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Yeah, you're probably right. It likely loses the SF branding somewhere down the line. It'll be kinda sad to see one of the three original six flags parks leave the flock. Oh well, nothing lasts forever.

Wow, so they're really downsizing in the midwest and releasing all 4 of the smaller midwest parks and only hanging onto the 3 big boys in the region (CP, KI, and SFGAm). Does this mean SF STL loses its "six flags" branding?

Hard to believe that this RCT fever dream is now 100% a fully real thing in our dimension of space time.

Whoa! Is this real?

I'd be curious to know how much of the North American amusement/theme park business is now controlled by the Big 5 - Disney, Universal, United Parks, Six Flags, and Herschend. The ranks of the independents (and tiny chains) seem to be getting ever thinner.

^ world's ultimate bow-tie splashdown!!! Adios, Dragon Mountain. And those poor belugas. 😞

The imminent closure of SFA after this weekend, and the potential forever loss of most, or even all, of its 9 rollercoasters got me thinking about other dark days when the coasterworld experienced a significant loss of costers in one fell swoop due to park closure. Roughly two decades ago, we...

Bummer. And with the recent closure of Montana Rusa at Parque del Café down in Colombia, I believe this news will leave SFGAm's Whizzer as the last remaining Schwarzkopf spiral lift in the western hemisphere. Indiana Beach does still have Tig'rr, but that's a first-gen Schwarzkopf Jet Star...

Is the height difference between the two really that significant though? RCDB says Orion stands 287' above the ground, while Tormenta will stand 309' above the ground. 22' isn't nothing, but relating it back to when I lived in a condo on the 33rd floor of a 60 story skyscraper, one of the good...

When a powerhouse hypercoaster like Magnum is your team's sixth man, and ALL four of your B&M's are on the bench........ Good God, man!

Given how "middle of nowhere" Primm is, I could see the resort and Desperado just slowly baking away in the desert sun for decades to come. This isn't like a SFA or CGA situation where the underlying land has significant value for reuse.

That price tag raised my eyebrow as well. Given the fact that it's over 40 years old, completely outdated tech, gigantic, and a terrain coaster, I can't imagine any entity purchasing it to relocate it. I looked up the price of scrap steel on Google and it looks like it typically goes for...

Stand up for stand-ups! Given the disappearing act the first gen Togo/ Intamin/B&M stand-ups are doing (only 7 of the 20 built still operate as stand-ups), I was very curious to see if we'd ever see another surf coaster come to fruition to signal a true rekindling of the genre. Quite an...

Thoosie review: "forceless & rattly. <snore>" GP review: "OMFG!!! It goes, like, straight down into the effing ground, man! It's insane!"

Not terribly surprising, given KD's proximity. And I can't imagine this will be the last park closure announcement from SF. Place your bets now, what gets salvaged and moved?

For a chilly April day in Chicagoland, It looks.......... kinda fast?

Thanks guys, I obviously missed that news in the other thread. It's interesting that the park specifically said the ride will not be removed from the park, but remain non-operational. Perhaps they have future plans for the structure? Probably not, but dreams are still fun.

Speaking of Magic Springs, I was just looking at the park on RCDB and noticed that Arkansas Twister is listed as SBNO, which is news to me. Anyone know more about that?

Narrowing things down to only NA parks with at least 1 coaster rated "thrill" or higher by RCDB (to eliminate the children-oriented places), this merger would give Herschend 7 bonafide amusement parks. For comparison, Six Flags now has 26 and United Parks has 5.

"Bowls of Joy" If anyone was looking for a name for their new asian noodle fast-casual chain restaurant concept, the search is now over!