The Death of Six Flags Is Getting Ugly
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2023
- Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, Six Flags Over Texas, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags St Louis, Six Flags New England, Six Flags America, and Six Flags Mexico. All amusement parks and theme parks in danger of closing due to poor management from the Six Flags CEO and corporate. After reporting their Q2 Six Flags 2023 earnings report, Six Flags stockholders have been shell shocked and the future of Six Flags looks dim. What will become of all the best roller coasters in the world that the Six Flags parks have assembled? Will 6 Flags survive or will the Six Flags 2023 season be one of their last?
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Six Flags Q2 2023 Earnings Report: investors.sixflags.com/news-a...
Six Flags 2023 Q2 Earnings Call Transcript: www.fool.com/earnings/call-tr...
Six Flags Q2 2022 Earnings Report: investors.sixflags.com/news-a...
Six Flags 2022 Q2 Earnings Call Transcript: seekingalpha.com/article/4533...
Six Flags Q3 2022 Earnings Report: investors.sixflags.com/news-a...
Six Flags 2022 Q3 Earnings Call Transcript: www.fool.com/earnings/call-tr...
Cedar Fair 2022 Q3 Earnings Report: www.cedarfair.com/blog/2022/c...
Theme Park Attendance up 32% in 2022 With Magic Kingdom at Top: www.wdwinfo.com/news-stories/...
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If Six flags wants more visitors they need to work on presentation. Clean parks. Costumed characters. Friendly staff. Immersive environments. People want to be lost in a fantasy not feel like they are wondering the AC boardwalk.
Charging 25 bucks to park the car is a turn-off.
@@BackSeatJunkie I would have to judge that by the price of a charge parking lot, by distance from the location etc We have $20 lots near the beach and IDK the prices in the city. If the lot is just for convenience fine if its the only way in and in addition to emission to the park that is a turn off.
Your so right
Six Flags will go into Chapter 11. They will Sell Six Flags...
@@KennyRyman I would love to buy it, fix it up, show them how its done. or Alternately, go on the very last day
Six flags was always supposed to be a much more affordable option to other parks. You were supposed to be able to go there with your friends and spend maybe $50-70 for the whole day.
true true
I used to go to Great America (in San Jose) all the time and that's what I'd expect to pay & did pay for the whole day including parking & everything else: About $50 to $70. *BUT* That was back in 1991/1992
What year/s was that?
Older generations didn’t have to sell a kidney for fun they were like I got a hot rod Ford, and a two dollar bill
And I know a spot right over the hill
There's soda pop and the dancing's free
So if you wanna have fun, come along with me
6 flags did a program with local schools to give kids free tickets for reading X amount. And as a kid THATS what made it cheap enough: basically just paying for 1 parent
One thing you didn't bring up was the loss of the dining pass and parking pass. That's one of the biggest reasons they lost 50% of season pass holders.
Actually the parking passes probably didn't play much of a role in it as the parking passes weren't done away with, they simply re-did the pass holder /membership system and made the parking pass applicable to only certain passes instead. Whereas before all passes and memberships had that perk. To add to that, with the decreased premium pass/membership pricing it's waaaaay more affordable than before.
As for the dining passes - the restructure of that perk was necessary. The way it was before - allowing you to get free food items for EVERY visit adds up - so adding a limit to the amount of free meals available in a single season was certainly a responsible change to the dining pass - however, as with the parking pass they did not get rid of the pass it was simply limited to decrease costs from giving away a mind boggling amount of free food & that would be considered ridiculously expensive to ANY theme park.
The real reason the company lost so many pass holders is because the world was in a global pandemic and the company was closed like every other theme park - which quite frankly Cedar Fair, Universal Studios, and even Disney lost the equivalent of half of their pass holders/memberships because of that. Trying to blame it on the way the parks have restructured their systems is rather poor form. 🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
Isn't parking included in the season pass?
Yes parking is included in the platinum and Diamond pass.
The food add-on is separate and not included in the season passes.
I just saw on their website the dining pass is back, hopefully it isn’t too late for that to help them
dining pass was available all year
Everyone wants to make premium parks, but only rich people can afford it. I used to love disney, but even if the parks were good (which im so sad at how they've ruined the parks), i cant afford to go. Even though i live like 15 miles away, i just cant. Its so sad. So much stuff is becoming so overpriced i cant do anything anymore.
Disney resident day pass is $79 non black out days
@@EllieM_TravelsDAY PASS????
@@MPHshootsday pass = ticket
Tokyo Disney is still good
Clazzism
I feel like the main draw to six flags is that it’s a cheaper alternative to Disney/universal/etc. drastically raising the prices like that was such a horrible idea
People are broke. None of these parks are options anymore and kids don't care about rides like they did in the 80s. It's the end of an era..
@@CeeTeeUSAThat's not true at all, I went to Great Adventure last summer and I remember it being packed with long lines.
@@razburry8001how is not true people are broke ? Yes Britney people live outside your mansion in Beverly hills that actually pay bills get it sweety ?
In California yea. But where I’m from in New England it basically is _THE_ premium amusement park.
@@CeeTeeUSA People cared up until the mid 2000s, but yeah the price hikes and low standards are killing six flags.
Six flags stopped being peak as soon as that old man stopped dancing.
Facccttsss omgeee 😢 RIP
This the one ☝️
I’ve been thinking this the whole video😂😂😂
That is no lie
Six Flags wants to succeed with poor marketing.
Just took me back to
I watched the whole video before commenting. I want to say as an average 30 year old consumer with no kids, everything is overpriced right now and I can barely keep up taking care of myself. Going to Six Flags is the furthest thing in my mind. Raising prices wont help, however building new rides and sparking my interest might. I havent gone to Six Flags New England (local) in years because its the same old s***. Im not going to go AT ALL, let alone pay more than I did before until I see something new. Last time I went it felt like a waste of time and money. SALEEM WAKE UP! PS great video
Adult Millennials coming into this era for six flags is part of it. We're outpaced by low wages and inflation.
I know. Shocking news lol.
This is a VERY Valid point in todays economy, NO ONE has any extra money accumulating every month anymore. Bidenomics saw to that. Until we get a president who actually wants to help the average American by putting extra money in our pockets by GOOD SOUND COMMON SENSE Policies, the average american barely has enough money to payy for the Essentials. I wish we had a president that knew something about how money works, and had a business sense to their approach, that would result in average americans saving more money each month.
"Everything is pricey. They should spend the big bucks to make new things." 🤔
I totally understand the way you feel. I'm in my 30s and it's just so depressing with rent so high and it seems like an impossibility to own a house. I barely can feed myself.
@@lucasm7177 don't MFerz gaslight you or make you feel bad. It's real.
I live near Frontier City and I remember being SO PISSED when Six Flags bought them out bc they hiked the prices up without changing anything at all, to the point that most people can’t afford to go at least once a year like they used to. So to hear that this new CEO intends on rising the prices even more just infuriates me. If they had only raised the prices after adding new rides then I wouldn’t be as upset, but raising the prices as soon as you bought the park without making any major changes is a serious red flag to me.
How many red flags?
@@MrJackets6
Blame biden
U ain't lying 💯🔵💯
It's funny how Selim says he wants to put effort into maintenance. He's talking about predictors for maintenance like train upgrades and big changes, but it's the day-to-day keeping things running that keeps attractions being charming for years to come. You can't just let Monster Mansion run without maintenance until the time comes to make upgrades. You're going to see ridership decrease while it looks bad, and many people won't come back if the upgrade isn't big enough.
@maddox121 all 6f parks have their own in house maintenance but 6f wages aren't competitive enough to keep highly skilled techs leading to a revolving door of inexperienced maintenance techs
@maddox121yeah SFOG has been doing amazing with Monster Mansion upkeep
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As someone who lives near the six flags Great America and used to frequent it before covid because it was in the area, it has gone downhill. There is a lot of empty space, lack of things to do for families, lack of variety in amusement/entertainment, and it's become a place where a lot of teenagers loiter. Six flags used to be worth the price of admission, but now it doesn't even it's not worth it anymore. Especially because things are so expensive too. Idk. There isn't a pull to go or even just hang around
As downhill as the Six flags chain has been, Great America is slowly fixing things up, not perfect but in the right direction.
Shading structures are being added, buildings getting some repaint and TLC and removing some attractions that are not needed being Dare Devil Dive and Buccaneer Battle. Despite ride operations and staffing still being an issue at times, it’s not the worst.
The park did say that 2023 was just going to focus on cleanliness and making areas a bit nicer.
I feel like Six Flags Great America should go more family friendly because I feel like in general if they went in the route Knott's and the original Marriott's Great America did, it would make money. I've said it before: I'd kill for a Disney style park around here
Pros: They added the Wonder Woman ride
Cons: They added the Jersey Devil ride
As one of the teens who used to loiter around Six Flags St. Louis, it was a way for me to hang out with friends that I wouldn't normally get to meet anywhere due to one thing or another, and it also got me outside and not focus on technology. I loved walking the park, because it felt like an amusement park (empty malls don't help the issue). Some of us teenagers at the time had no other outlet to be ourselves away from family and without getting yelled at for hanging out. Malls around here practically put the hammer down on groups of teens window-shopping, so we had no other place to really go.
I used to love six flags because it was affordable and I felt welcomed as me (lgbt relationship). Now I can barely afford to park, they now charge and entry fee for the previously free water park, three chicken tender and a small amount of fries went up to $12/13 without a drink, and they just let the rides break leaving a small amount of options.... I used to work there when I was a freshman in highschool and loved it for the atmosphere, but now it just feels rundown, dirty, and forgotten. Hell even the Six Flags St. Louis advertisements aren't even featuring the park in any promo.
they arent going to fix Great America because they're selling the property
I've been going to Six Flags Great Adventure since the late 90s until about 2007, and that place was thriving! I bought the seasons pass this season because it was a good deal. I bought the gold pass, which was upgraded to the platinum pass, and was about $100. This pass included free parking and unlimited access to the park, wild safari, and hurricane harbor. I honestly can't believe how run down the park has become. There is no entertainment anymore unless they have an event for a particular day. Everything is faded or discolored. The restaurants are run down, and the food is expensive and tastes horrible. Most of the staff is rude and looks miserable. It was actually pretty sad to see. The park needs a major face lift/renovation. The only thing the park has going for them are the roller-coasters(when they are open). I really hope the park owners can fund the necessary renovations so the park can thrive again.
That's sad. Used to live in Jersey and ours was one of the best out there anyway. I used to go every few summers cuz really I liked Mountain Creek as a kid.
Knoebels became a fave as I hit my late teens.
Agree. Six Flags Great Mis-Adventure in late Summer of 2022 was terrible, as was St. Louis and Magic Mountain. Unfortunately that's the norm at Six Flags. I go to lots of parks every year so I get a good feel for how Six Flags and Cedar Fair are doing in the eyes of an intelligent, open-eyed consumer. Cedar Fair parks for years have felt much more welcoming, efficiently run, friendlier, cleaner, with more rides open and much more optimism than any Six Flags property. Fiesta Texas is, _almost,_ an exception, but it is run by a passionate, long-time Texas coaster enthusiast who cares greatly for "his" park.
@jamescartwright181 You haven't been in six years, but still offer insight as though you went recently?
@jamescartwright181 was there last year with my 11 year old son. I was embarrassed for the crap he had to witness. I won’t be going back for the exact reason you said. Same reason going anywhere around the Philly/ NY 95 corridor is a nightmare. Obnoxious, rude, and trying to intimidate people minding their own business. Sucks for entertainment venues.
I went recently, and the staff looked miserable. Made me want to stay away from the stores. They had little patience for customers which I can somewhat understand but atleast don't be rude (which they were very rude)
the biggest problem at six flags is the listless employees and the downtime. come to germany there you can see what a difference motivated employees make.
You just have to go to Dollywood or Silver Dollar City to see the difference.
Companies get the employees they are willing to pay for--in both wages and treatment. If a company pays minimum wage, then treat their employees like crap with inconsistent and last minute scheduling, then they are going to be getting employees who cant get a job anywhere else.
@@thelogicaldanger “When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys” as the old saying goes.
They're probably more motivated in Germany because they're paid a decent wage and Germany has stronger laws that protect workers and unions.
everyone is miserable in the US
I wish Six Flags added more dark rides in their parks. Kinda lost interest in them for the most part lately as upside down coasters give me headaches.
Right? I’m not a fan of “make you barf” rides.
I was never a fan of Six Flags because of how extreme their rides are.
I feel like a lot of people will just read the title/thumbnail and not actually listen to the video:
While this video does highlight challenges and struggles faced by Six Flags, it also suggests that the company might be taking steps to improve its situation, including a renewed focus on investing in new thrill rides and acknowledging the need to make strategic changes. The title "The Death of Six Flags Is Getting Ugly" seems to imply a more dire and negative situation than what the video as a whole describes.
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I don't know man. I couldn't tell if the last few minutes of this video was meant to be sarcastic or not. I think skepticism is healthy here... seen it happen so many times when the wrong person is put in charge of a business and the company ends up dying. But who knows, it could go either way.
Love your channel!
Not everyone should narrate videos. The content is interesting, the presenter is annoying. Droning on at a ridiculous pace makes it like nails on a blackboard.
My first thought on seeing the title was "well, so much for my dream of maybe visiting the parks with a girlfriend/wife/family". I've also never visited a Six Flags, but have wanted to, due to being a ride enthusiast.
Glad that the franchise isn't dead.
we went to six flags over texas 2 years ago and it was so dirty and the ride operators were so rude and literally almost started a fight with one of my friends simply because we couldn’t hear which lane to go to. i think improving the overall experience would help a lot as well bc it was horrible
I took my nanny kids to six flags in Maryland two summers ago and we were all in line together to get on a ride. Well, when those little gates things opened to let us in, we had to wait for the people who rode the ride last to clear out and by the time we were getting on the gate was starting to close. My nanny kids were able to get through but it was already nearly closed by the time I was going to get on. Well I got the ride attendant’s attention and told her that the gate closed on me but I need to be with my nanny kids at all times. She said “thats tough”. I literally had to argue with this woman to let me be on the ride with my nanny kids 😐 I love amusement parks but the employees there make me avoid six flags.
@@natalie-lb2zt That’s literally so horrible. Literally kids shouldn’t be riding a lone for most rides anyway so they should’ve noticed your nanny kids were alone. I love going to amusement parks too & I get that dealing with people all day can be exhausting for the workers but I literally just can’t deal with people who are just blatantly rude for no reason.
I think the best option is if six flags and cedar fair hire older people to work there, theme parks are not the right environment for teenage employees, a lot of them can't handle being yelled at from customers, I remember a lot of classmates would get very up tight when ever a teachers would scream and yell, and it would sometimes cause behavior problem.
Six flags aren’t the only ones with ride operators that are rude. Other amusement parks are a same thing too
In my opinion, the problem with Six Flags is that unless you buy a season pass you are screwed! We went there this year with a day pass that at first seemed reasonable. But then they keep piling on the price by making you pay for additional things. For instance, one of the best things about Six Flags was that you got two parks with one ticket! Meaning that you got the regular park and the water park with one price. Not anymore! Now you have to pay extra if you want to go to the water park! Which is unfair to people that will mainly spend their day there in the summer! If they want to do that then they should give you a choice of which part of the park you want to go to and only pay for that park. Like Dollywood does. Because the problem is that they have severely cut the hours of operation now. It used to be open until at least 10 pm and longer on the weekend days. Now they close at 7 pm! So if you go to the water park, which closes at 6 pm, then you only have one hour to enjoy the rest of the park! Which totally sucks! Also $30 for parking for one day is outrageous! They have made it so that unless you buy a pass, they are just going to screw over the person that wants to come for the day. Especially familys on vacation that obviously would not buy a season pass! At least in my area I think that is the main reason why attendance is down!
Every time I've gone to six flags magic mountain the water section is closed down, I think I've only seen it open like 2 times in the 10 that I've gone
My family bought a season pass from 2016-2020 because of sake offers to the point that it was cheaper to buy the season pass than a single day pass, which is outrageous how much they ask just to set foot inside the park
you know it’s bad when i’d rather visit six flags over new orleans over any of the other locations.
I laughed too hard at this one 😅
Lmao true
Ouch😂
Cheaper to get in.. About equal trying to refill your $40 drink cup
🥁 **rimshot**
Six Flags' biggest problem is their people at the top aren't Six Flags people. The company brings in people who have no investment in the wellbeing of Six Flags. For decades Six Flags was tossed from corporate overlord to corporate overlord and viewed as a potential ATM once it gets moved out of liability status.....and the corporate overlord would do nothing to move Six Flags out of that liability status identity. Sell the project to another corporate overlord and the process repeats.
A corporation which wants to become Six Flags and make it their crown jewel needs to show up and get to work.
ALSO, that 38 million lawsuit payout for the fingerprint scan entry in Illinois was total bullcrap. You don't have to buy a season pass if you don't want "big brother" knowing your fingerprint. Nobody was forced to buy a season pass.
you need a fingerprint
to ride a rollercoaster. smh
@@romeoslover817and thus moron thinks getting rid of that is bullcrap
Having visited many other theme parks across the country (as most have), Six Flags can improve their situation quite simply by emphasizing development in areas that work for successful parks. 1) Invest heavily into theming and park presentation, and 2) venture into Six Flags Resorts where patrons can stay at Six Flags themed hotels overnight or for multiple days for multiple park visits.
*cries in cancelled Six Flags Entertainment Village proposal*
Six Flags California attempted to become a report with its own on-site hotel. They got as far as beginning construction before local hotels got the city to shutdown construction so the park ended up turning around turned the buildings offices they lease out companies that can fill a whole building i.e. Sunkist and Scorpion. Themeparks don't always have a choice to go full on-site resorts like Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, etc. They also do Theme areas in their parks if you ever taken the time to look at their maps even if the ride names don't always reflect the theme of the area.
Great escape might be the only one, but it’s the smallest and arguably worst. Def bottom 2 or 3, but we are getting a new coaster next year! Never thought that would have ever happened.
I think that Six Flags is fine as is, not all amusement parks need to be theme parks. Being a focused on thrill rides helps set them apart from their competitors like Disney and Universal. What they should do that other parks do is to keep both the parks and the rides well maintained, and hire/train friendly and courteous employees.
@@Riceball01 list of Six Flags parks that should become theme parks:
Great America
Over Texas
Over Georgia
St Louis
Discovery Kingdom
Maybe Fiesta Texas
I grew up going to Great America and the last time i went was in 2019, went again this year and the prices are ridiculous. I felt like it wasnt worth it. I went to Kings Island a month later and it was 10× better. I had a great time despite me waiting about almost 3 or 4 hours meanwhile my brother and fiancee went on the big coasters.
I took a long break as a season pass holder at Magic Mountain. As a heavy set 56 year old, I might have a tighter squeeze into the seats, but I'm having fun taking my son to the park. Next year he should be tall enough for all the rides.
However I have been disappointed at the cleanliness of the park, particularly at the top of the mountain. Also, they can't brag of having the most rides when 4 or 5 of the top trill rides are closed at any given time.
I will probably be a pass holder again next year, but I hope some improvements come, maybe even a new ride.
I used to work there. Totally agree, the place needs some work done. I was in the pre-Selim era, but he definitely hasn’t done the park any favors.
Wasn't jacking up the price done to keep the high school kids out?
If six flags would add rides that weren’t just the cheapest, shortest “record breaking” ride available, then maybe people would pay more attention to them than cedar fair parks who actually adds quality rides.
Full Throttle uggg
If six flags wants more visitors, they need to bring back that one old dude that's dances to "we like to party".
it's actually a young dude in a bad face mask and makeup.
look up " making of the 6 flags old guy commercials "
I remember when Six Flags was still "Six Flags Over Texas" and it was just a regional amusement park. Still remember the first time I went. Good times.
I told someone recently that Six Flags started in Texas and was named for the six flags that have flown over Texas (Spain, France, Mexico, the Confederacy, the Republic of Texas, and the USA) and they were bored. 🤷♀️
Yes thas the one. The Christian week was a bad investment, Texas may be the bible belt but not everyone likes that sort of thing.
@@brialapoint2608 So they'll like Hell better?
Six Flags really hit its peak in the 90s.
I would say ‘05-‘07 the addition of El toro and Kingda Ka really kicked it up. They still hadn’t taken down the great American scream machine & Batman and robin chiller. Superman was still relatively new… Nitro had become a household name by that point. What a time to be alive.
You’re spot on. Their biggest money makers (Great Adventure, Magic Mountain, and Great America) had their attendance peak in the mid 1990s. Why? Because they attracted a much broader mix of adults with children who were drawn to their parks because of their mix of rides, shows, and attractions. Today, the parks have limited appeal because they lack shows, attractions, and other rides which appeal to families. Rollercoasters alone do not draw millions to any mark.
The 70s and 80s actually.
Other parks are having trouble too, I think. I went to Hershey Park just a few days back and it was... rough. Half of the rides, food stands, and attractions weren't open for most of the day, and the day I went was particularly crowded, so the few things that were open were overcrowded and almost impossible to actually access. As we were going through the park, various employees were lamenting how understaffed they were, which was causing most of the ride closures. Everyone there seemed overworked and things just weren't as polished as they used to be. I love amusement parks, I really really hope things can turn around for the better soon.
Hershey park ruined it for themselves
Honestly that is most theme parks right now.
This is sad to hear I went to an amusement park recently in lake George and it wasn't so bad so I was excited to check out some of the amusement parks of my youth like Hershey Park but now I'm reconsidering it.
@@csalazar1230 it's still worth visiting in my opinion, preferably during the fall or early winter. I made the mistake of going during the end of summer when it was way too busy (I didn't really have another opportunity to go besides then), but a cooler and less crowded park would still be a good experience. Understaffing is still an issue but less so with smaller crowds, you'll just miss out on the water park.
I would never get on a big roller coaster in an environment like you described. I feel like the chance of negligence and someone dying on the ride increases in that situation.
I feel like at this point Six Flags needs to sell of 2 or 3 of their smaller parks and try to invest heavy in the ones that work. It would be a last ditch effort at this point, otherwise who knows what will happen.
Six Flags STL has been underinvested for years and it's a unique park because of its landscape and terrain and needs a huge ground up coaster and yes people need to watch this entire video
The St. Louis park is my hometown park. It’s never been a huge park but at one time was a very nice park. They have let this park fall to ruin. The park is rundown and unkept. The employees are so rude and have contempt for the guests. Always understaffed and many of the restaurants are closed. It’s been sad to watch the decline. There is a very trashy element to a large percentage of the guests. I have seen people smoking weed out in the open. Same with cigarettes. There have been fights and robberies in the parking lot. We stopped taking our grandchildren. It feels unsafe. Save yourself the waste of time. Drive to Silver Dollar City. We buy season passes for that park as well as Universal Studios, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens. Six Flags St. Louis is sadly the worst park I’ve been to.
I live 20 minutes from Six flags over Mid-America (St Louis). Used to go often, but as the maintenance in the park declined I stopped going. The last time I went was a company event. The park was crowded since my entire company paid for its employees to get in. Only half the rides were open, the park needs a good coat of paint, and the restaurants are subpar. While new rides could be a draw, No one wants to go to a dump.
I’ve been to St Louis park a few times and was always surprised by how empty it was. Last time, most of the rides were walk ons. But it also hasn’t had new rides in a while either.
I bought a season pass for Six Flags Over Texas simply because it was on sale for the same price as a single day pass! I figured I'd pay the same amount either way and at least with the season pass, if I decided to go a second time, I could. Still haven't, though. I love amusement and theme parks, but Six Flags leaves much to be desired.
Yup we went to kings dominion because of the bs at six flags America even though they're 25 minutes away.
Six flags went from 20 dollars a ticket to like 80
Whenever they say America is about competition and letting the best people thrive, I remember that multi-billion dollar companies hire the same people who have destroyed their revenue in the past.
I think a lot of the content creators for Six Flags parks are in an echo chamber - they are young, without families, and are myopically focused on intense thrill rides, which a lot of people aren't into, and that's exactly what turns a lot of consumers away from six flags and hurts their business. True, they aren't Disney, and they don't need to be, however, they still need to focus on things like park beautification, immersive theming, food offerings, and diversity of entertainment including shows, dark rides, and family coasters. It's the only way they'll actually grow into a stronger brand.
As a 50 something year old, I don't mind these thrill rides and neither does my 50 year old wife. We both enjoy them and don't mind the overall lack of theming at Six Flag, we go for the rides, not for the theming. If we wanted theming we'd go to Disneyland, but we've been long since priced out of Disneyland and so Six Flags is the next best thing, The rides are fun, and best of all, APs are much, much more affordable than Disneyland.
@@Riceball01 thank you for your useless anecdote.
As of right now it seems most amusement parks are down even cedar fair is getting poor numbers . As for the plan to make six flags “premium” not doing so great. We don’t know how many new rides the parks will be adding next year but they seemed to drop the ball last year. As for how the parks are ran its pretty hit or miss. Magic mountain is the worst offender right now. It’s ran terribly.
Now THAT....I have no argument
Sad to see my favorite home SoCal park in the condition it currently finds itself in.
A lot of the issue is lack of employees and the economy issues. People don't have the extra money anymore
I’m kind of excited for this downfall. While I will feel bad for the employees who eventually will lose their jobs, I feel indifferent to six flags.
Magic Mountain California is being closed down next year(land costs) so why would they invest in anything knowing in less than a year they will be no more...???
@@SAMSON12321 are you stupid
The problem with our Six Flags (Six Flags: America in the DC/MD region) has always been the location. It's essentially purgatory but the people from each side get to merge every now and then. You can go one day, have a wonderful time, get some food, take in a show, buy a few souvenirs. Then when it's time to leave, you go back to your car and someone broke into it. Or, you'll go one day and get surrounded by people who want to steal your belongings if you leave them unattended at the water park area, find some way to get into a argument with you, cut in line (every line, no matter what it's for), and fight the ride operators. Yes, this happens in every theme park, it just seems to happen a lot more often at this theme park. We'll go to Virginia to Kings Dominion, which is starting to become more of a backwoods country fair than a theme park so it's not a very good comparison, but for all the negativity with Kings Dominion, conflict is still lower there than at Six Flags.
surprised with your experience, i used to go all the time as a kid in MD and i don’t remember ever having an experience like this
One of the problems with Six Flags is that for the most part, they only have roller coasters and carnival-style rides. They need to build some dark rides with animatronics and also more themed live action shows.
No.
Couldn’t hurt!
@Lonsoleil agree 100%
@@user-rg9xd9mu5r yes. The fact that they cater only to young thrill seekers is why they don't have better business. Diversity of entertainment is critical.
Dark rides are mostly for kids lol
Apart from the context of the video, I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of the footage being of Six Flags Fiesta Texas. It is almost never talked about, but honestly has some of the best attractions. I'm a local San Antonian so that makes me happy 🥲 but yeah, definitely has changed unfortunately. I really do hope that Six Flags is reverted back to the early 2000's and 2010's.
I recognized that it was San Antonio also!
Same! I love that park but haven't been there in years 😢
New Braunfels here, but love that park all the same! Haven’t gone in a while because of the crazy prices and other stuff. It sucks bc I would love to, but we’ll see if this CEO is able to back his shit up
I went recently last summer and it was still fun and over the other Texas amusement parks it beat SeaWorld and the Arlington six flags which is also pretty fun. Like both are good and San Antonio is cool with the like 50s town but man I hate the Looney Tunes rides and much prefer the Arlington one for ride aesthetics like climbing through a whole ass Mr freeze head is cool
Selim is the personification of the worst person you know just made a great point
I'm glad to see that SF will be investing in new CapX projects and maintenance. So many of the coasters need attention! However, none of this helps if they are going to keep the parks short-staffed. I've been to a SF park recently, and there was no staffing for rides and F&B stands.
Six flags is not understaffed. They've been shutting down some rides on certain days because it does not bring enough revenue.
@@fatmanwithabroom3221 That is an even worse reason since I still have to pay full price for the park when they do this.
Time Warner had it for 2 years then they sold it to Premier parks. And Kieran Burke Messed up Six Flags. He even Closed down Six Flags AstroWorld in 2005.
BACK IN THE LATE 1990S...SIX FLAGS IN ILLINOIS....WAS ABOUT $20 A PERSON TO ENTER....
Who’s here after hearing the merger with cedar fair ?
Went to Fright Fest this weekend and had many complaints. Including the fact there were no scare actors in costume walking around like there have been in previous years, Paid for Speedy Pass entry to the park (quicker line to enter parking) and sadly the regular lines were going faster than the "speedy" line we paid extra to utilize. One of the haunted house attractions wasn't open but not stated on the app or website but on the boards inside the park state that it opens mid-October. These issues on top of the usual complaints of not as clean of a park, many restaurants closed, unfriendly staff, etc.
I feel like Six Flags dying will be better for the parks themselves. Either bought by a corporate company or family company, or saved by locals and become independent like Indiana Beach
Last time I went to six flags (here in socal), the park was so dirty. And large groups of teens were loudly cussing and cutting lines. Staff was nowhere in sight to clean or make sure park was safe. I was so uncomfortable. I left after only a few hours.
I experienced that as well this past Halloween it was annoying as hell and I left early also. So when they jacked up the prices I didn't care. Knott's was like that for a while as well, but I saw the changes over time. I'm hopeful with this merger they make serious improvements to MM❤❤
Six Flags St. Louis used to be my 'go to' for years, but after taking a ten or so year break from going and then getting married to someone who preferred Holiday World I haven't been back since. They're basically the same distance from us (Holiday World is a bit closer, but not by much), but I just like Holiday World so much more. Very clean, free drinks, Splashin' Safari right there. We love it.
Went to Six Flags California once. It was an absolute nightmare. Half the rides were down, the other half had hours-long lines. The DC experience was lackluster and the whole park seemed dirty.
I didnt pay for these tickets and I still felt ripped off.
Current employee at magic mountain, though maybe for not much longer, we've been losing so much attendance and money that we had to go to a weekend only model, which screws most of the employees over, our turn over rate is crazy!
I was just there last week on a Monday since my fiancé and I just go once a year, the park was very dead but they cut corners by closing Wonder Woman and a few other big attractions then only having one car in use to have the lines move slower. X2 closed twice that day so I didn’t get to ride it and left more than 2 hours early since I felt I rode everything I wanted that was open (skipped Viper and revolution) and it wasn’t worth it to stick around. For sure becoming a dying park.
@@DMalltheway from what I know, X2 closes occasionally because of maintenance issues, and wonder women has been closed for about a month now, unsure why, but I've heard it's because they're refurbishing the trains, why they need refurbishment when the ride has been open for one or two years now is beyond me
It’s a good day when attraction ideas uploads
Fr! He hasn’t posted in 4 months! I hope he uploads more
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Bro made a banger video and is going back to his cave to make another banger in the next 5 months
i worked entertainment at a six flags for two and a half seasons. my department supervisor put his hands on me. when i reported him to hr they laughed me out of the park, then fired me. i’m glad to see its downfall.
I always thought they were pretty dumb when they sprayed warm tapwater through those sprayers at the rides' lines at Magic Mountain. The lines became some 100% humidity jungle in the middle of a desert
Going to visit a friend in DC, will be going to Six Flags Maryland for Octoberfest.
As long as the beer and the funnel cakes are good, should be ok haha.
The thing about being a "Premium Park" also comes down to world view imo. The thing about Disney, Universal, and SeaWorld is they are World renowned. People come all over the world to Orlando for parks. They can charge a Premium Price solely because for most people, it is a Once in a Lifetime trip for the family to come to the US and go to the Theme Parks. Six Flags just isn't well known outside the US and maybe Canada and Mexico.
The oktoberfest is weak at best. Not very good overpriced food and beer.
@@TaaxiCaab Quite possibly. 😂 But been a long time since I've been to a six flags so we'll see how it goes.
Six Flags had some pretty good announcements today. Great Adventure confirmed the Vekoma Super Boomerang, SFA has the Coyote Creek refresh (a steampunk theme like the one around Twisted Colossus at Magic Mountain) along with a new flat (Zamperla NebulaZ). But then SFA hasn't opened the water slide they announced for this year and the summer is almost over.
He’s finally back, you were gone for so long I love your Disney vs universal videos
Thank you, this video is spot on. The crazy thing I can't wrap my mind around is: How the so called "professionals" who run these type of so called "big companies", are TOTALLY clueless in seeing the obvious, even to the common man. They are getting what they deserve.
Selim is the absolute worst. He fired most to the employees then pretends to care about them. He says “we can do more with less.” He really doesn’t care. I know people who work/worked there, and everyone hates him and wants him gone. At this point he’s only concerned about saving himself. He was the reason they got rid of the last CEO because he convinced the board that he could do better, but clearly that wasn’t the case. He’s only saying add more rides now after he was against it because it literally the only thing he can do to try to bring in the crowds, but it still maybe to late.
In the words of Dr. John Hammond, “I really hate that man!”. ☠️ And I worked for Six Flags before he took over. But some of my friends still worked there until he fired them.
Interesting video! I just saw that Six Flags Over Georgia announced a new thrill coaster so I hope they are taking a really close look at what people want. It's just hard for me to justify going back to Six Flags multiple times a year because the rides are just ok but the atmosphere is basically non existent. I was a season passholder last year because I found the pass to be a good deal, but it didn't make sense for me to get it this year because I didn't think the park could offer me anything new. The parks need a major facelift & need the atmosphere revamped.
Totally agree! It has consistently gone down hill over the years.
Love all the Fiesta Texas videos!
That’s my home park but I have only visited a few times this year because of the record heat
It’s brutal
Six Flags over Georgia is so ghetto. Daily fights, cars getting broken into, harassment from the locals.. It's just not worth the headache anymore.
I'll believe Six Flags cares about Maintenance when X2 has consistently working fire effects and soundtrack
It's great they're going back to building rides but they always seem to make poor decisions in that department as well. Like it's baffling why they put low capacity rides in parks that deserve high quality attractions.
Price gouging the paying customer was crazy, main reason I stopped going
Let's just hope that prices get back down to where they were back in 2005-2010 when the other CEO from that time was in charge of Six Flags. I think prices back then was like $10-$15 when i was a kid back then.
The one thing I don’t think that Six Flags understands is how and where to raise prices.
Don’t raise gate prices if you are just going to discount them back down. Set the gate price where you actually need it to be and raise the price on draft beer and bottled water a quarter. Your captive audience is going to pay for those consumables. Improve the merchandise situation-stop selling junk in the gift shops. Get some quality merch out there and charge a premium for it - Cedar Fair is certainly capitalizing on that-I love my hoodie that has a zipper pocket-and I think it was $70.
so six flag and cedar are merging lol
future info
@@TemmiePlaysreading comprehension bro
Another reason why he raised them is because he wanted it to not be a "cheap daycare for teens" and to get unruly behavior out of the parks. I would like to note last Saturday six flags New England hit capacity in the morning and was kinda packed at night, so I would like to note that people do come back to six flags New England. Compared to 2022 it's a lot better, the quality of the park has improved. The rides are awesome except for superman having only one train last time I went which was last Saturday. Compared to 2021 on average the park does a little less attendance than they did for 2021. The parks were packed for 2021 and the lines went out of the queue. For some reason whenever I go to six flags New England I never see the line for wicked cyclone pretty long. The only lines that are almost full for the queue or are going out of it are pandemonium, Harley Quinn spinsanity, sometimes batman the dark Knight. Wicked cyclone, new England sky screamer, joker, Supergirl Skyflyer, cyborg cyber spin and everything else is almost a walk on. I hope they don't remove any of the rides that have a walk on. Joker I can live without, ada pass only works for purple side and it sucks on purple side. Ever since 2023 wicked cyclone has had some bumps on it. Despite it being an rmc. After the first drop always has been one. Peak of the overbank. End of overbank. After speed hill, after zero g stall. Before double down.
That has always been an issue. I remember the last time I went to Astroworld in 1998 or 1999 the entrance had a row of metal detectors at the entrance because it was ghetto daycare.
Tell me why would the CEO position exist anymore? It's obsolete like cassette players
As someone who has lived near Six Flags Over Georgia my whole life, I had to finally cut them out 5 years ago. It is the most unsafe park one could visit for many reasons, but mostly due to staff. They are basically non-existent. I don't feel safe on a ride with only 2 attendants. Rides break down all the time, staff are rude. Six Flags literally FORCES me to go to Universal, lol. On a positive note, I absolutely loved growing up as a kid going to SFOG.
When I was a kid, six flags over georgia was awesome. It was super clean and the staff was over the top friendly. It breaks my heart to see what it has become.
damn i haven’t been down there since covid, has it really gone that downhill? i live like and hour from over georgia and used to love going and was looking forward to it this summer
I went to six flags over Georgia today and it was really fun but I had 3 rides break down while I was waiting in line. The Pandemonium and the Superman TWICE. That’s not even to mention the rides that they had shut down all day like the Acrophobia and the Blue Hawk. One other problem I have with 6 flags is the prices of food and stuff ( this applies to most theme parks lol ). They were selling a single bottle of water for 9 Dollars!💸
That liability account may be needed when you piss people off by having 8 coasters out of 20 open on any given day at Magic Mountain and the like... Just a theory...
And it's a downward spiral. If you turn up and 8 coasters are down, you're not going to go back in a hurry, and probably spread the word that many rides aren't operating. Add in the fact they "open" at 10:30am but most rides are closed or testing until about 11am, plus many are running one train, and then of course you have horrendously long food lines. Selim needs to fix the basics, get all the rides operating, have spare parts to fix the trains, get 2+ trains running on everything, more staff for the food lines and people will have a better time, come back more, and spend more. It seems pretty simple. There's no use adding a 21st roller coaster to Magic Mountain if 8 will still be closed everytime you visit.
They don't have the staff to man all the rides at once because Selim has cut hours and overtime (as explained by a bunch of employees). The only one that is legit down is Riddler's Revenge.. That's been broken for 4+ years.
@@TaaxiCaabSad, my favorite ride there, and B&M's are so reliable if you fix and maintain them properly.
You got that right.
Looking at a business prospective, I think he used the “no adding” year to asses the business as a whole during a full operation year. Then decided how he wanted to proceed
Six flags is dying faster than my neighbors plants I have to water
The gate attendants at Over Georgia tried to harass my girlfriend over tiny spiked wristbands she was wearing, when I had just cruised on by with gigantic, much sharper ones on. I told the guy he was a tool and really saving lives today while walking back to my car to put them up and the idiot tried to follow me and COMMAND me to return, getting very angry and telling me I'm banned from the park before his manager had to waltz out, coral him, and flag down some of the other people in our group to let us know we were, infact, NOT banned from the park. Then a shooting happened like a year later. Yeah, never going back. The meal pass was completely messed up and others with it were complaining of the same problem to a completely disinterested "customer support" person at a desk in an air conditioned building who did nothing to help and said they could do nothing. Many rides were closed. The water raft ride felt unsafe, no lifeguards or watchers anywhere along the course, and it kept slamming into things way too hard. That thing's a disaster waiting to happen. When I was 11 I went, and someone got ran over with a go-kart and an ambulance had to come. All in all I could sense the massive decline in quality in the 13 year span that I didn't go. I'm glad I stopped going.
What makes fiesta Texas good is the quarry makes it look beautiful and the workers I see try hard to keep clean but what’s sad is Salim doesn’t care about clean parks. San Antonio loves our park (by the way fiesta Texas is the park in your video) Fiesta Texas is still thriving because the city loves our beautiful park and I hope this guy doesn’t ruin our park. If he keeps running the brand to the ground I hope somehow fiesta Texas either becomes it’s own entity someone in San Antonio buys it or cedar park takes it
maybe six flags should give fiesta texas to cedar fair.
@@nickigentry9651put a cedar fair in cedar park just for the repetition
I've always loved 6 Flags but when they closed for Covid-19 & they closed the park in Cali, members like me were not allowed use our memberships or even get them extended so that we could enjoy the park that we paid for. They should've taken care of their current customers that paid for memberships and never got to enjoy the park and weren't even refunded.
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This video was hilarious every time I saw Selim and his broken ride together as you chat with him
Is SFFT your home park? I loved seeing the footage. Made me nostalgic for when I lived in San Antonio. My teenage years were spent in the park. Was even my first job! It would be sad for it to go away.
At 16:00 you say that a new ride at SFA won't go as far as a bigger park, but it would take quite a ride to make a big park like Great Adv. "significantly better" ( 17:00 ) while a good new coaster would redefine SFA. But GA would need to be a nicer place to be and always have everything open and safe. Being part of a chain giving more needful parks what they need might help too.
@maddox121 And their lineup's stacked -- when it's all open. Last year El Toro closed for the accident so they said what the hell, close more. A new coaster at SFA etc. would say that park's back in the game, and that SF is a prospering chain not just a few big parks and otherwise dwindling.
a few things. 1) Loved all the footage of fiesta, i live like an hour away and have been going there for years and seeing the same land scapeing and rides was great.
2) I feel as if six flags is heading upwards right now, with fiesta opening dr dioblicals in 22 and a ton of people in the San Antonio region and other surrounding areas have been going more often over the past year.
3) The weather thing is going to be an issue, as well as the landscaping in fiesta, from personal experience with the heat down here. it bakes you up all day and leaves you freezing at night. With Fright fest being open now and the park opening just before the heat of the day, i understand lower addendace.
Im not a coster person, but i agree with the need for more thrill rides in the parks than what has been happening. Crack Axle Canyon getting 2 new rides (dr diabolical and daredevil dive.) has brought some new "life" if you will, to Fiesta. and i feel as if they keep this up, they could really bring back the sort of greatness they had in the early 2000's and 2010's.
I've seen around the park that certain rides are getting experience and general updates and are gearing towards being better by early 2024( ie the golden lasso ride).
Sorry if this is a lot to read, and or hard to understand. good video!
We went to Six Flags Over Georgia earlier this year, and the overall experience was just not great. The worst part was trying to get our food. We paid for the package that included food for everyone. We waited an hour in line for food because they would only take one or two orders at a time then just stand there and look into the kitchen. None of it made any sense, the food was already ready and just sitting there for the most part. And if you were only waiting on one item, why not take orders until that one thing came out? Most other orders could’ve been filled instantly because almost all the food was ready. When we voiced that to the workers they just got angry with us and told us “It’s part of the Six Flags experience.”
The last time we went there we had food vouchers for homeschool day. The line to get the food was insanely long! The wait had to be over an hour easily. We just went somewhere else and bought food. It wasn’t the best quality, but we were in and out in 30 mins.
SF America is the closest park to me and I would love to go back, but last 2 times i went, half the rides were down, only 1 or 2 places to eat were open, but seemed all the stores were open. even with the cheap prices it wasn't worth the time or effort to go there.
Six Flags Great America needs to bring back the themed kids areas.
The Looney Tunes zone and the Wiggles zone were SO COOL as a kid.
Hey man, I absolutely love your content and your videos. Just a piece of recommendation. Why don't you change the thumbnail on your six flags series whenever you post a new video so I know it's new when I take a quick glance. When I saw this come up in my recommendation I thought it was one of the ones you had done previously and didn't realize initially it was a new one. Hope the great work. I love the content. Really hoping six flags over Georgia gets some new rides soon!!!
MMs biggest problem is two things:
1) lack of dark rides and theming. Literally got roller coasters in parking lots. They need to improve the theming and need dark rides theming as well. Which leads to my 2nd point.
2) Most folks are scared of roller coasters or us old folks our bodies can't handle roller coasters anymore. They need more dark rides more theming n less intensive rides.
They need more theming and ride options such as dark or flat rides. Not a fan of roller coasters, they make me throw up.
This didn’t age well…
I used to go regularly and had a membership. Then about two years ago I had gone for freight fest and had to reserve my spot ahead of time so they could “limit guest counts for social distancing.” When I got there, there was more people than I’ve ever seen before and the ticketing site crashed when they opened the gates so nobody could use their tickets. After about 4 hours of waiting in lines to get in and get the maze pass(which costs extra) we saw one show and decided to leave and drive home(1.5 hours) as we were in line for the first maze for a hour. They lied about limiting guests for social distancing and couldn’t even handle the guests they had that night. I told them about how horrible the experience was and they didn’t care so I cancelled my membership and I’ll never go back.
Drove a total of 3 hours to go to an overcrowded park and wait around for 6 hours and spend $150 on top of a membership just to see a 30 minute acrobatics show and eat cafeteria grade nachos.
They clearly haven't played Roller Coaster Tycoon 🤣
The only thing that I am concerned about is if Six Flags would pay more attention to the parks themselves, and give them a facelift.
And pay/treat their workers better.
I disagree with you on st. Louis. With other parks in the vicinity getting constant investment and Cedar Fair and Herschend continuing to invest in their parks, if Six Flags St. Louis doesn't start getting some new rides and infrastructure upgrades. It's going to fall so far behind the other two parks in the state that it will become dead weight.
Agreed. Great Adventure has nothing to complain about by comparison. Sfstl is running a bunch of nearly 25-35 year coasters. The excuse has been for years that SFFT, SFMM, SFGAm, and SFGAdv get the priority. The problem is this makes things off kilter and has resulted in the mess we are dealing with. When SF invested in ground breaking rides in STL in the 90s it reached 2 million visitors. SF can tide GAdv over by a gimmick like swapping the trains for a year between green lantern and Medusa while giving STL what they need (an RMC conversion).
I like the rides at Magic Mountain, but it’s in the middle of nowhere, dirty, and magically ten degrees hotter than anywhere else. And their schedule is bizarre.
I believe six flags used to own lagoon in utah until someone local bought it. In the last few years the park has made some great improvements. It’s clean, has some great food, immersive theming and some great new rides!!! I think the new owner ship has brought some new ideas and I love going to that park! It’s revenue has definitely gone up and it shows!
I get a Great Adventure season pass every year and think the park is run well and has great coasters but the economy has made it so I had to spend a lot less for a pass and at the the park this year.
Well run? It's not very clean, it's more ads than a subway station and the customer service is gimme your money and shut up. Kingda Ka might be open and if it is get on fast because it won't be for long. They need Mr. Six back as CEO. 😆 But seriously, Fire Salim Bassoul.
@@Sevrocklol that's true Kingda Ka is always broken
So many rides are down or one train operations at Magic Mountain, rides look old and dusty. Makes me sad 😞
Yup I was there last week and experienced that
I live a half an hour from Six Flags Great Adventure and this is good news. My park for 10 years was Busch Gardens in Tampa. Hard to beat that park! I hope he can get new rides in, maintenance, as well as more beautiful grounds.
Or cut the pay of those at the top who just sit at a desk all day And make decisions to cut the pay of those who are actually working. The real workers are the ones at the parks, in the heat dealing with rude customers.
For even more context on the season pass vs. attendance point. I just went to Six Flags Great America today. Their regular daily price is an astonishing $89.99 + $35 parking. A silver season pass is currently on sale for $69 which includes parking and 12 months of admission. That regular price is unjustifiable. Since I'm local and have a kid under 2, it's a pretty good deal to get him access to a water park and miniature railroad. But it is not, and never will be a "premium park". It's unfortunate that we've reached the age of CEO's (particularly this guy and Chapek/Iger) that only exist to cut costs and personnel.
I'm still hopeful that someday it could become one like it was meant to be, the theming is there, they just need to do more with it
Woke companies like these are more worried about diversity and equity, than whether you have a quality experience. When you hire based on D&E you get people who do as little as they have to, see you with disdain, and have no interest in creating a clean, happy environment for visitors. New rides mean nothing when the food is bad, the park is dirty and run down, and the employees are rude and unprofessional.
They had to raise the park passes, have you been to one lately, especially in the summer...people drop their teens off as a type of daycare and youll have groups of badass kids wondering around
🌞 “Rule breaker! Rule breaker! You are BANNED from the daycare!” (Sorry, I couldn’t resist).
One thing that irritates me the most is when i go to a park and most of the rides are closed and shops aren’t open, the last 3 times i went to sixflags magic mountain, over two years, not even half the rides were open leading to everybody in this massive park crowding to the open rides, making the lines so long its not even worth going to the park as you will only ride 3 rollercoasters out of the 18+ they have, its absolutely ridiculous.
The way you emphasize the A in Six FlAgs reminds me of the Christopher Walken Foo fighters introduction story.
i like that six flags is a relatively cheap and easy place to visit. I would HATE for it to be turned into a giant immersive place like Universal or Disney
Yeah those places lose the vibe of a true "park"
Dan Snyder screws up Six Flags like he did Washington Commanders.