Six Flags: It's Fly or Die

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http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05020702.htm

Heh, nice quote. :)

Wonder in how many other articles on that site the word "butts" appears, other than the ones about tobacco companies, of course.

I totally agree that SF has major problems. I mean a huge chain like that can't get the correct pictures of the rides for their merchandise and their photo backgrounds is ridiculous. That is just simple things that they are doing wrong. Even their comercials for particular rides do not even show the correct ride most of the time. I lived near SFDL when Superman opened, and for two years, they would show pictures of Viper at SFMM as the coaster. Even their websites don't show the pictures of the rides in the actual parks most of the time. It is small things like this that turn customers off. If customers are looking at the website and see one ride depicted as a wooden coaster and show up and it's a steel coaster, they have been misled, and that is unfair. Those people may be so turned off that they never show up again. That looses revenue.

Also, I'm not sure SF has any major plans for any of their parks except the "big 4." I think all the other parks just get things every once in a while while the big 4 are consistent on an every other year basis. I do understand that those parks are in the biggest markets and so on, but add something to the other parks every once in a while and the guests will show up. And that is what SF really needs, guests to show up at ALL of their parks, not just at their major parks. Yes, attendance at their major parks is a big thing, but so is attendance at EVERY park they own. Increasing attendance across the board will help out SF dramatically. I say add to the big 4 parks every two years, but at least add to the smaller parks every two or three years too. People want new, and no new = no return customers. It gets old seeing the same rides for four, five, or maybee even more years for local.

And don't forget the old saying "it takes money to make money"

About your comment on SFDL showing Viper on their commercials and advertising it as SROS, they did it here at SFA as well. And on an SROS shirt that I have, they have a pic of SUF in the background. And those are just the beginning. Ever see the shirts that say "Wish you were here"? All of those that I've seen have SFMM pics on them. I remember distinctly seeing them at SFA and SFAW, but I'm sure they're everywhere.

It doesn't cost that much money to change a little video footage or change a picture. It can't.