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Disney will soon offer Starbucks locations at all six of its domestic theme parks, but don't expect the familiar green-aproned experience in the Magic Kingdom.

If you haven't had enough of roller coasters after the ups and downs of the stock market this month, you might consider adding an amusement-park operator to your portfolio. Between Six Flags and Cedar Fair, which stock has the potential to deliver the smoothest ride for investors?

While our esteemed Julia Scott (a.k.a Bargain Babe) loves a bargain, she also loves a break. And so I'm filling in for her this week: We flipped a coin between the names Bargain Beau and Bargain Bum. And Bargain Beau won out. Thank goodness for two-headed coins. But, hey: There's nothing rigged...

With the unveiling of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Universal Studios Orlando has officially raised the bar for vacation attractions in summer 2010. The bold move is only one of many strategies that theme parks are using to turn around an industry that has been brutalized by the recession.

Six Flags and Walmart are teaming up to offer customers $99 Family Days, a special promotion that includes four tickets to Six Flags' theme parks and discounts on food, drinks and other activities. On Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout June, Walmart shoppers will find the special promotion code...

If you plan on visiting any theme park more than once this year, you'll probably save money buying a season pass. That's because the major parks, in an effort pack their parks full of souvenir-buying, fried dough-scarfing hordes all year long, have adjusted their pricing so that a one-day ticket...

If you haven't been to a Six Flags lately, you won't know that it, too, has adopted a strategy popular at airlines, hotels, and on cruises. It's charging customers extra for smoother service. The Flash Pass is the chain's for-rent gadget that grants guests the right to leap to the front of the long...

Extended Stay Hotels and Six Flags Inc. (SIXF) today reminded investors not to count their chickens before they are hatched. The operator of extended stay hotels in 44 states and the owner of 20 theme parks, including New Jersey's Great Adventure, both filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection....

After months of speculation, Six Flags finally filed for bankruptcy on Saturday. Under a prenegotiated restructuring plan, it seems likely that senior lenders stand to gain 90 percent control of the company, while bondholders will receive about 10 percent ownership. This move is coming a little...

Its TV commercials would count this as "no flags": Six Flags, which operates 20 amusement parks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Saturday. It's been one long downhill ride for the thriller, which has been battling debt for years. The past few months have seen the park's embattled CEO, Mark Shapiro,...