Rumor "De-Flagging" Legacy Six Flags Properties

[Logflume]

I will only support this if they bring back the goddamn Lion and the rainbow logo.
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Honestly, I think Parks in the six flags chain should have unique and individual logos again. bring some old ones back. Maybe have more unique names for some parks too? For example, Six Flags New England could get the “Riverside” subname back? (Six Flags Riverside has a nice ring to it imo)

 

[kmccarthy27]

Honestly, I think Parks in the six flags chain should have unique and individual logos again. bring some old ones back. Maybe have more unique names for some parks too? For example, Six Flags New England could get the “Riverside” subname back? (Six Flags Riverside has a nice ring to it imo)

Sadly if we are playing that game, I dont think Six Flags America is going back to being Adventure World as Disney is now using that for the Paris Studios park rebrand. Maybe back to Wild World?

 

[Crunchewy]

Changing SFA to Wild World would be a great throwback. I'm all for it.

 

[Logflume]

Changing SFA to Wild World would be a great throwback. I'm all for it.

“Six Flags Wild World” also has a great ring to it. Just sounds right, yknow?

 

[paintervision]

Sadly if we are playing that game, I dont think Six Flags America is going back to being Adventure World as Disney is now using that for the Paris Studios park rebrand. Maybe back to Wild World?

SFA was excluded from the big list of new-for-2026 rides (which mostly are going to the flagship parks), and I can't see them spending the money on a name change. Unless the park is sold...

 

[kmccarthy27]

“Six Flags Wild World” also has a great ring to it. Just sounds right, yknow?

I feel SFA was a victim many times over with Premier Rides' terrible branding, and had not the Six Flags purchase name along I think Premier was going to tag all parks with a "The Great Escape" name as it was being branded as "Advenure World: The Great Escape" complete with the logo of the NY park under the AW logo. The park that became SFNE also had "The Great Escape" branding tacked on before becoming a Six Flags

 

[plighting_engineerd]

Premier Rides' terrible branding

Premier Parks - not the same as the coaster company btw

But yes, Premier was changing up the branding of everything during the late 90s and 2000s

 

[kmccarthy27]

Premier Parks - not the same as the coaster company btw

Sorry for the typo. Thanks for pointing it out. My mind always thinks rides because they were a few blocks away from where I worked in Baltimore at one time

But yes, Premier was changing up the branding of everything during the late 90s and 2000s

Almost yearly like some how that was a good way to figure out what works or not. It sure was not any of the Adventure World variants because everyone near me still called it Wild World even kids that wont born when it was that.

 

[the_pantsmith]

Fun thought experiment - here's what I'd rename every legacy Six Flags park.

SFGAdv - Great Adventure Resort
SFGE - Great Escape Amusement Park
SFDL - Darien Lake Amusement Park
SFNE - Riverside Amusement Park
SFGA - Chicago's Great America
SFFT - Fiesta Texas Amusement Park
SFOG - Six Flags Over Georgia
SFOT - Six Flags Over Texas
SFA - Six Flags Over Maryland
SFStL - Six Flags Over Mid-America
SFDK - Six Flags Over California
SFMM - Magic Mountain Amusement Park

Any that keep the Six Flags name should revert back to the Over (Location) motif imo. It may sound clunky for SFA and SFDK, but it's better than Wild World or Marine World imo, both of which sound made up. Six Flags Over Maryland is a much more inviting and standalone name than Six Flags America. I think associating it with Over Georgia and Over Texas rather than just Great America's little brother would be great for it.

Also if you have any better names for SFDK that isn't Marine World, I'm all ears.

 

[kmccarthy27]

SFA - Six Flags Over Maryland


Any that keep the Six Flags name should revert back to the Over (Location) motif imo. It may sound clunky for SFA and SFDK, but it's better than Wild World or Marine World imo, both of which sound made up. Six Flags Over Maryland is a much more inviting and standalone name than Six Flags America. I think associating it with Over Georgia and Over Texas rather than just Great America's little brother would be great for it.

Also if you have any better names for SFDK that isn't Marine World, I'm all ears.

It will be Six Flags over Washington DC before it will be Maryland. Not even a few miles from that Six Flags is the Washington Commanders stadium, so while in MD its considered DC Metro.

 

[the_pantsmith]

I know that, I just picked Maryland because it A.) sounds better and B.) leans more into the Baltimore market. Everyone in NOVA goes to either KD or Hershey anyways.

Plus that stadium is hopefully not long for this world. And the Commanders aren't staying in Maryland. Perfect time to rebrand AWAY from trying to be DC's park.

 

[harry580]

I like to see the deflagging of the parks but keep six flags over texas, six flags over Ggeorgia and rebrand six flags st Louis back to six flags over mid america

 

[Logflume]

I’m fine for making each park unique, but i have a worry: that they will all have the same bland cf text logo.

Also, can we please keep the vengabus in ads?

 

[EdReedFan20]

I know that, I just picked Maryland because it A.) sounds better and B.) leans more into the Baltimore market. Everyone in NOVA goes to either KD or Hershey anyways.

Plus that stadium is hopefully not long for this world. And the Commanders aren't staying in Maryland. Perfect time to rebrand AWAY from trying to be DC's park.

What about Six Flags American Adventures or simply American Adventures if the Six Flags is dropped? Maybe retheme the park to regions of America, dropping any Warner properties (if necessary). The name would honor the America of Six Flags America and Adventure of Adventure World.

 

[Logflume]

And while we are on the topics of parks, yknow what i hate? How the biggest parks are in the middle of NOWHERE. Wanna go to cedar point, great adventure, magic mountain, or any other big coaster park? YOU HAVE TO DRIVE HOURS AND HOURS, NO OTHER FORM OF TRANSPORTATION FOR YOU! Would it kill them to have one closer to the airport or an Amtrak or something?
(Disclaimer, i love roadtrips a lot, but as a counterpoint: my bio)

 

[halfabee]

the biggest parks are in the middle of NOWHERE. Wanna go to cedar point, great adventure, magic mountain, or any other big coaster park? YOU HAVE TO DRIVE HOURS AND HOURS, NO OTHER FORM OF TRANSPORTATION FOR YOU!

Public transportation in the US is a long and disappointing subject unto itself, so I will leave it alone beyond simply saying there isn't enough of it.

Large parks were deliberately located a healthy distance away from cities for specific economic reasons. Some good, some bad. Land acquisition costs, balancing between sparse vs. expensive local labor markets, avoiding overabundant development restrictions, seeking pliable and welcoming local lawmakers. The list goes on.

[Edit to add: Even SFA's location used to be considered the outskirts of metro DC. The Capital Center and expanding DC suburbs quickly assimilated the area.]

Also... the fact that these family-oriented parks were largely reachable only by motor vehicle and required single-price admission payment at the front gate meant certain would-be guests would find it harder to get there and come in. This was a major marketing consideration at a time when living memory dictated amusement parks were essentially seedy family-unfriendly hangouts for shady characters, as many trolley parks closer to cities had come to be known. It also was a very convenient means to keep away people who didn't fit a certain economically dominant demographic, sorry to say.

 

[I64 Trekker]

Public transportation in the US is a long and disappointing subject unto itself, so I will leave it alone beyond simply saying there isn't enough of it.

Large parks were deliberately located a healthy distance away from cities for specific economic reasons. Some good, some bad. Land acquisition costs, balancing between sparse vs. expensive local labor markets, avoiding overabundant development restrictions, seeking pliable and welcoming local lawmakers. The list goes on.

[Edit to add: Even SFA's location used to be considered the outskirts of metro DC. The Capital Center and expanding DC suburbs quickly assimilated the area.]

Also... the fact that these family-oriented parks were largely reachable only by motor vehicle and required single-price admission payment at the front gate meant certain would-be guests would find it harder to get there and come in. This was a major marketing consideration at a time when living memory dictated amusement parks were essentially seedy family-unfriendly hangouts for shady characters, as many trolley parks closer to cities had come to be known. It also was a very convenient means to keep away people who didn't fit a certain economically dominant demographic, sorry to say.

I was in Pittsburgh a couple weekends ago and stopped at the Trolley Museum in Washington, PA, which in and of itself is a great place to visit, but while I was there I learned something really neat about Kennywood...

"Trolley companies even constructed amusement parks along or at the ends of trolley lines. One of the first trolley parks in Pennsylvania was Kennywood constructed in 1899 by the Monongahela Street Railway Company." - A Ride to Remember: Trolleys and the Fair - PA Trolley Museum

Granted, the parks we know and love today are car-oriented, but that wasn't always the case - Trolley park - Wikipedia

 

[mtpelepele]

Chances are if the park is older than the 1970s, it was a trolley park. A LOT of the older parks were built that way, then we had an amusement park dark age, then the glut of parks built in the 70s mainly as driving destinations.

 

[kmccarthy27]

Someone in another thread posted the Holiday in the Park map: https://static.sixflags.com/website/files/SFGAD+2024+Park+Map.pdf

This also show's as Great Adventure's Holiday in the Park and I dont see a Six Flag logo on it aside from on the light bulb sipper and m&m’s ad, and passing Six Flags mentions

 

[ericthewanderer]

While not Great Adventure related, I wonder if Six Flags Great America will rebrand to Illionois' Great America to match California's Great America (even though that's rumored to be closing sometime in the future), as they are sibling parks again (they were once both owned by Marriott Hotels).

If they do that then they should rebrand SFA to Maryland's Great America:Marriott wanted to build a park there too before KD and BGW got started.