Winter Lights Event.

[SFGA 11]

SFGAdv is holding there second annual Winter Lights event this year. Do you think we will be seeing an event similar to this at Gam or other SF parks in the future. It sound like it is a pretty nice event for the whole family. I wouldn't mind seeing at SFGAm. The park is lacking in things for the whole family to enjoy.

[drumerman]

What is the witer lights?

[CoasterDave316]

I think they basically decorate the park with lights. Then you drive through the park to look at them.

[Aero737]

Dave summed it up exactly. The decorate stuff with christmas lights and you drive through it. There are themes from the 12 days of christmas to safiari animals.http://sixflagswinterlights.com/mainmenu.html Go here for more info.I wouldn't go. I don't see the point. Even if I was 5 or 6. It would only attract a local crowd (comon, would you dive 50 miles to see lights?). No, I hope SFGAm never gets a 'winter lights' type show. Save the money to keep the park clean or get a new parking lot!!

[greatamerica2003]

I think it's kind of a neat idea. How are they going to lose money, they charge to drive through. If they pull if off good, then they stand to make some cash.It may be neat if SFGAm did something similar. I think a drive-through the park may be a but much, but somthing holiday themed. Tell me what you think of this.......Have Carousel Plaza, Hometown Square, and Orleans Place open. If you promoted it right to local businesses, you could lease store space to them for a fee. Ice skating on the reflection pond (whit proper protection from ice skates to the cement work) Have a holiday show in either the Grand Music Hall or Theatre Royale. Then instead of decorating the entire park, decorate only along the railroad tracks and run the train. Maybe even some holiday motion simulator film in SSA. How about that??

[SFGA 11]

That sounds good.I don't think I would like this event that much if it would ever happen. But, I would like to see SFGAm do something for the whole family to enjoy.

[SfGaMownz]

Or maybe do everything that greatamerica2003 mentioned and open all the coasters .

[coastrcorey]

That's a really good idea... It wouldn't be to attract teens specifically anyway. Christmas is a family-like holiday, so it would be a really cool event for families to go to. Sell hot chocolate, and other stuff like that, I think it would be fun.

[Chitown]

Actually, this was attempted before when Marriott owned the park. They just had Carousel plaza and the part of Orlean's place that goes up to the railroad tracks open.They had the Columbia operating. They also decorated the park and had the shops open with Christmas items. I believe they had a Santa there and served hot chocolate.My mother took me there when I was little but have vague memories of it. Needless to say, they only did it one time. It obviously didn't generate enough business.

[da rcman2001]

This would NEVER happen. And first of all, it's in the wild safari drive through, a 4 mile long road that goes through open fields and landscaping. A museum near a mall where I live has a big winding path in the woods and they do the same thing. It would never come to GAm because we dont have a long road, and they would never open the park because its 0 degrees out.

[greatamerica2003]

Wow da rcman, you must know EVERYTHING!!!

[coastrcorey]

Besides, GA2003's idea wasn't even for a drive-through type thing... Read it and you'll see this.

[planea380]

If Six Flags would advertise it, and somehow add a mini snowboarding area, and charge 20 bucks this would be a hit.

[SfGaMownz]

Exactly how would they add a mini-snowboarding area when the park has no hills..

[da rcman2001]

Yes, I do know everything Greatamerica2003, and I did read the post coastrcorey. Maybe you need to reread MY post and stop acusing other people of stuff you do.Now that that's out of the way, lets move on. A sled/snowboarding hill would be cool, but a location for it would be hard to find a spot for, unless they built up snow on the parking lot or something I sort of agree with what you are saying, GAm2003, but I'm just saying it's highly unlikely to happen. We need to remember that Six Flags management is different from Marriots, or time-warner.

[T_Biggs]

He didn't acuse you of anything, he just asked if you know everything. Obviously you don't, because I'm the one who does. But, its possible to have snowboarding at SFGAm. I saw a model for a snow disk some company can make. Although the model was of something a bit large for SFGAm, I'm sure that a smaller, portable one could be built. Its a giant inclined disk, which spins. The closer to the outside you are, the faster you go. They could set it up in the parking lot. Although, I don't think one exists, and anyways, only Japanese people buy things like this. They are, after all, home of the largest, indoor, year round ski hill. And, the largest moving wall (with plumbing, none the less.) Silly Japanese, what will they do next?

[coastrcorey]

Wait, da rcman2001... Are you talking about how the Winter Lights thing in general would never happen? Or are you talking about GA2003's idea never happening? Maybe there's just miscommunication...

[da rcman2001]

I was talking about the whole idea in general not just GAm2003's post. i think the idea would be pretty cool but it's completely unlikely this high north. I just remembered that SFOT has some Holiday in the park thing and they show a pic. of a kid on a sled hill, so Six Flags is capable, but our park just isn't in the right location, or has the right stuff to make it possible.

[planea380]

but our park just isn't in the right location, or has the right stuff to make it possible.

Our park is in a good location, we have the right stuff I gurantee if JW went up to corporate and asked them to invest there money it they will be willing to do it. I would have to say our park has to be one of the few parks making money.

[greatamerica2003]

I think we have a great location here. Right between Milwaukee and Chicago, in one of the largest and highly populated urban sprawl areas in the country! And not everything would be outside. There can be shows, and shops, and indoor activities.They have been doing this thing at Great Adventure for quite awhile, so it must be doing well for them.

[T_Biggs]

Good one, you made me laugh. SGAm is too "high north." You obviously don't know much about good winter locations. If you havn't noticed winter sports are extremely popular. Now, if the park was in, say, interior Alaska, then, yeah, it would be too far north. Nobody likes going out when its more than 10 below every day. But nothern Illinois is hardly a bad location for winter attractions. The average high is never lower than 25 in the winter, sounds like a good climate for a holiday park.

[coasterzak]

I've been to SFGAdv and know that the animal safari park is "Drive Thru-able". No other Six Flags park that I have been to have a set up like that. In the summer, you are supposed to drive through the safari. I don't think we'll ever see something like that at SFGAm because you can't just take your car through the front gate to see some lights. You're not actually driving through SFGAdv when you go on the light thing, it's through the drive through animal section which was designed that way.