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The strange link between Phantasialand and J.R.R. Tolkien: :sunglasses: Officially, Phantasialand uses no IP from Tolkien's works, although some of their creations may be reminiscent. But a strange coincidence still creates a link: When Tolkien created his character Gandalf, his inspiration...

Seems like the war is over - FPC has taken their forums back online and removed some pictures.

For information: as I know for yesterday, the forum has not yet been sued, but received a harsh legal threat, and was asked to take down any Phantasialand related pictures. Supposedly without prior notice to remove individual, possibly illegal pictures. But yes, there is still a good chance for...

Phantasialand just started a legal war against German fan forum https://www.freizeitparkcheck.de, because they posted pictures from the construction site of Rookburgh. Current status is that the park demanded the forum to remove any pictures of the park, not only the construction site pictures...

Not sure what it's like for Europa Park, but Phantasialand adult annual pass (Erlebnispass, Premium Pass, 185€) also has one free entry for each of Efteling, Europa Park and Liseberg, discount on hotels and food, and three daily fast accesses. Europa Club card / annual pass is a bit more...

@Robert.W Probably right, I checked the shareholder structure, and it seems like there are not the big locust investors, who just strip and loot businesses (except if multiple smaller investors cooperate in this). Almost 30% is Kirkbi A/S (Lego), the rest is rather broadly distributed. Business...

A corporation can also use a combination of poor, absolute minimum services, and aggressive attempts to squeeze more money out of visitors post-admission (fast track and similar), to prepare the sale of a business entity and make it look more profitable. Of course, this high profitability is not...

Most paid fast passes are way cheaper than what they are worth, or, in turn, the regular admission is way too expensive. Note that it's not so much the waiting time that's relevant, but the number of attraction usages a visitor can make during a visit. Here's again my previous example for Cedar...

My idea was if they handle individual payment like on a funfair: these rarely have hierarchic queues, with a fast lane for an upcharge, or very long queues at all. Single admission payment makes people wait long, and introduction of extra-paid speed passes, fast tracks or whatever it is called...

I just read about BPB and found it to be the only actual theme park I heard of, which also has per-ride payment. Single admission payment (wristband) and multiple levels of speed passes, or virtual queue devices, are rhe other option. My question: when somebody pays with tickets per ride, which...

"Pay Once, Enjoy Twice" in Phantasialand has been extended until end of May, for the first visit. The second, free visit, after registration in the park, can occur anytime during the main season, except in July and August (months with school holidays).

Another piece of math, Cedar Point as example (day with 12 hours open, not very crowded, online tickets, not gate) for a maximum ride usage: Regular: $49 admission, avg. wait and ride time : 90min - 8 rides per visit - $6.13 per ride Fast Lane+: $49+$85 = $134, avg. wait and ride time : 10min...

@PeteA : Some of your post sounds illogical to me: All park rides have a specified capacity, which is to be distributed among visitors. Priority lanes can't magically add capacity to rides, they always have to take away a share from the regular visitors (as opposed to single rider lanes, which...

So they don't send lawyers to UK forums to take down the pictures... Zero G (?) through the roof, that looks really exciting! Many expected the place of the tunnel to be a ramp / launch, so now it's something else. I'm anticipating when the other Rookburgh attraction becomes visible. They have...

It's only a small minority who demand paid fast tracks in parks online, if not sock puppets by the parks themselves. Maybe more in theme park forums, where the share of potential "power users" is bigger than in general public. Even there, most strictly reject them; here's a poll in an Europa...

@RedBall My comment about priority tickets being "antisocial" wasn't intended to be a personal offense. People may have legitimate reasons to request them, such as having only a day to make all rides, or they may get them for free in some parks, if they have an annual pass or stay in a park...

Perhaps many theme park visitors don't realize, that the main income for theme parks comes from the mass of average visitors, wo pay a total of perhaps 50 or 70 pounds per person, and "big spenders" have only little more weight. Surely, parks like "power users", who hold annual passes or...

Honestly, this initially sounded like a case of escalation of commitment: have passes for Merlin parks already, notice the poor service that comes with the basic park access, then go for the "generous offers" to upgrade to fast track tickets, or maybe VIP passes. It's probably not worth throwing...

Corporations sometimes do weird things, only to make their financial sheets look fine, or at least, to conceal the worst. Even if it looks suicidal as a business decision, for an outsider. I saw it in a completely different context: responding to some crisis, the management wanted to avoid...

Are they faster access for a higher price, or just skipping the ticket purchase for cash, by mobile payment? I found nothing on this topic, only that mobile payment is possible in some places, such as Oktoberfest. I also noticed that reviews for EP Horror Nights/Traumatica are very mixed to...