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21 hours ago, p_loots said:

The park looks great! So good to see the all the cosmetic updates like the new flags on Dream Street and Runaway Mine Train. If the park keeps making these changes little by little, it will really add up in a couple years!

Agreed! Though I hope they get to the Safari Tours area ASAP -- it looks dismal. I wonder why the decision was made to tear it out right before the season began.

About to visit for the first time and trying to figure out if I can save a few bucks by buying a ticket then upgrading it to a season pass once in the gate, rather than just buying the pass from the get-go. Have a few related questions:

1) Does anyone know the rate to upgrade a day ticket this year? I believe I saw $34.99, which I assume is for a regular, and perhaps more for gold?

2) I know in the past the minimum admission value has been $20 for a ticket to be valid for upgrade. Any idea if that's still the case this year?

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2a) If so, if a ticket is worth under $20, can you pay the difference *plus* the upgrade price, or is it completely not valid for upgrade? The day I'm going has a $17.99 BAFF offer on my friend's pass, so I was thinking of buying that and then trying to upgrade, but not sure if that'll be possible. Any experience with something like this? Thanks in advance!

Wild One is awesome. An excellent example of a classic wooden coaster. The water park is also pretty substantial, if you're interested in such things.

On 11/8/2018 at 8:59 PM, 29yrswithaGApass said:

 

It is so low capacity there really is no other way they can offer it as an attraction.  

What's the charge on the maze?

^ Agreed. I even wonder if it will make them step their game up for the other thrown-together trails to attract other potential IP.

Very specific question, I know....

Anyhow, I know passes for the following year have historically gone on sale over Labor Day weekend. I'm considering visiting with some friends that Friday, and wondering if the passes will have likely gone on sale by then, or whether they typically don't come out until Saturday, or Monday, or later. Any ideas from past years?

Wow, I can't imagine riding Toro 25x in one day. What seat(s) were you in? Was it painful after a certain point?

On 4/3/2018 at 1:10 AM, SAM527 said:

This years park map is a one sheet and huge. It's bigger than a diner place mat, more like a mini poster and there's nowhere to fold it to a convenient size to carry around. Unless you fold it in half and half again and keep folding lol. I did see people walking around with it unfolded though.   

Anyone (Harry?) know the rationale for this change? Happy to see less paper used, I suppose, but agree it's unwieldy. And always figured the booklet format was financed by the ads within, where this version has fewer, smaller ads.

^ Hope all goes well and you can make it to many parks in 2018!

A part of me is sad to see that structure go. That area had a lot of character in its prime. Thanks for the update, Harry.

What happened to the three-year rehab they started out on a few years back?

On 11/4/2017 at 1:57 PM, dougdrummer said:

My daughters are going to the wine and food festival tomorrow.  You have to buy a special ticket on top of the general admission ticket.  Fortunately one has a season pass and she can bring the other in for only $10.  I did not think the park and rides were open again until HITP started.

Anyone have an idea about what % of the lights are up year-round?

2- Old Country Sign

3- The RIght Stuff

Agreed. Doesn't seem *that* hard to prepare for or handle, considering they know what kind of crowd they're gonna get every year.

^ Yeah -- on the app, it appears that the maze pass price has been bumped down to $25, but I wonder if they will all even be open, and imagine they will be very poorly staffed, which makes it a questionable value even at that lower price.

On 10/20/2017 at 8:53 PM, bvfcfirefighter said:

Hey everyone (or anyone reading this) I'm mostly a lurker in here but I was wondering if someone in here would be willing to help me out, I impulsively bought a Season Pass (first time in probably 6 or so years, not sure if that makes a difference) during the Flash Sale in September thinking that I'd be able to get to the park before the 31st deadline to get the Gold Upgrade, as it turns out, I will more than likely not going to make it to process my pass. I tried reaching out to six flags support to see if there's some kind of online process to process season passes (its 2017, I figured there was a chance there would be) and found out if a friend or family member was going to the park they can get it processed for me.

 

 

That said, I am in search of someone who would be willing to become my new best friend who might happen to be headed to the park this weekend or next that I could email my voucher to.

 

Thanks in advance

Hey, not a 100% sure thing, but I'm *probably* going on the 30th and would be happy to help if I end up going. Shoot me a PM.

On 10/17/2017 at 6:02 PM, Yoshi said:

I just got an e-mail for bring a friend free October 30th or 31st. Nice to see the park having so many bring a friend free days.

Yoshi, did you buy your SP through a targeted email offer, or just through the normal Flash Sale offer? Haven't gotten this email, but I'm going to the park with a friend that night, so trying to figure out why....

^ I have to imagine they only care about the bottom line, and presumably they are plenty profitable at this point. It's a shame to see, as SF used to have some of the best food in the industry, IMO, and quality has really declined along with service over the last few years.

I read a recent report of SFMM's that mentioned how a few of their effects are already only working half the time, and sometimes their vehicle audio isn't even on. And when I rode SFSL's, lots of the audio cues were off, and the last screen wasn't working at all.

So far, I've only had pretty picture-perfect experiences on our JL:BFM, and the only reports of issues I've heard are of minor defacement in the queue. I'm very grateful to the park for that, and I hope they keep it up!

^ That's really too bad. Wish they would make the single-rider line start earlier. Half the time I see it, it's empty, which is a real waste of capacity. Considering they were building these rides from scratch, not sure why they couldn't design them with 4 seats to a row like almost everything else....

Yoshi (or anyone else), where do you like to sit on Twister? I liked it years ago but these days find it a little too rough for my taste.

^Agreed completely; the mazes would be a disgrace even for free. BUT to Matt's point, they've got people lining up to buy tickets like crazy, so why not charge, and why spend to upgrade them?

Cool, thanks! That's actually good news -- won't bring in any extra crowds, and I wanted to convince my friends to get SPs anyway.

Quick Q -- can a current passholder let me know what bring-a-friend coupons are live for tomorrow, Friday 9/1? Considering buying a pass and want to see what I'll have access to if I bring a friend or two with me. Thanks!

They had a Mardi Gras festival during the 2002 "Summer of Festivals," right? I remember hearing they didn't bring it back because there were too many cases of indecent exposure....