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Supposedly the Peanuts license for the chain concludes at the end of this year, with an option to extend it to 2030. No one really knows if they have extended it or not, and with the doom and gloom surrounding SFEC as a whole, people are speculating that since it's supposedly cheaper to rebrand everything to Looney Tunes (or just de-brand everything), that's what they're going to do. It's just more frustrating speculation based on rumors and hearsay if you ask me. IMHO, if they were going to let the contract expire, they wouldn't have installed Peanuts-themed things this year, but I'm not an "industry insider" who gets paid by generating clicks on my videos/articles, so what do I know, right?

In their defense, SF did keep Monster Mansion at SFoG operating wonderfully, even pre-merger. And yes, it is going in the Boo Blasters building, which is where the original Phantom Theater ride was.

Great report as always! I rode Crazy Crab at Steel Pier for the first time last Friday and also encountered a weird rule: There must be at least 3 people in the car. So me, as a single rider, had to wait for others to go on it. Oddly enough, my ride was completely unbraked throughout the whole thing, but we didn't spin much either until the end. I also found it amusing that there are no escape platforms at any of the braking points along the course. But yeah, it's awful, and you're lucky to only have to spend $4 on it haha.

Thank you. @tndankand @john10693, I apologize as I have now been proven wrong.

No worries...just trying to make sure you don't get bitten by this company's inability to clearly communicate to its customers LOL. As for the all-season, all-park, I know I had it for a few years straight, both before and after COVID (in 2020 it was the the only way to get FL at a bunch of parks period), but I'm a single person. You're right that I can't see families going for it.

On another note, it looks like they've raised the prices for the "All Season Haunted Attraction (Express) Pass" at many of the parks, some parks seeing two price increases within a day. Guess they realized that charging just slightly more than a one-day pass wasn't a smart move. I'm honestly amazed that the All-Season, All-Park Fast Lane Plus is still only $1,000....it's been that price for like 5 years or more now.

EDIT: I have now been proven wrong: https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/47688-six-flags-fun-corporate-discussion-thread/page/102/#findComment-1926138 (Original content retained below for posterity) Then why does the CP website say what it does, when it has never said that before? Why do all of the legacy CF park websites say that now, when they never have before? Did your new, non-renewal, pass just work, or are you relying on other people's testimony? If so, link it please. If just one person tells me that their new-purchase, non-renewal, pass purchased at a legacy CF park was able to be used at another park before going to the park they bought it from, I'll absolutely admit I was wrong. I want to be wrong here, since me being wrong results in a better situation for the customers. Like, I'm arguing because I want to see some evidence that SFEC isn't being completely unreasonable with all of this.

EDIT: I have now been proven wrong: https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/47688-six-flags-fun-corporate-discussion-thread/page/102/#findComment-1926138 (Original content retained below for posterity) Whatever. It's not worth arguing with you. @thepoint4life23 was asking about buying a new pass through Cedar Point and using it at Kings Island before going to Cedar Point. The Cedar point website explicitly states that you can't do that [https://www.cedarpoint.com/season-passes]: That's what I'm basing my claims on - the statements that have been specifically and deliberately made by the park on their official channels. Statements that they have never made before, indicating that they went out of their way to now make these statements. Why would they publish that statement on every one of the legacy-CF park websites if it wasn't the case? You are basing your assessment of the situation entirely on your own experience with renewals, which are not the same as a new pass activation, and the history of not having to do that. If the chain has demonstrated anything in the past few months )with the Haunt upcharges, removal of Winterfest/HitP, changing of hours at Carowinds' Winterfest to be focused on the daytime, and so on), what "was always the case in the past" no longer applies. I'm telling the person asking questions to be more cautious and either listen to what the official sources say or call them directly and ask. You're telling the person asking the questions to accept your claims on blind faith when you have no actual first-hand experience with doing what they are trying to do and you have no consequences if you're wrong. I hope I'm wrong, I really do, for the sake of anyone buying new passes this year. But the actual evidence presented thus far would indicate that I'm not, and arguing with you further would accomplish nothing. @thepoint4life23, please call both CP and KI guest relations and ask your questions, or wait for someone who actually has experience with a new, non-renewal, pass purchase to respond.

EDIT: I have now been proven wrong: https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/47688-six-flags-fun-corporate-discussion-thread/page/102/#findComment-1926138 (Original content retained below for posterity) We were talking about NEW passholders, that didn't have a previous pass to be renewed. For those people, the language on the website makes it sound like you need to activate the pass AT the "home park" it was purchased from before it would be active at any other park. Every scenario you just described were renewals. @thepoint4life23, you really should just call the parks in question.

EDIT: I have now been proven wrong: https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/47688-six-flags-fun-corporate-discussion-thread/page/102/#findComment-1926138 (Original content retained below for posterity) Yeah, that's renewals, which isn't what @thepoint4life23 was asking about.

EDIT: I have now been proven wrong: https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/47688-six-flags-fun-corporate-discussion-thread/page/102/#findComment-1926138 (Original content retained below for posterity) With the new 2026 pass, not a 2025 or older pass? I know that's how it worked in the past, but they have deliberately added language saying "must be activated AT your home park before visiting any other parks" to the purchase pages for the 2026 passes. I mean, with all of their other website "mistakes" it wouldn't surprise me if it was wrong, but that IS what it says.

EDIT: I have now been proven wrong: https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/47688-six-flags-fun-corporate-discussion-thread/page/102/#findComment-1926138 (Original content retained below for posterity) The fine print on the screens to buy all parks passes, including legacy CF parks, states "You must activate the 2026 pass at your home park before it will be valid at other parks".

If "nobody was on it" why would anyone need to be evacuated from the ride with apparatus? It is literally impossible to "dispatch two logs at a time" with the turntable design of the station. Rides that have actually injured, if not killed, people have re-opened in the same season. There is no situation where a ride would have to be closed for the remainder of a season on a technicality. You had quotation marks in your statement. What is the source of that quote?

That's how I would read it. Are you able to add the All-Park, All-Season Dining Plan to it on a Legacy SF website?

I just got this e-mail from the Express Hotel, which I have booked for my Halloweekends Trip. It looks like if your room package included Fright Lane for Thursdays, which they all should have booked during the time, they are converting it to a Haunted Attraction Express Pass.

Brutal. As bad as summer if not worse.

Looking into the pricing for the Haunted Attractions Pass, it looks like the "Haunted Attractions Express Pass" is substantially less money than the Fright Lane passes used to be, so for someone like me (who always got Fright Lane), this actually works out in my favor haha.

All new-SF parks will, except for KBF and SFDL, per their press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/six-flags-entertainment-to-unleash-biggest-halloween-season-in-history-with-debut-of-the-conjuring-beyond-fear-interactive-experience-302525869.html

So long as the quality hasn't dipped, I'm fine with this. I had a big problem with this model at SFGAdv because the mazes were so awful, but if it reduces the wait for the mazes, I'm good with it. I'd normally buy a Fright Lane at legacy CF parks anyway, so this might accomplish a portion of that goal at a fraction of the price. EDIT: I did also notice that particular mazes also have sponsors (Midnight-M&Ms, Eerie Estate-Skittles). If those mazes have advertising plastered all over them on the inside, it will truly be a sad day for the industry. I also noticed that aside from the whole The Conjuring experience, there is literally nothing new.

I'd argue they're barely open during the daytime now. This was taken 10 minutes ago, an hour away from closing on a perfect-weather Saturday. For comparison, some nearyby parks that are also experiencing the perfect weather....

Great report. Sorry to hear about the disappointments and your car, but it sounds like you had a decent amount of fun and got plenty of new credits!

The latest from that thread is "close to opening but still actively working on things." I realized that I could have said that in my other reply LOL.

Um, what? CF has historically had NO issues relocating coasters. Off the top of my head: Stealth (CGA)->Nighthawk (CW) X-Flight (GL)->Firehawk (KI) Invertigo (CGA)->Stinger(DP) Dominator (GL)->Dominator(KD) Head Spin (GL)->Flying Cobras (CW) Steel Venom (GL)->Possessed (DP) Thunderhawk (GL)->Thunderhawk (MI) Most of those were relocations from a park they owned and closed (Geauga Lake) to other parks in the chain. There is no reason to think that moving a coaster from SFA to any other park is off the table for that reason. If anything, I'd say it's substantially cheaper to relocate an existing ride, especially given the current tariff situation going on.

There is another theme park forum which has a thread dedicated to following the status of Pantherian, but I don't think I'm allowed to link it here.

Seconding this suggestion.