September 19, 2011
We could not help but be proud as Larry Chickola from Six Flags Engineering and Sharon Parker from Six Flags over Texas were called onto stage. On Saturday, September 19 we were at the Golden Ticket awards, which were being hosted by Holiday World in the tiny town of Santa Claus, Indiana. While the city may be small, this park’s coaster collection is not. It sports three different, fantastic wooden coasters (The Raven, The Legend, and the Voyage) that they added in an eleven year span. Anyway, back to us feeling like parents when their child steals the scene at the school play. At the awards ceremony the New Texas Giant at Six Flags over Texas was chosen as the “Best New Ride”. It is definitely an honor and we enjoyed how happy the park’s representatives were. When you work on something for so long (Gerstlauer was brought into the project in the fall of 2009) you definitely grow attached to it. In Texas, we designed trains from the ground up, which is not done often. To us, the result was award-winning, but we are thrilled that others agree!