Cedar Point - Six Flags getting good reviews for 'Siren's Curse'

Park retains its 'flagship' status among new company's assets

SANDUSKY — One thing different this year with Six Flags versus Cedar Fair is the new company is announcing attendance figures for individual parks, which Cedar Fair didn’t do.

In a corporate report, the new company estimated attendance this year will be about 4 million people through the gates at Cedar Point. A Greater Sandusky Partnership announcement puts it at 3.5 million. And some of the best attended days are weekends in October for the park’s scarefest HalloWeekends.

Siren’s Curse at Cedar Point dented in 2025. Photo courtesy of Cedar Point.

Longtime investors might never forgive Cedar Fair executives who put together the merger that critics say misrepresented both financial strengths and weaknesses the two companies brought to the table. They say Cedar Fair was far superior financially and operationally, but the deal was structured to make it look like Six Flags was the aggressor.

In the end, Cedar Fair investors paid for the merger and got slammed with a tax debt on dividends for as many years as far back as they were distributed after Cedar Fair was formed in 1983. Six Flags stockholders came out smelling like the best spring day with all the flowers blooming, some locals say.

Despite some dire predictions that the park would be underinvested in by Six Flags, out of the gate, the new company showed respect by building Siren’s Curse, a $25 million tilt rollercoaster with a track that rotates riders to a 90° vertical position before the drop, 13 weightless airtime moments, two 360-degree barrel rolls and a “triple-down” element.

The ride’s garnered great reviews.