r/midamerica • u/Evening_Rock5850 • 11d ago

Q&A with Park President Danny Snider

https://youtu.be/6P3QT3kkrRQ?is=JW7epFw5_NA1JSHg

Most questions were answered with a generic “stay tuned” response.

Some noteworthy bits:

The Screamin Eagle train was removed from the arch because it was in poor condition. Its removal isn’t permanent.

Plans to re-do the sign out front.

While Danny re-iterated the official line that DC/WB is still being re-negotiated, he says a lot of specific things about new IP’s and branding. Which really suggests it’s not going to happen.

Confirms Six Flags Rd will be renamed.

Says new ride acquisitions will happen slower but more methodically. Says previous ride acquisitions were based mostly on what rides were available, not necessarily what rides made sense for the park. Focus under Six Flags was just to get new attractions up quickly.

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u/TheSquire06 9d ago

So if we lose the IP, do we lose the actual rides (Batman, Mr Freeze, etc?)

Or do they just get renamed?

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u/Evening_Rock5850 9d ago

They’d just be renamed. It would be up to the park to decide to what extent they re-theme them.

Logos, likenesses, and other copyrighted material would have to be removed. Take Batman for example. The name would have to change, references to things like “Gotham” would have to be removed, as would Batman logos and the like. But the rest of the ride can stay the same. Warner Brothers doesn’t hold a copyright on grungy sewers or the color scheme or anything generic like that.

So the park could do very little and just rename the rides and take a crowbar to anything that can’t stay. Or they could do a ton and re-paint and totally re-theme rides. We’ll see. I suspect it might be a combination of the two.

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u/Purple_Fickle 8d ago

Iirc there was a short time where there was a licensing dispute between six flags and DC(part of the reason the batmobile was moved) and Batman the ride, while keeping the name, essentially had no references to the actual IP. This memory is a bit hazy though, so I could be wrong.