I know there is some Six Flags fans here.
This is interesting. Our local Six Flags isn’t on this list, but I dread going there. It’s always so dirty.
Interesting it is listing that as Grand Rapids. It is almost an hour away from Grand Rapids!!!
I’m curious to see what happens here. A small, local park, which really needs more TLC. (I’ve never been, personally, but I follow it since it is in my home state…but it is much closer for us to go to Cedar Point.) Wondering if it will survive. It is more known for it’s water park than rides (other than Shivering Timbers, which is getting a bit long in the tooth).
They did update the article because Muskegon is not, in fact, in Grand Rapids. Interestingly, the new owner of Michigan’s Adventure also owns the Bavarian Inn in Frankenmuth.
St. Louis was where I worked for years. I visited two years ago. It was in such rough shape. I will be interested in what replaces it
They’re not closing them, they were sold to a new operator (Entertainment Properties).
I worked here in college! Haven’t been back since 
Maybe they’ll put them up for auction, and I can buy one for a dollar (Simpsons did it!)
Didn’t it say that they were already sold?
I don’t know what your thought process was when you saw the headline, but mine was “Oh, No, not my Six Flags!” I don’t think they’d sell mine because that is where Six Flags started. But that is still the thought.
I never heard of EPR Properties before this news broke, but apparently they already own multiple theme parks, including SF Darien Lake and four Hurricane Harbours
All of the properties in this bundle (minus Le Ronde) will be operated by an amusement park company called Enchanted Parks, which was only formed in December of last year. Their only other properties are their namesake Enchanted Forest (Old Forge, NY) and Diggerland USA (West Barlin, NJ) a park where – I shit you not – kids get to operate construction equipment.
I must say, as a former construction worker, who comes from a line of construction workers, I find that extraordinarily insulting
I’m curious as to why! That actually sounds really cool, and to provide a means to get a hands-on feel for what such machinery is like could lead some down a path of wanting to possible pursue it as a career.
When I was in third grade, I took a BASIC programming class. We learned to do very little. But it was enough of a taste to make me want to know more, and eventually became my life-long career.
Programming in BASIC? 
I am old, okay.
But to clarify…a career in programming…but not a career programming in BASIC!!! 
Okay, good to know. BASIC is pretty, well, basic.
I’m old, too, and it was taking BASIC in HS that made me interested in programming, as well. I’m more IT than a programmer, though.
I can see that be very very appealing to a segment of the boy population. Remember those VHS tapes in the 80’s that was just videos of construction equipment at work? I heard that guy made a ton of money. My early childhood was in the company town where Tonka trucks were originally made. Back when they were metal and made in America. Most of the kids had one and the parents of friends coordinated so that they got their kids stuff that worked well together and not the same thing. I remember I liked to sit on the hauler and scoot along, and I wasn’t into the constructing. But most kids would work together and pretend to construct stuff.
I’m reminded of the fake dinosaur digs that is pretty standard at science museums. The sheep wrangling for kids at the State Fair.
I’m not that old
Talk to someone old. It was a huge cultural Thing. At least in America. I seem to remember it was maybe 10 VHS tapes. Of nothing but genuine construction happening. The production cost was nil, since he just got permission to film what was happening anyway.
I remember those construction videos! We actually bought them re-released on DVD for our kids to watch. They loved them.