Six Flags Great America

Six Flags Great America is a Six Flags theme park in the Chicago metropolitan area, located in Gurnee, Illinois. This park originally opened on May 27, 1976 as Marriott's Great America, as one of the two theme parks opened by the Marriott Corporation.
== History ==
Opening in 1976, The Marriott's Great America parks in Gurnee and Santa Clara were the first theme parks in the world to have exclusive rights to use the Looney Tunes characters in their parks (though Magic Mountain had Bugs Bunny during their first operating season), eventually after Marriott was disappointed by the earnings the parks not being what they expected they eventually sold both parks, the Gurnee park along with the theme park rights for the Looney Tunes ended up going to Six Flags who would later begin to use the characters in all of their Six Flags parks.
At Great America, the Looney Tunes can be found at the front of the park in front of the carousel once it opens; later in the day, they can be found in the Hometown Square area in the middle of the square (or under a canopy of a shop on hot or rainy days).
==Location==
== Looney Tunes attractions operated ==
* Bugs Bunny Land (1980s - 1995)
*Bugs Bunny Yukon Adventure (1995- 97)
* Bugs Bunny National Park (also known as Looney Tunes National Park), (1998-2010)
** The Looney Tooter (1998-2010)
** Looney Tunes Lodge (1998-2010)
** Waddaview National Park Charter Service (1998-2010)
** Porky's Buzzy Beez (1998-2010; 2012)
** Petunia's Love Bugz (1998-2009)
** Pepe Le Pew's Peak (1998-2009)
** Nature Trail (1998-2010)
** Yosemite Sam's National Park Tour (1998-2010)
== Looney Tunes shows operated ==
* The Toonite Show Starring Bugs Bunny (1993-unknown)
* Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension (2006-2008)
* Looney Tunes Dance-Off (2009-2011)
* Madcap Mardigras (2012-unknown)
== Looney Tunes shops operated ==
* Bugs Bunny and Co.
* Tweety and Co.
* Carousel Plaza Gifts (variety of merchandise offered, including Looney Tunes)
* El Mercado
== Gallery ==
File:Looney Tunes 1976.png|Looney Tunes at opening day 
File:Bugs' Great America outfit.png|Bugs costume made for the Park
File:Bugs with Mel Blanc and Bill Marriott.png|Bugs costume with Mel Blanc and Bill Marriott
File:Six Flags Great America 2015 Media day.png|Six Flags Great America Media Day 2015
File:Great America outfit on the modern Bugs costume.png|Modern Bugs Costume with the Marriott's outfit
File:Bugs Bunny National Park.png|Bugs Bunny National park circa. 2008
== Videos ==
File:Marriott's Great America - Bugs Bunny -Mel Blanc- (1977)|Marriott's Great America Commercial with Mel Blanc (1977)
File:Six Flags Great America - Bugs' 50th Birthday rap (1990)|Great America Bugs Bunny 50th with Jeff Bergman
File:1990 - Bugs Bunny's 50th Birthday Spectacular - Six Flags Great America Chicago - Parade Show - 1990|Bugs 50th Birthday show
File:Looney Tunes Christmas Show Six Flags Great America Holiday in the Park 2019|2019 Holiday show
==External links ==
*Six Flags Great America official page at Six Flags
*Six Flags Great America at Logopedia
*Six Flags Great America at the Six Flags Wiki
* at Wikipedia
Category:Six Flags
Category:1976