History Trivia / SixFlags

** 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 the show and rodeo 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.

** [[https://blooming-concepts.tumblr.com/post/88801212374/quest-for-camelot-concept-art-by-steve-gilliam Early Concept art shows]] plans for a theme park attractions based on the animated film WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio but it was scrapped due to the films critical and [[BoxOfficeBomb Box Office]] failer.

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