My group is seriously weighing whether or not we can make a trip out there next year. I'll need to do some research, but I'd really like to make it happen.
I think it would be very wise for Six Flags to relocate any and all rides that they can from CGA to their other parks, although we'll have to see what the company looks like next August for a better idea as to what's going to happen. Give the company a little room to liven up its properties like Cedar Fair did with the rides from Geauga Lake. My votes for (likely) ride relocations are:
Demon > parts go to the one at Chicago's Great America
Flight Deck > Kings Dominion (retheme and put it in Old Virginia)
Gold Striker > trains go to another GCI in the chain
Grizzly > genuinely no clue what could be saved here
Lucy's Crabbie Cabbies (E&F Miler) > either
Cedar Point for more family capacity
Chicago's Great America for family capacity
a park that somehow doesn't have a version of this coaster
Patriot > send the trains to Carowinds and scrap the rest or relocate wholesale to a park that doesn't have a floorless coaster
Psycho Mouse > Vortex replacement (just kidding I don't want that) > send to Kings Island as part of an Action Zone retheme
Railblazer > any park that doesn't already have a Single Rail coaster, but possibly Kings Island or Carowinds
Woodstock Express (Intamin) > either Great Adventure for their potential new family area or anywhere else that doesn't have something like this
Flat Rides
Delirium (Chance Revolution 32) > a park that doesn't have it
Drop Tower > parts go to Canada's Wonderland or Chicago's Great America
Orbit (Schwarzkopf Enterprise) > Chicago's Great America or scrapped for parts
Thunder Raceway > scrapped
Tiki Twirl > Dorney Park or Great Adventure
Xtreme Skyflyer > demolished like its siblings
Flying Eagles > bring them to Kings Island
Liberty Twirler (Scrambler) > either scrapped for parts or sent to a park that (somehow) doesn't have one
Mass Effect: New Earth > if the IP and/or equipment can be moved, send it anywhere it fits
Rip Roaring Rapids > the rafts get used for parts
Carousel Columbia > please, please, please save it and send it wholesale to another Six Flags park. I (selfishly) want it to come to Kings Island, but literally anywhere please
Star Tower > parts used for another park
Barney Oldfield's Redwood Rally > send those old Arrow antique cars to another park (ahem Chicago's Great America)
Berserker > bring her to Kings Island and place in Action Zone
Centrifuge > either send to a new park or strip for parts
Von Roll Sky Ride > I think there's a legal something about relocating these, but I'd like to see it relocated (otherwise send the gondolas to Cedar Point)
Pacific Gliders (Zamperla Windstar) > any park
Celebration Swings (wave swinger) > any park that needs it
Whitewater Falls (Intamin shoot-the-chutes) > parts for Congo Falls
Due Le Dodge > bumper cars sent to another park
any Planet Snoopy rides > used either for parts or sent to pad out kids areas at other parks
any ride from South Bay Shores > anything new/in good condition goes to another park; all else scrapped
All of this is assuming that the rides are in good condition, though I think there's a better survivability rate for rides from CGA as opposed to rides from Six Flags America. Since both Great Americas were pretty much an exact copy of one another I think there's also a chance that we see specific items transported from Santa Clara and installed in Gurnee if they're in good enough condition. Frankly, I think anything and everything that is salvageable from CGA should either be sold or transported to another Six Flags park.
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