Six Flags to close

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait…..!!….
ALL the U.S. locations will be shutting down….??

Good. 6 flags is super racist.

How is it racist?

Um, hello? Six Flags??

You do know one of those six flags is the CONFEDERATE flag, don’t you?

[Anonymous]

That place is disgustng.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. I hope all the other "amusement parks" follow suit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.

+1

Kings Dominion is flooded with people all the way from Stafford and the entire central and southern Virginia area every single weekend it is open. Growing up in Fredericksburg almost every family had a season pass. It’s the go to park for people in Eastern NC too, their reach is FAR. Six flags should have been sucking in the entire DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas as well as day trippers from Delaware. What a fumble.

I agree. But it’s not a recent issue. It’s been a huge step down from Busch Gardens, Hershey, KD as long as I can remember.

[Anonymous]

I hope they tear it down and rebuild something else. I watched a really sad documentary of a theme park in Louisiana that closed in anticipation of Katrina and literally never reopened. But it’s still sitting there - it’s a visual blight, an attractive nuisance for mischief and the locals just want it torn down and no one will. It’s really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.

They hired from the community so....

[Anonymous]

Good riddance. More Dan Snyder junk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.

+1 it’s hard to imagine how you fumble the bag that badly on a big amusement park a short drive from DC. But here we are.

I think this is indicative of a larger economic downturn too. Entertainment and travel spending is the first thing to be cut when the economy goes south. If we had stronger economic indicators, they’d probably keep it going a few more summers. Instead they’re just cutting bait now.

You are way, way, way overthinking it bro.

White people weren't safe there. So we didn't go. That's ~40% of the marketplace opting out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait…..!!….
ALL the U.S. locations will be shutting down….??

No just Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Kind of sad to hear.

It could've been a lot more. I think before people said that previous management wouldn't invest a lot of money into it because of the low attendance numbers, with potential visitors being taken by the other bigger and nicer parks that are only two or three hours away. I remember being there some holiday weekends and being surprised at how empty it was.

But that Six Flags was one of the happy places that I used to take the family to and we would spend every weekend at during the summer.

Things really went downhill during the pandemic, where the facilities were disgusting and not maintained.

I think that was one of the reasons we eventually stopped going. Then when I saw they had that semi riot in the parking lot, kind of reinforced my thoughts about not going back there.

Some people say that a lot of families used it as free childcare. Where you'd see them drop off their kids with season passes and the food plan on that main street that goes into there and leave them there for the day. We personally never ran into major issues but we usually went there and left there early along with the other younger families.

Some of the things about Six Flags were the value and proximity for us. But I think they eventually got new management/ownership that changed a lot of plans taking the value of it out. So it kind of sealed the deal for us on not going back. It did look like the new management was trying to implement new policies in requiring underage visitors to be chaperoned by people over 18. But guess they were never able to turn it around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait…..!!….
ALL the U.S. locations will be shutting down….??

Good. 6 flags is super racist.

How is it racist?

Um, hello? Six Flags??

You do know one of those six flags is the CONFEDERATE flag, don’t you?

It should have been CANCELLED years ago!

[Anonymous]

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Feral youth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a shame it's such a crap park because the proximity to DC would make it such a fantastic destination. Like if it were as nice as King's Dominion or Hershey's, it would be absolutely packed every weekend and most weekdays in the summer. Between locals looking for things to do and the enormous number of tourists in the area who would happily tack a day at an amusement park onto a DC visit, especially if it was 30 minutes from downtown, it's a golden opportunity.

They had to TRY to make it that bad. It took work, active neglect. I feel this way about a lot of things in this area.

+1 it’s hard to imagine how you fumble the bag that badly on a big amusement park a short drive from DC. But here we are.

I think this is indicative of a larger economic downturn too. Entertainment and travel spending is the first thing to be cut when the economy goes south. If we had stronger economic indicators, they’d probably keep it going a few more summers. Instead they’re just cutting bait now.

You are way, way, way overthinking it bro.

White people weren't safe there. So we didn't go. That's ~40% of the marketplace opting out.

I’m the PP that used to go all the time. I’m white and never felt unsafe. We typically left by about 4 pm (or by 7 for the fall festival). There were teens that got a little rowdy in the later evenings but I never felt unsafe — we just kept our distance from any large group of congregating teens. I realize there were some bad fights in the parking lot over the years but I don’t think it was a regular occurrence and it wasn’t targeted at white people.

I do think it struggled because of racist attitudes about it being in PG and being mostly staffed by black youth. Lots of white peolle I talked to seemed to have negative attitudes without ever going.

Also six flags has been the down market amusement park chain for decades and is almost always hovering around bankruptcy. So there were periods when they put a splurge of investment into the park and then long periods when they ignored it and let us get run down. They really needed better management and probably to pay their staff more. I get the impression at Hershey that those folks are thrilled to have gotten that as a summer job (suggesting pay is decent) whereas I always got the impression at six flags that the people working there hated their jobs with a passion and were doing the bare minimum (suggesting it wasn’t great pay and wasn’t anyone’s first choice for the summer).

[Anonymous]

It seemed like a hotbed for BRAWLS and violence

Lots of unsupervised teens causing trouble

Will miss that one roller coaster that goes upside down

May need to make a final trip but only if I can bring my firearm for protection!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another business that Dan Snyder drove into the ground!!!

At this rate, he will probably be president in about 10 years.

Thank you, PP, you kind of made my day with this.