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Starting with the 2024 season they went to only needing one click on the woodies.

It was for the year. From the article: "For example, Six Flags, which merged with Cedar Fair last year, doesn’t reveal individual park attendance figures. But McClure said Cedar Point came within 5,000 guests of beating the park’s record attendance of 3.617 million in 1994."

Woodies are now two click restraints....and more light added to beginning of lift hill. And ride ops hold a stick to confirm two clicks.

People said the same thing about KI getting Orion

TEA numbers are estimates based on a variety of different methods when the parks will not provide official numbers. Six Flags announced that chain-wide attendance was down in 2025, but did mention several parks were up, but didn't specifically mention them in the call. I think TEA took the chain attendance drop and just applied it to each park based on the park share of the total. As I pointed out in another thread, TEA said CP dropped over 7% from 2024 to 2025, yet in a rare instance, at the end of 2025, CP announced they were within 5,000 of their attendance record. Yet when you look at the TEA report, it says Cedar Point went down 283,000 guests in 2025 compared to 2024..... If that were the case, then how did they get within 5,000 guests of the 31 year old attendance record in 2025 and not have broken it in 2024.....

Wonder what all the naysayers are saying now that they would never send it to a park with a similar RMC already LOL

As they have said, Six Flags feels KI is an over penetrated park and they are going to spend their money on parks they feel are under penetrated. Sucks for KI, but they have shown that guests come regardless.... Once actual attendance (not TEA numbers) internally show a decline that cannot be discounted by weather or some outside influence, then maybe KI will start to see an uptick in spending. Until then, they are going to spend enough to maintain the base.

But everyone said it was going to Carowinds....they are doing surveying and everything.... https://www.ocregister.com/2026/10/29/arieforce-one-coaster-coming-to-six-flags-magic-mountain/

They will come regardless. As always, questions will be asked - is this because of issues found when they did more testing once they went to weekend ops, is it deferred maintenance catching up to them, is it getting a jump start on winter maintenance, or all of the above.

Keep in mind the TEA reported attendances are not official and those in the know will tell you that KI and CP declining from 2024 to 2025 is wrong.....and will say KI actually beat CP. Case in point, breaking from tradition, last year Cedar Point actually announced that they generated record revenue in 2025 and came within a few thousand guests of breaking its 31-year-old attendance record that was set in 1994. They were one of those random closed Tuesdays in May/June last year from setting their attendance record, which is why they didn't close mid-week this year and stayed open hoping to build upon last year to break the record. Yet when you look at the TEA report, it says Cedar Point went down 283,000 guests in 2025 compared to 2024..... If that were the case, then how did they get within 5,000 guests of the 31 year old attendance record in 2025 and not have broken it in 2024.....

Unfortunately, many of our rides are old and take more maintenance as they get older. The trains take a lot of abuse and need some TLC when they get the age they are. I still think KI has some of the best maintenance in the business. And yes, to the guests it stinks when a ride isn't going or is down a train, but in KI's situations, it has been because maintenance found something and repaired it. Knock on wood we haven't taken a page out of other parks and reduce train ops for light attendance. Look at all the folks saying Beast would be down 2 trains the rest of the year and how many accused the park of going to one train on The Bat to start winter maintenance early. Both of which were not the case. And the easy answer for The Bat would have been to simply let it go with one train ops, but maintenance worked on it and got it back to two train ops. Also, keep in mind, the park can do additional testing during the week when the park isn't open, and they routinely find things that taking a train offline now for a few weeks reduces the risks of a bigger issue later.

Today is still around this time last year.....

Yes, The Beast did operate yesterday.

There is a lot that normally has happened by now that hasn't.....