THE GREAT ESCAPE & Splashwater Kingdom
Lake George, New York
Six Flags Theme Parks
 Park News - (7/27/2024) Six Flags has brought on Socrates Imaging to install an interesting new feature to The Bobcat wooden coaster at The Great Escape. Socrates worked with Gravity Group to install “The Rabbit” on-ride video capture system to the trains, which captures HD footage of the riders experience during the entire ride, and allowed them to purchase the personalized video of their ride via a simple QR code link.
The concept of on-ride cameras isn’t new, but it does very much fill a need in today’s social-media driven world, allowing guests the ability to obtain a video shot on professional equipment of their ride, without the need for the dangerous (and typically banned) practice of using their own cell-phones to do it. You can see a great sample video taken from The Bobcat posted here.
(5/27/2024) There has been some fuss over the fact that starting in late June, Six Flags over Texas will close the entire park each week on Tuesdays for the entire Summer. This is a bit of a surprise to the local market, as this is also the original Six Flags theme park that started the chain. Naturally guests in other markers have been concerned about their own parks making similar changed to their operational schedules.
Going through the posted calendars for all the parks on the Six Flags website, I’ve only been able to find the following items of interest.
Six Flags / The Great Escape will get off to the slow start to the summer with the park closed on most Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in June, then move to a daily schedule starting June 19 for the remainder of the summer.
(4/22/2024) A tense situation arose at The Great Escape Lodge when a 5-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a pool at the indoor waterpark on Saturday. She was flown to a hospital for treatment in Albany and is reported to be in stable condition as of Saturday evening. What exactly took place to lead to this situation is not yet known and the incident is currently under investigation.
2024 - The Bobcat - (5/31/2024) CW3 Adventures has posted an on-ride video on the new Bobcat coaster at The Great Escape. Check it out below!
(5/26/2024) Employees were able to take their first rides on the new Bobcat roller coaster yesterday, as shown by the park’s social media team. According to the post the park plans to hold the grand opening of the new coaster to the public on June 1, but they also teased that “You never know, you *might* be able to pounce a sneak peak this weekend.” so keep your eyes open when visiting!
(11/17/2023) Talk about high detail… check out the amazing new trains The Gravity Group was showing off at IAAPA for The Bobcat, coming to The Great Escape in 2024.
(11/12/2023) The Great Escape has posted another great piece of concept art showing off the look and theming of their new Bobcat wooden roller coaster coming for the 2024 season.
(8/31/2023) According to a tweet from The Gravity Group, the new Bobcat coaster coming to The Great Escape in 2024 will feature their new Engineered Precut Track system that just premiered a few weeks ago to rave reviews on the rebuilt/re-tracked sections on Megafobia at Oakwood!
(8/30/2023) In a big surprise, Six Flags Great Escape has announced they will be adding “The Bobcat”, an all new wooden roller coaster for the 2024 season. This new family coaster project is coming from The Gravity Group and will stand just 55 feet tall, and reach speeds of approximately 40 mph. In true family coaster fashion, the required height restriction will be just 42 inches. According to RCDB, the coaster will feature 12-passenger trains from Gravitykraft featuring 6 cars per train, with each car holding 2-rides side-by-side in a single row, not unlike the company’s previous family coasters: Oscar’s Wacky Taxi at Sesame Place or Kentucky Flyer at Kentucky Kingdom.
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