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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)
I looked but could not find the name of Darien Lake's water park. Anyone know the actual name?
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)
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 It looks like this portion of the article is out of date, so it should be either corrected or removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.61.133.132 ( talk) 02:18, 21 April 2007‎
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)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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. → ClarkCT Talk @ 00:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
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)
Will add citation about recently rolledback edit about Geauga Lake later. Nathanhillinbl ( talk) 11:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
It states "the population". Population of what?
I asked for a citation on the passes offered for eating a cockroach during Fear Fest. I've never heard of this particular promotion.
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)
An anon IP added this news story discussing plans for Six Flags to refinance some of its debt ... but no content that this source corroborated. I'm moving it here in case somebody has a chance to incorporate the information into the article. -- McDoob AU 93 15:34, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
We need to semi protect this article. Please do this.--99 time 14:19, 9 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockers99 ( talk • contribs)
No u. 140.198.42.45 ( talk) 01:11, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
The article is in Category:Companies established in 1961, but the infobox gives 1962 as the year of establishment. Further, the article states
The Six Flags chain originated in 1959 with the creation of The Great Southwest Corporation...
The correct date with a source/reference is needed. Senator2029 “Talk†15:25, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
This article claims that Six Flags over Texas opened in 1954, the year before Disneyland opened. The actual article for Six Flags Over Texas claims that it was a visit to the recently opened Disneyland park that inspired the creation of the park, and that it opened in 1960. Which is it? MrItty ( talk) 03:02, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Six Flags (1961–2024)/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
I only gave it a B-Class rating because almost all of the content is listed in one section (History), and the rest of the article is listings. The lists should probably be put on a separate page (such as See List of Six Flags parks). Also, the "News" section is not very encyclopedic. If anyone wants to take a crack at fixing this, please do so. I may get around to doing it later. Feel free to disagree with me. - Jcembree 04:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC) |
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Is it possible that instead of listing everything that had happened to the company in a timeline to summarize it a bit more? -- Jpp858 ( talk) 22:19, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Dyll222::The Campgrounds that are alongside Six Flags Darien Lake is not included in the "26 properties" that the company recognizes. 23 of which are in the United States and the other three are La Ronde, Mexico and Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Oaxtepec.
@Jpp858 stop changing the Darien Lake opening. The campgrounds are significant to the property, they bring in a lot of revenue for the theme park. Stop changing it, if Great America can have their water park registered as open then Darien Lake can have their campgrounds registered, both are significant. Dyll222 ( talk) 15:58, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Beginning a new section here...
I'm not sure the chart itself is encyclopedic. Per WP:NOTTRAVEL and WP:NOTNEWS, Wikipedia shouldn't be used as an up-to-the-minute travel status of various amusement destinations and rides. We favor long-term, historical significance, and 15-20 years from now, the daily updates wouldn't have any real significance. The entire situation can be summed up in a brief sentence or two about the overall impact COVID-19 had on the park properties. In my opinion, the chart should be removed and instead allow the individual park articles to track reopening dates. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 16:57, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
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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)
I looked but could not find the name of Darien Lake's water park. Anyone know the actual name?
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)
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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.61.133.132 ( talk) 02:18, 21 April 2007‎
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)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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. → ClarkCT Talk @ 00:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
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)
Will add citation about recently rolledback edit about Geauga Lake later. Nathanhillinbl ( talk) 11:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
It states "the population". Population of what?
I asked for a citation on the passes offered for eating a cockroach during Fear Fest. I've never heard of this particular promotion.
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)
An anon IP added this news story discussing plans for Six Flags to refinance some of its debt ... but no content that this source corroborated. I'm moving it here in case somebody has a chance to incorporate the information into the article. -- McDoob AU 93 15:34, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
We need to semi protect this article. Please do this.--99 time 14:19, 9 October 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockers99 ( talk • contribs)
No u. 140.198.42.45 ( talk) 01:11, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
The article is in Category:Companies established in 1961, but the infobox gives 1962 as the year of establishment. Further, the article states
The Six Flags chain originated in 1959 with the creation of The Great Southwest Corporation...
The correct date with a source/reference is needed. Senator2029 “Talk†15:25, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
This article claims that Six Flags over Texas opened in 1954, the year before Disneyland opened. The actual article for Six Flags Over Texas claims that it was a visit to the recently opened Disneyland park that inspired the creation of the park, and that it opened in 1960. Which is it? MrItty ( talk) 03:02, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Six Flags (1961–2024)/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
I only gave it a B-Class rating because almost all of the content is listed in one section (History), and the rest of the article is listings. The lists should probably be put on a separate page (such as See List of Six Flags parks). Also, the "News" section is not very encyclopedic. If anyone wants to take a crack at fixing this, please do so. I may get around to doing it later. Feel free to disagree with me. - Jcembree 04:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC) |
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Is it possible that instead of listing everything that had happened to the company in a timeline to summarize it a bit more? -- Jpp858 ( talk) 22:19, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
@ Dyll222::The Campgrounds that are alongside Six Flags Darien Lake is not included in the "26 properties" that the company recognizes. 23 of which are in the United States and the other three are La Ronde, Mexico and Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Oaxtepec.
@Jpp858 stop changing the Darien Lake opening. The campgrounds are significant to the property, they bring in a lot of revenue for the theme park. Stop changing it, if Great America can have their water park registered as open then Darien Lake can have their campgrounds registered, both are significant. Dyll222 ( talk) 15:58, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Beginning a new section here...
I'm not sure the chart itself is encyclopedic. Per WP:NOTTRAVEL and WP:NOTNEWS, Wikipedia shouldn't be used as an up-to-the-minute travel status of various amusement destinations and rides. We favor long-term, historical significance, and 15-20 years from now, the daily updates wouldn't have any real significance. The entire situation can be summed up in a brief sentence or two about the overall impact COVID-19 had on the park properties. In my opinion, the chart should be removed and instead allow the individual park articles to track reopening dates. -- GoneIn60 ( talk) 16:57, 13 July 2020 (UTC)