User blog:RCTFan2002/What If? Episode 9: What if Six Flags didn't sell Worlds of Adventure?

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my "What If?" series. Not gonna lie, this is probably gonna be my last episode in this series FOR NOW, due to me starting up my second semester at college in just a few days and, unlike last semester, all my classes are now in-person. So...yeah. If I can, I will still update both of my blog series, but don't hold your breaths.

Last week, I went over what would happen if Six Flags Ohio and Seaworld Ohio continued operating separately from one another, as the second of 4 scenarios I came up with concerning the now defunct Geauga Lake theme park in Aurora, Ohio. Well, this week, I will be discussing something similar - what would Six Flags Worlds of Adventure look like today if Six Flags never sold the park? And before you ask, yes, this idea was directly inspired by Theme Park Predictions' video where they went over this exact scenario themselves, which you can see for yourselves right here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whMpDegXkwM&list=PLl0AF0LVThS8k6wrBCMrrvMOd8SRldABR&index=3). That being said, let's dive into this!

Introduction
Geauga Lake opened as a local recreational area in 1887, gaining it's first ride, a carousel, in 1889. It didn't add it's first coaster, "The Big Dipper", until 1925, nearly four decades later. The park continued to run independently for a couple more decades, until 1969, when it was bought by Funtime Parks. They continued to run the park for the next 25 years, along with their other parks, "Darien Lake" and "Wyandot Lake", until Premier Parks, later on Six Flags, bought the Funtime parks in 1995. In 2000, when all of Premier Parks' properties got the "Six Flags treatment", Geauga Lake saw a massive expansion with FOUR new coasters and got it's name changed to "Six Flags Ohio". However, just a year later, Six Flags also bought the "Seaworld Ohio" park that opened right across the lake from the park in 1970, integrating it into their own park and creating "Six Flags Worlds of Adventure", the world's largest theme park. Sadly, due to Six Flags' financial issues, they sold the park after the 2003 season to Cedar Fair, who did...questionable things with the park aftewards. Not only did they tear down the "Seaworld Ohio" side of the park and replace everything with a new waterpark, but also removed two popular coasters and eventually shut down the park as it was seen as redundant and less popular than Cedar Point and Kings Island. The waterpark was shut down after 2016 and to this day the entire park is just an empty, overgrown lot.

But what if something...different happened in 2003? What if instead of selling the park to Cedar Fair, Six Flags somehow managed to miraculously keep Six Flags Worlds of Adventure and continue to expand and add new rides to it? How would the park look like today? What rides and coasters could we see being added or removed from the park? Well, you're in luck, because this is what this blog post is about!