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The Semi-Hidden Truth Behind Six Flags’ Park Closings: Follow The Money

August 29, 2025 ·

LW Ghost

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SO…as you’ve no doubt heard by now, the new Six Flags (post-merger with Cedar Fair) has had management shuffles and financial losses and is in the process of combining, re-organizing, and, inevitably, closing some of their parks where the two brands basically “over-serve” a given region of the country. All that was to be expected.

But what’s come out that I find fascinating is something that wasn’t popularly noted in news coverage, at least what I saw, but IS being mentioned as almost an afterthought now when it should be the leading fact in many of these closure stories.

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Author: LW Ghost

LW Ghost is a writer, director, producer, designer, and former officer and contract negotiator within the entertainment guilds and a contributor on many of the shows you recall with vivid detail. Mr. Ghost now enjoys retirement and writes, when so inclined, about all things modern and past Hollywood on back, front, and even sidelots he once roamed. Having grown up literally with Disneyland, he has now decamped the SoCal madness and resides in the not-quite-so-mysterious Southeast. He shares the philosophy about attention and fame of his namesake seen in the photo who famously advised "Stay out of the spotlight--it'll fade your suit." SOCIAL MEDIA: X: http://x.com/TPPNewsNetwork YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatPodPlace Patreon: www.Patreon.com/LewsViews

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Isowe

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7 months ago

This doesn’t surprise me. This is what happened with Red Lobster. When that private equity fund bought it, they sold all the real estate and made it so the restaurants would rent the land. Then the Private equity sold the business. Took their profits and ran.