(originally posted on rec.roller-coaster)
We’ve made the investment in Six Flags season passes again for the 2017 season and trekked out to Chicagoland to get processed in. This is the first time I’ve been in the park in a month other than June ever. Weird how things like that happen. From a basic standpoint, the park doesn’t look that much actively worse than it did in preceding years, however the number of empty ride pads seems to have grown without clear replacements coming in. Joker will take up one of those spaces, and the return of The Lobster (an Octopus ride) will help a little. More clear to us is the clear gap between how Six Flags manages to decorate a premier park in the chain versus how Cedar Fair does with Cedar Point and Kings Island. There was likely more money spent just on the pumpkin displays at Cedar Point than all of the Frightfest-related materials at Great America combined. It’s really too bad given how good much of the original infrastructure put in place by Marriott was. Continue reading
realtalkguidetoawesome 