The park debuted several new features for the 2006 season. This is New York State's first indoor waterpark. This major addition includes a 38,000 square feet (3,500 m 2) waterpark exclusively for lodge guests.

In February 2006, The Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark opened up with positive reviews and sold-out weekends throughout the first month. Unlike many parks during that time, Great Escape was not rebranded or flagged as a Six Flags park. In 1996, Charles Wood sold the park to Premier Parks who would later go on to purchase the Six Flags company. Roller coaster enthusiasts recognize it as one of the best wooden roller coasters in North America. Charley Wood, the owner of Great Escape Fun Park and Fantasy Island in Grand Island, New York successfully bid for The Comet and it sat in storage for a few years in Fantasy Island before making its way to the park in Queensbury, NY and reopening in 1994. It was saved shortly after the park closed down forever after the 1988 season. Re-opened at The Great Escape in 1994, this roller coaster already had a 41-year history as The Comet at Crystal Beach (an amusement park near Niagara Falls, Ontario). The showpiece attraction at The Great Escape is the Comet. In 1984, The Great Escape opened the Steamin' Demon, the first of its eventual seven roller coasters.

In 1983, the park officially changed its name from Storytown USA to The Great Escape. This was when a car bumper was separate from the body and one could get all the way around it with wire. This practice stopped a few years later due to complaints and employees switched to attaching cardboard versions with wire. : 47 In 1957, realizing that the park was geared only toward small children, the park opened its Ghost Town area, the first of many themed areas opened in the park's history.įor publicity, the park placed bumper stickers on every car in the parking lot. The Great Escape was opened in 1954 as Storytown USA, a Mother Goose themed amusement park by businessman Charles Wood who bought the land with his wife for $75,000.

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