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I've been hearing rumours recently that Goliath at Six Flags NE will be relocated to another park like Frontier City or Great Escape!
Ooh, that could be a great headline attraction for some of Six Flags’ smaller parks!I've been hearing rumours recently that Goliath at Six Flags NE will be relocated to another park like Frontier City or Great Escape!
Yh and it needs the Premier Rides trains removed though as that causes it issues!Ooh, that could be a great headline attraction for some of Six Flags’ smaller parks!
I've been hearing rumours recently that Goliath at Six Flags NE will be relocated to another park like Frontier City or Great Escape!
Possible, I guess, but Six Flags approach to relocations has changed quite a lot in recent years. If New England was to take it out, you'd think it would be down to the fact that it's a bit of maintenance headache, shifting the problem to a different state to parks with much smaller maintenance budgets seems counter intuitive, but they've done it before ... it's how it ended up at SFNE after all.I've been hearing rumours recently that Goliath at Six Flags NE will be relocated to another park like Frontier City or Great Escape!
I once gave a colleague that I despised a live fish in the Secret Santa, knowing full well he'd have to take it home instead of coming straight out on the town with us from the office.Let's face it, we've all had a colleague we hated working with. If you could send them a giant inverted boomerang they’re going to have to maintain, you would. “Happy Christmas”, you’d say, while swallowing a few chuckles.
They may have reduced the confusion but I heard that the trains were the main cause of its tonne of downtime. Aftershock at Silverwood came from SFOG and gets way more praise these days now that it's more reliable!Possible, I guess, but Six Flags approach to relocations has changed quite a lot in recent years. If New England was to take it out, you'd think it would be down to the fact that it's a bit of maintenance headache, shifting the problem to a different state to parks with much smaller maintenance budgets seems counter intuitive, but they've done it before ... it's how it ended up at SFNE after all.
I didn't notice a great deal of difference between the Vekoma & Premier trains on those rides. The best thing about the Premier ones is the reduced confusion in the station in terms of which gate is for which seat.
For one thing though there does seem to have been a dramatic difference since the change in CEO, this one seems remarkably different with a complete different direction for the chain.Looks like they're trying to ditch their McDonalds of the theme park industry appearance, then.
Cedar Fair are pretty much doing the same thing in terms of ramping up their visual appearances in parks and putting in more 'premium' food outlets, so I can see why they'd be looking to compete. Their new dive coaster also appears to be very heavily story-driven, which is extremely uncommon in Six Flags parks.
It's a good direction to be going in, but it remains to be seen whether or not they can execute it.
Season pass and day ticket prices will be increasing, and a plan to improve the overall guest experience will be implemented long term. A model of lower attendance and higher pricing is being pursued; it is felt that the pre-pandemic figure of 30 million guests per year chain-wide, caused by low pricing and free ticket offerings, “suffocated the parks” and made the guest experience suffer. Six Flags’ initial aim is for an attendance drop of 10-15%, but with higher pricing, so that the guest experience improves.
I'm all in for an Attendance drop and Guest experiance improvement, but price increase? No thanks. AT is already expensive enough for my Family as a yearly treat. I feel that the price should either stay the same as it is Currently, or drop down by 10-20%.Love this strategy. I do hope Merlim are paying attention to the theme park operator they seem to most aspire to.
You can’t have both low prices and low attendance/improved guest experience, I’m afraid. Having both would make the business totally unviable.I'm all in for an Attendance drop and Guest experiance improvement, but price increase? No thanks. AT is already expensive enough for my Family as a yearly treat. I feel that the price should either stay the same as it is Currently, or drop down by 10-20%.
This is already the strategy that Towers has been applying in the past year or two and one other parks have been moving toward too. Less people on park, increased ticket (and annual pass) prices, but make the same/more revenue by pushing guest spend up with events such as Oktoberfest, Mardi Gras, fireworks and Scarefest.Love this strategy. I do hope Merlim are paying attention to the theme park operator they seem to most aspire to.
I'm all in for an Attendance drop and Guest experiance improvement, but price increase? No thanks. AT is already expensive enough for my Family as a yearly treat. I feel that the price should either stay the same as it is Currently, or drop down by 10-20%.
This is already the strategy that Towers has been applying in the past year or two and one other parks have been moving toward too. Less people on park, increased ticket (and annual pass) prices, but make the same/more revenue by pushing guest spend up with events such as Oktoberfest, Mardi Gras, fireworks and Scarefest.
Righto Mr Chapek.The current AP prices directly drive the high gate figure for low revenue that the parks suffer with.
It should be at least double what it is, as should fasttrack.
My £60 AP suggests otherwise! It's a stupid price.
Righto Mr Chapek.
Someone correct me if wrong but i’m sure it’s 5 friends and family per merlin pass per visit. Four of us have passes, so could theoretically bring a max of 20 people along with us on f&f discount. Not that we would, sounds hellish.I just did a Friends and Family ticket for Alton, which was £27.50. That feels like a giveaway.
Are those limited in any way?