Supporting acts are pleasant and inoffensive (save for Goliath, who, like Superman, suffered from garbage train restraints hindering what should be 10/10 ride. With Superman’s trains still a blistering setback and Iron Horse coasters feeling exceedingly commonplace, Six Flags New England is still in need of truly standout coaster. Well-meaning, and equal parts potential and fulfillment, the former Riverside Amusement Park is the ultimate mid-pack Six Flags property (and we mean that in a good way).
Keeping all facets of the park adequately supported is a transparent struggle these days, but there’s hope for more generalized improvements once the comic book growth finally plateaus. Pulled in various directions to stay afloat, the reluctance-turned-unabashed-embrace of DC Comics as a marketing chip echos the park’s original hesitation to mixing rides with animals. Six Flags Discovery Kingdomįrom hybrid zoo to marine life park mainstay to regional coaster destination to post-modern DC Comics billboard, Six Flags’ Bay Area acquisition seems to wear more hats than any other park in the chain. Forested and beautiful, and brimming with a vibrant collection of coasters, Six Flags Over Georgia’s biggest struggle comes from adequate staffing – no park in the chain could be better served with a budget boost in the hiring, training, and staff compensation department. The sequel to Six Flags Over Texas was able to address layout head-scratchings better than their first take, but Six Flags Over Georgia still blossomed in a sort of oblong way. Fans of the classics have a lot to enjoy here, but SFOT also suffers from a lack of major modern rides found in similarly-sized parks. The park has always been an odd shape and continues to grow like a weed – rides are scattered haphazardly and midways begin, end, and choke without warning or evidence of a larger master plan. The cardinal park of the chain is who we have to thank for such second-nature park characteristics as pay-one-price admission and the log flume. Starting off our Top 10 is the Six Flags OG ( original gangster, not Over Georgia).
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And that leaves us with the pair of quaint, lovely parks full of charm but merely lacking in the upkeep and budgetary departments: Frontier City and The Great Escape (we enjoyed highlighting these parks and their unique lineups in our 2nd Hand Parks article). Our 2017 Darien Lake visit wasn’t one of our favorite experiences, but in fairness the park technically wasn’t owned by Six Flags at the time.ĭon’t hate us – but La Ronde is actually one of the last major North American parks we’ve yet to visit (in our defense, reviews of the park from friends are so unequivocally dismal that we simply haven’t decided to trouble ourselves with visiting). Six Flags America is the largest park of our Bronze Tier, and while the ride lineup is strong, the park suffers from infrastructural and operational shortcomings (which is an especially strong theme for the lower-ranking Six Flags parks). We had to admit to ourselves that none of these parks are truly “bad” in our minds, but to rank them individually among each other would verge on splitting hairs. In the interest of transparency and smooth reading, parks 15-11 all get to share a general ranking on this list. There’s 15 traditional-style Six Flags amusement parks that we’ve divided into three tiers – and for the Top 10 we’ll be dedicating a little more detail unpacking each one.īronze Tier Six Flags America, Darien Lake, The Great Escape, Frontier City, and La Ronde
We’d wanted to do a Six Flags ranking since launching our Cedar Fair Top 10, but needed some 20 park visits to make it possible. We work hard to provide the coverage that we do, and we encourage our audience to share our content and use our images, BUT ONLY IF proper credit is given to. – In the past, many of our images have been posted, featured, and shared on forums, social media platforms and websites around the web. After a much-needed recent visit to Six Flags Great America (one of the strongest regional parks in the country), we finally felt that we had enough experience with the Six Flags chain of parks to gather a comprehensive ranking.
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