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Great Escape (amusement park)

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Great Escape (sometimes referred to as Six Flags Great Escape) is an amusement and water park owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corp. It is located approximately north of Albany, in Queensbury, New York, but is advertised as being in Lake George, New York, a popular tourist and vacation spot nearby. [1]

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Albany, New York

Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

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Alpine Bobsled

Alpine Bobsled is a steel bobsled roller coaster, made by Intamin.

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Alpine Freefalls

Alpine Freefalls is a water slide complex manufactured by ProSlide, currently operating since June 2, 2012, at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York.

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Amusement park

An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.

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Anton Schwarzkopf

Anton Schwarzkopf (8 July 1924 – 30 July 2001) was a German engineer of amusement rides, and founder of the Schwarzkopf Industries Company, which built numerous amusement rides and large roller coasters for both amusement parks and traveling funfairs.

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Arrow Dynamics

Arrow Dynamics was a roller coaster design and manufacturing company based in Clearfield, Utah, United States.

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Beech Bend Park

Beech Bend Park is an amusement park, campground and automobile race track located in Warren County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky, just outside the limits of the city of Bowling Green.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.

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Bobsled roller coaster

A bobsled roller coaster is a roller coaster that uses a track design that is essentially a "pipe" with the top half removed and has cars that are sent down this pipe in a freewheeling mode.

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Boomerang (roller coaster)

Boomerang is a model of roller coaster manufactured and designed by Vekoma, a Dutch manufacturer.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

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Busch Gardens

Busch Gardens is the name of two amusement parks in the United States, owned and operated by SeaWorld Entertainment.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canyon Blaster (Great Escape)

Canyon Blaster is a steel roller coaster located at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York.

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Carousel

A carousel (American English: from French carrousel and Italian carosello), roundabout (British English), or merry-go-round, is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders.

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Chairlift

An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel cable loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs.

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Chance Rides

Chance Rides Manufacturing is a roller coaster and amusement ride manufacturer.

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Charles Wood (businessman)

Charles R. "Charley" Wood (1914 – September 30, 2004) was an American amusement park developer and philanthropist in Upstate New York.

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Condor (ride)

The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany.

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Crystal Beach Cyclone

The Crystal Beach Cyclone is one of a 'Terrifying Triplet' of highly extreme and vicious roller coasters designed and built by Harry G. Traver in the late 1920s.

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Crystal Beach, Ontario

Crystal Beach is a community within Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada with a population of 8,524 at the time of the 2016 census.

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Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character produced by Warner Bros. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, the character has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, where he usually has been depicted as a foil of Bugs Bunny.

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Darien Lake

Darien Lake is a theme park resort in New York, Located in Darien, New York, United States.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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Elmer Fudd

Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, and the de facto archenemy of Bugs Bunny.

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Fantasy Island (U.S. amusement park)

Fantasy Island is an amusement park located on Grand Island, New York.

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Ferris wheel

A Ferris wheel (sometimes called a big wheel, observation wheel, or, in the case of the very tallest examples, giant wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, capsules, gondolas, or pods) attached to the rim in such a way that as the wheel turns, they are kept upright, usually by gravity.

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Flying Scooters

Flying Scooters, also known simply as Flyers, is an amusement ride consisting of a center post with ride vehicles suspended from arms attached to the center post.

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Fort Erie, Ontario

Fort Erie is a town on the Niagara River in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Frankie’s Mine Train (Great Escape)

Frankie’s Mine Train is a steel roller coaster of out and back design located at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York.

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Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains.

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Grand Island, New York

Grand Island is a town located in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of All Hallows' Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

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Herbert Schmeck

Herbert Paul Schmeck (born 1890 in Reading, Pennsylvania, died 1956) was an American roller coaster designer.

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Holiday in the Park

Holiday in the Park is a Christmas event that takes place at several Six Flags parks.

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure.

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HUSS Park Attractions

HUSS Park Attractions (legal name: Huss Park Attractions GmbH) is a company that specializes in developing and manufacturing amusement rides at a factory in Budapest, Hungary.

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Intamin

Intamin Worldwide is a designing and manufacturing company in Wollerau, Switzerland.

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Johnny Rockets

The Johnny Rockets Group Inc. is an American restaurant franchise whose themed decor is based upon 1950s diner-style restaurants.

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Justice League

The Justice League is a team of fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Kentucky Kingdom

Kentucky Kingdom (formerly named Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom) is an amusement park in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Kidzopolis

Kidzopolis is a themed kid's area with various rides at several Six Flags amusement parks.

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La Ronde (amusement park)

La Ronde (Round) is an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built as the entertainment complex for Expo 67, the 1967 world fair.

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Labor Day

Labor Day in the United States is a public holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September.

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Lake George (New York)

Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York.

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Larson International

Larson International is a designer and manufacturer of amusement rides based in Plainview, Texas.

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Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series Merrie Melodies.

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Mack Rides

Mack Rides GmbH & Co KG, also known simply as Mack Rides, is a German company that designs and constructs amusement rides.

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Mine train roller coaster

A mine train roller coaster is a steel roller coaster whose trains often depict a set of mine carts, with the forward-most car or portions of it sometimes resembling a small steam locomotive.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Mother Goose

The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes often published as Old Mother Goose's Rhymes, as illustrated by Arthur Rackham in 1913.

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Music Express

A Music Express is an amusement ride based on the original Caterpillar rides of Germany.

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Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon

Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon (formerly known as Starchaser and Nightmare at Phantom Cave) was a twister roller coaster at Great Escape amusement park in Queensbury, New York.

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Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest is the world's largest Volksfest (beer festival and travelling funfair).

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Opryland USA

Opryland USA (later called Opryland Theme park and colloquially referred to simply as Opryland) was an amusement park in suburban Nashville, Tennessee.

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Papa John's Pizza

Papa John's Pizza is an American restaurant franchise company.

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Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters

Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, commonly referred to as PTC, is one of the oldest existing roller coaster manufacturing companies in the world.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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Pizza

Pizza is a traditional Italian dish consisting of a yeasted flatbread typically topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven.

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Pontchartrain Beach

Pontchartrain Beach was an amusement park located in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

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ProSlide Technology

ProSlide Technology, Inc. is a Canadian designer and manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Queensbury, New York

Queensbury is a town in Warren County, New York, United States.

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Rainbow (ride)

Rainbow is the name of the amusement park ride created by HUSS Maschinenfabrik of Bremen, Germany which is now HUSS Park Attractions of Budapest, Hungary.

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River rapids ride

A river rapids ride (or river rafting ride) is an amusement ride that simulates whitewater rafting.

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Roller coaster

A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions.

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S&S - Sansei Technologies

S&S - Sansei Technologies, formerly S&S Worldwide, is an American company known for its pneumatically powered amusement rides and roller coaster designing.

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Sasquatch (ride)

Sasquatch is an S&S Power combo tower at Great Escape, in Queensbury, New York.

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Six Flags

Six Flags, officially Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, is an amusement park corporation based in the United States, with properties in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

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Six Flags Great Adventure

Six Flags Great Adventure is an amusement park located in Jackson, New Jersey, owned by Six Flags Entertainment Corp. Situated between New York City and Philadelphia, the park complex also contains the Hurricane Harbor water park.

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Six Flags Great America

Six Flags Great America is an amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois.

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Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark

Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark is a Resort and Waterpark, located in Queensbury, New York that first opened in 2006.

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Six Flags New Orleans

Six Flags New Orleans (SFNO) is a 140-acre, abandoned theme park in New Orleans that has been closed since Hurricane Katrina struck the state in August 2005.

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Skydiver (ride)

The Skydiver is an amusement ride produced from 1965 to 1987 by Chance Rides, an American manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas.

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Speedy Gonzales

Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.

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Steamin' Demon

Steamin' Demon is a steel roller coaster located at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York.

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Swing ride

The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, Chair-O-Planes or swinger) is an amusement ride that is a variation on the carousel in which the chairs are suspended from the rotating top of the carousel.

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Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes)

The Tasmanian Devil, commonly referred to as Taz, is an animated cartoon character featured in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.

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The Comet (Great Escape)

The Comet is a wooden roller coaster located at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York, in the United States.

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The Wiggles

The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1991.

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Tornado (ProSlide ride)

The Tornado is a water slide manufactured by ProSlide Technology.

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Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin.

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Tweety

Tweety is an animated fictional yellow canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons.

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Vekoma

Vekoma Rides Manufacturing is a Dutch amusement ride manufacturer.

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Water park

A water park or waterpark is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for bathing, swimming, and other barefoot environments.

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Water slide

A water slide (also referred to as a flume, water chute, or hydroslide) is a type of slide designed for warm-weather or indoor recreational use at water parks.

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Wave pool

A wave pool is a swimming pool in which there are artificially generated, reasonably large waves, similar to those of the ocean.

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Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam is an American animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

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Zamperla

Antonio Zamperla S.p.A. is an Italian design and manufacturing company founded in 1966.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Escape_(amusement_park)

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