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Postby RollingCoasting on October 4th, 2016, 2:01 am
They're also always at the worst times possible:

-Closing Weekend 2016
-Opening Weekend 2017 (Guessing basing off of what was just posted)
-Right after RTS finally ends

Good decisions by the park, bringing in money on what would be slow days (Excluding Opening Day), but annoying for pass holders
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on October 4th, 2016, 2:47 am
Here's my solution to fix it all: Just have a certain amount of free tickets to use throughout the season. No blackout days. If you want to bring your friend in for free, you can do it, be it opening day, closing day, or July 17th if you please. No specific weekends that increase crowds. Just give each passholder 2 or 3 free tickets that can be used at any point in the season. Literally all problems regarding that would be solved.
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on October 4th, 2016, 10:13 am
^ I really like this idea! Works for me! I used the BAFF to take my daughter 2x this year and I also paid a discounted price for her 2x and 1x in SFOT. It would have been cheaper to just buy her a season pass (in hindsight)
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on October 4th, 2016, 3:05 pm
I love that & have always wondered why that wasn't the reality. Whenever I tell my family I have free tickets they always bring up some random date & say that's stupid when I tell them it's a specific date only. Which sucks really cause I've prob only ever used my free tickets two to three times in the last 6yrs.

Sooo did anyone see this video?

https://youtu.be/6ogSwbrMc-g

It's interesting again to say that we didn't receive the changed model. I think a littler taller version with an inline twist or banked hill(s) would make the 4D free spin really "pop" out.
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Postby ChicagoCoasterGuy on October 4th, 2016, 4:57 pm
Yea that was posted before they suddenly changed the name to The Joker. Who to say we still won't see a different model somehow. Remember how the lift hill was changed after they announced Goliath?!? Here's hoping I guess.


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Postby CoastsToCoasters on October 4th, 2016, 7:46 pm
I'll never forget that, that there me for a loop. I was like wth!! But I very highly doubt that will happen with this just cause it is so standard. All I know is I'm for sure gonna get "jealous" when a new model comes out & say why wasn't that us?! Haha
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Postby anewman35 on October 4th, 2016, 10:33 pm
Guy_With_A_Stick wrote:Here's my solution to fix it all: Just have a certain amount of free tickets to use throughout the season. No blackout days. If you want to bring your friend in for free, you can do it, be it opening day, closing day, or July 17th if you please. No specific weekends that increase crowds. Just give each passholder 2 or 3 free tickets that can be used at any point in the season. Literally all problems regarding that would be solved.


No, I feel like this could bring up a more problems. You wouldn't have those few specific weeks be as crowded, sure, but you're also setting up summer weekends to be even worse than normal.

Interestingly, one of the perks of the flash sale IS a BAFF free that's good for the entire season more or less (more or less, depending on when opening day is). So I guess we'll see how that works out?
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Postby RollingCoasting on October 5th, 2016, 1:14 am
It'd be nice if they had a "Season Pass/Membership Only Day"
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Postby CoasterCale on October 5th, 2016, 7:54 am
I guess that's true but then there would be little to money made. After all this still is a corporation.
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Postby Tardis1972 on October 5th, 2016, 9:23 am
RollingCoasting wrote:It'd be nice if they had a "Season Pass/Membership Only Day"


Why wouldn't there be a pass holder/membership only day. Didn't JL have one the day before it opened? If there is one then my guess it would be the Friday (so the 26th) of Memorial Day weekend with the grand opening being the next day. My reason for guessing this is because the previous two Free Spins opened over Memorial Day weekend.
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on October 5th, 2016, 10:14 am
RollingCoasting wrote:It'd be nice if they had a "Season Pass/Membership Only Day"

So CAD?

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Postby staticshadows on October 5th, 2016, 12:36 pm
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Postby redman822 on October 5th, 2016, 1:30 pm
staticshadows wrote:If they were serious about expanding the park, they would buy these 10.17 acres now and work on buying four homes to connect this property to the parking lot later. Rezoning land, buying houses, and building parking lots is expensive, but would be cheaper than building parking garages.
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If you seriously think that that is a viable solution, I have nothing for you. Those neighbor homeowners to the north - both east and west of the main entrance road, all along Grand Avenue are some of Six Flags' worst detractors. They constantly complain about noise and crowds. They would a) never sell to the park, and b) their neighbors would fight tooth and nail any change in zoning of the existing houses to business to allow SF to expand in that area.

That is also why I do not think we will ever see any big coaster (200'+) on the east side of the park.

The only place that a bug (2-300') coaster to go would be to take out the Pictorium, as sacrilegious as it sounds, use that for the station and somehow weave it over, and around Hurricane Harbor towards the interstate. (Forexample, over the buildings/service road.) I was thinking of this location as a spot for years, but it is decidedly more difficult since they put in Monsoon Lagoon in 2011.
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on October 5th, 2016, 1:59 pm
I think all of that is goin to SFOT first. Between the three of us (SFGAm, OT, & NE) were the ones with most prep/ground work to go. So we will most likely be the last to receive track. I think.
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Postby RollingCoasting on October 5th, 2016, 2:59 pm
Tardis, I was referring to a general day in the park, not Joker's opening. Sorry for the confusion

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Postby Tardis1972 on October 5th, 2016, 3:01 pm
Oh ok. I'm all for that then.
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on October 5th, 2016, 3:11 pm
anewman35 wrote:
Guy_With_A_Stick wrote:Here's my solution to fix it all: Just have a certain amount of free tickets to use throughout the season. No blackout days. If you want to bring your friend in for free, you can do it, be it opening day, closing day, or July 17th if you please. No specific weekends that increase crowds. Just give each passholder 2 or 3 free tickets that can be used at any point in the season. Literally all problems regarding that would be solved.



No, I feel like this could bring up a more problems. You wouldn't have those few specific weeks be as crowded, sure, but you're also setting up summer weekends to be even worse than normal.

Interestingly, one of the perks of the flash sale IS a BAFF free that's good for the entire season more or less (more or less, depending on when opening day is). So I guess we'll see how that works out?


I don't understand this: I thought we could only BAFF on select days or weeks, but you're saying it's good for all year (with some exceptions) ?
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Postby great america fan on October 5th, 2016, 3:20 pm
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So it looks like the bridge is staying just in a new way
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Postby Guy_With_A_Stick on October 5th, 2016, 3:29 pm
Oh my god I'm so happy! I would've been fine with the one in the render, but this is even better! Great job Six Flags!

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Postby ChicagoCoasterGuy on October 5th, 2016, 3:39 pm
This is amazing!!
I'm so happy that they are keeping it!! I guess I never thought they would do that. Last time they moved a building was the County Fair Train Station I believe for Iron Wolf.


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Postby CoastsToCoasters on October 5th, 2016, 4:16 pm
STOP IT!! oh my god my brother is gonna be soooo happy! & I'm happy! Frickin well done.
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Postby RollingCoasting on October 5th, 2016, 4:48 pm
Kind of weird that everyone's so happy the bridge is staying when nobody even seemed to care about/mention it before Joker's announcement :D
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Postby CoasterRiderSC on October 5th, 2016, 5:01 pm
^ Kind of the same thing applies to the removal of Orbit :)
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Postby RollingCoasting on October 5th, 2016, 5:07 pm
Yeah, I guess you have a point. Sometimes people (Myself included) don't appreciate things until they're gone

Also, the bridge's closure was announced :wink:
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Postby CoastsToCoasters on October 5th, 2016, 6:20 pm
Greg & I have talked about since the rumors were there. I may not have expressed much here but I've def talked about it. We took pics of the area to remember it cause we knew after they announced it, the area would obv drastically change.
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