History Trivia / SixFlags

* NamesTheSame:
** Goliath is a commonly reused name across the parks, although each coaster with the name is very different: hypercoasters at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Over Georgia and La Ronde, a Batman: The Ride clone at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, a giant inverted boomerang at Six Flags New England, an RMC woodie at Six Flags Great America, and an Creator/{{Intamin}} megacoaster at Walibi Holland that was built during that park's tenure as a Six Flags park.
** There are three Vipers: custom Arrow looping coasters at Magic Mountain and Darien Lake, and a wooden roller coaster at Great America. There also used to be a TOGO coaster with this name at Great Adventure, and a Schwarzkopf shuttle loop with the name at Over Georgia.
** There used to be two different Great American Scream Machines: a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, and an Arrow Dynamics looping coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure. The New Jersey ride was demolished in 2010.
** X-Flight at Six Flags Great America is not the first coaster with that name. There was a Vekoma flying coaster of that same name that opened at Geauga Lake during its time as a Six Flags park, which was relocated to Kings Island and renamed Firehawk in 2007.
** The Batman: The Ride name is generally used for a certain B&M inverted coaster model. There are two coasters with this name that aren't B&M inverts: an S&S freespin at Fiesta Texas[[note]]Although it has a B&M Batman: the Ride clone named Goliath, which was known as Batman: The Ride when it operated at Six Flags New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina[[/note]], and a Vekoma SLC at Six Flags Mexico.
** Although they have opposite genders, some still mistake Dr. Diabolical from Dr. Diabolical's cliffhanger and [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Diabolical_(Earth-Twelve) Dr. Diabolical from the DC comics]] to be the same character.
** And of course, the number of Superman and Batman coasters with other names are too numerous to count.

** Goliath is a commonly reused name across the parks, although each coaster with the name is very different: hypercoasters at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Over Georgia and La Ronde, a Batman: The Ride clone at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, a giant inverted boomerang at Six Flags New England, an RMC woodie at Six Flags Great America, and an Intamin megacoaster at Walibi Holland that was built during that park's tenure as a Six Flags park.

* [[DuelingWorks Dueling Rides]]:

* FanNickname: The Avalanche Bobsled at Six Flags Over Texas was renamed "La Vibora" to better fit in with the Spain theme area, but most people still refer to it as "the bobsled".
** Clone coasters also get this treatment, for example, Goliath, MM's is "Giovanola Goliath", OG's is "B&M Goliath", LR's is "Canadian Goliath", etc.
** Six Flags Magic Mountain has sometimes been given the nickname “Wally World” by fans due to its inclusion in a certain film. See HeyItsThatPlace below.

** Despite the massive positive reception the coaster received, the many design issues with ''X'' at Six Flag's Magic Mountain drove designer Arrow Dynamics into bankruptcy.

* DevelopmentHeaven: Prior to bankruptcy, Six Flags went on a major spending spree from 1999 to 2001. In 1999 and 2000 the chain added 21 new coasters each year, and 2001 saw the construction of ''X''.

** Despite the massive positive reception the coaster received, the many design issues with ''X'' at Six Flag's Magic Mountain drove designer Arrow Dynamics to bankruptcy.

* HeyItsThatPlace: Six Flags Magic Mountain, no doubt due to its close proximity to Hollywood, has been the setting for many movies and TV show episodes; most notably as "Walley World" in ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'', the opening credits of ''Series/StepByStep'' (a body of water was digitally added over the parking lot), and the park in question in the infamous ''Film/KISSMeetsThePhantomOfThePark''.

*** As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FKSMpw40g this video]] illustrates, the park's coaster lineup would've been altered a lot if the Mister Freeze clone had been built. Some speculation is that Raging Bull might've been put off a while (since it was scheduled for 1999). Likewise, a Mister Freeze clone would've likely meant the park wouldn't get either of its 2001 shuttle coasters since they'd be redundant. And the Goliath RMC coaster's layout would've been modified due to Mister Freeze being in the way. Maxx Force also likely wouldn't have been built.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A water park was originally going to be added to Six Flags New Orleans, and was to be announced in August of 2005. However, Hurricane Katrina struck in that same month, not only canceling those plans but also closing the whole park.

* HeyItsThatPlace: Six Flags Magic Mountain, no doubt due to its close proximity to Hollywood, has been the setting for many movies and TV show episodes; most notably as "Walley World" in ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'', the opening credits of ''Series/StepByStep'' (a body of water was digitally added over the parking lot), and the park in question in ''KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park''.

** While it didn't kill the firm outright, the Haunted Castle fire in New Jersey did not help Six Flags' reputation. Up to that point, they were the biggest theme park operator in the states, but the fire also came the same year as the Disney Management Shift; both were major factors in Six Flags losing dominance.

** Six Flag's Revolution was under construction at the same time as Cedar Point's Corkscrew, both of which competed for the title of the first modern-day coaster with inversions. Revolution was finished days before Corkscrew and earned the title, although Corkscrew was the first to have ''three'' inversions, and also the first to use corkscrews.

* HeyItsThatPlace: Magic Mountain, no doubt due to its close proximity to Hollywood, was the setting for many movies and TV show episodes; most notably as "Walley World" in ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'', the opening credits of ''Series/StepByStep'' (a body of water was digitally added over the parking lot), and the park in question in ''KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park''.

* ReferencedBy WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} in the episode "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled", when Yakko says "I don't think this is Six Flags Over Flushing."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A water park was originally going to be added to Six Flags New Orleans, and was to be announced in August of 2005. However, Hurricane Katrina struck in that same month, not only canceling those plans but also closing the whole park.

* HeyItsThatPlace: Magic Mountain, no doubt due to its close proximity to Hollywood, was the setting for many movies and TV show episodes; most notably as "Walley World" in ''NationalLampoonsVacation'', the opening credits of ''StepByStep'' (a body of water was digitally added over the parking lot), and the park in question in ''KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park''.

** Also by FamilyGuy in the episode "Amish Guy," where two fictional Six Flags parks in Quahog and Columbus, Ohio appear.

* [[DuelingWorks Dueling Rides]]: Six Flag's Revolution was under construction at the same time as Cedar Point's Corkscrew, both of which competed for the title of the first modern-day coaster with inversions. Revolution was finished days before Corkscrew and earned the title, although Corkscrew was the first to have ''three'' inversions, and also the first to use corkscrews.

** The decision to shut down and pave over Six Flags Astroworld (the only major theme park to have ever operated in UsefulNotes/{{Houston}}, Texas city limits) earned then-CEO Kieran Burke a firing shortly after the park shuttered. The move to close the park was supposedly justified when Six Flags cited park attendance in a humid city compounded with parking issues with the Houston Texans and Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (the latter of which has its own amusement carnival when they are open in March/April, and they expected to get an appraisal of $150 million for the land, but a fallout from closing the park, spending $20 million to bulldoze it, and then only receiving half of what they expected the land, which they hoped would be good real estate, would be worth, Burke was kicked out by shareholders and replaced by ex-Disney executive Mark Shapiro. The land that Astroworld was on was never rebuilt into anything else; the bridge over I-610 that connected the parking lot to the park is the only thing left, and the area is still a grass field that is used for overflow parking.

* CreatorKiller: The decision to shut down and pave over Six Flags Astroworld (the only major theme park to have ever operated in UsefulNotes/{{Houston}}, Texas city limits) earned then-CEO Kieran Burke a firing shortly after the park shuttered. The move to close the park was supposedly justified when Six Flags cited park attendance in a humid city compounded with parking issues with the Houston Texans and Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (the latter of which has its own amusement carnival when they are open in March/April, and they expected to get an appraisal of $150 million for the land, but a fallout from closing the park, spending $20 million to bulldoze it, and then only receiving half of what they expected the land, which they hoped would be good real estate, would be worth, Burke was kicked out by shareholders and replaced by ex-Disney executive Mark Shapiro. The land that Astroworld was on was never rebuilt into anything else; the bridge over I-610 that connected the parking lot to the park is the only thing left, and the area is still a grass field that is used for overflow parking.

* [[DuelingWorks Dueling Rides]]: Six Flag's Revolution was under construction at the same time as Cedar Point's Corkscrew, both of which competed for the title of the first modern-day coaster with inversions. Revolution was finished days before Corkscrew and earned the title, although Corkscrew was the first to have ''three' inversions, and also the first to use corkscrews.

** Also by FamilyGuy in the episode "Amish Guy," where two fictional Six Flags parks in Quahog and Columbus, Ohio appear.

* ReferencedBy WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} in the episode "Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled", when Yakko says "I don't think this is Six Flags Over Flushing."