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Six Flags Flagging: How a Bankrupt Theme Park Ranks in Amusement
Six Flags...bankrupt? What about Sasquatch? Bizarro? The Terminator Salvation ride?
Save your fear for that 221-foot 'coaster drop. Six Flags Theme Park filed for Chapter 11 on June 13, but all attractions remain open and no one's getting fired—not any staff, not the management team, not Mr. Six (A.K.A. the Dancing Old Guy who's now the Dancing Twittering Old Guy).
Even though a staycation economy translated into "record attendance" for the New York-based amusement chain last year, all those high-flyin', stomach-dropping roller coasters don't come cheap. Six Flags hasn't seen a profit since 1998 and its stocks have been junked.
Six Flags may be healthy in attendance, but its properties aren't the leading go-to places like they were on our June 2007 list. With summer less than a week away, we took another gander at the top amusement (and water) park destinations on the Web. Here are two top 10s: the most searched and the ones climbing the Search rollercoaster.
Most Searched Amusement/Water Parks on Yahoo!, past 30 days
| Fastest Rising Amusement/Water Park Searches on Yahoo!, past 30 days
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Filed under: Amusement Parks, Economics
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