Minor Updates, Rumors, and Happenings

[coasterfanatic]

You don’t need preferred parking. I’ve done the Thursdays before and it’s typically not that busy for obvious reasons. Mainly a day for season pass/members.


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[CoasterDemon]

^Sounds good, thank you

[Coaster Justin]

You don’t need preferred parking. I’ve done the Thursdays before and it’s typically not that busy for obvious reasons. Mainly a day for season pass/members.


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LIAR!

I went on Thursday at about 7:40pm and almost every spot was taken for parking

Fortunately the Haunted House lines were short

[onyxhotel08]

Forgot Roaring Rapids is not used for FF this year. Clearly something is still off with people not wanting to work at the park. They make it seem like all the perks are being given but why is the park having issues staffing now?

[coasterfanatic]

Forgot Roaring Rapids is not used for FF this year. Clearly something is still off with people not wanting to work at the park. They make it seem like all the perks are being given but why is the park having issues staffing now?

Everyone has staffing issues. There’s a National Labor Shortage.


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[coasterfanatic]

Wow.


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[anewman35]

Wow.


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Feels like it would be a lot worse to keep letting people in even after they were at capacity. But maybe that's just me.

[coasterfanatic]

^Of course. But they don’t usually post that on Facebook. They didn’t last weekend but this is a good thing.


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[coasterfanatic]

Park announced Holiday in the Park schedule. Still focusing on the “lights” portion. No coasters this year but other indoor and family rides will be open.

Drive thru returns as well.

List of rides not mentioned but anything indoors plus some flats I’d expect to be open.


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[batmanfan80]

Wow, Fright Fest looks like a mess of bad management and customer service.

Speaking of which, I just noticed on my credit report that Six Flags decided to send my membership to collections after the credit card it was on couldn't be paid due to all the covid problems. I just don't get how they can go after me for almost $700. Why not just cancel the membership? Do Fitness Clubs do this? I never even got to use the thing after getting roped into moving.

I'll have to write letters to the right people, anyone have any recommendations?

Sounds like Six Flags is just gonna try to get every last cent out of everyone with the way they're doing things. FF has been such a mess that I haven't been able to get in since 2013. It'd honestly be faster to fly to Tampa and get on Montu than to try and get into Great America and get on Batman during most FF days post-2013.

[CoasterRiderSC]

batmanfan - just another reason I don't want a Membership!

[coasterfanatic]

The summer was fine. Sure, they were short staffed but everyone is. Fright Fest is always busy. The park did the right thing by turning people away this year when it got too busy. Actually went to the park a record number of times this year.

The key to Fright Fest is to go on the Thursdays or on dicey weather days. Also go early. Like September early October.

It doesn’t usually get crazy busy until final 2-3 weeks.

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[Sven18]

Wow, Fright Fest looks like a mess of bad management and customer service.

Speaking of which, I just noticed on my credit report that Six Flags decided to send my membership to collections after the credit card it was on couldn't be paid due to all the covid problems. I just don't get how they can go after me for almost $700. Why not just cancel the membership? Do Fitness Clubs do this? I never even got to use the thing after getting roped into moving.

I'll have to write letters to the right people, anyone have any recommendations?

Sounds like Six Flags is just gonna try to get every last cent out of everyone with the way they're doing things. FF has been such a mess that I haven't been able to get in since 2013. It'd honestly be faster to fly to Tampa and get on Montu than to try and get into Great America and get on Batman during most FF days post-2013.

If you sign up for a membership you have to pay for 12mths minimum (no matter what) & starting month 13 you owe them monthly until you cancel.

[coasterfanatic]

You don’t pay for the 12 months up front. It’s still monthly. You just can’t cancel for at least 12 full months.


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[Sven18]

Never said it was upfront, you just have no outs. The guy appears his CC was bad, faulty, etc...he still owes the money for 12 months, that's why they are going after him.

[coasterfanatic]

Never said it was upfront, you just have no outs. The guy appears his CC was bad, faulty, etc...he still owes the money for 12 months, that's why they are going after him.

Oh gotcha. I misunderstood.


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[Sven18]

Btw, under SF accounting since the 1st year of a membership is guaranteed (no outs) they claim the revenue as if it were a season pass(operating days in a quarter). Starting month 13 they claim revenue on a monthly basis as you pay it. As more memberships get past 12 months & if SF can increase members, the revenue quarterly numbers will be smoother. There will be smaller differentials Q4 & Q1(2 lightest quarters) compared to Q2 & the biggest revenue part of the year Q3. This is ideal for SF & was part of the logic on the membership push, besides the higher price point.

[Coaster Justin]

Here's a Six Flags Fright Fest Survey

https://feedback.sixflags.com/advisoryp ... d=38480727

[coasterfanatic]

More details posted about Holiday in the Park. They are doing the drive thru. Rides are mainly the kids rides and then the following: Dark Knight, Justice League, carousel, triple play, lobster, Chabusco, Balloons.


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[Rift]

I noticed that Yankee Clipper was getting repainted a dark forest green. I, unfortunately, do not have any pictures, but not much has been done yet. I'm also not sure if Loggers Run is also getting repainted, but I would imagine so.

[SFGAM__man]

Six Flags is too cheap...literally. Season passes $66 and one day tickets $30 on the website right now, and they give out friends free tickets to season passholders. Getting into SIx Flags parks is cheaper now than it was 20 years ago. The strategy seems to be give away the gate then try to upsell the hell out people.
Also its pretty funny that they closed V2 to paint it during what is always the busiest part of the year and right before the offseason, when they could have just painted it in the spring. I wonder if they were trying to save operating money by having it closed or they had to spend that money this fiscal year before losing it.

[Sven18]

Passes are now $60, the fact they keep dropping the price from the original $80 when 2022 passes were first released means sales are soft or they are going all in on volume even more. Every park in the chain has been dropping prices.

It's kind of peculiar as SF are rolling out the tiered passes. The purpose of memberships was to get the higher price point & now they can potentially get the higher price point with tiered passes, as some people just don't like membership monthly billing/cancellation process. Why keep cutting prices when you're implementing a new product soon & some people are probably going to want to upgrade a single park pass to a gold plus pass at the minimum.

On the Capex, SF as of Q3 has only spent 62M of the 120-130M they claimed they would on Capex for the year. So, back loaded Capex at the end of year seems to have been planned.

[Coaster Justin]

Passes are now $60, the fact they keep dropping the price from the original $80 when 2022 passes were first released means sales are soft or they are going all in on volume even more. Every park in the chain has been dropping prices.

It's kind of peculiar as SF are rolling out the tiered passes. The purpose of memberships was to get the higher price point & now they can potentially get the higher price point with tiered passes, as some people just don't like membership monthly billing/cancellation process. Why keep cutting prices when you're implementing a new product soon & some people are probably going to want to upgrade a single park pass to a gold plus pass at the minimum.

On the Capex, SF as of Q3 has only spent 62M of the 120-130M they claimed they would on Capex for the year. So, back loaded Capex at the end of year seems to have been planned.

Hope some of it can go to Solar Panels- And before you say anything, SFDK, SFMM, and SFGAdv have all added solar panels

[anewman35]

I haven't been all year until now, so this probably isn't new... But, seriously, seatbelts on the Columbia? Come on.

[DejaVu2001]

Fun Fact: Before this year, Columbia Carousel also had seatbelts from August 2003 until they were removed for the 2007 season.