Adventure World Has Been Renovated Into The New Six Flags America
Thats right, as of the first day of the 1999 season Adventure World officially opened as the new Six Flags America.
This happened following the purchase of the entire chain of Six Flags Parks by Premier Parks Inc. Because Premier already owned other parks around the country, including the former Adventure World of Largo MD, they decided to renovate all of their parks into Six Flags parks.
And so Adventure World soon became the brand new Six Flags America.(A name which seems to have been taken from Disney as when they were planning to build a park in the DC area it was to be called Disney America)
Premier began making changes very quickly - the changes that were made to Adventure World before its first season as Six Flags America cost some $27 million. Some of the first changes that were to be made were - building a new entrance and mainstreet, expanding parking lots and then the new rides and attractons that would carry the new Six flags theming.
Some of the new attractions include: Looney Tunes Movie Town, and the Batman themed Gotham City, in which they they built the Batman stunt show and the linear induction coaster The Joker's Jinx. They also added a second new coaster which is a suspended boomerang model named Two Face: The Flip Side, this coaster sits in the former location of a coaster that they removed during the off season - The Python.
To see the press release announcing the intro of The Joker's Jinx and Two Face: The Flip Side Click Here.
To see a map of this Park during its last season as Adventure World Click Here.
To see a map of this Park during its first season as Six Flags America Click Here.
This is an image of what the new entrance/mainstreet looks like.
This is an image of what Gotham City looks like with The Joker's Jinx. in the front.
In the background you see the new megacoaster thats going to be opening in 2000 - Superman: Ride of Steel.
