Cedar Fair just bought Michigans Great Adventure for something like 25 million. The big attraction there is a wooden coaster called Shivering Timbers.
Six Flags has been doing the same thing, buying up the independent parks instead of building new ones. Then they add a few average rides. They did this with the park near Cleveland Ohio, it's called Six Flags World of Adventure. Problem is, the rides they installed aren't mega hits, they're just average. People are complaining about rude employees and dirty parks.
They just added a flying coaster, but it's not enough to make me want to fly up there and visit. This is why people don't think Six Flags will come to Orlando, because they'd have to build a park from scratch, and they don't do that.
Let's hope this practice of big companies gobbling up the smaller parks stops, because it's not working. In the long run, the employees become rude, the parks become dirty, and we only get average rides (clones) with no theaming.