Orlando's Weird & Forgotten Six Flags | Expedition Extinct 

This was a great video, in fact, I had no idea there was a Six Flags [even if it's technically a different experience] in Orlando. Six Flags has a surprising amount of defunct parks. Hoping you eventually cover Astroworld [with info on Marvel Mcfey and the park's pre-Six Flags history].

Just had a listen, great introduction, looking forward to the next one!

love the intros to your videos and the all the historic-rich content on rides/attractions past and present they feature, can we get a clue on what the next video will be on? till then i'll catch you next ride!

I’d love to see some awesome Six Flags Theme Parks and Water Parks in Florida including the destination Six Flags Over Florida theme park in Central Florida, Six Flags Paradise Kingdom in Southern Florida, etc.! If there could be a Six Flags Over Florida theme park, it might be a compliment to the other Central Florida and Orlando theme parks in the area and a compliment to Six Flags Over Georgia!

@@muppetsretrofan8873 I just made a comment on this and came under this comment and saw yours!!! I miss Astroworld. It was our summer camp in the 90’s. 😂😂😂 we were a different breed of kids back then!!! I still remember all my favorite rides!!

Time flies!

That was very sweet of your cousin, condolences.

Sorry for your loss

That’s a really nice memory

Wow great story

Yeah exactly the same for me in London!

Same for me in Niagara Falls! It was a never again experience as a kid because it scarred for life. I remember physically shaking in fear with the combo between the sound effects, the uncanny wax valley & the scary maze to top it off😬😬😬

i never went into the wax museum (just the ripley's believe it or not) but always thought it was genius to put wax museum in the hottest areas of the country because you KNOW it's always gonna have great air conditioning lol.

I love wax museums. I've even worked in one for a couple of years! Was part of Madame Tussauds Singapore in fact. Was the best 2 years I had before the pandemic. I think why wax museums are still a draw if done right, is the fact there are people who like to size up to celebrities and historical figures. Certain areas were creepy though... then again, the building its in use to be a hospital in World War II. Tussauds in Singapore took over another wax museum called Images of Singapore, which was more of a historical and cultural type attraction. The figures were...something. A small number of those figures remained as we kept Images as part of the attraction, but they didn't look took good compared to the ones brought in by Tussauds, and they always get us feeling the chills.

New York one crazy too on Times Square

Thank you so much ☺️

Also, they don't unnecessary embellish stories for clickbait, which so many channels do

Actually the 70s was a bigger era of the big boom of indie attractions in the greater Orlando area. The Mystery Fun House, Wet & Wild, the Zanadu Home of the Future, Fun Spot on 192, Dinner Theaters, and tons of unique restaurants and gift shops being built as International Drive was being developed & coming to life. And the prices for everything back then was quite reasonable, and the crowds weren't ANYTHING like today. Yep the 70s (and early 80s) was thee best time to experience Orlando..

Shoot my father lived in Orlando for years and I lived there in the late 80s and again in the mid to late 90s. I was born in 1986 and I wish I would have gotten to experience Boardwalk and Baseball but it shut down before I could!

I grew up in the 90s and most of those places were still around. Especially the former two and the latter as well.

Shoot the late 70s and early 80s were a good time to grow up period. I wish I was old enough to experience it. I am 36. I was not born until 1986. But the late 80s and early 90s were good. Folks used to cruise International Drive back then until the authorities put a stop to it.

It’s on my list to do for sure!

What’s Weeki Wachee? Don’t think I’ve heard of that one

@@ExpeditionThemePark Any plans for Treasureland in Tampa?

What about Haunted Mansion in Kissimmee?

@@JustinCoasters i have tried to do that video twice, there is just no good footage for it

Ah legend Vincent Price

I would love to have met Vincent Price whenever he came to central Florida in the 1970s (I had a crush on him at the time, from late 1973 to mid-1978.). My oldest sister, Mary, wanted to take me to Stars Hall of Fame back in the 1970s when it was open, but she never did.

After Stars Hall of Fame, Six Flags sent her down to South Florida to open Atlantis: The Water Kingdom. They then tried to send her to open AutoWorld in Flint, Michigan but she declined this opportunity and left Six Flags at that point. Or maybe she worked for 20th Century Fox? 🤔 Did Six Flags own 20th Century Fox at some point? There was some connection there. I guess this video will tell me lol.

That’s amazing. I made a video also on Atlantis!

@@ExpeditionThemePark I love your Atlantis! video (and all of your videos!). I'm still only halfway through watching this so far but my own personal memories of this facility/building were from the late 1990s when Anheuser-Busch/Sea World owned the building. My father was the Director of Security (and other departments at different times) at Sea World for over a decade when I was a child and by that time they had purchased this building. As I'm sure you will probably mention in your video, after Stars Hall of Fame closed the building eventually was purchased by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ) a large publishing / textbook publishing corporation which owned Sea World prior to Anheuser-Busch purchasing the marine parks and the old Stars Hall of Fame building had been turned into an attraction (well, kind of more of a specialty sales center than a true attraction) called "Places of Learning". It was basically a place where teachers from across the United States would come to peruse the latest and greatest textbooks and teaching materials lol. HBJ created a giant map of the United States out of cement in the parking lot that lit up and had different water effects. Anyway, by the mid 1990s Sea World/Anheuser-Busch used the facility for several different functions simultaneously (and probably still does, if the building is still standing? It's been a few years since I was home in Orlando). Half of the building was leased out to the Orange County Sheriff's Department as office space and then another giant portion of the building contained a huge huge huge fish tank and was basically a nursery for sick fish from SeaWorld (and I remember they had terrible problems with the tanks always leaking and flooding the building). And then another portion of the building on the back was (maybe still is?) basically a store where they sold surplus items from the theme parks to employees and also auctioned off unique items as well. And then another portion of the building became a television studio. Since my father was the Director of Security I basically was able to wander anywhere I wanted and he would give me keys and I used to play in this building sometimes when I was like 14 and it was such a creepy and fascinating place. The parking lot still had a weird, somewhat faded map of the United States set into the broken concrete with weeds growing through it. There was the TV studio area which was at one point in the late '90s was used to film a sitcom that was basically a "Friend's" knock-off (which in reality was pretty much just a promotional vehicle for AB theme parks) about a group of young, 20-something "friends"/roommates who worked at the different AB parks. If I can remember the name I'll edit this comment and add it. There was a television soundstage inside with a set designed to look like the local coffee shop where the characters from the show all hung out lol. The employee auctions were fascinating/fun and you could buy (or bid on) anything you could think of, from Sea World park garbage cans to signs for different attractions, and surplus merchandise. They also sold off items that guests had lost in the parks that had been held at Lost and Found for an extended period of time but never collected such as camcorders and film cameras and expensive sunglasses and whatnot lol. At one point I started taking piano lessons for like 5 seconds and my father came home a few days later with an entire upright piano he had purchased for like $50 from there that had originally been the rehearsal piano for the Chinese acrobats show at the Nautilus theater at Sea World lol. There had also been an attraction in that vicinity built by HBJ called Florida Festival (maybe another video opportunity?) that was basically HBJ/Sea World's attempt to have something similar to what Disney had with the Lake Buena Vista Village/Marketplace which was basically an indoor/outdoor mall that had various shops and restaurants and I believe was Florida / sunshine themed and was built in giant tents. I don't believe it was open for very long. I remember also as a child seeing a few remnants from that property completely overgrown with weeds kind of back behind the Stars Hall of Fame building/near this overflow parking lot for employees that was used at the time next to/behind the Renaissance hotel (which originally was a Stouffer resort and was also owned/built by HBJ and if I recall when it opened had the world's largest atrium lobby in terms of square feet).

I thought they tore it down in 2016 and put a Butterfly Wonderland in its place.

At least you got to visit one of them!

I've only been in one wax museum, and it was definitely an odd experience but the figures were pretty excellent, IMO. Of course my opinion isn't worth much but it's just my own experience. I could see how one bad go could get you to avoid them though, as even the one I've been in that I think is pretty good, I've only been in twice and it's less than two hours from my house. 😂 They're an odd concept to begin with, to me. But again, just my opinion.

Thank you!

I hope to in the future. Thank you!

Thank you so much

Oh nice!

That would be a better ending ha

Yeah it was also cool

I started to leave a comment asking what he could focus on. Quick wiki check: opened in 1906, has 76 rides, has had a total of 142 during its lifetime… Now I’m definitely going to spend way too long reading about those 66 closed rides.

Hershey IS a great park. One of the many "old" parks in PA. The birth place of the 1st roller coaster in America Mauch Chunk Scenic Railway.

what did you do there?

@@ExpeditionThemePark The marketing and sales teams for SeaWorld Orlando worked in there. I was on the public relations team for SeaWorld, Aquatica, and Discovery Cove.

@@SharonMooreHeartSwell I knew it was used by SeaWorld but didn’t know which part! Super cool

The comments can some times be as interesting as the video itself.

I thought it was so spooky!

Hope you get to!

Sounds like a fun place!

@@ExpeditionThemePark They had commercials with the late Billy Barty. It will take a bit of research on your part. Hopefully you have some avenues beyond the internet. I've found inly a few things about it online. At the time it was a very unusual place. The studios really didn't see any value in their props. The guy that owned the place was buying them up. You could go right up and touch the props(you were not supposed to, some even stole parts) the staff didn't seem to care. But then I don't remember seeing much of a staff. When it shut down the collection scattered all over the place. Some items were never seen again.

Orlando has some cool gems!

Ahhhhh needed those two weeks!

Thanks so much for watching

It’s on my list!

Ahah right?

Thank you!

So many!

Circus World then became Boardwalk and Baseball, Mystery Fun House, Hard Rock Vault

@@Bigreid92 Circus World sounds familiar!

@@danandtab7463 they were a major Orlando area theme park came around the same time as Stars Hall Of Fame but was bought out by Sea Worlds owners HBJ the same group that bought Stars. They turned it into a Baseball theme park and was the spring training facility for KC Royals. HBJ ran into financial difficulties in the late 80’s due to the crash of Wall Street Junk Bonds and they sold all their theme parks including Sea World to Busch. The remains of the park was demolished not too long ago.

There was also "Xanadu House of the Furure" off 192, was open thru the 70s and most of the 80s.

Oh you did that’s awesome, will check it out

That’s awesome, what did you get ?

@@ExpeditionThemePark Thank you 😁 I managed to score a couple vintage brochures and even a couple of souvenir guides. I love collecting vintage brochures and enamel pins especially, but no idea if they ever made any of those.

It will never die!

No it most certainly won't.

Ahh that’s awesome! A real collector item now

Hope you had a good lunch

Yep still offices

Thank you so much

A real shame

Thank you!

That’s awesome!

I tried to find out but could find nothing. One person reported they got save but who knows

Thank you! I will soon for sure aha

Thank you

Thanks so much

You have any photos?

@@Clay3613 No, sadly. My photo albums disappeared some years ago.

Yessss! That’s awesome

It’s true!

Blackpool still has a wax museum

Nice!

It’s on my list to do for sure. Thank you!

I did one a long time ago but may be something I might revisit

Wooo

Right?!

Yeppppp

Tesssss

Ahaha wish I had it

Trying ha! Thank you

Thank you

That’s awesome

Right?!

Thank you