Six Flags Amusement Park files for bankruptcy

Six Flags Amusement Park, the popular theme park destination, has filed for bankfuptcy in Delaware, after failing to reach a decision with lenders to settle their debt out of court. This is the latest U.S company...

Six Flags on Financial Roller Coaster

Six Flags amusement park operators are the latest to feel our current economy. "Six Flags has hired the boutique investment bank Houlihan Lokey to advise it on restructuring and the law firm Paul Hastings to...

SpongeBob in NY torture sideshow

"Children's cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is being used as part of an art installation to protest against water-boarding as a form of torture. The Water-boarding Thrill Ride by artist Steve Powers has been installed at Coney Island theme park in New York. A sign on...

Special Visas for the Magic Kingdom

Hong Kong may be home to a huge population, but residents keen on visiting the Magic Kingdom would ostensibly do so rather quickly, and not necessarily go again and again. Meanwhile, just over the border lies...

Escobarland Drug Lord’s Ranch Becomes a Theme Park

"This is a great idea, maybe we should also have theme parks at Ground Zero or maybe Auschwitz? From the Miami Herald: In a land that has served as the setting for the surrealistic novels of Gabriel García...

Theme park to ride on Harry Potter's magic

"Writer J.K. Rowling has given her blessing to a theme park inspired by her creation, schoolboy wizard Harry Potter. The Florida theme park will be joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment, which created...

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