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Six Flags’ Cryptic Tweet Sends Fans Scrambling for Answers

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Posted on by Rick Lye
A large sign with colorful flags and bold white text reading "Six Flags World Headquarters" stands amid manicured landscaping with red flowers and green bushes, signifying the new policies on guest access. A building and a parked vehicle are visible in the background.

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Sometimes, businesses, especially theme parks, release cryptic information to promote something new and get guests to speculate about what’s coming. It’s a good way to drum up some free publicity by, in a small way, messing with some of your most diehard fans.

A roller coaster train with passengers is in the middle of an upside-down loop against a clear blue sky at Six Flags, leaving fans scrambling to capture the perfect thrill-filled moment.
Demon Six Flags Great America. Credit: Six Flags

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Fresh off its merger with Cedar Fair, Six Flags Entertainment has instituted some unpopular new rules and has tried to divert some of the attention from those changes to attract fans back to its parks.

Among those new rules is a chaperone policy for anyone under the age of 15, new rules for content creators that some argue limit negative information about the parks, and a separate season pass for Cedar Fair and Six Flags through next year.

However, Six Flags Great America sent out a cryptic tweet last week that distracted fans from any of those changes and created fan buzz on social media.

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The tweet read: “It Lies Through the Demons Eyes” and included the hashtag, “Fear the wrath.” The tweet has a capitalized random letter spelled out as “SRHSS.” And then the speculation began.

Guest immediately jumped on the Demon Roller Coaster at Six Flags Great America. Fans originally expressed concern that the fan-favorite roller coaster was either closing for good or being refurbished.

However, as guests dug more deeply and the fan theories continued, one came up with the best possible answer to the cryptic tweet: Six Flags Great America was getting a larger version of Demon.

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Next to Demon is a vacant area that was once home to Buccaneer Battle, a water ride where riders and onlookers would fight with water cannons. Buccaneer Battle has been closed since 2021.

It has been five years since the theme park opened a new coaster when Maxx Force opened in 2019.

Demon opened in 1976 and underwent a renovation last year. However, that was only a cosmetic update.

When Six Flags and Cedar Fair merged, fans hoped that it would mean a new creative period for the 42 parks now under one umbrella and that this new entity would spawn new rides and attractions at all the parks.

Aerial view of Six Flags Great America Chicago
Credit: David B. Gleason via Wikimedia Commons

While Six Flags Great America has not officially announced that Demon would be changing, this is the first step in that announcement to help generate buzz on social media.

Despite no announcement, Six Flags did tweet the previous week: “Something is coming, just wait.” That only added more speculation and fan excitement.

If that was its goal, mission accomplished.

What do you think Six Flags Great America meant by its cryptic tweet? 

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Rick Lye

Rick is an avid Disney fan. He first went to Disney World in 1986 with his parents and has been hooked ever since. Rick is married to another Disney fan and is in the process of turning his two children into fans as well. When he is not creating new Disney adventures, he loves to watch the New York Yankees and hang out with his dog, Buster. In the fall, you will catch him cheering for his beloved NY Giants.

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