Six Flags St. Louis Will Become Mid-America by Enchanted Parks. What Does That Mean?

On March 4, 2026, Six Flags announced that it was selling off seven of its parks to EPR Properties, a real estate company specializing in theaters and recreational attractions. Those seven parks are:

• Michigan’s Adventure (Muskegon, MI)
• Schlitterbahn Waterpark Galveston (Galveston, TX)
• Six Flags Great Escape (Queensbury, NY)
• Six Flags La Ronde (Montreal, QC)
• Six Flags St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
• Valleyfair (Minneapolis, MN)
• Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun (Kansas City, MO)

The six United States-based parks will be managed by Enchanted Parks, a new company that specializes in amusement parks. The Canadian park, Six Flags La Ronde, will be run by La Ronde Operations, Inc.

All of this comes just a year and a half after the finalized merger of Cedar Fair and Six Flags. That merger was met with its own questions. It’s not lost on us that the new Enchanted Parks portfolio contains a mix of both former Six Flags properties, like Six Flags St. Louis, and former Cedar Fair ones, like Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun on the other side of the state.

Of note, the CEO and founder of Enchanted Parks, James Harhi, spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he called Six Flags St. Louis the “crown jewel” of the purchase. He also noted that the St. Louis park will get a new name: Mid-America by Enchanted Parks. Mid-America, for those old enough to remember, is a callback to Six Flags Over Mid-America, the name of the park before it became Six Flags St. Louis in 1996.

Chances are, you have plenty of questions. And maybe some emotions about the sale, too. So do we. We won’t be able to answer all the questions. And the emotions … well, those are their own journey. But we can lay out what we know, and what is likely to happen over the next year.

2026: The Last Year of Six Flags St. Louis

In its press release, Six Flags emphasized that the seven Enchanted Parks properties would continue to operate as before during the 2026 season. That means that Six Flags St. Louis in 2026 will look mostly like Six Flags St. Louis in 2025. That’s both good and — depending on how you look at it — not so good.

Let’s start with the good first. If you want familiar, the park is going to feel familiar. The rides are going to look the same in 2026, from the theming to the execution. The same will go for the restaurants and the characters. What’s more, we think the show schedule in 2026 is more robust than we’ve seen in years, which is nice to see.

Also, Six Flags St. Louis will continue to benefit from the perks of being a Six Flags park in 2026. For example, the company launched a redesigned app in 2026 that we think is an improvement over the older versions.

Another, bigger perk is multi-park access. Certain season passholders and members, including people who bought Six Flags season passes during the August 2025 MVP Sale, will have access to all of the Six Flags theme parks for 2026. Other season passholders and members may have access to other Midwest Six Flags parks or access to Chicago’s Six Flags Great America, depending on the level of the season pass.

The not so good? Well, there is the shadow of knowing the park is about to change. That part is going to be hard to ignore. We won’t be able to walk through Six Flags St. Louis without thinking about potential changes. And we don’t even want to think about what the last day of the season in 2026 will look like.

A bigger issue, in our mind, is improvements. While Six Flags will do its usual winter maintenance ahead of the 2026 season, don’t expect any new rides or major upgrades to the St. Louis location in 2026. We are thankful that the park did get a new ride in Joker: Carnival of Chaos in 2024 and a rebuilt Carousel in 2025, but we don’t anticipate anything like that in 2026.

2027: The First Year of Mid-America by Enchanted Parks

A new season in a park under new ownership is going to have a lot of unknowns. But let’s start by what we do know.

First, the obvious: there are going to be some major naming and thematic changes to the park. I mean, it’s going to be called Mid-America by Enchanted Parks. There will be new signing outside and inside the park. That will take some getting used to.

Right now, Six Flags has licensing agreements with two major Warner Bros. Discovery franchises: Looney Toons and DC Comics. The Looney Tunes connection goes back to the mid-1980s: older visitors to Six Flags St. Louis may recall Looney Tunes Town, which was relocated to another part of the park and renamed Bugs Bunny National Park. (American Thunder occupies much of the space where Looney Tunes town once sat.) The DC licensing came a decade later, in the 1990s, and now encompasses wide sections of the park.

It’s a smaller issue, but a few of the restaurants in the park are either franchises (i.e. Johnny Rockets) or Six Flags-branded spaces (JB’s Smokehouse).

While the CEO of Enchanted Parks has expressed interest in continuing licensing agreements, it seems likely that the DC and Looney Tunes branding will disappear from the park in 2027. Batman may not be Batman. Same for Catwoman Whip, Supergirl: Sky Flyer, and Mr. Freeze: Reverse Blast. We expect those rides to physically remain, but they’ll have different names and theming. Bugs Bunny National Park is likely going to need a name change, too.

It’s potentially going to be a little weird. I don’t know how I would feel boarding Batman and not seeing Batman signage. Early on there still may even be little vestiges of the DC theming, such as spaces where symbols used to be. I expect people to have a hard time calling Batman something else, whatever that something else might be. I know I will.

More problematic is what they’ll do with Justice League: Battle for Metropolis. The screen-based indoor shooter ride certainly shows its age — it needs plenty of updates — but it is a unique ride in the park that reminds me of a poor man’s version of rides at Disney World and Universal Studios. It’s hard to see how you could possibly rebrand that space.

That also goes for DC Comics Plaza. I mean, there’s a giant DC etched in concrete. It will have to go.

Licensing isn’t the only change that could be on the horizon. Six Flags has a way of doing things, and Enchanted Parks is likely to do things differently. That might not be all bad, but it will be different. Little things like park entry, purchasing, and the aforementioned app will necessarily undergo changes. The staff will be handled and possibly deployed differently. All of that could lead to some bumps at first.

Still another change? Ticketing. Season passes and day tickets will be under new hands, and those new hands will make their own choices. Right now, season passes — especially those purchased around Labor Day — are a great value, as they earn their keep after just a couple of visits. We don’t know what season passes, or day tickets for that matter, will look like post-Six Flags. We also don’t know if there will be any multi-park perks. It would be nice if our Mid-America passes could get us into Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, but time will tell.

That’s a boatload of change. But not everything in the park is going to change.

We fully expect that many of the rides will keep their signage. The Ninja will still be The Ninja. So will the Screamin’ Eagle, Log Flume, Thunder River, and Colossus. We assume at least some of the restaurants, like First Cone and Colonnades, are more likely to keep their existing naming. Those points of familiarity, I think, may help with adjusting to all the changes.

Closing Thoughts

There is undeniable uncertainty about the future of the theme park in St. Louis. We know 2026 will be much like past years, even if there is the specter of change.

We also know that 2027 will see a lot of change. Some of that change could be good, or it might not be — we just don’t know.

We do have some reason for optimism. The CEO of Enchanted Parks is a theme park veteran whose resume includes time at Disney World. He and his company seem genuinely excited about the St. Louis theme park. We don’t expect major changes, but we can always hope the new company eventually invests in long-needed improvements, especially to the park’s aging wooden roller coasters, which were seemingly neglected by Six Flags in recent decades.

Another reason for optimism: Enchanted Parks is a privately held company, unlike Six Flags, which is publicly traded on the stock market. Why does that matter? Because Enchanted Parks can make long term decisions without having to appease stockholders, something we see in privately held companies like Aldi and Lego.

Regardless, we know one thing. Change is coming to St. Louis’s major theme park. We’ll be watching it with great interest.