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The Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

After circling the park our next stop was at Goliath.

You could tell that Donna loved hanging upside down on Goliath by how her laughter intensified.

Loggers Run log flume at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

A favorite of mine is the classic Loggers Run.

The Logger's Run Log Flume at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

Most log flumes are pretty short with a few turns, a lift and then a drop into the splashdown. Then you have massive rides like Loggers Run and the Yankee Clipper hydro-flume that are entwined together here. In the length of trough that it takes just to get to Logger's Run's lift is longer than most log flumes out there. Then after that Loggers Run takes you up into the air for more sloshing around before coming to the final sixty foot double dip into the rides splashdown.

Donna and I got soaked on Loggers Run. Unfortunately our trip had a lot more soaking ahead of us.

The Flash Vertical Velocity Coaster at Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, Illinois

Looking skyward after leaving Loggers Run you can catch a glimpse of the "new" The Flash: Vertical Velocity coaster.

No the ride isn't new but the paint job, the application of a few images of the DC comic book character The Flash" around the station, and a new name is reason enough for Six Flags marketing department to claim it is new. Marketing practices like that are nothing new in the industry as Chicago's old Riverview Park would rename coasters all of the time and call them a new ride to draw in patrons.