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They know if it isn't sold, bankruptcy is likely next.

Nothing screams success more than buying a ride that forced the closure of another park....and telling folks a service provided for years is now interest bearing.... Perhaps if the conditions of the sale were released that average Joe would say that is a steal and made financial sense, it would be tempered some. Imagine what it would do for said park season pass sales if naming the park it is going to now during the biggest sale period of passes for next year and announcing it would be 2028 or 2029 before it is operational....at a park like CP, many folks will sit out next year for sure and likely the same action to some extent would happen at whichever park it was announced for...

But wait....they just sent out an email saying the sale ends tonight lol....

They didn't even wait for it to expire. as of 9:18am on 9/7, you have almost 6.5 days.....

So the pass sale ends at noon Monday? It is 11:14pm on 9/6 as of this screenshot

That's the thing with these two announcements. Neither one sounds like it is for AF1, but now people have jumped on that and anything less than major additions at several parks will be a letdown and their marketing hype failed. If Monday's "A way Six Flags will make unforgettable experiences more accessible for families than ever before" is they extended the sale....bad move as they always do that. If Monday's announcement is kids under 10 get in free at all parks or kids under 12 eat free on Tuesdays, now you may have something. Maybe even have something if they say silver is extended thru December could be considered making the the park more accessible. If it is some promotion like a 4 pack sale with some wristband for meal and/or drink, well that probably won't move the needle for a family of 4. Neither will adding some lame payment plan with interest. If Tuesday's announcement "A move that will turn heads across the amusement industry and reinforce Six Flags' position as the home of world-class thrills" is not the announcement of a major capital program with record breakers at multiple parks OR is not AF1 going to CP (or maybe one of the top 4 parks in the chain), then that was bad timing of this announcement with FunSpot posting that AF1 was sold.

Plenty of people still have their physical card with a barcode and still experience 10 seconds from scan to entry. And ironically less people buying drink plans will improve the ice situation as the demand will drop and ice will be plentiful.

One may question whether fast food is high quality lol, but this is an interesting parallel.... "Wendy’s new CEO basically admitted the company cut corners on food quality to save money... and now they’re trying to win customers back. Which is pretty incredible considering Wendy’s spent DECADES telling us: “WHERE’S THE BEEF?” Apparently the answer was somewhere in the cost-cutting spreadsheet. 😂 Wendy’s built its entire brand around quality, fresh never-frozen beef, and Dave Thomas being obsessive about doing things the right way. Then somewhere along the road, the company started prioritizing efficiency and savings... and customers noticed. Wendy’s has now fallen behind both McDonald’s and Burger King in U.S. burger sales, while hundreds of underperforming locations have been targeted for closure. That’s what happens when a brand spends years telling customers what makes it special... then slowly chips away at the exact thing people showed up for. Dave Thomas spent decades building Wendy’s around quality. Turns out “WHERE’S THE BEEF?” hits a little differently now."

If only a trashcan was closer LOL

New menus look great. But have you ever had a meal from Enrique's look that good LOL

Right. We all knew where this was going. Everyone liked to hang on to the "but Cedar Fair is the majority (barely)", but look at the makeup then to now. Almost all legacy leaders have been replaced by outside hospitality and theme park specialists. Only 1 executive remains with legacy tie-ins. The initial 12-member, 50/50 balance has been completely dissolved. The company added 7 new outside directors, shrinking the influence of pre-merger members. Operationally, it isn't controlled by either legacy owner now. But it appears to be leaning more Six than Fun....

Sad news. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dolly-parton-county-music-icon-dies-80-rcna236277

Yep, and it never really turned into CP of the south as they thought it would do. More like Kentucky Kingdom with a giga LOL.

It also opens up Carowinds in the mix for a sell off regardless of their statement "continue investing in Carowinds and Carolina Harbor in the Charlotte area" .... And say what you want about CF owning and controlling the slim majority....watch what they do and not what they say....just one more step towards becoming more the Six Flags way than they Cedar Fair way....

Bye Bye Charlotte.... Six Flags Announces Corporate Headquarters Relocation to.../PRNewswire/ -- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, North America's largest regional amusement-resort operator, today announced plans to relocate its...

Does it matter LOL. My Big Mac never looks like the ad 🤣

Who will apply to KI's position?

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.