brenthodge Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 I don't understand their pricing AT ALL. Why w Knotts and MMtn t(hat are essentialy in the same metro area - albeit LARGE metro) is there a discrepancy between parks for GOLD when you can use the gold anywhere. Why wouldnt abyone use the cheaper park. Its still not clear if free parking is just at home park. This is a mess. Why not make the SFPLATINUM pass one price for the whole chain with any add-ons work at all parks - price acordingly. Thgen make it a price point that shows the real value of it, then have park specific GOLD PASS or SILVER PASS that is priced relative to the market and product, or just ONE season pass with add ones like "all season parking, extended season (what Gold usually gets), drink etc. You advertise this like its a "coast to coast" product but its priced all over the ma- - even in the same state. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeastFarmer Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 2 hours ago, brenthodge said: I don't understand their pricing AT ALL. Why w Knotts and MMtn t(hat are essentialy in the same metro area - albeit LARGE metro) is there a discrepancy between parks for GOLD when you can use the gold anywhere. Why wouldnt abyone use the cheaper park. Its still not clear if free parking is just at home park. This is a mess. Why not make the SFPLATINUM pass one price for the whole chain with any add-ons work at all parks - price acordingly. Thgen make it a price point that shows the real value of it, then have park specific GOLD PASS or SILVER PASS that is priced relative to the market and product, or just ONE season pass with add ones like "all season parking, extended season (what Gold usually gets), drink etc. You advertise this like its a "coast to coast" product but its priced all over the ma- - even in the same state. I can't remember the number, but they are basically wanting to bolster the attendance at Magic Mountain. Id conjecture that is why the pass is cheaper there. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, but if they drastically increase pass sales at MM, they can tout this during a future earnings report. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeastFarmer Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Facebook posts are now spreading that Six Flags America has canceled Fright Fest and will have boo fest only. I saw it in the SFA connoisseur group. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco2000 Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Fast Lane to bankruptcy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losantiville Mining Co. Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Kid's Boo Fest is the only event left on Six Flags America's website. Someone also posted on another thread saying an email went out encouraging guests to go to Kings Dominion for Halloween Haunt. Making the all-park passes priced park-by-park would be good for this sale only. Once the sale is over (do not extend it) they should then move to the Platinum Pass model where, once you add the All-Park Passport, all of the passes are the same price. It should also be a higher price as well! Six Flags has an unprecedented unified market reach right now. Access to 40+ parks is easily a minimum $200 value. Busch Gardens Williamsburg's 11-park Platinum Membership is currently on sale for $363.00, normally priced at $519.00, and is promoted to have its benefits valued at $2,355.00 on their website. That averages out to $33.00 (sale), $47.18 (standard pricing), and $214.09 (total value) per park. Meanwhile, Six Flags is currently offering 40(ish) parks for $95.00 through a 2026 Kings Dominion Gold Pass. Since every park has a different pass price, I'm going to use $100.00 per pass for this calculation. That is 40 parks for $100.00, with an assumed total value of $3,200.00 ($80.00 via one ticket + parking for each park). That price truly is value, considering it comes out to $2.50 per park per year. Even at $200.00 per 40-park pass, that's $5 per park per year. I think that is a little too good of a deal for a chain that needs to keep making money. I would like to repeat that these MVP sale passes offer unlimited access for $2.50 per park, for 17 months of access. For a park like Discovery Kingdom whose 2026 Gold Pass is $60.00 you can essentially get into each park for $1.50. Shouldn't the per-park price of a season pass cost more than the price of a Costco hot dog combo? Giving away the gate may indeed be the Fast Lane to bankruptcy. Some people are justified in saying that $100 is too high a price for them to buy a Kings Island season pass, but something tells me that those guests are not about to take a trip to other parks. I've already gone a little too deep with the price breakdown, so I'll stop here for now. Thank you for coming to my rant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robintodd Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 8 hours ago, Losantiville Mining Co. said: Kid's Boo Fest is the only event left on Six Flags America's website. Someone also posted on another thread saying an email went out encouraging guests to go to Kings Dominion for Halloween Haunt. Making the all-park passes priced park-by-park would be good for this sale only. Once the sale is over (do not extend it) they should then move to the Platinum Pass model where, once you add the All-Park Passport, all of the passes are the same price. It should also be a higher price as well! Six Flags has an unprecedented unified market reach right now. Access to 40+ parks is easily a minimum $200 value. Busch Gardens Williamsburg's 11-park Platinum Membership is currently on sale for $363.00, normally priced at $519.00, and is promoted to have its benefits valued at $2,355.00 on their website. That averages out to $33.00 (sale), $47.18 (standard pricing), and $214.09 (total value) per park. Meanwhile, Six Flags is currently offering 40(ish) parks for $95.00 through a 2026 Kings Dominion Gold Pass. Since every park has a different pass price, I'm going to use $100.00 per pass for this calculation. That is 40 parks for $100.00, with an assumed total value of $3,200.00 ($80.00 via one ticket + parking for each park). That price truly is value, considering it comes out to $2.50 per park per year. Even at $200.00 per 40-park pass, that's $5 per park per year. I think that is a little too good of a deal for a chain that needs to keep making money. I would like to repeat that these MVP sale passes offer unlimited access for $2.50 per park, for 17 months of access. For a park like Discovery Kingdom whose 2026 Gold Pass is $60.00 you can essentially get into each park for $1.50. Shouldn't the per-park price of a season pass cost more than the price of a Costco hot dog combo? Giving away the gate may indeed be the Fast Lane to bankruptcy. Some people are justified in saying that $100 is too high a price for them to buy a Kings Island season pass, but something tells me that those guests are not about to take a trip to other parks. I've already gone a little too deep with the price breakdown, so I'll stop here for now. Thank you for coming to my rant. It must be noted that 90 - 95 % of pass holders at KI will never go to another park, let alone all 40+. I see this as away to drive early pass sales and I prefer it to the "Fast Lane pass that can only be used when the sun is out, it's and odd number of degrees and there are more women than men in the park (over exageration). Point being that fast pass that could only be used at certain times was confusing, this is not. As I stated in another post I have always had a platinum/passport because my wife and I go to CP 3 times a year but if we are near another park because of business or pleasure travel we will go because we get in free and will end up buying merch for that park since we don't go all the time. Yes we got in free, but we bought merch the time we went where as we don't always buy merch at KI or CP every time we go. I think the most confusing thing may be the way the drink/meal plans will be structured. If I understand it correctly, one drink plan will be for your "home park" and another will be for all parks. Same thing with the meal plan. Even at $200 or $250 the pass is absolutely a value for me because I go about 50 times a year at $120 or just $2.40 a visit, close to your $2.50 per park . Either way we'll find out tomorrow, all I know is I will be purchasing my pass. Still the best deal in the entertainment industry IMO. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondbackFan Posted Friday at 05:20 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:20 PM More coaster removals coming soon? https://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica The sale says 280 coasters, but RCDB lists 294 operating coasters at SFEC (SBNO and Under Construction are not in the count) https://rcdb.com/12488.htm 294 coasters -9 coasters at SFA = 285 coasters +4 2026 additions (SFNE, SFMM, SFM, SFOT) = 289 coasters +1 Pantherian at KD = 290 coasters +1 Montezooma's Revenge - The Forbidden Fortress at Knott's = 291 coasters +2 SBNO coasters that could reopen (Timberwolf at WOF, Flash V2 at SFDK) = 293 coasters 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losantiville Mining Co. Posted Friday at 11:41 PM Share Posted Friday at 11:41 PM Closing/selling another park would definitely bring that number down to 280... I think all of these numbers are rounded to include a zero, so any additional coaster removals might bring that number down to 284. Knowing the current Six Flags I could also be led to believe that they had the wrong number in the first place. It might be worth noting that Michigan's Adventure currently has 8 coasters (293 - 8 = 285), CGA has 9 coasters (293 - 9 = 284), La Ronde has 8 coasters (again 285), and Frontier City has 5 coasters (293 - 5 = 288). Even if a park doesn't close Six Flags may try to get out of a management contract at a park like LaRonde or Frontier City. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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