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This has turned into a fun discussion. Point is, Magic will always struggle to retain people because they have nothing to offer besides minimum wage, park tickets, and a flexible schedule. They essentially use bandaids to get enough people to operate the park, but ultimately I would guess that their turnover rate is higher than ever with an ultra competitive job market for entry level positions. I'd be curious to see how much their costs actually are in hiring more part time team members vs. what it would be to make improvements to pay/benefits/etc. Hiring & training isn't cheap.

^My senior year of high school, I was able to leave at 12:30 everyday. Of course every situation is different, but it is entirely possible to leave school early enough in time to work. Or given that it is Valencia, I can stereotype and assume that there are a decent amount of homeschooled kids as well... Seriously though, you're missing my point: There are tons of other local entry level jobs that offer full time hours AND more benefits. I have no doubt there is a portion of their staff that is happy to get more hours and don't care about the other benefits, but I do think you are overestimating the impact of going to daily operation has on impacting their staffing.

I would just add to this that I highly doubt Sea World has their own weather station/meteorologist on staff, so like coasterbill mentioned, they can only go off what they are given from their weather service of choice. The weather has been "crazy" by southern california standards in the last month---there was even a day recently where a 20% chance of rain turned into a large thunderstorm that was definitely not in the forecast.

Why is a ride evacuation a big deal?

You need to get people in the door in order for them to spend money on the things that actually have high yields---which is everything but the price of admission (Front of Line and VIP not withstanding of course).

I'm not sure I understand your point then. If the job market as a whole is competitive and offering more to entry level service employees, obviously Six Flags can't offer less than they do now and be more competitive. My point is SFMM is NOT competitive. Healthcare is great when comparing to other Six Flags and seasonal parks where people obviously won't qualify for ACA benefits, but it means nothing when there are tons of other entry level jobs that will offer that plus things like tuition reimbursement, profit sharing, retirement plan, paid sick (outside of the mandated hours from CA law)/vacation, etc. as a way to retain quality people. My guess is they are actually staffing their weekday operations with part time people looking for a 2nd job and having as much of their High School staff as possible work the 4 hours on school days.

They at least have to give full time employees ACA level insurance given the size of the company and number of hours worked per week during qualifying periods. That's more than any other Six Flags offers employees and definitely more than any seasonal park. That's great relatively speaking for Six Flags and seasonal parks, but not really anything special in a competitive job market for entry level jobs in So Cal. In Valencia alone, there is just about every service industry job for every major brand you can think of that offer more.

To be fair, as a life long Southern Californian who has only seen snow 5 times in his life...49 degrees might as well have been -20 As the news reports state, this is something that is practiced every year by all the responding parties.

The last news I could find was a news article on them restructuring their debt in 2018, so I'm guessing there hasn't been much going on...

I think the point being made is that tourists might be in LA for a week, and then on Monday say "lets go to Six Flags Wednesday, itll be empty". They look up the hours and woops, its not open until Saturday when they cant make it anymore. So people obviously check the hours, but are less likely to check the days they are open. I know as a tourist, Ive made the mistake where I planned to visit X attraction on a Tuesday, and when I check the website it turns out they dont open Tuesdays, but Ive already planned other stuff on Monday and Wednesday so Im out of luck. They still aren't going to get quality employees because they pay minimum wage with no real benefits.

CP, CW, Carowinds, and KI were more than likely probably the biggest money makers, as well as the cali parks. And parks will always turn to poor weather as an excuse for bad attendance. I know dorney closed a lot this year for weather, more than the last few years. Knoebels and hershey both had the flooding issues. Parks will 100% of the time blame weather. That’s because weather is a legitimate problem for parks. Especially regional ones who are so heavily dependent upon locals who are not likely to leave their homes in crappy weather

Of course they knew. The rides they wanted to save are likely being sent to their other properties. If Scandia Screamer is easy enough to transport, I can definitely see a fair company purchasing it.

Ghost Town Grill is great for a sit down experience inside the park

https://www.thecauldronbar.com/ Bar/restaurant owned by the former head of entertainment at Knotts.

Same!

It's prime real estate near the airport, so not the least bit surprising there's already a pending plan for it.

Disney just finished up spending $1 billion to transform DCA and another $1 billion to build Star Wars. I never once heard a complaint of being landlocked. I also suspect you will see the end of the Hollywood backlot in the next wave of expansion after the under construction replacement for bugs life is done. In the short term, they usually do overlays of the area with night time entertainment to keep it interesting.

You're overthinking this by a lot. Clearly a one-off situation. State would not have approved re-opening after a short amount of time if there was anything more to the story.

Not really. Believe it or not, laws are very much open to interpretation, which is why we have courts and judges. And companies rarely rely on their in-house legal staff for that sort of expertise. They retain local counsel in every jurisdiction their parks are in to make sure that their ducks are in a row. Additionally, when you're a national company, you don't tailor your contract to each and every jurisdiction. You simply can't, not when you're selling your passes nationally and internationally. You draft it as best you can to meet the requirements of all the laws. I'm sure SixFlags - much like Alphabet, who'd had a similar issue with their Nest doorbells (and lost and had to disable a feature that would unlock the door based on facial biometrics) - thought they'd sufficiently met the requirements of the law based upon their own interpretation of the law and advice of local counsel. And since none of this happens in a vacuum, you also look at how your competitors or other using biometrics are structuring their disclosure. Again, that's not what the law or the suit is about. The issue is that the contract does not meet state affirmative consent requirements - they were not informed that it was being collected, nor told how that data would be used or stored. It has nothing to do with the ability to opt out of having your biometrics collected. Her complaint is that the contract does not ask for Affirmative Consent to collect biometric information as required by the state of Illinois. And quite frankly, unless you're an IL resident, it really doesn't matter how you feel about it. If you think it's too restrictive, don't open a business that collects biometrics in Illinois. I know this isn't directed at me, but they absolutely have in-house counsel - their GC's name is Lance Balk - as well as they retain Perkins Coie in NYC. They also contract with local law firms in every state they have parks and in Delaware (where they're organized), as well in the localities their international parks are in. BTW, that's public information if you know where to look, namely the SEC's website. This is a fantastic summary. Thanks for that!

What I think is most interesting is that Fox didn't ask for an injunction against the park opening, so I suspect it will be opening, perhaps even with the IP's. Fox would have asked for an injunction otherwise pending the outcome of the litigation if they wanted to make sure the park didn't open with their IP's.

Send it to the scrap heap.

It's not a fingerprint anyways. It's biometrics, which measures the size and length of your finger to identify you. The data is useless even if it was stolen. Six Flags also has this on their website, which I assume is buried in the fine print when you purchase the pass: https://www.sixflags.com/national/biometric-data-tos

$196 million in travel reimbursements? I think I need to become an executive at Fox...

They are a fantastic investment for a park looking for big thrills (inversions, backwards) in a compact area for a cheap price.

Ride is old. Track has already been heavily welded over the years. Anything that can reduce stress helps it survive.