Could Cedar Fair have saved Six Flags Astro World?

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Here is a chance for me to play "What If" just like Marvel's Comics. So I guess I must play the Watcher, a being that only observe.

 

"WHAT IF CEDAR FAIR SAVED SIX FLAGS ASTROWORLD?"

 

It's October 2005 and Six Flags have closed Astroworld. Now in this reality the powers-to-be at Cedar Fair just read the news and just sighed "Another amusement park becomes defunct" and goes on to their daily operations as they plan to purchase all the Paramount parks and add them to their chain. But there are other realities, such as this one. One of those higher-ups looked at the news and thought "What if we also bought Astroworld? Why not? Don't we have any parks that far south? Texas has two Six Flags parks, so I think it should get a Cedar Fair park to, even if it was a former Six Flags park." So the motion was presented to the board and it gets passed.

 

Late spring of 2006, Astroworld is opened to the public without any new rides, but all Looney Tunes and DC Super Heroes have been taken out, and a brand new Camp Snoopy is featured. The former Batman: The Escape has been given a complete overhaul with a new entrance built and renamed. Within the next few years, that whole area that was Batman will be given a new theme and new rides would be featured. Cedar Point would also fix up the Aqua Theater and bring back its water shows. As Geauga Lake's rides began to be dissolved and put into other parks, XLR-8 would be taken out and Dominator, now at Kings Dominion, would take its place and have the tagline "The longest floorless coaster in Texas". Astroworld would also get a flying coaster the following year that Kings Island now has as Firehawk. The Waterpark will become "Soak City" and receives new slides.

 

It's 2014 and Astroworld is a big thriving park thanks to the efforts of Cedar Fair and the efforts of one higher up who thought this park was well worth saving. I'm sure that is happening at an alternative universe, but not happening at this one alas. Perhaps Grand Texas Theme Park could actually be a reality.