped as there was no expansion this year and rumor has the budget from the CGA hyper was given to the Kings Island hyper.
@@IntheLoopPodcast I think it's been pushed out to 2021, But IN THE LOOP, your wrong saying that the Hyper has been cancelled, and Kings Island is getting a B&M Giga, NOT A HYPER.
@@IntheLoopPodcast Nope, their 20 year plan was pushed back one year due to railblazers late opening. This is evident with the addition of south bay shores in 2020 and the inevitable addition of a hyper in 2021
@@ql5481 I agree with you 100%. It needs a tall, big and fast steel coaster. I believe the reason they haven't gone big is because of FAA restrictions due to the airport being so close.
In those sky gliders (red and blue) ride that goes over the park- I used to dump water out of them. Get a bottle of water. Then it would land on peoples heads as you go over them. You are so high up.
So is Berserker, their the only two left in the USA, and BOTH Fun, can't forget about BERSERKER, their both the same exact ride, Schwarzkopf Bayern Curves.
is the park open early Jan? I tried checking their park hours but it only shows the current month (Nov) and the park ain't open in a whole lot of days :(
The park opens for the 2020 season on March 21st. There are rumors that it will eventually become a year round park... it gets a little closer to that every year.
This year it stayed open until the first week of January I believe. As another commenter said, it gets closer and closer to nearly year around. I think they'll keep it closed for most of January and February though. Too cold. March is generally when the park opens, late March.
Gamman I agree sucks that I live in la because I only go to great America like once a year because I go up north to see family six flags magic mountain is bad and universal studios only has one good ride in my opinion is the Simpsons ride the rapid ride in great America reminds me of a ride in sea world great America San Francisco Las Vegas and New York are my favorite place and hopefully next year I’ll go to Tokyo my family has wanted to go there but my step wants to go to Hawaii or Mexico but we’ve been to those places so like 3-5 times and my little sister wants to go to Disney land but we’ve been like 2 times already my family in up north lives in Windsor and sometimes they’ll rather take us to San Francisco so I really only go to great America 1 time every two years I’m 13 I always tell my friends about great America but they don’t know what it is yesterday I was at the mall telling about great America and the I saw dgg the TH-camr and his brother Dub vlogs / dub I live in Glendale California so yeah great America is really far ☹️ I love the vibes up north very chill 😎 btw Glendale is a smaller city in Los Angeles if you ever come to la a recommend that you go to the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly center which is a big mall rodeo drive Burbank, Pasadena my home town unfortunately I moved when I was in first grade and they got a big mall in Arcadia the West field mall San Anita, Griffith Park, Glendale mall/ America/ were I saw ddg I know this long hopefully you read this all 👍👍👍
I love Delirium but every year it gets harder and harder for me to ride. I think I have vertigo and it messes me up bad. Sometimes I just take Dramamine and go on that one first and hope for the best.
I live in the East Bay and Great America is one of my home parks along with Six Flags in Vallejo. The park does need to get rid of some old rides. The Grizzly is old, slow, and boring as hell and totally needs to be replaced, particularly now but the park has Gold Striker, which is one of the best wooden coasters I've ever been on. It's a beast. They should put a nice steel coaster where the Grizzly is or convert it to an RMC hybrid. The Demon should be gotten rid of as well for similar reasons. The park thinks of it as a classic so it doesn't want to get rid of it but I say screw that. Also, The Vortex, now called The Patriot, is a MUCH better ride now that it's floorless instead of being stand up. I completely disagree with you when you say that the change of trains didn't help anything. It helped it a ton. It's a much more pleasant ride now than it used to be. They recently add an expansion to Boomerang Bay, which I haven't seen yet. I never usually go in there because whenever I go to the park I'm there for the rides and not for water park.
If they get rid of Grizzly and Demon that will give them a lot of space for a hyper coaster. It will leave a hole in my heart but as you said, Gold Striker blows The Grizzly away and railblazer is better than The Demon. The boomerang bay expansion kinda rubbed me the wrong way, they removed Loggers Run to accommodate for it and I don't do water parks. If I want water slides I'll go to Raging Waters. At least my kid likes the water park.
I love this place . Not as crowded as the two Six Flags in California so lines are a bit shorter , which I love .
Flip Flop there’s 2 six flags in California ??
I went to six flags about a month ago the longest ride was prob 15 min
@@isaacsaesee9841 Discovery Kingdom & Magic Mountain
@@isaacsaesee9841 there is also two cedar fair parks and a seaworld park in california too
@@NorCalCoasterMedia what's the second one? I only know great America
I don't think we always had a seatbelt for the lap bar on Grizzly. Pretty sure we added it after too many cases of people standing up while on the ride.
watching this vid brings back memories of when i was in 6th grade and we went to great america
Also, they’ve rethemed Boomerang Bay to South Bay Shores, and made it a kayfabe town like Calico at Knotts. That’s pretty neat-and unlike Knott’s, it’s part of the main park so you can go in with no added fee.
Your comment gets a like just for using the term kayfabe
The Legend and Molly strolling through parks is the reason I watch In the Loop videos.
I remember going here for my classes 8th grade field trip. It was so much fun, but I’m terrified of roller coasters... 😅😅
I grew up going to Great America in the summer time as much as I could. Flight Deck was called Top Gun. I remember feeling so awesome when I got brave enough to ride it. Thanks for the video, great memories.
Great America is the best place ever! I’ve been there many times
Centrifuge is like the Scrambler carnival ride, but calmer. I didn't realize how many carnival/countyfair rides and attractions they have.
On railblazer I just do single rider (Just go through the fast lane). The Mass it’s boring now I’ve done it many times and The Grizzly is the best.
I know you can do single rider but I thought that was just for the delirium
Lmao, all I got from this video is “Don’t go to Great America”
Y’all are negative af.
😂😂😂
👍Hii..Sylvia.😊
I had to watch this because our class trip was cancelled lol
@@milliegarrett5134 same
It's wack asf I live like 30 min away and six flags is infinitely better
@@Isabel-cn1wf ripp
I went on this ride today and it was FREAKING fun and I'm 8 years old!
Wait what? You’re 8?! I’m too scared to ride it!
My 6 year old road railblazer with me and holy you know what was this ride intense. He loved it and we went on 2 more time throughout the day. Bonkers is the correct word for this ride!
I'm going to California's Great America for the first time. It will be Monday, June 6th and I'm so excited! I love rollercoaster & water rides, I've never ride of the down tower where you go up and down all the way but really fast so that would be my first ride. ❤
Might go here over summer, this video was a pretty good and informational! Great job :D
The cedar fair platinum pass is the best pass I've ever owned. I live in florida and in 2019 I went to CP twice, carowinds, KI, WoF, and Knott's (including scary farm) and every time I was able to get my friends that traveled with me in for $15-20. Add in the free parking and all the discounts. Totally worth it. I was paying monthly like $30something a month. Hoping 2021 is better so u can get to more of their parks.
Long overdue for Grizzly to get an RMC makeover. Without a doubt the crummiest wooden coaster I’ve ever been on. At one point we were just coasting at one of the turnarounds; sluggish is an understatement. Surprised so many people ride it.
I think people, like myself, ride it because of the nostalgia. It's a lot more fun at night and if you happen to ride it in the rain it adds some speed. A cool autumn night during Halloween Haunt with a bit of rain and the Grizzly takes on a whole new atmosphere. You've gotta try it if you get the chance.
I miss when this was paramount 😔 the Nickelodeon shows were amazing. I saw Aaron Carter perform at a Nickelodeon show once and he brought Shaq on stage!
Paramount was pretty damn good. They had the movie props all around the park and Top Gun had good theming. All the same stuff is there but it just reminds me of a ship in a mothball fleet now. No music, no audio, dusty old displays. Kinda sad.
@@darklordojeda i agree. I liked when it was Top gun and they played the soundtrack music while you waited in line. It was more intense. The park looks so empty nowadays. 😢
Nice Tour.Nice Camera work. Informative. Pleasant Narrative Voice and Awesome Co-Host. Hey Molly Looking Good Doing Good! I worked here a looooooong time ago when it was Mormon owned.
Me: realizing I was there that day
Also me: 😱
The demon need pillows on it
I'm so happy you made this video this is going to be my first time and my 8th grade trip IN SO EXCITED
lmao just went with my school also
@@gdfishy1195 oh wow thats great lol
Do you go to blaker kinser
@@ymbj272 did u
Shut the fuck Up Stoopid
I love Top Gun (Flight Deck) and The Demon. I haven't been here since 1996, with my college buddies, after graduation. I miss the Whizzer coaster.
If it makes you feel better, you can come down to Illinois and still ride the Gurnee version!
It’s aged absolutely well and still has decent lines to this day!
It’s amazing how much SFGA has been taking care of it compared to the other rides.
Long live Schwarzkopf!
Cedar Fair this year purchase the land that the park sits on from the city of Santa Clara. so they now own the park fully and have some big plans for it. they most likely will be putting In a B&M hyper in the next year or so and already underway with plans too build higher ,up too 250 feet. Before they where restricted by air space (flightpath into San Jose airport ) and zoning laws which the city of Santa Clara in the last two years rezone the area too allow for taller structures.
The B&M Hyper is rumored for 2021, and the waterpark expansion for 2020 :)
Wow! Thanks for the information. I almost gave up on this park. It needs a hyper coaster badly.
@@zacharyyamashita8554 I heard they were also supposed to get a hand-me-down launch coaster something like Wicked Twister
Zachary Yamashita nonono 2021 is the year for kings dominion
Railblazer was FLYING! 🤣💯
18:38 You should see it on opening day, half of everything was closed and on weekdays there are lots of rides closed or in rotating operations. In this tour there was sign near Woodstock Express that said there were rotating operations in effect. SFDK has good operations.
Did that last line say “SFDK has good operations”
You implied that half the rides are closed all the time, which is incorrect.
My visit to Discovery Kingdom on this trip was by far the worst operation day I have ever seen at any theme park. With the following rides closed all day or at some point:
V2
Medusa
Superman
Joker
Harley Quinn
The entire Tava’s Jungleland section
Penguin Ride
Monsoon Falls
White Water Safari
Train
Monkey Business
Thrilla Gorilla
Tasmanian Devil
Skyscreamer
Dare Devil Dive
Iwerks Theater
Top Spin
@@IntheLoopPodcast Harley Quinn has always been plagued with issues. I don't expect it to be open when I go. The train is barely open cause it's hard to get the gas and parts for it. They run it sometimes though. Taz has some parts issues, the main problem with hanging on to old rides that aren't Schwartzkof. The Top Spin (VooDoo) closed 2 years ago due to devastating damage to the ride's comp. The park has no plans to reopen it at this time.
@@AmusementLabs Which is Why they should just scrap it, it likely isn't reopening ever again, instead of just letting it sit there and rust.
Growing up the lines at these rides were INSANE. I remember standing in top gun/“flight deck” and standing past the food court area! Now I can walk on and ride it twice in a row if I want and still rode everything else. I think that’s why I prefer this park, the lines are so short! Vortex was way better before switching it to the patriot, we don’t ever bother riding the patriot because it’s a rough ride. Grizzly was my first roller coaster ever but now I hate it again because it’s rough. There used to be a short lived ride called stealth and it was amazing! Although I was stuck on that ride in the past for well over an hour at night in the cold, I truly miss this ride.
The Grizzly at night and a light rain is awesome. It's so much faster. Stealth, lol yeah the ride that was there 2 years I think and broke down 3 of those 2 years...I hope you get that joke. I used to work at Invertigo, White Water Falls and Berzerker was the area I supervised. Met my wife and best friend there. It was a lot of fun. I still hold season passes annually.
I’ve been to great America 1000 times
Same! I miss it rn
Good to hear you had a pretty good time there and great video! California's Great America is my home park and I don't have many positive things to say about it lol!!
Same here. Back when it was owned by paramount it was a good park. It was very clean and the themeing was good. When they sold it it went downhill..i went about 8 years ago last and never came back. I couldn't beleive how bad the park got. But looks like they cleaned it up a little.
@@pauleckert4321 Actually I think the Park was going downhill way more during the Paramount years, CEDAR FAIR has big plans for this park, Look up CA Great America Masterplan.
Cedar Fair this year purchase the land that the park sits on from the city of Santa Clara. so they are the now own the park fully and have some big plans for it.
@@johnnboy2000 It's Good that they own Both the Park and the Land, so working with the Santa Clara Zoning, they can build anything that they want as long as it;s under 245 ft ;) .
@@johnnboy2000 EXACTLY, yet people are still bashing this great park for, not adding any new coaster's, uh RailBlazer, GoldStriker not enough?
This park looks really nice. Good to know Cedar Fair takes good care of their smaller parks, even if they invest a bit less.
I really enjoy the walk in the park videos! !
going here tomorrow with my best friend🥰
This place used to be so popular in the 2000s. Good memories.
I like that park way better in the mid 80’s when Marriott still owned it
Since this park and Great America in Illinois were both owned by Marriott's and later Paramount, and were nearly identical parks at their birth, I think it would be really interesting for you to compare and contrast which is the better park now, considering one is now operated by Six Flags, and the other by Cedar Fair.
Sees Dynaics tee shirt, realizes I might have been there. Realizes the dynamics field trip was raining like hell so I was not there.
Grizzly is one off the oldest rides there, I used to ride it in 91-93, and it was pretty old then.
It was built in 1986
Great video, we were very close to this park last week but we didn’t know at the time or we’d have gone. Cheers guys
I sometimes get the impression Molly is just being amazingly supprotive of Legends hobby
I worked for the park for 3 seasons while it was still Marriott's Great America 83-86
The cool thing about flight deck is you get to look across at the 49ers stadium
I went to great America today
Sophia Liu is it fun
michael veloz It’s funner then six flags and less crowded. Amazing top 3 as well. In order I would say
3.Flight deck
2.Railblazer(incredible)
1.Goldstriker(best ride in the park)
I’m here just binge watching great America vids because I’m excited to go with my friends next week 😎
Edit: I’m so excited!!!! I’m going tomorrow!!!! June 15!!!!! I’m excited and scared because I’ve only rode the small rides last time I went there but now is going to be my first time to ride the big rides like gold striker and I’m really scared AAAAAA I’m not mentally prepared eeeeeeeeeeeee!
Edit 2: AAAAAAA THAT WAS SO FUN!!!! I rode almost all the rides except gold striker just because I didn’t have the guts for it lol. The ride I rode first was flight deck, and since I haven’t rode a roller coaster in a long time I almost died when it came to the drops. Tiki twirl and demon were unavailable sadly but my favorite ride has to be idk I enjoyed every one of them. Delirium was pretty fun I guess because I got to see my cousin’s scared face it was hilarious! I’m looking forward to ride gold striker if my sister comes lol anyways that is all for my great America trip!
todays the big day. Update telling us which rides you went on!
I love this.
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Used to work there in 1989.
It's sad what this place has turned into, I miss the times when they had themed areas like, Carousel Plaza, Orleans Place, Yankee Harbor, Fort Fun, Yukon Territory, Smurf Woods, County Fair, and Hometown Square, where everybody wore costumes that matched the area, in County Fair you'd wear argyle socks and suspenders, Yankee Harbor would wear a pirate hat and a flared white shirt, in Yukon Territory we wore a brown plaid shirt and brown pants, and everybody had to wear plain white shoes, and maybe you've heard this phrase before, well, I doubt it, that place has totally changed for the worse, for example, a water park? seriously? You know how cold that place gets, we'd have to wear our jackets in the middle of July, but we'd always say, "Have A Great Day!", that was said all over the park, in rides, foods, games, and how about that annoying music they'd play all the time, and would you believe, I actually kind of miss it, but I bet they don't do that anymore.
I miss the train, I miss the trees, I miss the grass, I miss the old Great America.
Just sad
I think it’s alright, it has great potential
The train was great and how could you forget The Edge? I worked at County Fair 4 back in early 2000's when the Invertigo was there. There wasn't much theming even that far back. I think all the real theming was gone by the mid 90's. I miss Yankee Clipper and Logger's Run. I loved how they would run head to head almost.
But back then y'all didn't have Railblazer and Gold Striker haha
I hated the mass effect ride cause of the water they sprayed in your face it smelt sooo bad
I agree You said just what I think,
You mean every water ride?
@@empjustin6560 Except the Mass Effect ride isn't a water ride. It's a motion theater ride. Some giant centipede thing pops on screen in 3-D and spits some "acid" and the vents spray you with mist but it smells foul. Luckily it can only be smelled for a few brief seconds. Still nasty though.
It went in my mouth once XD
The Berzerker attraction cars where part of the old Roller Coaster called the Whizzer which was built by Anton Schwarzkoph and was also at California Great America who also built the Tidal Wave.
Wow, I never knew the Berzerker cars were formerly the Whizzer cars. I was supervisor of the ride area that Berzerker was a part of back in 2002 or 2003. Been so long now I can hardly remember.
@@darklordojeda it sure was. If you look at the Whizzer video on you tube you will see what they look the very same just different paint job.
@@darklordojeda also the track should be from the Whizzer also.
@@chrisandneke that’s really cool. Thanks for the information. I wish I had known that when I worked there. I would have told the older guests about it.
@@darklordojeda you are very welcome! Did you hear that Sea World is looking to buy all cedar fair parks?
I remember going there with my best friend Vanessa like a super long time ago it was fun
We were here the same weekend as you! Just saw the end, and we were there for that petting zoo! Did you film your ride on rail blazer?! I feel I saw someone on the ride filming that day!
That wasn’t us
In defense of Vortex, I believe it was the very first stand up coaster so it wasn't going to be great but it really didn't age well and Patriot was rebranded and they tried to play it off as a brand new ride. I was pretty angry when I found that out.
If you bring a small backpack in do they have cubbies to put them in?
I am not sure on that one
Molly for president!!!!
You missed out on Rue Le Dodge!!! The BEST Bumper Cars in California!!! The type that has an absolutely strict Height restriction!
Thats an original Marriott ride.
i couldn’t move the bumper cars. i literally suck. i was just in the corner while my teacher was bumping everyone (it was a field trip
honestly the bumpers at cga are terrible. my back hurt after riding them, and i only get injured on rides very rarely
Where is Mass Effect theatre is was the original location for the Tidal wave roller coaster. When they removed it they built the theater and it was used for a Days of Thunder simulator attraction.
they also had a spongebob on there when i was younger
Tidal Wave and FX Theater were both operating at the same time briefly weren't they? God it was so long ago.
@@kawaiikoalagamer5158 I liked the Spongebob and Days of Thunder. The new one is ok but nowhere near as good as the previous 2.
@@darklordojeda from what I remember they built the theatre on the same land were Tidal wave was located. The last time I was there was over 20 years ago and Days of Thunder was in a theatre what the seats moved to the motion of the movie ride in 1999.
I miss coming here I miss coming with my family seeing all the places where you stood at all the memories coming back ❤️🤟 I’ve been everywhere in grate America so seeing all this wow brings back so much 👍 especially the fact I moved so seeing this makes it much more better for me too come back down to the stores and arcades I miss this so much I’ve been here an coming for 4 years Straight never missed until I moved😭😭 I’ll forsure be coming back if it’s open
I remember going to Great America as a kid and being awestruck by Top Gun/Flight Deck. There was something special listening to the Top Gun Soundtrack while in the queue. Hearing Danger Zone or the Top Gun Anthem on the loudspeakers really got me pumped up for the ride. Hearing Bruno Mars here makes me wanna dance...fun but not the same, haha. I do miss the Paramount Days, when they were really able to take advantage of the IP.
They had props from Paramount movies scattered around the park as well. They had one of the film used Deloreans from Back to the Future on display one of the times I went back in the 90's. The world has changed so much.
Will be going for the second time this Saturday.
Same this Saturday🤟😎🤟
I get the gold pass every year 😂
Bounty Hunter same lol
Bounty Hunter same😂
Same to an I live in Florida lol
Actually I get premium
Bounty Hunter same :3
Flight deck and railblazer and gold striker is my favorite
I love that roller coaster! I would love to get a ride on it !!!🇺🇸😄👍
Just went for my first time yesterday. Railblazer was great (by far the longest wait time), goldstriker was great… demon was ok, flight deck was meh, grizzly was meh. My whole party enjoyed the Mass Effect experience. Overall clean and well maintained park, food options are the usual… I recommend getting a souvenir cup btw. For $40, definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area!
Flight Deck was originally called Top Gun and I was a kid when it opened and I stood in line like everyone else but someone who didn't like me ratted me out because of a medical condition and I was told after standing in line for almost 3hrs that I couldn't ride. I was beyond pissed as she climbed on the ride smiling because I couldn't go.
Wow I remember when they built Great America before Google and Yahoo moved in and changed Santa Clara. Haven't been there in decades.
I used to go to this park all the time in the 80's growing up in the Bay Area. I remember getting stuck on the demon, at the end, the bar wouldn't release and pull up, so I was about to go on it again. I didn't want to in the first place. I do remember there was a place that you go into and you could get a big mug of root beer for a nickel and a hot dog for 10 cents. I'll have to go back one of these days
If you do go back don't expect a root beer and hot dog for .15 cents. The park is nice and completely different from the 80's. The Grizzly and Demon are still there though. The carousel, sky tower and basket ride over the park are probably all that's left of the 80's park. Other than the picnic grove area and the theaters. It's worth it in my opinion, especially if you go during Halloween Haunt.
I thought this was a five-year plan in reinvesting in the park as well and putting a new hyper roller coaster in the Parkside thought they were not finish getting involved with that Park as well
I believe those plans have been scrapped as there was no expansion this year and rumor has the budget from the CGA hyper was given to the Kings Island hyper.
@@IntheLoopPodcast I think it's been pushed out to 2021, But IN THE LOOP, your wrong saying that the Hyper has been cancelled, and Kings Island is getting a B&M Giga, NOT A HYPER.
@@IntheLoopPodcast Nope, their 20 year plan was pushed back one year due to railblazers late opening. This is evident with the addition of south bay shores in 2020 and the inevitable addition of a hyper in 2021
@@NorCalCoasterMedia 2021 came and went, no hyper. I'm hoping by '23 we get something.
@darklordojeda No hyper in 2023 unfortunately, it is too late for that. New hope now is for 2024
Great America should make the grizzle into a RMC hybrid coaster
This is what I've been saying for like 2 years. I really hope it happens.
I think a hyper coaster is really what the park needs
@@ql5481 I agree with you 100%. It needs a tall, big and fast steel coaster. I believe the reason they haven't gone big is because of FAA restrictions due to the airport being so close.
I live right by great America it’s hella fun
In those sky gliders (red and blue) ride that goes over the park- I used to dump water out of them. Get a bottle of water. Then it would land on peoples heads as you go over them. You are so high up.
Now they have cameras so if you do that you're banned from the park and possibly sitting in a police car for a little bit.
You are a jerk. Now if you do it you'll have fun in a police car.
They have a ride like Berserker at Kennywood. It was actually really fun!
So is Berserker, their the only two left in the USA, and BOTH Fun, can't forget about BERSERKER, their both the same exact ride, Schwarzkopf Bayern Curves.
It's a really fun simple ride. I especially like that the cars are flat during loading but bank when the ride is moving.
Well this aged well for Kennywood…..
Did he just say grizzly is a smooth ride
yes he did and it's true
@j - k Gold Striker is just so much faster. Grizzly is awesome. Try it at night in a light rain. Changes the whole dynamic of the ride.
I got a question for you guys, what is you favorite Amusement/Theme Park? Or a top 10 list? We want to know!
I love the old Top Gun ride. Really cool.
I miss invertago
I was supervisor of that ride back in 2002 season. Met my wife and best friend working there. Fun times.
anyone know if they let you wear waist packs on the rollercoasters like railblazer?
I want to great America yesterday and I went on the flight deck
Awesome! Thanks! Was thinking about stopping here later this year.... worth it? I have a platinum pass, so it’s just the flight :)
Where you flying from/have you been to the park before?
In the Loop From NJ, Never been to any NoCal Amusement park, only SoCal
About the same as Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois near Chicago and Milwaukee.
Great video as always 👍👍🎢🎢😊😊
is the park open early Jan? I tried checking their park hours but it only shows the current month (Nov) and the park ain't open in a whole lot of days :(
Not sure on that one. I know they run the winterfest Christmas event in December
The park opens for the 2020 season on March 21st. There are rumors that it will eventually become a year round park... it gets a little closer to that every year.
This year it stayed open until the first week of January I believe. As another commenter said, it gets closer and closer to nearly year around. I think they'll keep it closed for most of January and February though. Too cold. March is generally when the park opens, late March.
I’m so sad it’s not reopening this year
Railblazer is hella fun
You sound like Kermit the Frog. I love it!
Hi how are you doing today ❤️
On Halloween this thing is packed my cousin works here and then her super viser told her 30,000+ people came here on the 19 of October
I love that ride sm
Honestly GA is a great park.
Gamman I agree sucks that I live in la because I only go to great America like once a year because I go up north to see family six flags magic mountain is bad and universal studios only has one good ride in my opinion is the Simpsons ride the rapid ride in great America reminds me of a ride in sea world great America San Francisco Las Vegas and New York are my favorite place and hopefully next year I’ll go to Tokyo my family has wanted to go there but my step wants to go to Hawaii or Mexico but we’ve been to those places so like 3-5 times and my little sister wants to go to Disney land but we’ve been like 2 times already my family in up north lives in Windsor and sometimes they’ll rather take us to San Francisco so I really only go to great America 1 time every two years I’m 13 I always tell my friends about great America but they don’t know what it is yesterday I was at the mall telling about great America and the I saw dgg the TH-camr and his brother Dub vlogs / dub I live in Glendale California so yeah great America is really far ☹️ I love the vibes up north very chill 😎 btw Glendale is a smaller city in Los Angeles if you ever come to la a recommend that you go to the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly center which is a big mall rodeo drive Burbank, Pasadena my home town unfortunately I moved when I was in first grade and they got a big mall in Arcadia the West field mall San Anita, Griffith Park, Glendale mall/ America/ were I saw ddg I know this long hopefully you read this all 👍👍👍
I’m about to have hella fun!!!!!!!!!
I love America is great
OMG I SAW MYSELF IN YOUR VIDEO!!!!
PLZ ANSWER! Is gold striker still down for maintenance? I’m going tmr and rlly want to go on it
You should be fine. Was only closed for a little bit on the day I was there
Thank you for responding!!!!
Ok phew. 😅
Btw: Great video! I loved how straight to the point it was
I almost fainted on the first one lol
Legend I can’t wait tell you and molly see galaxy-edge. Great video as always
June 14th. Super excited
Psycho mouse was my first coaster.
Did they ride on there classic Von Roll Skyride
We didn’t go for a ride, but it’s in the video
@@IntheLoopPodcast its not too often one can ride on a Von Roll Skyride
If grizzly got rmc, i would cry tears of joy
THE IRON GRIZZLY ;)
flight deck was TopGun. great America is yo be Paramount's Great America. most roller coasters where themes after a paramount movie.
Delirium the bestt
Ehhhh I’m to scared to ride again yeah
I love Delirium but every year it gets harder and harder for me to ride. I think I have vertigo and it messes me up bad. Sometimes I just take Dramamine and go on that one first and hope for the best.
you should go to six flags mexico I honestly love it!
I want to get to Six Flags Mexico sometime soon
I’ve been on every ride at Great America it is the best place in the world I used to go every weekend in summer now were in quarantine
Dang me too, every weekend (actually almost every day) every ride I love this place
cant believe all of this will be relocated or torn down
i prefer going here rather than six flags magic mountain
I live in the East Bay and Great America is one of my home parks along with Six Flags in Vallejo. The park does need to get rid of some old rides. The Grizzly is old, slow, and boring as hell and totally needs to be replaced, particularly now but the park has Gold Striker, which is one of the best wooden coasters I've ever been on. It's a beast. They should put a nice steel coaster where the Grizzly is or convert it to an RMC hybrid. The Demon should be gotten rid of as well for similar reasons. The park thinks of it as a classic so it doesn't want to get rid of it but I say screw that. Also, The Vortex, now called The Patriot, is a MUCH better ride now that it's floorless instead of being stand up. I completely disagree with you when you say that the change of trains didn't help anything. It helped it a ton. It's a much more pleasant ride now than it used to be. They recently add an expansion to Boomerang Bay, which I haven't seen yet. I never usually go in there because whenever I go to the park I'm there for the rides and not for water park.
If they get rid of Grizzly and Demon that will give them a lot of space for a hyper coaster. It will leave a hole in my heart but as you said, Gold Striker blows The Grizzly away and railblazer is better than The Demon. The boomerang bay expansion kinda rubbed me the wrong way, they removed Loggers Run to accommodate for it and I don't do water parks. If I want water slides I'll go to Raging Waters. At least my kid likes the water park.
Saying the employees are miserable: anyone who has ever had to get around the South Bay will understand why.
Making minimum wage and trying to afford anything here doesn't help.
@@darklordojeda Yep, no wonder so much of the Bay Area is understaffed. You can make more $ working remotely than actually having to go somewhere.