Talk:Six Flags

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[edit] Warner Bros. Movie World parks

What about the Warner Bros. Movie World park in Australia? I have seen the Warner Bros. Movie World parks in Germany and Spain, on the Six Flags web site, years ago. I never saw the same web site ever list the Australian park but it is still open. Can someone explain to me the status of the Australian park, past and present? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.65.109.102 (talk) 22:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

WBMW Australia is operated by Village Roadshow, presumably under license from Warner Bros., according to Screamscape. Six Flags has never had a hand in this park. --McDoobAU93 (talk) 22:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article rewrite

I worked on revising the flow and wording of the article. I think it reads a lot better, with fewer headings and a natural, timeline flow to it. I'm certainly open to opinions and other editors' revisions. One idea I had was regarding the listing of Six Flags' properties. I think this would look a lot better as a table, with columns for park name, location, year park opened, year it became a Six Flags park and lastly a notes section for any additional noteworthy data (such as Six Flags New Orleans being closed indefinitely due to Katrina damage). For the former properties, it should include the name, the year it opened, the year it joined the family, the year it left and a notes section for what happened (closed, sold, etc.) I'm going out of town this weekend, and was wondering if someone with more table experience could start this. Let's keep at it! --McDoobAU93 12:17, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Six Flags"

regarding the Six Flags: This is not "alleged." The following flags have flown over the state of Texas at one point of time or another: Spain, France, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The United States and the Confederate States of America. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Txredcoat (talk • contribs) 13:04, 23 April 2005 (UTC)

I'm not saying it is, i just dont think there should be a link to SFOT there.(Also sign your posts)Nathanhillinbl 20:57, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

How is it that Six Flags is said to own 30 parks in the trivia section despite the fact that the first few lines of the article specify that they have 21? It looks like this portion of the article is out of date, so it should be either corrected or removed.

[edit] Article

Based on this article, http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11687695.htm, Six Flags is most likely banning all sex offenders from their parks. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 01:13, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "mainly due to 9/11"

Why do you say that SF's debt is attributed to 9/11? Everyone knows that 9/11 overall helped hurt the US economy. Therefore I removed it and I don't think it should be put back (unless there is a specific reason SF was hurt by 9/11.)

The events of September 11, 2001 had little to do with Six Flags' enormous debt. They essentially bit off more than they could chew by acquiring so many smaller parks. Their attempt at re-branding these parks was a failure and they lost money. The management at Premier Parks destroyed Six Flags when they took over; most of them were real estate brokers who knew little about operating a chain of themed parks. I'm quite certain that those people would like for you to believe it was all because of September 11, 2001. I have little doubt that's what they like people to believe. Jay77tx 12:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

It states "the population". Population of what?

  • --- Population of the United States, sorry forgot to put that.

I asked for a citation on the passes offered for eating a cockroach during Fear Fest. I've never heard of this particular promotion.

  • —Is that better? Jcembree 04:30, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Does the whole "built from the ground up" thing only parks that were built solely by six flags, or does it mean built solely as a theme park? If its solely as a theme park, The Great Escape would fall into that category.Nathanhillinbl 03:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Six Flags Darien Lake

I looked but could not find the name of Darien Lake's water park. Anyone know the actual name?

It doesn't use any particular name, the sections of it are called Hook's Lagoon, Crocodile Isle and Barracuda Bay, but it doesn't use the generic Six Flags moniker of "Hurrican Harbor." Zotdragon 15:59, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Darien Lake's water park is completely included with the park, and is not a seperate entity of any kind. Therefore there isn't a complete "name" and no reason to list it seperately on the site. ClarkCT 05:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Six Flags New Orleans

At this point, the company still owns and has rights to operate Six Flags New Orleans. I see no reason to put it under 'formerly owned/operated'. Just because it is currently closed doesn't mean they don't still own the park.

They want out of New Orleans. They've already pulled some of their hardware from the park and moved it elsewhere. Besides, Six Flags never owned the property upon which the park sits... they are only leasing it from the city of New Orleans. Jay77tx 12:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PARC Operations References

I won't edit the page because I prefer to stick to my local pages (Darien Lake), but FYI: to edit your wiki links as you see fit, articles now exist on the following as shown:

Thanks. ClarkCT 05:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:SixFlags Logo.jpg

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[edit] Criticism and Controversy

This section seems biased and poorly written, I'd like to delete it unless it can be revised. 74.67.53.38 22:25, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

There is not enough information about Premier Parks prior to its purchase of Six Flags Corporation. I would like to see more information about the executives in charge of PKS who took over Six Flags. If I am not mistaken, these people were essentially real estate brokers who bought their way into the amusement industry. Jay77tx 13:48, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Premier Parks

My primary problem with the current property list is that you say "listed in order they joined the six flags family" but the parks purchsed by Premier prior to Premier purchasing Six Flags are listed in that same order, as in the year Premier bought them, not Six Flags Theme Parks (the company prior to 2000 when Premier Parks PKS reorganized under Six Flags Inc SFI). I realize this is confusing in itself trying to sort SFTP from SFI in the first place, but the order "purchased by six flags" is incorrect. I'm not sure how to rectify this, other than to split them out or denote which company they were a part of prior to being purchased by which company. (Is this comment confusing yet?)

And I agree that there isn't enough info about Premier Parks here, which there should be as they are technically the original formation of the current Six Flags Incorporated. →ClarkCTTalk @  00:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I think what I was most trying for with these tables was to reflect when they became "flagged" parks, as it were. Unfortunately, that term really isn't encyclopedic, and you're right in that the terms currently presented are kinda murky, since many of the older Premier Parks had been acquired by Premier and then were "flagged" after Premier acquired the Six Flags brand. Maybe it should say "the year it became a Six Flags park," but that would leave out parks like Great Escape, which is owned by the company but not "flagged."
McDoobAU93 (talk) 18:30, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on coming up with a new format, probably still in a table but either divided or with added columns. Unfortunately everything I can think of is probably going to get confusing. I'll keep working on it. →ClarkCTTalk @  00:10, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I've got a new set of tables for the current properties - you can preview it at my Sandbox. If you have any problems with it please let me know. It may read somewhat confusing, but I think with a little expansion about Premier in the rest of the article, which may be my next project, it should be fine. →ClarkCTTalk @ 02:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)