disco2000

Sometimes you just wanna bang your head....

Probably because it is sunny in the park they are located at🤣

Park closing today (8//12) at 1:30pm

The other thing is people forget that prior to all-season FastLane, the FastLane lines would exceed 45 minutes when just daily FastLanes were sold. So while FastLane lines should get smaller in 2027 with the new pricing, because of the park being a travel destination for so many, I still expect lengthy FastLane lines like it was prior to all-season.

And in doing so they will create additional ones the creative folks will figure how to exploit lol

Dynamic pricing - the more you use it, the higher your cost...

This exactly. The GP on social media is losing their mind over the pricing. Tons of "Six Flags just costed my family out of attending the park". No they didn't. The price is the same/lower than it has been in recent years. These parks existed with many more years of operation without pass add-ons. What did people do prior to 2014 (when season long meal plans were introduced or 2017 for season long FL). You either bought overpriced park food, ate before/after you visited, packed food and went out to the car, and stayed in regular lines. That is all still available to the guest at the price of admission last year. The park is not implementing a "two meal minimum" LOL (a play on requirements of some comedy clubs). You can still get in for the price you used to. And while not perfect, the meal plan offerings still provide a meal cheaper than you can get a meal at an outside restaurant. Unless the majority of passholders actually vote with their wallet and not buy a pass and refuse to visit next year, this will likely result in an increase in revenue as people skip the meal plans and then buy the occasional meal or snack that they were not buying when on the cheaper meal plans. As someone else mentioned above, this could be the long term correction the parks actually need if they can sustain the potential short term hit and not knee-jerk reaction lower the prices. But if they do as history shows and for 2028 drop all the prices tremendously, they will never recover.

And we thought going away from platinum and going to the passport system was a confusing mess to the general public. And outside of CP, this doesn't fix people renewing /buying at other parks to save money.

CP isn't doing membership option and KI is.

The next few days will be interesting

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

Uh oh....look for a price reversal and give away the gate and add-ons....

No doubt there is a concern about being able to pay off the debt, which is still high at $4.9B Maybe the market and investors aren't buying, but average Joe and family of 4 still seem to be! The question is do we see people that say they are not buying next year actually follow thru....

Bottom line....people keep buying regardless of what they do.... Some highlights: As compared with the second quarter of 2025 on a Same-Park Basis: • Net revenues totaled $864 million, an increase of $20 million, or 2.4%, from $844 million. • Season-to-date pass sales increasing 7% and active pass base growing 6%. • Adjusted EBITDA was $249 million, an increase of $16 million, or 7%, from $233 million. • Attendance totaled 13.1 million visits, an increase of 4%, from 12.7 million visits. • Per capita spending was $62.88, a decrease of 1%, from $63.38. • Operating days totaled 1,615, a decrease of 44 days, from 1,659. Only down number is per capita spending that they contributed to expanded season pass benefits and increased cross-park visitation. I guess they gave away a lot of ice cream last month LOL. https://s204.q4cdn.com/155295784/files/doc_financials/2026/q2/Six-Flags-2Q-2026-Earnings-Release-August-6-2026.pdf

In Hindsight lol. I don't think anyone here (and most people connected to a CF park) thought the merger was a good idea before it happened. A lot of "I told you so" is more like it.