They could be trying to make it look as nice as possible for a sale. You know, like redoing the kitchen on a house before it ends up on the market.
Yeah, that's possible. But it is kinda all speculatory at the moment.
Back to the subject on hand. I really don't see Six Flags disolving as a result of increasing difficulty in meeting their financial obligations; I see them liquidiating a lot of their assets, and regressing from a lot of the big expansion moves they've made in the last decade, if anything.
I really do believe that Six Flags is going to become a somewhat secondary amusement chain, sorry to say, but I think as far as them not surviving 2009 is concerned, a lot of the chains in America are going to go byebye (at the very least). I'm just going to throw some names out there like: Great America, St. Louis, DK, KK, America, and Over Georgia.