What are the original six "Six Flags?"

Everybody knows that SFMM started out as Wally World! ;)

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Kyle Fobe said:
Darien Lake Wyandot Lake and Geauga Lake were all something owned before Premier...not Six Flags.

I just don't remember the name

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Funtime is the company name you are looking for.

Yea!!! Wally World!!! ;)

Info mostly from Theme Park Timelines:

1961 - Six Flags over Texas opens
1967 - Six Flags over Georgia opens
1971 - Six Flags over Mid-America opens
1975 - Six Flags acquires AstroWorld
1977 - Six Flags acquires Great Adventure
1979 - Six Flags acquires Magic Mountain
1984 - Six Flags acquires Great America
1996 - Six Flags acquires Fiesta Texas

I think it's safe to say that the parks that were acquired by Six Flags are to this day still known better by their original names than by their Six Flags handle. In Chicago, everyone always referred to Great America as Great America... the Six Flags name-change was almost unnoticeable. And now that I live in San Antonio, SFoT is known as just "Six Flags" or "the Six Flags up in Dallas," and Fiesta Texas is still just Fiesta Texas.

You're right. As an example, the people here in central NY ALWAYS refer to SFDL as simply Darien Lake. I rarely hear the full Six Flags name.

^Same could be said for the Paramount Parks...nobody ever adds the "Paramount's" before Carowinds here in NC. It has and will always be just "Carowinds". :)

I live very close to geauga lake, and people here still call it six flags from the SFWoA days.

They should have left it "Six Flags Riverside". And anyway, how come Great Escape and Wyandot Lake have not been "Flagged"?

I remember picking up on an insteresting trend on the Coaster Zombies tour of Texas. It seemed every other person is wearing something containing the word Texas on it. I even came home with two coaster t-shirts that quite visibly say Texas on them. I asked a lady in a gift shop at SFOT what the deal is and she said something like "We're still upset that we're not our own country". Yikes. According to my map, SFOT has Texas, France, Mexico, and Spain sections of the park plus others.

I don't know if all the parks fly six flags, but I know SFA does.

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JDB said:
They should have left it "Six Flags Riverside". And anyway, how come Great Escape and Wyandot Lake have not been "Flagged"?

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Good Question. This is what I found from the 2004 Six Flags Inc. Annual Report

Based on our knowledge of the development of other theme parks in the United States, we estimate that it would cost at least $200 million and would take a minimum of two years to construct a new regional theme park comparable to one of our Six Flags theme parks.

Well this quote is really talking about building a new regional theme park i think. Anyways as far as it goes it really does take up to two years and money to rebrand the park. It takes time, but these parks will get the flagged soon. Well I don't know about Frontier City. As you can see SF season pass don't work at this park. I can't explain that one to you. Maybe someone else knows. *** Edited 6/20/2005 12:43:00 AM UTC by SF Critic***

Wyandot Lake is not big enough to be "flagged". I mean seriously, it is just a small waterpark and then a wooden coaster.

Bit of trivia: They were originally going to use the Confederate Flag instead of the Illinois flag at SFoMA, but since it did not fly over the entire state (only most of the south and then some other sparse areas up north) they opted for the Illinois flag instead (since it flys over EAST St.Louis). You know they could have used the Kingdom of Callaway flag. That was one of the counties here near MIZZOU that actually formed it's own country because it didn't want a thing to do with the war. However how many idiots in St. Louis would know what that one was. ;)

I don't think either Spain and France ever had a real claim on Georgia. Of course, maybe they tried, but then just blamed it on bad weather that year.

So each Six Flags has 6 different flags that give a story about the states history? (sort of)

Only the first three, which, I guess, is why they dropped the 'over' on SFMM, SFGAM, SFGADV, etc. ad nauseum.

Then they changed Six Flags over Mid-America to Six Flags St. Louis and dropped the 'over', and I assume they did that because there were plenty of other SF parks that were more 'over' Mid-America.

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Intamin Fan said:According to my map, SFOT has Texas, France, Mexico, and Spain sections of the park plus others.

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Old South (Confederate) and USA are there, too.

Do they fly 6 US flags at all of their parks? I know SFOT has the real 6 flags, and AstroWorld used to, but I think they've all been replaced with US ones. I did notice that Dungeon Drop has French flags on its castle when I was there on Thursday, though.

I'm with Tina and the Six Flags Camden idea.

Then again, Camden is run better than some Six Flags. ;)

SFA has 6 different historic US flags.