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⭐ Core Definition: Six Flags

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, or simply Six Flags, is an American amusement park company, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The company owns and operates 50 properties throughout North America, including 26 amusement parks, 15 water parks, and nine resorts, making it the largest regional theme park operator in North America. In 2024, Six Flags properties hosted 50.3 million guests, ranking it as the fifth-highest in attendance among theme park companies in the world.

The company was formed on July 2, 2024, following a merger of equals between longtime rivals Cedar Fair and the former Six Flags company with a total enterprise value of US$8 billion. Upon completion of the merger, former Cedar Fair stockholders held a 51.2% majority stake in the newly formed company, which retained the Six Flags name and Cedar Fair's ticker symbol, FUN, on the New York Stock Exchange.

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👉 Six Flags in the context of Six Flags Over Texas

Six Flags Over Texas is a 212-acre (86 ha) amusement park, in Arlington, Texas, east of Fort Worth and west of Dallas. It is the first amusement park in the Six Flags chain, and features themed areas and attractions. The park opened on August 5, 1961, after a year of construction and an initial investment of US$10 million by real estate developer Angus G. Wynne Jr.

The park is managed by the Six Flags Entertainment Corp., which owns a 54% interest of the Texas Limited Partnership that owns the park. Six Flags Over Texas Fund, Ltd., a private-equity and asset-management firm, headed by Dallas businessman Jack Knox, bought the park in 1969. Over the years, the various companies that managed the park exercised options to purchase interest in the fund. Six Flags Entertainment has an option to purchase the remaining 46% in 2028. In 1991, Time Warner Entertainment began managing park operations. In 1998, Time Warner sold its interests in the Six Flags parks to Premier Parks, of Oklahoma City, which later changed its name to Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc.

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Six Flags in the context of Hurricane Harbor

Hurricane Harbor is a chain of water parks that are part of the Six Flags theme park chain. Although the parks are not identical, common features include a variety of body slides, speed slides, tube slides, wave pools, lazy rivers, and shopping areas similar to other waterparks.

Some of the Six Flags Hurricane Harbor branded waterparks are included with admission to a Six Flags amusement park. While other waterparks in the chain are a separate admission to an adjacent Six Flags park (though access to the adjacent amusement park is included in some season passes and memberships to the waterpark), or are stand-alone waterparks with no adjacent Six Flags amusement park.

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Six Flags in the context of Worlds of Fun

Worlds of Fun is a 235-acre (95 ha) theme park located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags, it was founded by American businessmen Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman under the ownership of Hunt's company, Mid-America Enterprises in 1973. Oceans of Fun is a water park that opened in 1982 and is next to the amusement park. Admission to Oceans of Fun is included with the price of admission to Worlds of Fun. Mid-America Enterprises sold both parks to Cedar Fair (now Six Flags) in 1995 for $40 million.

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Six Flags in the context of Oceans of Fun

Oceans of Fun is a tropically themed water park that opened on May 22, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the adjacent Worlds of Fun amusement park. When it opened, it was the largest water park in the state of Missouri. It is owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.

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Six Flags in the context of Angus G. Wynne

Angus Gilchrist Wynne Jr. (January 9, 1914 – March 12, 1979) was an American businessman and real estate developer.

His first major project was the Wynnewood residential development and Wynnewood Village shopping center in Oak Cliff, started shortly after World War II. He was later CEO of Great Southwest Corporation and Great Southwest Industrial District in Arlington, Texas; it was in that role that Wynne created the original Six Flags over Texas. He went on to develop Six Flags theme parks in Georgia and Missouri as well.

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Six Flags in the context of Six Flags America

Six Flags America is a decommissioned 131-acre (53 ha) amusement park in Woodmore, Maryland, United States. Owned by Six Flags, it was located near Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. It had a water park named Hurricane Harbor Maryland.

Founded as a wildlife center in 1974 by Ross Perot, ABC television operated the park as a drive-through safari called The Largo Wildlife Preserve, from 1974 until its closure in 1978. The property was bought by Jim Fowler's Wild Kingdom; thereafter, the site was gradually converted from a wildlife preserve into a theme park named Wild World. In 1992, the park was renamed Adventure World after being acquired by Premier Parks.

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