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Worlds of Fun, is a 235-acre (95 ha) theme park located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation , it was founded by American businessmen Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman under the ownership of Hunt's company, Mid-America Enterprises in 1973.
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Oceans of Fun is a tropically themed water park that opened on May 31, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the adjacent Worlds of Fun amusement park. When it opened, it was the largest water park in the state of Missouri. It is owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
The park's owners at the time, Hunt Midwest Entertainment Inc., and the makers of the ride eventually settled with the girl's family for $200,000. [14] This made Timber Wolf the only ride so far at Worlds of Fun with a fatality. On August 2, 2014, an 11-year-old boy was taken to a hospital after suffering a concussion and a bloody nose on the ride.
Both the park and SEIU Local 1, which represents 58 unionized Worlds of Fun maintenance workers, described a Thursday and Friday set of negotiations as productive. Workers voted to authorize a ...
The new contract, which will be voted on Oct. 23 includes guaranteed pay raises, protections against use of subcontractors.
On September 11, 1997, Worlds of Fun announced that Mamba would be added to the park. [2] The ride would be a hypercoaster by D.H. Morgan Manufacturing. It would be the tallest ride in the park at 205 feet (62 m). The coaster would be located in the Africa section of the park. [2] Mamba officially opened on April 18, 1998. [3]
Here are some fun map facts for you: one of the oldest surviving maps is the Babylonian Map of The World. Archaeologists date it back to around 700 to 500 B.C. The map was a clay tablet nearly the ...