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When you go to watch BeachBlast X-Treme! and you see the last Vice President and General Manager of Kings Island, Mike Koontz, in the audience with you. Mike says he is enjoying retirement and doing well!

CP isn't doing membership option and KI is.

Unless more property’s are sold. I can’t envision Six Flags avoiding bankruptcy at this point. Too little too late to be jacking the prices up to what it is so far for the 2027 season. Not suggesting what they are asking for is wrong per se but doubling the price on add ons is going to be a hard pill to swallow for most folks. This price point should have been achieved by steadily increasing the prices on these add-ons and passes since post-covid when the parks saw a boom. But the past is the past and I hope this works out for them. Considering Legacy SF attempted to jack up their prices only to reverse course doesn't give me much hope that it will.

The next few days will be interesting

On a tastier note, the pastry chef at least understood the assignment this year. Elvis may have left the building, but he is alive at KI. Yes thats banana with peanut butter and BACON

I'd like to clarify that I wasn't trying to push back on the new pass prices. It's been a while since I last said it, but I do still think that a lot of people might need to rethink their habit of purchasing a season pass if this higher price is too high for them. It's okay to opt for a few daily tickets instead of a season pass with all of the bells and whistles. There are a lot of passholders that at least make themselves sound like entitled brats — not you, RollerColt, you sound reasonable — and who say they won't renew because of the dining plans and Fast Lane changes. The upped prices might be good for the company in the long run. Maybe if Kings Island's season pass/membership rates fall for 2027 then Six Flags can look closer at The Vortex replacement. It's been clear to me that John Reilly and his team have been trying to play very carefully with the cards they were given. That $4.9 billion in debt is not going to disappear anytime soon. Three tiers of dining plans and Cedar Point's Fast Lane situation will force guests to be more careful about selecting their home park. Losing money on meal plans? Add options that don't price out the majority of buyers. Cedar Point has extremely high wait times, especially for Fast Lane? Exclude it from other parks All-Season Fast Lane programs and raise the price at Cedar Point (it's a luxury product anyhow). Some of the legacy Six Flags parks still have Gold Passes for under $90. Commenters call it greed without looking at the larger picture. The two decisions that I really disagree with are the lack of payment plans for the add-ons and the fact that 2027 add-ons work in 2026. You have to lose a few passholders to get back to a good balance as well I'm glad we can at least see the problem here. Almost any seat on the right side of the train, though toward the front is always better. Anything that lets me see the switch track at the beginning!

(You’re right, though. Totally nailed it.)

People will still pay it to stand in 45+ minute FL lines