Disney moving in to Six Flags??

[cheyita]

Maybe it has always been like this, and I just haven't noticed.

We went to Six Flags Great America for a few hours yesterday. For the first time this year, we stopped in one of the souvenir shops. Besides all of the Six Flags and Looney Tunes merchandise, we saw quite a bit of Disney merchandise -- Pooh, Tinkerbell, Mickey, Goofy, etc. There were shirts, plushes, all sorts of stuff?

Have the Six Flags parks always carried Disney stuff? Or is this a sign of things to come?? (One can only hope!!)

 

[kaabost]

Wow! I've never heard of this before!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. When we went to Six Flags last month, we didn't go into any of the 'gift stores' so I don't know what our local one is doing. All I know is that I kept seeing commercials advertising 'TEN GREAT NEW RIDES!' only to find out they are rides geared more towards smaller kids.

TOV

 

[Princess89]

The Six Flags here in NJ has the same stuff. The only thing I can say that would explain it is that those store could be independently owned, sort of like the restaurants in WDW, and they basically stock their own merchandise. I haven't been in there to buy anything, but did see the large displays of Disney on one side, and Nick stuff on the other. I will hit up the stores at the end of the Six Flags season, because you can pick up things at 60% off.

 

[alanapapa]

Out local 6 Flags attraction (Wild Waves) had some Disney Licensed merchandise and when I examined it, it looked like it was Licesened Characters, not Disney Merchandise, if you follow the distinction.

 

[Planogirl]

Ours only carried the Looney Tunes/DC comics stuff as I recall. I don't remember seeing any other characters and since I'm always hunting for Sylvester things, I imagine that I would have noticed.

 

[cstraub]

We're going to Kentucky Kingdom next weekend (sept 23/24). I'll check it out and report back.

 

[AKLRULZ]

Am I the only one who thinks Six Flags diminishes the branding of Disney? This is really strange news to me.

 

[Princess89]

Am I the only one who thinks Six Flags diminishes the branding of Disney? This is really strange news to me.

Yes, I do, but its only licensed merchandise that can be bought anywhere.