Daved Thomson

I really enjoyed your VLOG of your park visit. I appreciate your rather objective approach to reporting, rather than simply promoting the park. Like yourself, I found the attendance levels during your visit to be uncharacteristically low for a Saturday in August. In fact, I perceive the very low attendance to be worrisome. I think it's great that the new CEO of Six Flags wants to significantly improve the guest experience for visitors. His problem is that he seems to have lost the strong customer base the park(s) previously enjoyed and claims to want to draw more families to the parks, yet there isn't much left in the parks for families. I hope and pray things get turned around for Great Adventure, but this season really can be written off as a dismal failure. Improved customer experience levels requires attracting both new and repeat customers to the park and you're only able to draw both groups based on the park's product... It's rides, shows, and attractions, appealing to a broad demographic and psychographic group of people.

Wow... Very strange, indeed. It's also a bit odd with the 537 entrance sign having the name all in white lettering and then when you get to the entrance of the theme park you have Six Flags in black, but Great Adventure in white.

Very, very strange seeing these parks this empty on Labor Day Weekend. What infrastructure has been refurbished looks great. Sadly, empty stadiums and unused shops sitting closed are not a good site in the shadows of the refurbishment. The safari and its animals, I think, look the best they have in a very long time. Thinking positive about this great place.

Really can't say I'm impressed with the new sign and I don't see the electronic message board lasting very long. It certainly doesn't bespeak of a place that wants to draw premium price paying demographics and offers a customer focused guest experience.

I believe the blue canvas sneakers you mentioned earlier came in those boxes that so many of us in Food Service wore. White rubber soles, tan rubber bottoms, blue canvas uppers. My two seasons in food service I went through two pairs each season. The back of the white rubber soles had an additional small rectangular rubber label with the words Six Flags in the western style font that all of their parks used at the time.