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Half Pipe SFEG

Half Pipe opens at Six Flags Elitch Gardens.

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Ragin' Cajun at Six Flags Great America.

A list of events in 2004 related to Six Flags.

Timeline[]

January[]

March[]

April[]

  • April 9 – A 21-year-old employee dies after being struck by Scream! at Six Flags Magic Mountain while underneath the track during a test run prior to the park's opening that day.  The roller coaster was allowed to be re-opened the next day after an OSHA inspection found no mechanical issues.

May[]

  • May 1 – A 53-year-old, 230 pound man from Bloomfield, Connecticut falls out of the Superman: Ride of Steel roller coaster at Six Flags New England during the last turn and is killed. Reports show that the ride attendant had not checked that the guest's ride restraint was secure as his girth was too large for the T-bar-shaped ride restraint to close properly.
  • May 27Half Pipe opens at Six Flags Elitch Gardens.
  • May 28Ragin' Cajun opens at Six Flags Great America.
  • May 29 – A 52-year-old ride mechanic from Zion, Illinois is killed by a train on Ragin' Cajun at Six Flags Great America as he attempted to cross the tracks. Suffering from a traumatic head injury, he died at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee.

June[]

  • June 24 - The sale of Six Flags European Parks to Palmon Capital Partners is completed, with the new owners rebranding the business as StarParks. The company would also be allowed to continue operating the two Six Flags branded parks as well as Warner Bros. Movie World Germany as is until the end of the 2004 season.

July[]

  • July 26
    • Soul Lift '04 at Six Flags St. Louis.

August[]

  • August 14
    • Christian Family Day 2019 at Six Flags St. Louis.
  • August 18 – Lightning hits a power substation near Six Flags Great Adventure, causing a power cut to the park. Twenty guests riding Batman & Robin: The Chiller are left stranded on the ride, approximately 75 feet above ground, for 40 minutes. The train's angle is such that eight of those passengers were upside-down. No injuries are reported. Only the Robin side was operating during this incident.
  • August 21"Weird Al" Yankovic in concert at Six Flags St. Louis.

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November[]

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