Theme Park Merger: Six Flags and Cedar Fair to combine

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The two companies tout their combined IP deals, including for DC Comics and the Peanuts characters, as core to the merger.

In a deal that shakes up the U.S.

theme parks business, Six Flags and Cedar Fair have agreed to merge, creating an $8 billion parks giant that the companies hope will be able to better compete with parks from the likes of the Walt Disney Co. and Comcast’s NBCUniversal. The all-stock deal will merge both

 

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