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Postby coasterfreak310 on July 11th, 2008, 9:47 pm
What if Six Flags goes bankrupt in the next couple years, would another company buy it out and continue the amuesmunt parks or would they be done for good?

I don't think I could go a whole summer without Six Flags :cry:
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Postby saylorman47 on July 11th, 2008, 10:53 pm
There has been a lot of discussion about this lately.

I've come to the decision that a major chain may come and sweep up the parks that are doing good (i.e. SFMM,SFGAM, SFOG, and others)

But horrible parks (SFA, SFKK) Are gonna leave.
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Postby demonbulleagle on July 11th, 2008, 11:17 pm
hmm what if one company wants to buy one park


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Postby RBull4life on July 11th, 2008, 11:21 pm
Filing bankruptcy does not mean that you shut your companies doors for good. It also depends on the chapter of bankruptcy that the company would take.

I assure you, that Great America is going nowhere anytime soon, and getting into the amusement park business again would be the last thing Marriot would want to do.
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Postby T.K. on July 12th, 2008, 3:05 pm
When an amusement park company goes bankrupt then all parks are sold seperatly. SO let's hope Universal buys SFGAm ;-)
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Postby Jcoaster95 on July 12th, 2008, 5:48 pm
I'd rather have Disney.
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Postby demonbulleagle on July 12th, 2008, 6:37 pm
yeah i know that marriot would not want to but if they did all of the amazing theming would come back
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Postby bigb7965 on July 13th, 2008, 1:16 am
^ not really..........
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Postby kumba830 on July 13th, 2008, 9:32 am
I would want Busch to purchase our park... That would do wonders for our park!

Think of all of the great rides we would get!!!
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Postby Demon_07 on July 13th, 2008, 4:24 pm
If Universal bought SFGAm, the whole park would probably be DC comics...
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Postby Coaster Justin on July 13th, 2008, 11:13 pm
Hey, Just back from my 2 day trip in Indiana. Anyway, I would want Either Herschend or PARC Management to buy the park and fix it up The Landscaping and lower pricing.
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Postby tillenterprises on July 14th, 2008, 9:28 am
Don't be so hard on the guy with the Marriott's wish- for sentimental reasons (and great memories of how they ran the park), I would be thrilled with Marriott's owning the park again, too- but I know that's not going to happen. Even if it did, the chances are, the original people at Marriott's who were responsible for running both Great Americas are probably long since retired or dead (like WIllard "Willard's Whizzer" Marriott). As for Busch, I doubt they are looking to add another park to the chain, and if they did, they would probably prefer and design their own new, state of the art park from scratch rather than invest in a 32 year old park. Plus- with the buyout of the company from that European brewing co Inbev, it will be interesting how they view their amusement parks (if they came as part of the deal). I just made my first trip to Cedar Point last week, and after that experience, I hope Cedar Fair would buy Great America- I would love to be able to use my season pass at both parks!
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Postby tillenterprises on July 14th, 2008, 9:37 am
T.K. wrote:When an amusement park company goes bankrupt then all parks are sold seperatly. SO let's hope Universal buys SFGAm ;-)


That would never happen- Universal is all about state of the art, latest and greatest, and would want to design their own park from the ground up that can be open all year, not invest in an old park that's only open a few months each year. Plus- they would want to tie it in with their movie studios, and they are not going to build production studios in Gurnee, IL.
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Postby Demon_07 on July 14th, 2008, 11:09 am
^Thank god for that. Any of the charm left would go down the sink.
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Postby coasterkidd100 on July 14th, 2008, 6:29 pm
I was at Cedar Point last week and I think that Cedar Fair should buy are park.
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Postby demonbulleagle on July 14th, 2008, 7:50 pm
thank you, and would Paramount ever consider buying another park
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Postby bigb7965 on July 14th, 2008, 8:57 pm
^the fact that they just sold all of their parks probably means they wanted out of the theme park business
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Postby demonbulleagle on July 15th, 2008, 10:10 am
o sry diddnt kno that they just sold all of them

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Postby Luxornv on July 17th, 2008, 3:18 pm
kumba830 wrote:I would want Busch to purchase our park... That would do wonders for our park!

Think of all of the great rides we would get!!!


Busch would not be buying the parks. Currently, a company known as InBev is looking to buy Busch and has no interest in the amusement parks (they just want the brewing part).

Cedar Fair likely won't buy since they just acquired the former Paramount parks not too long ago and need to recover from that.

For some reason, I just don't see Universal or Disney buying. They seem to keep in the warm climates where parks can be operated all season. The location of SFGAm is great though since they'd have access to huge cities they currently don't reach. Even with that, it just doesn't seem like it would happen (unrelated: I said that about NHRA going to 1000 feet and that just happened).

I would say Parc Management, the city of Gurnee, or some currently small private organization will buy the park if it goes up for sale.
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Postby demonbulleagle on July 17th, 2008, 10:43 pm
but if six flags loses enough money would they keep some of the parks, like the top five?
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Postby acm21 on July 19th, 2008, 4:02 pm
If universal bought our park that would be heaven
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Postby demonbulleagle on July 19th, 2008, 5:09 pm
i would want the city of gurnee to buy it out all of the plausible options.
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Postby Coaster Justin on July 24th, 2008, 2:18 pm
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i would want the city of gurnee to buy it out all of the plausible options.


Amen to that, I actually started thinking about Gurnee buying Great America and that would be great!! Think About it:

- Gurnee would pull out all the stops and make the park great.
- Security would Skyrocket.
- The park would add bigger, taller attractions to get more visitors to go there.
- Admission might drop in addition to food and parking.
- Gurnee taxes would go down.

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Postby BP317 on July 24th, 2008, 4:08 pm
- The park would add bigger, taller attractions to get more visitors to go there.

The city of Gurnee is one of the biggest barriers against building really tall structures, hell when they were building the park Marriott had to make an agreement with the city that no structure would ever be taller than Sky Trek Tower.
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Postby demonbulleagle on July 24th, 2008, 6:10 pm
but how could marriott have an agreement that nothing would be taller than STT when STT was built in 1977 and the park opened in 76
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