This rumor has been making its rounds through Six Flags for quite a few years, and Texas Thrill Seekers seems to be the first public personality to talk about it.
The funny thing is that Six Flags over Texas, Six Flags over Georgia, and Six Flags St. Louis are not currently owned by Six Flags themselves, and are still owned by Time Warner. As apart of a buyback agreement from the 1990s, Six Flags (at the time Premier Parks) agreed to pay Time Warner a portion of those three park's revenues to buy back the parks. As apart of the agreement, SFoT, SFStL, and SFoG are required to have a certain minimum amount of investment from Six Flags as apart of the operations buy back agreement, and Time Warner regularly audits all three parks to ensure Six Flags is holding up their end of the deal. The buyout is supposed to be complete sometime in the early 2020s, I believe around the time this rumored buyout from Herschend is supposed to happen.
As to the buyout rumors themselves, I don't know much about which parks are exactly involved. So while Herschend could buy SFoT, they don't necessarily have to buy SFoG or SFStL.
EDIT: I should remind all of you to take this with a pile of salt the size of Kingda Ka.
The funny thing is that Six Flags over Texas, Six Flags over Georgia, and Six Flags St. Louis are not currently owned by Six Flags themselves, and are still owned by Time Warner. As apart of a buyback agreement from the 1990s, Six Flags (at the time Premier Parks) agreed to pay Time Warner a portion of those three park's revenues to buy back the parks. As apart of the agreement, SFoT, SFStL, and SFoG are required to have a certain minimum amount of investment from Six Flags as apart of the operations buy back agreement, and Time Warner regularly audits all three parks to ensure Six Flags is holding up their end of the deal. The buyout is supposed to be complete sometime in the early 2020s, I believe around the time this rumored buyout from Herschend is supposed to happen.
As to the buyout rumors themselves, I don't know much about which parks are exactly involved. So while Herschend could buy SFoT, they don't necessarily have to buy SFoG or SFStL.
EDIT: I should remind all of you to take this with a pile of salt the size of Kingda Ka.
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