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Because they were going to use it as a Haunt Maze

And, dare we joke about it, what if this is a ploy to try to encourage season pass sales with the buy next year, get the rest of this year free promotion and the season pass sales do not meet expectations and they decide to remove those additional days from the fall lineup....

You know they will be watching the metrics closely. If 4 days of Haunt weekends doesn't move the needle more than the historical numbers, it will go back to previous the following year. We tried Thursdays once and it failed miserably, but weather played heavily into that and times are different this time. I think it will move the needle enough to justify it, but who knows how much the needle needs to move in their eyes...

^A big push on the conference calls have been to eliminate light days and add them to the times of heavy demand and they mentioned the fall season as one of them. So the question becomes do we "pay" for that with less days in the beginning of the season next year? Or 9pm closes during the week? Stay tuned....

Yep. I have said here before that for years I have thought "this will be the year that people will not renew for next year" and yet every year the passes are bought and the attendance comes. And when there is a dip in attendance, do BAF and other give away the gate promotions and all is made up. So I will say it again LOL, will this be the year that our passholders say, and follow through, with not renewing for next year? But even if they do follow through, if they sell more new passes than the number that doesn't renew, nothing will change. And for good or bad, I think that will be the case, especially if the Wonderland MVP package comes to KI.

But at the same time just about every new ride has the kinks to work out, it is just social media is capturing everything.

Caveat emptor

Geauga Lake knows the feeling

Stepping over a nickel to pick up a penny. It is almost like they are purposely accelerating the efforts to make bankruptcy the only option...

New direction is chop off part of the season and give you a free entry ticket to make up for it. Caveat emptor

Enjoy it now, because under Six Flags, nothing is a given for next year....

^That one shows they are looking for theatrically trained folks, whereas this one is just the random anyone can apply, so maybe it will be a few paid mazes and a few that are free...

Now with Haunt 4 hour waits brought to you by Snickers

One thing we know about our passholders is they will come regardless. Even if the park did zero decorating and no scare zones or roamers and only focused on upcharge mazes, people will still pack the park. If people can't get in the mazes with entry into the park, then the rides lines become even longer than they already are during Haunt. On Haunt Saturdays many of the FL get to/approach the queue entrance, so the lines will be even worse.

I thought it was already confirmed a Cheesecake Factory and Burger King

It says good rest of 2025 at all parks, but they can always change the terms at any time without notice.

Many say this, even fewer follow through. What have you decided you will do instead?

It will be interesting to see if other parks offer a MVP sale and if they tailor it to what they are trying to get out of that park guests. For example, maybe the analytics show that at Wonderland they have the smallest percentage of people that buy a pass from there with the all park passport, so they offered that free to try to encourage them to attend other parks. Maybe another park will offer something else free? Or is that thinking too much and they aren't that smart LOL.

^And that is what they are banking on. Be the best bang for the buck and lowest pricing to make it up on quantity and figure enough people will accept whatever product is offered to them because of the lower prices. What other product, service, or entertainment offering has had prices go down? They are desperate and going to their go to give away the gate option.

Yep. I posted this in another thread: Since this is starting to roll out earlier than usual, this tells me that attendance is down chain wide and they need some good news momentum for the TBD Q2 call. They wanna be able to say 2026 pass sales are strong and momentum going the right way and all that jazz to divert attention away from YTD performance. I would be shocked if we don't see this rollout to other parks in the coming days.

Because our guests entered the single rider line DEMANDING to not get split up in single rider line and the ride ops were getting verbally abused. They were not ok with getting split up. Just not worth it. Keep it FL and make some money.

Since this is starting to roll out earlier than usual, this tells me that attendance is down chain wide and they need some good news momentum for the TBD Q2 call. They wanna be able to say 2026 pass sales are strong and momentum going the right way and all that jazz to divert attention away from YTD performance. I would be shocked if we don't see this rollout to other parks in the coming days.

^yep. Look here back when Prestige came out and the "may vary by park" benefits changed daily and caused lots of confusion.

So they aren't selling the all park passport and just comes with the gold pass next year lol. As usual a bunch of nonconsistent verbage that they modify as they see fit without notice.

It will change 12 times as they realize that they messed up. Caveat Emptor