AZguy84

Usually the latter, and not just at MM. Most parks don't do anything unless it's egregious. Its far worse at SFMM than any other park I have been to. No joke, on Thursday May 28th, we were in line for TC at about 7:45, and these two teenagers literally cut the line IN FRONT OF A "SECURITY" guard… a literally watched them hop over two separate rails, and did not say jack… I am not really someone who gets too pissed about these kinds of things so it really didn't bother me, but I found it hilarious how little they actually did to stop it...

But that is the thing… Coming from a guy who has exclusively purchased the platinum flash pass for Six Flags every time we go, I think they value has actually gotten worse… If it is your first time to the park and everything is equal and you actually want to ride all the rides, yes the flash pass is worth it… Except for the death glares you get when you take someones seat coming through the exit (I feel bad enough that I have never told my son about the double rides feature because I knew he he would want to go around again, that would mean twice the death stares) But once you have gone a few times, at least in our experience, you KNOW the ones worth it and the ones not worth it… And as I was saying in my previous post, imo, only Superman, YOLO, TC, Tatsu, Goliath, and X2 are TRUELY worth the price… I just wish they would let you customize the pass… Even paying 15 per reservation for X2 while ridiculous, at least gives you options… now putting superman on restriction and eliminating YOLO/TC options, I think makes the pass much worse… Make an ultimate pass: $200: choose any 10 rides in the park, no restrictions (except double rides), that would be completely worth it and I think value wise, would be a MUCH better value than the crap going on with the Platinum pass now..

How does any of this make sense to you? I've purchased Gold and Platinum level FastPass and it has significantly reduced my wait time. SIGNIFICANTLY. Was it worth the money? You bet. My time waiting, baking in the sun is totally worth it. Hell, Disneyland Fastpass allows you to be virtually queued for said ride while you occupy yourself with other things to do, including waiting for another ride (same as SF). It just saved you waiting 70+ minutes for Space Mtn while you waited 40min for Thunder Mtn. By the time you're off Thunder, youre ready to BYPASS a majority of the Space Mtn line. How does that NOT save you time? Without it, you would be waiting that 70+ min after you get off Thunder Mtn. How is that not valued.... No this guy probably has never used a Six Flags Flash Pass and misunderstood. The "one time only" thing is specifically for Twisted Colossus, X2, and YOLOCoaster. Because of their high demand and/or low capacity, the park doesn't want them on the full Flash Pass, so they are set up on a reservation system. Once you buy your Platinum Flash pass, you have the ability to purchase individual single ride reservations for those attractions. This allows people to still skip the line while not overly slowing down the standby queue. For every other ride in the park, you can use the Flash Pass as much as you want. The only limitation is that you can only reserve one ride at a time, so you just reserve your next ride each time you check in. I think it's actually a little better than Fast Pass/Flash Pass is that the Six Flags version in that it is remote, so you don't have to be physically at the next ride to check in for it. There are definitely days where a Flash Pass isn't worth it, and I'd wager there are more of those than days than ones where it's necessary. But there are a lot of days, especially in the summer, where it's a great advantage. The busiest day I ever visited the park on was on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, and I sure didn't feel like it was a ripoff then, more like a life saver. here is the issue though… you are absolutely right the pass does save time…. but fewer and fewer rides are worth it.. for example, Batman.. you could use it, but over the past 21 years, Batman has lost what made it special, and thus is not a really a draw for me anymore.. HATED green lantern, riddlers revenge is uncomfortable not that fun, viper kills your head, same with apocalypse, ninja is more of a kid ride and drop of doom is fun the first few times you ride it, but in the end it is just a higher version of any fair ever made… All of those rides even on busy days, you can use the flash pass in theory, but you don't have too or really want to any way… that leaves us with the rides that imo, make six flags worth it: TC, YOLOcoaster, X2, Tatsu, Superman, Goliath, Roaring Rapids, and to a lessor extent Scream… Lets be honest you can only do RR once MAYBE twice during a typical day… And when you have Superman, X2, AND Goliath not working, YOLO and TC only can ride once (and you can't even pay for a reservation like you use to) you run out of things to do… i did speak with management and at first they were like if you have ridden 3 rides you can't have a refund no matter what… well we had ridden two, and they asked if they could put one ride for each coaster back on if that would suffice… meanwhile I had a balling 12 year old thinking were were going to leave if we turned it in, so we relented knowing it would still be a complete waste of $250, but at least he could ride tatasu a few times… that literally became the only ride we wanted to spend the flash pass on… Overall, I don't blame the management staff, they did the best they could, ultimately they need to fix the system, to give the customer the ability to customize and maximize their experience… I would gladly pay more for less rides if they were the ones I knew were in working order, and wanted to ride… instead we get stuck paying a premium price for a less the mediocre product, and that feels awful...

Went to the park today, been a season pass holder past few years, go 1-2 times a year from AZ… Past 3 years have purchased platinum flash pass, have felt it was worth it every time.. But this year, I completely felt duped.. When we arrived we went to the flash pass station and I wanted to make sure that when it says you can use the pass for TC, Full throttle, and superman, that the "one time ride" meant you couldn'tt ride twice in a row, but you could make multiple reservations through out the day… The representative affirmed this and said yes that is EXACTLY what that means… Well it only took two rides to see this was false… When the flash pass states TC, Full Throttle, and Superman are included, what they REALLY mean is you can ride it one time for the duration of your entire day, so use it accordingly… Instead they infer the rules of the past by creatively using the term, "one time ride" when this exact term has been made when referring to rides where you can't go twice in a row… With Goliath, Superman, X2, and Ninja all down today and not available for the flash pass it was so disappointing and complete waste of $125 PER pass…. Really frustrating...