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Postby EagleFan344 on July 10th, 2005, 12:05 am
do they do it at other parks? If so is it the same days?
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Postby Timmy179 on July 10th, 2005, 12:06 am
If you have a ticket, read it it has almost all the parks on it.
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Postby twixmix0303 on July 10th, 2005, 12:07 am
Does anyone know the last weekend those are good for. Chances are very good that the park will be SWAMPED on that weekend.
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Postby rct2wizard360 on July 10th, 2005, 9:25 am
Read to Succeed tickets are valid at I think every THEME park, (including the ones with free waterpark.) Any park that is just a waterpark, or has a seperate pay for it, will NOT include admission to the waterpark.

I think the last day is around the first week of August.
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Postby Raging_Bull on July 15th, 2005, 7:34 pm
I willl definately not go during those days, sounds like the place will be packed beyong belief. Think about it, a kid gets a ticket and then they need their parents to go to and then they bring a friend blah blah.
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 16th, 2005, 12:43 am
Raging_Bull wrote:I willl definately not go during those days, sounds like the place will be packed beyong belief. Think about it, a kid gets a ticket and then they need their parents to go to and then they bring a friend blah blah.

since they need a parent, im hoping weekdays arent that bad since parents have to work....

but a Saturday? ouch.
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Postby SFGAm Shock Wave on July 16th, 2005, 11:38 am
Trust me, parents are NOT afraid to take a sick day to go to SFGAm. I guarantee every day from the end of July until RTS tickets expire will be PACKED.

When I say packed I mean B:TR using 3rd entrance, Demon full queue with 3 trains, Bull full queue and out to Crazy Buffalo.

It happens every year.
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Postby sixflagsguy5 on July 16th, 2005, 11:53 am
I'll be in Florida that week. :D
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Postby m-force 4 ever on July 16th, 2005, 1:24 pm
I have a feeling that the DDR machines and the indoor shows will be my friends that week =)
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Postby Danhockey04 on July 16th, 2005, 4:30 pm
I most likely will not be going that weekend of the last week of read to succeed because that equals max. capacity, almost. I am probably off to IB, MiA, and maybe ValleyFair.

I might go once to SFGAm, but I really dont want to because of last year, I got there at 2 and parked all the way in the back of the back lot, and got on only 4 rides, all 4 of them being after 8:00.
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Postby sixflagsguy5 on July 16th, 2005, 4:31 pm
My brother has one of those tickets, and I told him I'd sell it at the park sometime for him. If it's 47.99 to get into the park and I can sell it for $40 then I can keep 20 of it for myself and give the other 20 to my brother.
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Postby SFGAm Shock Wave on July 17th, 2005, 10:36 am
^ It's $44.99, not $47.99
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Postby CoasterDude12-2 on July 17th, 2005, 12:48 pm
What I think of those Read to Succeed tickets: :evil:
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Postby twixmix0303 on July 17th, 2005, 3:00 pm
After Six Flags decides to not accept Read to Succeed tickets: :twisted:

(I wish.)
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Postby Raging_Bull on July 17th, 2005, 5:07 pm
when do they start accepting those passes?
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Postby Director_Guy on July 19th, 2005, 1:28 am
What are they?
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Postby twixmix0303 on July 19th, 2005, 11:59 pm
Through grade 6 only, if you read 6 hours (used to be 10 :evil: but kids are too lazy) then you get a free ticket to Six Flags. Only every kid in grade school participates, and the park loves it because these people only go once per year, go with a group of 14, and spend $100 per person for breakfast, funnel cake, lunch, funnel cake, dinner, funnel cake, another funnel cake, and the rest on useless souvenirs.
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 20th, 2005, 12:02 am
Read to Succeed just ruins the park for everyone else :evil:

Why not just have the tickets valid any day?
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Postby Director_Guy on July 20th, 2005, 2:22 pm
Well, if you were a kid, wouldn't YOU want to get in free to Six Flags?
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Postby EagleFan344 on July 20th, 2005, 2:23 pm
Director_Guy wrote:Well, if you were a kid, wouldn't YOU want to get in free to Six Flags?

yes. I thought RTS was just one week, my bad. I guess its basically the whole summer.
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Postby SonOfBeast06 on August 2nd, 2005, 3:13 pm
twixmix0303 wrote:Does anyone know the last weekend those are good for. Chances are very good that the park will be SWAMPED on that weekend.


Howdy, haven't been on in a while!

I have been hearing (through trip reports on this site, and other friends that have gone to the park recently) that it has been quite packed.

My girlfriend and I are planning on heading up to the park at some point in the next two weeks (we live in the Western Suburbs). I know that this was already asked, but does anyone happen to know the exact date at which the Read to Succeed tickets expire??

Though I think it is a great program (have participated in it a LONG time ago), and that it upps attendance at the park, we would love to avoid these very crowded days, if at all possible.

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Postby clrntsqueak on August 2nd, 2005, 3:51 pm
It's great free advertisement.. Think about it.

A little kid reads all school year to get a free ticket to Six Flags. What parent would not take their child to Six Flags to get their reward from reading? It causes Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, friends to buy tickets. In most circumstances $30 is only saved while hundreds of dollars is spent for the rest of the family to get in.

Sounds like a money maker to me. And last time I went I saw nothing but these Read to Succeed tickets in all sorts of children's hands. The park was packed to the extreme also.
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Postby Kar915 on August 2nd, 2005, 7:06 pm
I don't know if anyone has answered this question but the ticket expires August 7.
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Postby TwistedSTEEL666 on August 2nd, 2005, 7:47 pm
Kar915 wrote:I don't know if anyone has answered this question but the ticket expires August 7.


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Postby Mr. SFGAm on August 2nd, 2005, 10:11 pm
Thank God! I haven't been back to SFGAm since opening day (work sucks :( ) so I'm really itching to get back there sometime this month. My friends and I have dealt with the read to succeed crowds for the past two summers now, so hopefully this year will be different.
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