Mr. Six is an advertising character since 2004 for an advertising campaign by the American theme park chain Six Flags. Despite appearing as an elderly man wearing a tuxedo and thick-framed glasses, he is able to perform frenetic dance routines, usually to instrumental segments of the Vengaboys song "We Like to Party". The marketing spread to the parks in 2005 when one ride in the chain, Pandemonium at Six Flags New England, temporarily held the name "Mr. Six’s Pandemonium" until 2006.[2] Mr. Six took a fourteen–year hiatus after 2010, returning on June 25, 2024 in a Fright Fest ad.
Origin
According to USA Today, Mr. Six is the creation of Doner Advertising of Southfield, Michigan. The success of the ad became such that Six Flags toured the vintage bus featured in the ad to all of its 31 parks selling old T-shirts based on the Mr. Six advertisement. Mr. Six also appeared on the nationally broadcast U.S. TV morning show Good Morning America.
The first commercial depicts Mr. Six as an apparently elderly, slow-moving man dressed in his trademark tuxedo and large glasses, driving a