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===Regional parks=== [[File:Muumitalo 2.jpg|thumb|[[Moomin World]] theme park in [[Naantali]], Finland]] The first regional amusement park, as well as the first [[Six Flags]] park, [[Six Flags Over Texas]] was officially opened in 1961 in [[Arlington, Texas]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sixflagsmagicmountainguide.com/sixflags.html |title=Sixflags | Six Flags Unofficial Guide |publisher=Sixflagsmagicmountainguide.com |date=16 April 2011 |access-date=10 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716080155/http://sixflagsmagicmountainguide.com/sixflags.html |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first Six Flags amusement park was the vision of Angus Wynne Jr. and helped create the modern, competitive amusement park industry. In the late 1950s, Wynne visited [[Disneyland]] and was inspired to create an affordable, closer, and larger amusement park that would be filled with fantasy. He followed in the steps of Disney and had subdivisions within the park that reflected different lands. The subdivisions included the Old South and other sections that referenced Wynne's background.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lukas|first1=Scott|title=Theme Park|url=https://archive.org/details/themeparkreaktio00luka|url-access=limited|date=2008|publisher=Reaktion Books Ltd|isbn=978-1-86189-394-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/themeparkreaktio00luka/page/n81 80]β81}}</ref> By 1968, the second [[Six Flags]] park, [[Six Flags Over Georgia]], opened, and in 1971, Six Flags Over Mid-America (now [[Six Flags St. Louis]]) opened near [[St. Louis]], Missouri. Also in 1971 was the opening of the [[Walt Disney World]] resort complex in [[Florida]]. In 1985, a theme park called [[Santa Claus Village]] was opened in [[Rovaniemi|Rovaniemi, Finland]] near the [[Arctic Circle]], which led the city to trademark itself as the "official hometown of [[Santa Claus]]" in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/world/asia/santa-finland-rovaniemi.html|title=Santa Lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Some of His Neighbors Are Not Thrilled.|first=Jeffrey|last=Gettleman|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=15 April 2025|access-date=16 April 2025}}</ref> In 1991 [[Warner Bros.]] in partnership with Village Roadshow, opened their own [[Warner Bros. Movie World]]. It is the only Movie-Related theme park in Australia. Warner Bros. continued their theme park ventures and opened [[Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi]] in UAE and [[Parque Warner Madrid]] in Spain.
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