Six Flags to use Lo-Q at nine of their parks during the 2002 season

Who says the increased revenue will lead to any ride improvements in the park.  The reason they are in debt is because they have ran their business in a improper manner!!!! When you read the attached article and their hoped for revenue enhacements i think they are dreaming! Their food is awful and i wouldnt eat in their parks and dont. Their merchandise is subpar and i buy little due to quality problems and lousy designs. which is the exact opposite when i go to a disney/universal type park where i spend more than i plan due to the better quality. And with the new system they will just contuine to run their coasters less than capacity to increase sales of their new toy. The last thing i think about when thinking of six flags parks is guest experience, i think they care little about that or they would improve their food/merchandise and kick troublemakers out of their parks.   

I'm going to have to complain here at the fact that people are complaining about peoples complaints
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Kingbob wrote this.

The General Public wants new rides every year. SF went in debt to satisfy what the gp wanted. Also, how is a park expected to pay for multi-million dollar rides every and still have the money to operate the park and pay salaries. Look at Cedar Fairs. They made money, but people were upset that Cedar Point didn't get a new ride.

Another thing, the food is pretty good at SFWoA, especially the wildlife side. Also, I like the merchandise at SF. I have had no problems with what I bought.

Just because the GP wants something doesnt mean you do it if it doesnt make fiscal sense.  If you have been to a six flags park and a disney park and compare the amount of people holding bags of merchandise or in disney 's case having it sent directly to your hotel room it is no comparison at all  between which parks sell more merchandise,especially on the high end and even something as simple as pins to keep or trade with the cast members.  

Agreed, most Six Flags merchandise is tacky Loony Tunes crap.  Plus they've gotten so generic it's hard sometimes to find stuff that actually has anything to do with the park you are visiting. 

That's my beef as well. We collect shot glasses, and few parks have anything beyond a generic "Six Flags" glass. I did manage to snag one for Nitro, at least!

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If you don't like the food at Six Flags or the merchandise and you don't like the way they run their park, why do you go to their park?  I think that for a Six Flags park thats based in a crappy state they are pretty good and they are trying to catch up with the Amusement park world

I think LoQ is a fantastic idea for families with kids of multiple sizes.

It's pure ungodly torture to plunk 4 year-old CoastaMidget in line for a coaster for an hour so she can watch bigger folks get on and off at the station.

CF's Parent Swap policy is a good (and free) alternative...except only one person gets to enjoy 15 rounds on the spin-and-spues with the kiddies while everyone else cools their heels in line.

Lo-Q lets the whole family or group stay together all day...regardless of who's tall, too short, etc.  And after dropping $160 in admission for the average family of four, who's gonna whine about another $40?  You'll spend more than that on overpriced grub anyway.

I fully intend to drop cash on a Q-Bot when I visit SFOG in March.  IMHO it's worth every dime.

-'Playa

But if you let the entire party go through the line, then you have parents start telling the people at the loading dock that "the person out front said he was tall enough" even though they know thats not true and then you get yelled at and the parents want to speak to a manager and they won't do anything for them and then they threaten that they will never return to the park ever again and then blame it on the initial person that told them NO.  I work in the business and let me tell you, it happens more times than you think.  Disney and Universal Studios NEVER think about the real world consiquences about what they make and now I think that Six Flags is going them by building this "now its ok to cut in line" program.  but at least SF is smart enough to charge people for it. 

Wrong--Lo-Q doesn't let people take cuts.  It holds their place in line.  Lo-Q customers wait as long as everyone else....except they're not standing in the actual queue.

-'Playa

But they don't have to wait through the queue and you just enter in at a certain time in front of everyone that is waiting through the normal queue.  hmmmm....sounds like cutting in line to me.