Question: How long was the Mr. Six mascot retired?
About the article "Six Flags", section "TV Commercials".

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Patrick Charles Mitchell Fitzgerald (21 June 1896 – 10 September 1984), known as Paddy Fitzgerald, was a brewer from Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia.
He was the son eldest son of Charles Borromeo Fitzgerald, a solicitor, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and Attorney-General of Queensland (for just six days).
His mother was Joan Mary Fitzgerald (née Cahill).
His paternal grandfather was the Queensland pioneer Thomas Henry FitzGerald.
Fitzgerald started at XXXX brewery in circa 1933, where his aunt's husband was managing director.
He made a career within the brewery and became managing director himself in 1977, a role from which he retired in February 1979.
Later that year, XXXX merged with Castlemaine Tooheys Ltd, and Fitzgerald retired as a director in 1981.
He had a likeness with Mr Fourex, the brewery's advertising mascot, and many believed that it was modelled on him, but the mascot had been developed in the 1920s.
He died at his home in Bardon on 10 September 1984. 
In 2004, Six Flags began a series of commercials linking all of the parks.
The commercials were notable for a new mascot, "Mr. Six", an apparently feeble old man in a tuxedo and red bow tie.
In many of the commercials, Mr. Six would slowly exit a multi-colored bus, only to start frenetically dancing to the Vengaboys' "We Like to Party".
The commercials were an immediate hit and Mr. Six almost instantly became the official mascot, although he was initially retired after the 2005 season.
These ads have become widely parodied on the Internet, with faces from other Internet memes being superimposed over Mr. Six's face.
From 2008 to 2010, Six Flags' TV ads have a "Fun-O-Meter" in which the beginning of the ad may show something boring or embarrassing and a man's face judges it "One Flag!"
or sometimes "Two Flags!"
Then roller coasters and attractions of Six Flags are shown and says "Six Flags, More Flags, More Fun!"
for Six Flags parks.
However, the thick accent of the Asian man in the original commercials had drawn criticism for being an offensive caricature.
In 2009, the Mr. Six character came back from retirement and replaced the Asian man in Six Flags' ads, still using the Fun-O-Meter.
Since 2011, Six Flags' TV ads got a brand-new slogan "Go Big!
Go Six Flags!"
for its current Six Flags theme parks.
Mr. Red (or The Running Man) was the last mascot of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
He was a humanoid figure dressed in a Reds uniform, with an oversized baseball for a head.
Red made his first appearance on a Reds uniform as a sleeve patch in 1955.
The patch featured Mr. Red's head, clad in an old-fashioned white pillbox baseball cap with red stripes.
The following season, 1956, saw the Reds adopt sleeveless jerseys, and Mr. Red was eliminated from the home uniform.
He was moved to the left breast of the road uniform, and remained there for one season before being eliminated entirely.
In 1999, the Reds re-designed their uniform and "Mr. Red" was reintroduced as a sleeve patch on the undershirt.
A human version of the mascot didn't appear until the early 1980s.
The costumed mascot disappeared in the late 1980s but was reintroduced in 1997.
The humanoid Mr. Red retired in 2007 leaving Gapper, Rosie Red and Mr. Redlegs to take his place.
A new version of Mr. Red was unveiled at Redsfest 2012; the new mascot will be on the field with Mr. Redlegs, Gapper and Rosie Red. 
In Italy, before the arrival of Quickly, the mascot was an anthropomorphized box of Nesquik called "Mr. Quickness".
In Spain there was no mascot prior to the introduction of Quicky in 1990/1991. 
Winger was the first mascot of the Washington Capitals, was their first before switching to the current mascot Slapshot.
Despite being retired, Winger occasionally appears at Capitals games, usually when there is a mascot event.
In the 1980s the Detroit Red Wings also briefly had a mascot named The Winger.
The Detroit Red Wings mascot "The Winger" appeared when Mike Ilitch bought the team in 1982 and continued mascoting until the end of the 1987 season.