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Old 01-09-2020, 04:50 AM
 
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Astroworld had one of the better attendance numbers for Six Flags parks even when it closed so that wasn't the issue either. It got new roller coasters up to 1999 and some new rides a couple years after. Six Fkags had terrible management at the time so it is best to blame them for the downfall and thinking the land would be more valuable to sell. It wasn't minorities. That's just stupid!
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Old 01-09-2020, 08:29 AM
 
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Astroworld had one of the better attendance numbers for Six Flags parks even when it closed so that wasn't the issue either. It got new roller coasters up to 1999 and some new rides a couple years after. Six Fkags had terrible management at the time so it is best to blame them for the downfall and thinking the land would be more valuable to sell. It wasn't minorities. That's just stupid!
IIRC "Taz's Texas Tornado" was the only new one in '99 that was always having problems. I managed to get on it once, during what turned out to be my last time going to AW. It was cool, but not worth the hour and a half in line that could have been spent, say, riding Batman and then walking over to Greezed Lightnin' and probably riding it four times.

When something new did come, it took all day to get on it, because everything else in the park was passe.

The reasons for AW closing are way too complex to condense into a sentence or two, but to say there were poor business decisions made would be accurate.
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