Six Flags Fright Fest (formerly Fright Nights) is a Halloween-oriented event held annually at various Six Flags theme parks. It features haunted attractions, themed areas called Scare Zones, and live entertainment.
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History
Six Flags created Fright Fest after testing Halloween-based events throughout the 1970s at some of its parks. Six Flags AstroWorld, which was acquired in 1974, debuted Fright Nights in 1986, and continued the event until the park's closure in 2005. Six Flags St Louis then was the second park to start the event in 1988, with Freddy Krueger as its main character. The event was renamed Fright Fest in 1993 at all parks, and continued its run until the park closed. Fright Fest began at Six Flags Over Texas the following year in 1989. The events featured haunted houses, a trick or treat trail for kids, and more. In 1999, Six Flags licensed and opened Alice Cooper's Brutal Planet haunted houses at some parks, featuring music from the album and using similar elements in each house. The next year it became just simply "Brutal Planet" and dropped the Alice Cooper theme. Since then, Six Flags has licensed other intellectual properties for mazes and scare zones, including the Saw films and DC Comics's Suicide Squad.
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General information
Six Flags parks are generally heavily decorated for Fright Fest, while also featuring additional haunted attractions, live entertainment and scare zones. Halloween-based shows are also performed, most notably "Love at First Fright" at Six Flags St Louis and Six Flags Great America, as well as opening ceremonies and closing finales such as "Freaks Unleashed" and "Final Freakout" at Six Flags St Louis which brings all the actors into the park for a first and last scare. The parks also feature themed "Scare Zones" in designated areas of the park where costumed actors are allowed to scare guests, though these parks also typically include areas where the actors are not allowed, thus allowing a "safe" area for families with small children or otherwise not wanting to be scared.
Many of the parks have similar shows and share names and ideas, like "Dead Man's Party", which is at Six Flags St Louis, Six Flags New England, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Over Texas, and Six Flags Great America. Another show, "Love at First Fright" is only shown at Six Flags St Louis, and Six Flags Great America, but was also shown at Six Flags Over Georgia for a while. Most also have a specific show that unleashes the monsters into the parks, including "Freaks Unleashed" at Six Flags St Louis, "Awakening" at Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, "The Uprising" at Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags America, Six Flags Great America, and "Unleashed!" at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Locations
As of 2018, Six Flags Fright Fest events are held at the following parks:
- Six Flags Over Texas
- Six Flags Great America
- Six Flags St. Louis
- Six Flags Magic Mountain
- Six Flags New England
- Six Flags Over Georgia
- Six Flags Great Adventure
- Six Flags Fiesta Texas
- Six Flags America
- Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
- Six Flags Mexico
- Great Escape
- La Ronde
- Darien Lake
"Fright Fest" events were previously also held at former Six Flags parks Darien Lake and Elitch Gardens. These parks were sold to PARC Management in 2007, and PARC Management parks originally rebranded their Fright Fest events as "Fall Family Fun Fest", adding family oriented areas such as hay mazes and pumpkin painting. The events were then rebranded again as "FrightFest" from 2008 onward, including the years 2011-2014 with Herschend Family Entertainment managing the properties. Darien Lake and Elitch Gardens are currently managed by Premier Parks, LLC, and while FrightFest ended at Darien Lake in 2015, replaced by Harvest Festival, as of 2017, it continues at Elitch Gardens as "Fright Fest". The Halloween-themed event is scheduled to return to Darien Lake in 2018.
See also
- Holiday in the Park
References
- "Six Flags Theme Parks Cash-In on Halloween; Theme Park Company Uses Halloween Fright Fest to Drive Incremental Attendance, Revenues". The Free Library. Business Wire. 2000. Retrieved 10 Oct 2009.
External links
- Six Flags official Fright Fest website
Source of article : Wikipedia
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