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Six Flags attendance is still terrible while Universal is at pre-pandemic levels (www.ocregister.com)
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According to TEA/AECOM Six Flags is suffering when it comes to attendance and was the only major chain to have less attendance in 2022 than 2021.

Meanwhile, Universal was 1% under 2019 levels.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not completely with you on the parks being too cheap. Six Flags was always the bargain theme park and, as a result, it never bugged me when there were ads in the parks because I felt like it was true subsidation. OTOH I never felt Six Flags as a whole was cheap because you always paid a stupid amount of money for food that was absolutely terrible.... And let's not even talk about the terrible merch.

I do agree with you about coasters -- to a point. They really need to work on infrastructure but you can't raise prices to do that.... If you jack up your prices as extreme as they did you ready do need to have something to bring people back in (advertising a new bathroom isn't likely to do it).

Bottom line is Selim is failing under both arguments. He thinks that just raising the price makes it a premium experience and it certainly does not..... His entire basis is blatant classism and that's reprehensible.