Danrarbc

We don't know anything about this company. This might be a hedge fund that set up a dba and they actually intend to part everything out. Given the stated objective of Cedar Flags to bring legacy Six Flags parks up to the level of Cedar Fair legacy parks I believed that they actually were going to do that as soon as financially possible. And in the meantime my membership would get me in to all of the other parks.

They’re actually posting even more than last offseason.

Unless we've been wrong or lied to all along it's been said STL is a profitable park. That should plant it in #2. Obviously if it actually doesn't print money it's in group 3.

Only investing in already humming along properties sounds like a recipe for a company to have zero growth. I don't have an MBA or anything but that seems like a dumb plan if you're trying to grow your numbers.

There's plan A, plan B and then "oh crap we can't buy anything".

I mean if it's replaced with something on-par with AlpenFury I'm sure SFOT would take that trade.

Like those are any more likely to happen.

The front half of the park is much flatter than the back - there are some choices that would not only be at least as flat as the area it's in at SFA but possibly even flatter (SFA is less flat than Darien Lake). And the Tidal Wave location has variations in elevation along any potential orientation but the overall elevation from station to turnaround wouldn't be drastically different heading forwards because there's a mound in the particular location by Batman, tall footers would cover the low points. I'm still not sure they want to spend relocation money either but scrapping coasters isn't free - there's a chance you could be unhappy for at least someone in the chain. It still costs several million dollars to scrap these things.

It definitely wouldn't. Yes you can get it custom built to the terrain but the material costs exist and there would now be tariffs on top of the usual material and transport costs. That would add a substantial amount to the cost of importing a roller coaster. B&M and Chance likely use imported steel and that would also be impacted by the same issue. There's never been a better time to relocate coasters than right now. I'm also not sure just how much of the relocation would need to involve grading vs how much adaptation could be achieved by adding height with either tall footers or extra new steel columns. The Six Flags America version ALREADY features tall footers and other quirks due to it being a clone.

Fright Fest can be good at other Legacy Six Flags parks - don't take this version as an indictment of the others. I genuinely don't know where the haunted attraction pass revenue is going if it's not going back in to the event.

Hopefully the entertainment enhancement includes a major revamp of Fright Fest. How many years are they going to just do the exact same things over and over?

Based on how things seem to be setting up for 2026 I’d wager it’ll either work at all or work at only the home park. It doesn’t make any amount of sense, IMO, to maintain a special ‘legacy only’ mode in the new unified system for only one pass type. It just doesn’t. That said - doesn’t mean they didn’t do just that. I’m just saying it’d be way easier to just add the IDs for membership as is across the board. Less effort. Less testing. Less to go wrong. More customer satisfaction when everything just works everywhere. They’d actually have to expend effort to make it work only at Legacy Six Flags after the system is unified. Long story short I suspect that they’re wrong about this.

I think Skyline just doesn’t have much manufacturing capacity. Certainly much lower than RMC and Gravity Group - both of which can handle much larger sections in a single offseason.

GCI only ever seems to do 200-400 feet of Titan Track at a time. That’s going to take several more years. Ipe in other locations could help though.