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Spacely's Sprocket Rockets

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Status
  
Operating

Type
  
Steel – Junior

Model
  
Junior Coaster (207m)

Max speed
  
35 km/h

Opened
  
1998

Park
  
Six Flags Great America

Opening date
  
1998

Manufacturer
  
Vekoma

Height
  
8.5 m

Height restriction
  
91 cm

Capacity
  
780 people/hour

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Park section
  
Yukon Territory - Camp Cartoon

Similar
  
Ragin' Cajun, Little Dipper, Viper, Whizzer, Gulf Coaster

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Spacely's Sprocket Rockets is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. This is a junior coaster with a height restriction of only 36 inches (910 mm). It is a Vekoma "roller-skater" model roller coaster. It is located in the Camp Cartoon section of the park, in Yukon Territory, as the headline attraction. It is themed to The Jetsons.

Contents

Spaceleys is the second junior-coaster built at the park. The first, was a Bradley & Kaye Little Dipper named Gulf Coaster, however it only operated in the 1976 season. Fires and other issues forced the park to close it.

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Incidents

On August 16, 2006, a girl collapsed in the Camp Cartoon Network section after riding the roller coaster. She would later be pronounced dead due to heart failure, but an autopsy showed that she died of a congenital heart condition.

References

Spacely's Sprocket Rockets Wikipedia