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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.
In 1972, the park was purchased by the Medina Investors, who renamed it Worlds of Fun. However, to preclude involvement in trademark-infringing lawsuits with amusement parks employing the exact name, they renamed it again to the Three Worlds of Santa's Village. Santa's World This was the original area and focal point of the park. It was located ...
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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.
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 ...
By acquiring this park, Six Flags gained the rights to the Warner Bros. licenses. Purchase price $114.5M [26] Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor: Queensbury, New York: 1954 1996 Acquired by Premier Parks in 1996. Until 2022, the park did not have the "Six Flags" brand in its name; and before the Premier purchase, the park was known as ...
Planet Snoopy at Kings Island was awarded the "Best Kids Area" Golden Ticket Awards from 2001 to 2018 by Amusement Today. [1] It was the largest Planet Snoopy in the Six Flags chain until 2013 when Kings Dominions expanded theirs to 14 acres (5.7 ha).
This, combined with the nearby park Worlds of Fun caused the venerable park to close. During the 1950s and 1960s, Fairyland boasted 3 roller coasters, an 8 story Ferris wheel (which was bent in half during a tornado), a swimming pool (double Olympic size and closed in the late 1960s), bumper cars, a shooting range, and a petting zoo at one time.