The Troubled History Of Six Flags America | Full Documentary

Six Flags America was one of the greatest parks in the country just 15 years ago, but today that's all gone. This is the full story of Six Flags America from its conception as a wild safari drive through in the 1970's until Six Flags began building up the park into one of the best parks in the country in the 90's. Six Flags America was an awesome park back in the early 2000's, & this is the story of how & why Six Flags stopped investing a ton in Six Flags America over the last 2 decades, as well as why the future of Six Flags America might be brighter than it seems. This park may be headed for greatness over the next few years & the new Six Flags merger definitely helps this park! This is the most difficult video I've ever produced on this channel, & I hope you all love it!
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Footage Credit:
Six Flags America, Airtime Thrills, Canobie Coaster, Amusement Insider, WWLP, DLP Welcome, Rachhudson2812, Six Flags Great Adventure, Kings Dominion, Carowinds, El Toro Ryan
Music in this video is taken from the KZbin Creator Music library
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[@Loopingthrills]

This is the most difficult video I've ever produced on this channel, & I hope you all love it! I'm working on a ton of higher quality documentary style videos & I have one video that I've worked on for close to a year that will be hopefully released in late April! Can't wait to share it with you!

[@sabellcarstens6896]

They don’t have a Christmas event anymore

[@mugnezz84]

se non ci fosse wikipedia , non sapresti nulla

[@ItsSiebay]

Finally, someone releases a much needed documented history on this park. I love this park, but it’s sad seeing how much potential it has going to waste.

[@Loopingthrills]

Appreciate you watching! I have a couple more documentaries in the works & I can't wait to share them!

[@Doughboyswag-fx1ui]

this park has seen better days its fun dont get me wrong but kids go there just to fight and be reckless and then at night they go in the parking lot to destroy peoples cars its a mess tbh

[@eesktv]

welcome to pg county

[@WaveManMike]

This park would would do so much better in its neighboring county Montgomery County! Being from Prince George’s county and working in Montgomery County I can see this for a fact!

[@adamdurbin6895]

You should have mentioned that the Wild One was originally at Paragon park in Hull Massachusetts. My grandfather's cousin was killed on that coaster when he was 17 he was ejected from the ride and was killed on impact. I have a copy of the news article from the Boston Globe. Rmc Roar would be great that thing is so rough

[@coliew5209]

😮 omg. I rode the wild one as a kid. Im so sorry and shocked to know they just moved it. I knew it came from somewhere in New England

[@FlyingDolphin118]

I think After Primer bought the six flags parks they wanted to put their parks on the same tier as the Six Flags Parks they had acquired. Also they rides six flags was adding in the late 2000s this park had more primitive versions of. They already had a GCI, Primer, and Hyper. I wish they got a Gerslaur spinner or Euro Fighter though those would be good fits and Raging Cajun could have gone elsewhere.

[@michaezell4607]

Only problem is that premiere parks kept buying more properties without having the financial means to cover them all. The company started out as teirco which was originally a real estate company. At first the park known originally as wild world had closed for business in 1990 as they couldn't compete with KD and BGW, teirco purchased the land not with the original intent of reopening the park but later changed their minds and started renovating the park which reopened in 1992. By 1994 the name was changed to adventure world and many new rides were added such as mind eraser in 1995 and roar in 1998. In the fall of 98 is when it was revealed that premiere parks had purchased six flags from time Warner and the rest is history.

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

I’m surprised you didn’t use the actual Two Face Roller Coaster

[@coliew5209]

It was called Wild World. I remember first lesrning to swim there in about 83 or so

[@Rigden1]

Glad they are at least thinking of improving my home town six flags park since they are adding the steam area where the Wild West area was and re-doing everything there except for the ride layouts. Hope mind eraser won’t do it’s job anymore

[@ThrillSeekerTTV]

Six Flags America is my home park, and I can say without a doubt it has been... disappointing. It's also due to the crowd of people they've been attracting. I used to go every summer for a few years and it really has gotten more and more sad. Just this year they're announcing their Steampunk conversion of the Ol' Wilde West portion of the park, but really it's just a re-theming. I'm hoping they put work into improving "Mind Eraser" which is now going to be renamed, as that was the WORST one of the many rides. As someone who came here as a teenager, I'm looking forward to the water park again after a rather unsavory experience, but I'm hoping there are some improvements in some water rides as well.

[@user-dg1xe6xd9k]

Hey Loopingthrills do you think Frontier City is the next one to close permanently in Oklahoma City because I think a year or two ago six flags took over Frontier City.

[@Loopingthrills]

No I think that park will remain open as a small family park

[@DannytheTourist]

Krypton Comet was the greatest ride in Six Flags history, along with Zonga at Marine World, the Chiller and Viper at Great Adventure, the Demon at Great America, and Cyborg Hyper Drive at Six Flags New England. There is literally no footage of it online (hell, if you even search up "Six Flags America Krypton Comet" on YT, then you'll be steered to a video I made awhile ago asking for footage of it.) This park and Six Flags New England defo scream early '00s Six Flags. I'm glad to have created Yuuki Takemoto, since she went to every Six Flags park in the early to mid '00s! Also, Don Kennedy did the announcer spiel on Superman: Ride of Steel. For those of you who don't know Don Kennedy was Tansit on Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

[@iamdigbick4675]

I'm coming to this park for a day soon and the comment sections got me nervous. I've already been to Six flags over Georgia when there was a shooting in the parking lot. My car also got damaged on our last day. I thought this park seemed charming. I'm officially worried by these comments.

[@darocksrulez3443]

I’ve been 20+ never had an issue

[@edt-ze3ke]

The shooting at SFOG didn’t happen inside the park and took place off property. As how tragic it seemed, they’ve added a lot of security by hiring security officers to patrol the park so nothing like that ever happens again.

[@GhostRider50918]

😮

[@1grandpa654]

Heavy on nothing special, haven’t been there in over 10 years and they have only added like three rides since then wonder, woman, Harley, Quinn, and Firebird, and then like every park surrounding Six Flags America is better HersheyHersheypark, Six Flags great adventure, Donery Park ,Knoebels, Kings,n Dominion and Busch Gardens Williamsburg I’d rather go out of my way to go to their parks then drive 30 minutes to SFA

[@riverdalep]

How to bring it back to glory. Get rid of mind eraser and put a new coaster in. Change roar into a rmc and retheme the entire park.

[@ItsSiebay]

Well they just got new trains for Mind Eraser and they keep retracking Roar, so that plan goes out the window. Still, I could see a Raptor being added.

[@seaworldfan2421]

I work at six flags America I suggest you come out to us we’re making great moves!

[@Loopingthrills]

I believe it! This parks future is very bright!

[@breeze7076]

How? Half of the park is closed?

[@brybryguy6314]

I donno. My prediction for this park is, its going to be on the chopping block especially now with the merger. Six Flags America is stuck between two giants, Hersheypark and Kings Domain. Both parks are roughly an hour and half away from eachother and now with the merger, both parks will be competing with eachother under the same company. Six Flags America is the smaller, rundown and neglected park so even now putting in major investments into the park maybe useless. I get your point about Dorney Park finally getting a new ride but keep in mind, that was done way before the merger. This merger is going to have a major ripple effect across all Six Flags parks and Cedar Fair parks and personally in the next few years, we could see the smaller, unkept parks in both chains start closing up and selling off its assets.

[@Loopingthrills]

A 2 park ticket helps both Six Flags America & Kings Dominion thrive & it'll benefit the chain a lot to have 2 nearby parks increasing attendance there with a 2 park ticket as opposed to other surrounding parks. Seaworld Orlando & Busch Gardens Tampa is the perfect example of this.

[@ItsSiebay]

I genuinely wonder why people are so adamant about closing this park. The location is great. Sure, the merger does raise some questions about how it will be affected with Kings Dominion, but those parks are well over an hour away. Even if they do sell Six Flags, they don’t have to close the park. Maybe I’m biased, but I don’t personally want to have to drive that far just to ride some coasters.

[@coliew5209]

I go constantly! Love our 6 Flags. Stop hating. You are making hyperbole

[@steelforce]

You really need to research your content and the video you use. Much of your historical data is flawed at best.

[@Loopingthrills]

I did a ton of research for this video. What exactly are you referring too?

[@steelforce]

@@Loopingthrills This story is CRAP, you call the park Wild One like 20 times! the park is not "Known for it's violence" it's had trouble like any other park. they put the metal detectors in in a abundance of caution to keep guests safe. Almost evey park in the country now has metal detectors. You call Knoebels NO BELLS? Clearly you have no idea even how to pronounce park names properly! During the periods of "decline" you mention SFA had several years that outsold 1999 on season passes. The reason they haven't gotten new coasters is easy, the people that bought Six Flags built the park up way beyond what it needed to operate and for years it had more than enough coasters! your video is ridiculous, very little of it is even pertinent to the commentary. when talking about the Adventure World days you show six flags rides from the 2020's Finally, I wish it was, but Six Flags America was NEVER one of the Greatest Parks in in the Country. And right there in that one statement your entire video becomes a complete farce. You need a proof reader and some real backup facts that are true and not just rumors.

[@steelforce]

You have so many things wrong about this video you keep calling wild world wild one and you mentioned that the wild one roller coaster was standing but not operating since 1917???????? The ride operated right up into the 80s if anything it stood and didn't operate for one or two years.

[@gabeword]

You have many incorrect statements. You need to do better research.

[@mugnezz84]

thanks wikipedia