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In a move that has the Cleveland area buzzing, Six Flags, Inc., today announced the purchase of Sea World of Ohio, located adjacent to its own Six Flags Ohio. The announcement comes only a week after the park announced the construction of a Vekoma Flying Dutchman called X-Flight.
Read more about the details of the sale from PR Newswire.
I know, I know, y’all hate when I do this, but with it being the regional park off season, and with “Rollback” being my favorite feature on this site- I thought I’d resurrect this one from 19 years ago.
Don’t want to beat a dead horse as far as whose to blame in what happened to the park in Aurora, but this park’s story is without a doubt probably the most fascinating in recent amusement park history.
Reading this thread brought so many memories back to what was happening during this era in the theme park world in Ohio, when I was a teenager and the internet was a blossoming world where we enthusiasts finally found a world to discuss our obsession.
Also- huge shout out to Jeff who speaks almost as a prophet as to how it would all eventually go down.
Please don’t turn this into a blame game, but enjoy the ride down memory lane as I have.
19 years ago. Wow. My now wife and I bought Six Flags passes from SFWoA when she lost her job (and took our first week long road trip together hitting the east coast Six Flags parks and Busch Gardens. I loved that park.
I loved Geauga Lake. SFWoA, not so much. Geauga had a certain charm to it.I remember one summer when my parents took us to Sea World, and while there staring across the lake wishing we had gone to that cool park across the lake with the roller coasters.
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
--Fran Lebowitz
Tilt-A-Whirl said:
Also- huge shout out to Jeff who speaks almost as a prophet as to how it would all eventually go down.
I don't think you had to be a prophet to do the math that operating two parks on the income of one was not going to work. 😂 That it was my first reaction though is very telling about the reality of the situation. And eight months later, we all know what further forced the economy into the crapper.
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