coasterbill

I'm glad to see them opening up Manta and Flamecraft.

We were at Wonderland over the weekend and uh... Lazy Bear lodge is not getting enough attention. I hadn't been following this thread so I didn't realize that it was a thing, but that back deck right on the water overlooking Yukon's dive and Vortex is shaping up to be one of the best theme park drinking spots that exists. Also, the bears all over the outside of the building were way more theming than I expected. I love this project. I love it a lot. OMG.

I'm torn between being upset about this because it's the best ride in the park but also not caring because it's odds of operating when I showed up were already a solid 0%. Hopefully they're just turning the train around so that next time we go we can still not ride it, but stand out front for awhile with the false hope that it might open later that day.

lol thanks, I appreciate that. I have way more fun with Instagram stories now, honestly. I've never been a writer. I always liked the way they came out but it was tedious.

Awesome pics of a great weekend. Jesus that last picture of me... I was feeling the beers for sure.

Thursday and Friday ride availability is actually much better than in the past. Having two less coasters helps, but Gemini and Corkscrew are the only adult coasters that won't operate.

I would ABSOLUTELY not count on this.

Yeah, lots of people believe that they're going around and routinely sprucing up the parks just because they keep saying that they are but that's questionable at-best and absolute BS at worst.

Yes. If you get lucky the storms may only last about an hour per day but it’s very common for them to last for hours or for there to be multiple storms. This is every day. Don’t even bother with hour-by-hour or any of that stuff that works in normal places. We go to Orlando almost monthly in the fall, winter and spring but always avoid summer. If I were to go in the summer this is the last park you would find me at since this one has no indoor rides whatsoever.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing that the park that ran two cars on a Maurer spinner and wouldn't dispatch until they stacked while we were there actually cares. lol

Bummer about the log flume. It’s really the only good thing in that park.

So they changed all of the passes again, and now they’re called memberships again. Lol

I'm walking a tightrope here because I feel like a lot of people are giving Cedar Fair too little credit , though at the same time I do acknowledge that they also shouldn't be given too much credit either as they did show us all last season that they can definitely be a rudderless-ship at times. "This city's population is x and the median income is y so we should get a giga coaster" is really over-simplifying things a bit though. They may very-well feel like the demographics of the city are fine, but the nearest major parks are 3+ hours away and they've saturated the market so there's no reason to invest much. If they know they can throw open the gates and make a bunch of money every year without doing much then I get why they'd want to do that. A place like San Antonio (mentioned on the last page) may even have a similar metro area in many ways, but there's also a major competitor ten minutes away that keeps adding new rides every year and trying to grab market share. At the same time though, there's also Carowinds which has also saturated their market and is a similar distance to their competition where they invest heavily so... idfk. I don't even know what point I'm trying to make, I guess just that we should keep in mind that "Cedar Fair is dumb" is always a plausible explanation for anything but they also do have access to numbers and data that we don't and they may have a very good reason for not feeling the need to invest much in this park.

Dining plans and back, you need to go through the process of pretending to buy one of the new passes to get it to pop up.

What a clusterfuck. rachelmadcow has been given a timeout. If anyone continues this conversation without doing it in an adult, civil way the same thing will happen to them. Why is everyone so pissed off about everything all the time lately? Relax...

I'd reschedule.

Oh yeah, weather doesn’t matter. Nitro will run.

It will probably be busier for Fright Fest but not “Fright Fest busy”. If they keep the $99 Holiday in the Park prices that they have now then I expect it to be historically empty.

I wouldn't be surprised if these areas open on weekends when they have more staff. I also hope I'm wrong and Mind Eraser is closed because it's on fire.

Capacity on this looks pretty low. Excited to see how Chessington makes it worse.

Well, I mean... they're Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. Randomly closing rides just for the fun of it is what they live and breathe for.

They appear to be Kumbak trains. Well they say if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all so uh... peace out everyone. Enjoy your afternoon.

Major update: the propeller fell off of the rusted plane thing. If you're going to the park specifically for this, consider postponing as this development may take your extremely-premium experience down to an only marginally-premium experience. Oh, and sorry for the double post but I hope you're sitting down for the Fright Fest prices. ... just to compare, this is more expensive than some days at Disney World This is for the same night. Great Adventure is only going to be open for 5 hours this night. HHN will likely either run for 6.5 or 7.5 hours this day based on previous years. Also, mazes are not included in the Six Flags price. Also their mazes are terrible. Holiday in the Park is also all listed at $99, so... good luck with that.

To the people pointing out that other parks charge more, look... I'm with you but people are clearly willing to pay more for those places than they are for Six Flags. I didn't expect attendance to be impacted as much as it was, and I doubt they were either but clearly we were wrong. Day tickets have dropped a lot recently though, and attendance has improved slightly.

They raised season pass prices a lot and made the day ticket prices certifiably insane (though they've recently started discounting them). They've also raised parking prices to pretty crazy levels. Great Adventure now charges $40 to park, $47.45 if you pay online. They also made food prices even more insane and discontinued dining plans. I didn't really think people would care this much since their passes are still really among the cheapest in the industry, but the public seems to be pretty loud and clear that the perceived value just isn't there with Six Flags.