Medusa42

My wishful thinking: Hinting at Superman leaving? It's a bird, it's a plane, it's.... Hmmm... Where did he go?

August 7th & 21st, nothing related to Six Flags in the Future Meetings section. http://www.jacksontwpnj.net/documents/agendas/planning/2017/07-17-17.pdf http://www.jacksontwpnj.net/documents/agendas/planning/index.php?dir=2017/

http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-sell-purchase-data-to-advertisers-2013-4

Yeah, they are looking at guest credit card transactions that can be linked to Six Flags or each park. It is the first time I have seen someone claim Fiesta Texas is one of the top four parks in the chain. Here is an interesting bit of info I found on Great America's ticket sales. https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160606/business/160609346/?utm_source=DH%20AMP%20Articles&utm_medium=AMP&utm_content=full%20article%20link&utm_campaign=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyherald.com%2Farticle%2F20160606%2Fbusiness%2F160609346%2F So Great America probably sells $62-63 million worth of tickets per year.

Here is the quote from the transcript of the Q2 2017 Earnings Call. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4090929-six-flags-entertainment-six-q2-2017-results-earnings-call-transcript EDIT: Fixed Transcript URL

But think of trees, why can't Six Flags build the water park expansion in the parking lot instead of cutting down so many trees? LOL

These are the parts that bothered me. The writer seems confused about the name of the park and clearly meant to say Great Adventure here. This has to be an error because they contradict the statement about Great America with the data presented below it.

They didn't buy Water World, it is more of a lease/operating agreement with the REIT that owns it. They said this morning that they expect to become a taxpayer sometime in 2019. Several water park operators reached out to Six Flags after the new water park strategy was announced and Six Flags is currently evaluating several deals to take over water parks in the US.

I don't think anyone has built a Mondial Blender yet.

Based on the August Events announcement, I am changing my pick for Great Adventure to the S&S Twisted Looper. It's a launched wing coaster in a compact space.

I almost posted that the other day, but there are several errors in the article where they start calling the park Great America. Making simple errors like that made me question the credibility of all of their research, but the credit card transactions by park was interesting to see. It would be nice to see data on the impact of MOA on Valleyfair. Personally, I think Six Flags needs to worry more about the Legoland park in New York and the impact it will have on families coming to Great Adventure and Great Escape. EDIT: Jim Reid-Anderson just addressed this article directly during the Q&A on the Q2 Earnings Call and said Six Flags isn't concerned about the Meadowlands development at all and doesn't believe it will have an impact on Six Flags parks.

No, I am expecting a Monorail. Construction on the station by Hurricane Harbor needs to start early.

Amazon reviews are terrible. People buy a season pass for a tv show that hasn't aired yet and then leave one star reviews because no episodes are available yet. Episodes are released on Amazon the day after they air on tv, but some people can't wrap their head around that. I also hate the people that give products one star reviews because they had a shipping issue, but the product works fine.

I stumbled on this article today. So I have now seen hotels mentioned for Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor Oaxtepec in the future. http://attractionsmagazine.com/six-flags-hurricane-harbor-mexico-now-open/

No surprise there. I wish the park would offer a VIP dining pass that costs a bit more and offers better quality food and service. Some of the music festivals offer this with their VIP tickets, you just have to price it high enough to prevent most of the trashy people that come to the park from buying it or maybe set an age restriction. Give me one location with this on each end of the park and I would be pretty happy and would stop packing a lunch.

Yep, managing a public company is much more difficult than managing a private company. People always claim Six Flags is in financial trouble, but this isn't really true anymore if you look at the financials. Six Flags gives most of the money they make back to the shareholders as dividends or spends it on share repurchases to boost the stock price. It they ran into trouble again, they could cut the dividend to pay down debt, but this would tank the stock price and executive compensation is tied to the stock price and increasing EBITDA. Six Flags could increase the CapEx budget for new rides or park improvements but this would upset the investors.

This almost sounds like a forced retirement. https://skift.com/2017/07/18/six-flags-just-unexpectedly-replaced-its-ceo-with-its-previous-ceo/

What really grinds my gears is publishers that don't print and release books on time and cancel my Amazon preorder. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154723867130959&id=300754260958&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10154723867130959%3Atl_objid.10154723867130959%3Athrowback_story_fbid.10154723867130959%3Apage_id.300754260958&__tn__=%2C%3B

^Awesome, I predict seven months of people asking for construction pictures on a weekly basis and Six Flags won't start construction on the flat rides until March or April. Do you have pictures of dirt pile construction?

El Toro should be painted before Kingda Ka, you can see the bare wood now. Maybe a bright red or orange would look good.

I don't know man, there was a mass migration of wildlife from all over the world the last time they cleared out a section of the forest in that area. That wildlife continues to thrive there today.

At least Six Flags agreed to replace the cut down trees with new and better quality trees than the ones they are removing. They could have just purchased carbon offsets from another part of the world. I don't think I will ever understand someone who objects to this project, this isn't a rainforest or even nice land. Are people trying to protect the tick and poison ivy population? Does the mob have bodies buried in the woods that they don't want disrupted?

I have never seen the Six Flags logo stamped on the Great Adventure slides, they might put it on the slide if they build a record breaker like Thunder Gun Express.

My wild guesses for the 5 records/ North America's first: Magic Mountain: World's tallest Skyscreamer between Tidal Wave exit and Riddler's Revenge Fiesta Texas: RMC Raptor coaster or S&S prototype coaster possibly replacing Poltergeist(relocate to La Ronde) Over Texas: Skyline Attractions Skywarp in the old strip mall land by Joker Great America: Mack Powersplash (Pulsar) replacing V2(relocate to America) and Yankee Clipper Over Georgia: Mack Powersplash (Pulsar) replacing Georgia Cyclone

Excellent, fire up the chainsaws!!