How Six Flags Chooses its Winners & Losers

Six Flags is the Discount Chain of parks, but how do they choose who gets the best new additions? This video analyzes each park's circumstance and why they are treated the way they are.

[nonarsaveme]

It almost doesn't seem believable that 20 years ago six flags was adding 20 coasters a year😮

[UbinTimor]

Six Flags Magic Mountain: *Exists*
California: "I'ma build a bunch of overly priced homes right by it while not even bothering to fix ma highways to counteract the influx of residents and tourists!"

[augustusofprimaporta]

Six Flags: Over Texas is my home park, and I really don’t know why it isn’t much bigger. Not only is the park in corporate’s backyard, not only is it the original Six Flags park, not only are there a couple rides they could easily tear out and replace, but the DFW area even has population trend lines that should cause management at Six Flags to take notice

[Pwndbythnb]

Six Flags America is literally 3 miles from my house but I go to Great Adventure if I want to go to a Six Flags. Also the season pass at Six Flags America is significantly cheaper than if you bought one at Great Adventure AND six flags season pass works at any of their parks

[RadialGH]

Great Adventure should be putting in more thrill coasters, they have the potential to be the most attended park in the chain considering they haven’t been adding very exciting additions but still manage to beat out Great America in popularity. I think GAdv is going to be back to coasters again which I’m excited for.

[David-gjqr]

Six flags: you get a S&S free spin! You get an S&S free spin! You all get an S&S free spin!

[markjensen]

Personally, I think they are smart to always add something new each year. They always keep interest in the parks. For me as a kid it made me want to go back every year, and with their coke can promotion you could get discounted tickets. Even if a park gets the same cookie cutter model, there is the benefit to doing that. By having the same model, it makes it easier to have parts available when you need them, or put those rides on "ride rotation." Ride rotation meaning, moving the flat rides around to different parks every so many years. You can tell which parks are favored, simply by number of coasters. I do remember in the 90's Six Flags was in a battle with Ceder Fair by having the largest number of coasters in a park. This is why Magic Mountain had Psyclone and Flashback in their parks, just so they could have naming rights (both of those rides made you feel PAIN).

[znatscubing]

I’ve been waiting for this video for a couple weeks! Finally it’s here, and it’s amazing!! Keep up more content like this

[magispecfan]

Great video! It made me realize again that even though Six Flags are seen by many as the "budget" theme park corp now, their parks are not so bad, even the bottom tier ones.

Until my mid twenties, I lived first in Calgary (best coaster in 150 miles = a headache machine Arrow Corkscrew), then moved to Denver (best coaster in 150 miles = a headache machine Vekoma SLC), then moved to Portland (best coaster in 150 miles = a headache machine Pinfari looper). I'm envious of the people that are near even the bottom tier Six flags parks.

[zuper]

Six Flags Great America is the most profitable park in the chain, based on the awards from Corporate in the human resource building

[annelorraine]

Having SF St. Louis as a home park is painful. I love the hell out of that park just cause I grew up there but most of the rides are 20+ years old and pretty worn down. Most people I know have given up hope of ever getting anything interesting. It’s been 5 years since we even got a shitty, secondhand boomerang so I think that illustrates just how much interest they have in our park. It’s unfortunate since a lot of people in the area have nothing better to do during the summer months. With even a little bit of effort they could really boost their numbers :/

[mecredneck]

They all could add park land by building parking garages instead of having huge lots

[DsFreaks]

I actually really like Great Escape. I’ve been there a few times, and I’ve enjoyed it every time I went. It’s a really nice park in my opinion, and pretty underrated as well.

[nerdgirl]

So glad to see Great America so high on the list. I grew up going to Great America almost every year and once even ditched school to go with my friends. Many people over look it because we get such a short season due to the Midwest weather but I absolutely love the park and it has so many good coasters I often find myself wishing for 2 days to go to the park

[NC-youtube]

When your park is ranked the lowest of lowest, of the lows...



_sad coaster noises_

[goose]

What's the acreage for Over Georgia? Also I remember hearing awhile back that the rides have a height limit due to the nearby airport.

[girl_with_armor]

19:05 my home park is la ronde and I really don't mind getting green lantern if it gets retracked and becomes as good as the european ones:)

[tykenstein]

Man your channel is hella underrated in the youtube coaster enthusiast community man! Please keep up the good work and I hope the best for all your future projects :)

[Odd-Moss]

You should do the seaworld parks next c:
Bush gardens Williamsburg
Bush gardens Tampa
Sesame place
Sea world San Diego
Sea world Orlando
Sea world San Antonio
(Idk if there’s more parks in the chain)

I love these Vids and look forward to watching them.
Also the people who live in an around the Reno NV area call six flags discovery kingdom their home park. ( but this was years ago when I lived there)

[dark]

7:14 that is an absolutely monstrous amount of parking lot.