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===Adventure World===
[[File:Adventure World logo ticket stub.png|thumb|Adventure World logo from a ticket stub]]
In 1992, Wild World was purchased by [[Six Flags#History of Premier Parks|Tierco Group Inc.]], later known as Premier Parks, andwhich renamed the park Adventure World.<ref>{{cite web |title=ADVENTURE WORLD'S WILD RIDE TO THE TOP |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1995/08/14/adventure-worlds-wild-ride-to-the-top/0c00f18d-f08a-49b1-aadd-dd837f228402/ |website=washingtonpost.com |access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tierco Inc. Purchases Maryland Theme Park |url=https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-5580691/tierco-inc-purchases-maryland-theme-park |access-date=May 7, 2020 |work=The Journal Record |date=March 4, 1992}}</ref> That year several flat rides and a few kiddie rides were added. In 1993, Adventure World added its second adult rollercoaster. Premier Parks had acquired [[Lightning Loops]] from [[Six Flags]]. This was a dual-track steel single looping shuttle coaster located at [[Six Flags Great Adventure]]. One of the tracks was sent to Premier Parks' [[Frontier City]] located in [[Oklahoma City]] (where it still operates today as the Diamondback), while the other track became known as the Python and would be located at Adventure World.<ref>{{cite web |title=Python - Six Flags America |url=https://rcdb.com/152.htm |website=rcdb.com |access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref> Also, a water ride called Shipwreck Falls, in which a 15-person boat would run up a steel track and down a {{convert|45|ft|m|adj=on}} drop into a splashwater pool, was added. More flat rides were added in 1994. By this time, the new additions were well-received, shown as Inside Track Magazine named Adventure World as the most improved amusement park in the country for a third consecutive year in 1994.<ref>{{cite news |title=* Adventure World, formerly Wild World, located... |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-11-14-1994318113-story.html |access-date=May 9, 2020 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=November 14, 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=What's New In The Parks |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 27, 1994 |id={{ProQuest|751020463}} |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/751020463/ |access-date=December 16, 2022}}</ref>
[[File:Adventure World 1996.jpg|thumb|Adventure World in 1996]]
On May 20, 1995, [[Vekoma]]'s first Mind Eraser, an inverted looping suspended coaster, opened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mind Eraser - Six Flags America |url=https://rcdb.com/149.htm |website=rcdb.com |access-date=May 7, 2020}}</ref> This was branded a [[Vekoma SLC|SLC]]. In 1996, a free-fall drop-tower ride called the Tower of Doom, now known as Voodo Drop, made by [[Intamin]] was added. In 1997, the park added a second dry water ride called Typhoon Sea Coaster, which was a log flume/junior rollercoaster hybrid. It was later renamed Skull Mountain and eventually closed in July 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sixflags.com/america/info/news_SkullMountainFinalVoyage.aspx|title=Sx Flags America Prepares Final Voyage For Skull Mountain|date=June 9, 2011|publisher=Six Flags America|access-date=17 May 2012}}</ref> to make room for a new roller coaster.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sixflags.com/america/info/news_ApocalypseAnnouncement.aspx|title=Six Flags America Announces Apocalypse|date=September 1, 2011|publisher=Six Flags America|access-date=17 May 2012}}</ref> In 1997, the water park was renovated, eliminating some older slides, adding newer slides and extensively remodeling the children's water play area.
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