Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, NJ

Six Flags, Inc. is the world's largest regional theme park company with 20 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada, and soon will be expanding beyond North America with destinations in Dubai and Qatar.

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Originally opened in 1974 under restaurateur Warner LeRoy's vision of a seven park complex named Great Adventure (by which the park is still known as by locals today), it has been continuously operated since then. Six Flags took over ownership of the park in 1977. The park today contains eleven themed areas, four of which are designed for small children. It is the largest (land-wise) of all the Six Flags properties, including the land of the Safari Park. It also has the distinction of being the first park acquired by Six Flags after opening its first three original parks Six Flags Over Texas, Six Flags Over Georgia, and Six Flags St. Louis.

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Main Street

Main Street serves as the entry gate for Six Flags Great Adventure. It was originally entitled Liberty Court, and was built when the entrance to the park was moved from near what is now the Boardwalk area to a more central location. Main Street is themed as an Early-American town, somewhere around the 18th century. Later additions to Main Street have formed it into more of a turn-of-the-century town. In the front is Freedom Fountain, a popular meeting place.

Fantasy Forest

Fantasy Forest serves as the midway for the park, and was originally part of the entrance. Fantasy Forest is designed to make its visitors feel like children, and the section's bright colors and fanciful design give it a magical feel.The Great Character Cafe, which is designed to look like a giant ice cream sundae, is in this area along with the colorful Carousel and Enchanted Teacups. Originally, this section was split into two sections; Dream Street, the east side featuring the Carousel, and Strawberry Fair, the west side featuring the Big Wheel and Fantasy Fling. During Time Warner's acquisition of the park, these two sections of the park were combined into one. For the 2012 season the east side will stay as Fantasy Forest and the west side will be transformed to Adventure Alley.

Movie Town

This section makes up of what used to be the "Fun Fair" and "Action Town" sections of the park. It is themed as a Hollywood back lot, complete with Hollywood style buildings, and movie-themed ride, shops, stalls, and other attractions. Most of the attractions include D.C. Comics (Batman and Robin, Justice League) Over the years, many of the movie props have been removed, and all the flat rides in this section of the park have been moved or dismantled, leaving the section with only two roller coasters. The addition of The Dark Knight Coaster meant the removal of The Movietown Water Effect, a themed Splashdown ride. Batman and Robin: The Chiller and Stuntman's Freefall (an Intamin free-fall ride) had already been removed; so now the section is relatively empty. Nitro was included in Movietown until the 2011 season, when it became part of Adventure Seaport.

Adventure Alley

Adventure Alley is a new area for the 2012 season. It is made up of the Fantasy Forest area around the Big Wheel.

Adventure Seaport

Adventure Seaport was introduced for the 2011 season. It is made up of old parts of Looney Tunes Seaport and Movietown.

Frontier Adventures

Previously known as "Best of the West" and "Rootin' Tootin' Rip Roarin'", the park's western-themed section is very picturesque. It is home to many of the park's most famous structures including the Fort, The Conestoga Wagon, and the Best of the West restaurant, as well as some of the park's very popular rides. In 2009, Bizarro opened (formerly Medusa, opened in 1999) in this section, and though it is questionable how that relates to the Old West, Bizarro was given a backstory; relating to his takeover of the Medusa Mine. Frontier Adventures features Best of the West restaurant, one of the most popular eateries in the park.

Safari Kids

Safari Kids was added in 2011. It was formerly known as Wiggles World from 2007 - 2010. Most of the rides are rides re-themed from Looney Tunes Seaport, while the section itself replaced an ageing part of Looney Tunes Seaport and the outdated Riptide flume ride. The area was renamed and rethemed Safari Kids for 2011

The Golden Kingdom

The Golden Kingdom opened in 2005 with Kingda Ka on what was Bugs Bunny Land, the park's old kiddie-section. This section of the park is heavily-themed, with many bamboo plants, stone temples, and more.

Boardwalk

Previously Fortune Festival, the Boardwalk section of Great Adventure has many games commonly found on boardwalks, boardwalk restaurants, and many of the park's larger flat rides. This area of the park was also previously themed as Edwards Air Force Base, and many of the theme elements from then still exist now, including "Latrines", and the Parachute Tower's name. The section also has a slight boardwalk-influence to its rides.

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