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/ October 8, 2026
Six Flags is testing names like "Cedar Point by Six Flags." My take: go the other way. Magic Mountain should just be Magic Mountain. Only the original parks have earned the name.
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/ September 4, 2026
Compagnie des Alpes is a French leisure and tourism group founded on January 26, 1989, and headquartered in Paris. Listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker CDA, the company built its original business around operating some of the largest ski resorts in the French Alps…
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/ August 31, 2026
Cedar Fair was an American regional amusement park operator headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio, formed in 1983 when the management of Cedar Point combined the historic lakefront park with Valleyfair, which it had acquired in 1978. The company traced its lineage to Cedar Point’s 1870 opening…
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/ August 29, 2026
Cedar Fair Entertainment Company was one of the largest seasonal amusement park operators in North America, running iconic properties like Cedar Point and Dorney Park for four decades before merging into Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in 2024. The name still shows up constantly in park…
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/ August 29, 2026
Compagnie des Alpes is a French leisure conglomerate founded on January 26, 1989, originally to consolidate and operate ski resorts across the French Alps. Headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker CDA, the company’s leading shareholder is Caisse des Dépôts, the…
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/ August 29, 2026
If you’ve ever wondered who actually owns SeaWorld, the answer isn’t a theme park company at all in the branding sense — it’s a publicly traded corporation called United Parks & Resorts Inc., and most people have never heard its name. That’s by design: the…
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/ August 29, 2026
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation — sometimes written as Six Flags Entertainment Corp, Six Flags Corporation, or just 6 Flags Entertainment — is the publicly traded company (NYSE: FUN) that owns and operates the Six Flags chain of amusement and water parks across North America. The…
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/ August 29, 2026
Parques Reunidos is a Madrid-based leisure company that ranks among the largest amusement park operators in the world. Founded in 1967 as Parque de Atracciones Casa de Campo de Madrid, the company has grown from a single Spanish amusement park into a diversified portfolio spanning…
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/ August 29, 2026
Palace Entertainment was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based operator of amusement parks, water parks, and family entertainment centers across the United States. Founded in 1998 through the merger of four independently owned entertainment companies, it grew over the following decades into one of the largest regional park…
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/ August 29, 2026
Disney Experiences is the division of The Walt Disney Company responsible for the brand’s theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and consumer products worldwide. Traced back to a division founded on April 1, 1971, it has been renamed several times over the decades, from Walt…
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/ August 29, 2026
Merlin Entertainments is a London-headquartered attractions operator founded in 1998 through a management buyout, and it has since grown into one of the largest location-based entertainment companies in the world. Rather than running a single theme park, Merlin manages a global portfolio of branded venues…
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/ August 29, 2026
Herschend Family Entertainment is the largest family-owned themed attractions company in the United States, tracing its roots to 1950 when Hugo and Mary Herschend leased Marvel Cave near Branson, Missouri. To entertain visitors waiting for cave tours, the family built a small 1880s-style village on…
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/ September 21, 2025
Theme parks have always been laboratories for human ambition. Each decade brings a new frontier — wooden coasters gave way to steel, steel gave way to computerized launch systems, and now the industry stands at a genuinely new threshold: rides that shatter physical records while…
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