Current Events > Six Flags Flash Pass: $55 to not even skip the line? What?

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Six Flags is all about milking more money out of you and I get that but this makes no sense.

There's Normal, Gold, and Platinum. Normal costs $55 and it says you wait the current length of the line. What the hell am I missing here?

Gold is $100 for the day to skip most of the line... Such a rip-off all around, but I just don't get what the "normal" one does.

what is a flash pass?

TheDarkCircle posted...

what is a flash pass?

A pass to skip the line

is there a pass where you skip the line where people are skipping lines?
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Based on my brief search just now, it seems like the regular flash pass allows you to get a ticket to come back to the ride at a later time. Similar to fast pass in disneyland etc.

I assume the advantage of normal is, you can come back at a later time and skip the line when it's your time. Thus allow you to wait on a line for another ride in the interim and get through more rides throughout the day.

Gold and platinum seem to have even shorter times though for you come a skip the line. Right? So there is an advantage to normal, just not as speedy as gold and plat.

It's not explained any better on the website either. There doesn't appear to be any incentive to do the normal pass.
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Its cool, I just dont like how its called flash pass. Its a little misleading. Thats what made me get it; I thought I was getting front of the line privileges. Turns out, its basically a reservation, where you reserve a time and come back at that time. That was fine with me, though. My cousin was the one pissed lol

For $100, you get a real flash pass though
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Honestly if you get to six flags right when it opens, most of the lines are pretty empty for 2 hours. Then you can get the fuck out by the afternoon and not spend $20+ on a whole pizza >_>
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I think that gold flash pass was always $100 so it may be misleading but at least it's not price gouging
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NeonOctopus posted...

Honestly if you get to six flags right when it opens, most of the lines are pretty empty for 2 hours. Then you can get the fuck out by the afternoon and not spend $20+ on a whole pizza >_>

Oh, man. I went last weekend. Every place doesnt have food that isnt under $13 and a real small portion.
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Yeah, you wait the normal length but not actually standing in queue. You can go do other shit.
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Food in Six Flags is the biggest ripoff. And the guards ban you from bringing in your own when you go through the security gate. It's a joke.
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

Yeah, you wait the normal length but not actually standing in queue. You can go do other shit.

This. It essentially stands in line for you.

lolPuff posted...

NeonOctopus posted...

Honestly if you get to six flags right when it opens, most of the lines are pretty empty for 2 hours. Then you can get the fuck out by the afternoon and not spend $20+ on a whole pizza >_>

Oh, man. I went last weekend. Every place doesnt have food that isnt under $13 and a real small portion.

Well you need to have the dining pass. It's a complete rip-off if you don't. I had the Italian beef today, had it dipped with hot peppers and got a bunch of really good waffle fries with it. Cost me nothing but it would be $16.50 regular.

I also got a huge snow cone that you put your own flavors in that was really good, free as my snack.

I'm so glad I don't go on rides
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Yeah fuck amusement parks tbh
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thronedfire2 posted...

I'm so glad I don't go on rides

Sounds like not living

Corman321 posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

I'm so glad I don't go on rides

Sounds like not living

quite the opposite actually, rides give me panic attacks. I'd probably literally die of a heart attack if I went on a roller coaster, and if I ever got stuck on one I would unstrap myself and jump off
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Flash passes and skip the line passes have really made me not enjoy amusement parks in the past few years. It just makes it really frustrating for those of us who can't afford $100 extra to not wait in line
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I always get the gold now. I got the platinum once and it was awesome but just too much money

I'll get a flash pass/quick pass whenever I can. Waiting 3 hours for Space Mountain in Magic Kingdom wasn't fun.

We got a quick pass for Universal Orlando and it was totally worth it. Got through literally everything in less than a day with multiple breaks in between.
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thronedfire2 posted...

Corman321 posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

I'm so glad I don't go on rides

Sounds like not living

quite the opposite actually, rides give me panic attacks. I'd probably literally die of a heart attack if I went on a roller coaster, and if I ever got stuck on one I would unstrap myself and jump off

Suicidal thoughts?
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It's a pass to enter from the exit lane and have a separate queue for "Flash Pass" users.
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Sada_Pop posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

Corman321 posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

I'm so glad I don't go on rides

Sounds like not living

quite the opposite actually, rides give me panic attacks. I'd probably literally die of a heart attack if I went on a roller coaster, and if I ever got stuck on one I would unstrap myself and jump off

Suicidal thoughts?

no I feel like the panic attack would get so bad I'd rather try to climb down than be stuck on a roller coaster for hours
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AlCalavicci posted...

Flash passes and skip the line passes have really made me not enjoy amusement parks in the past few years. It just makes it really frustrating for those of us who can't afford $100 extra to not wait in line

That and the damn TSA hubs they install and use even on the absolute slowest days. Back then it was only during major events.
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Cedar point is the same way with 3 tiers. Tier 1 doesnt even work for most good rides so its functionally worthlessmost of the time.

Tier 2 gives you access to all rides but you still wait in line with all the other fast pass fucks, so you may as well wait in the regular line. Then the elite pass let's you skip ahead of them all and it's like a status symbol to clown on the idiots who wasted the money on it.

Then you have even better than all the passes. The coupons they give to people who got stuck on a broke down ride. Instant VIP access to skip everything, pass or not.

It's a fucking joke. It's like a micro transaction as a fucking amusement park. Then they have 4 tiers of season passes. But that's for another day
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I've tried fast pass for Disneyworld and Universal Studios and I probably cant go to another amusement park without one. Yes it is more money but if I'm not in the Florida area often I would like to be able to experience all the rides within a day.
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Corman321 posted...

lolPuff posted...

NeonOctopus posted...

Honestly if you get to six flags right when it opens, most of the lines are pretty empty for 2 hours. Then you can get the fuck out by the afternoon and not spend $20+ on a whole pizza >_>

Oh, man. I went last weekend. Every place doesnt have food that isnt under $13 and a real small portion.

Well you need to have the dining pass. It's a complete rip-off if you don't. I had the Italian beef today, had it dipped with hot peppers and got a bunch of really good waffle fries with it. Cost me nothing but it would be $16.50 regular.

I also got a huge snow cone that you put your own flavors in that was really good, free as my snack.

gotta factor in the cost and how many times you use it to make it worth it in value. usually it works out if know the prime stuff to get.
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Blue_Target posted...

I've tried fast pass for Disneyworld and Universal Studios and I probably cant go to another amusement park without one. Yes it is more money but if I'm not in the Florida area often I would like to be able to experience all the rides within a day.

Yeah, I was in Florida for a few days and just bought the VIP pass so I can see everything in the park in 1 day. I felt it was worth it since I was on vacation and time was limited >_>
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Ugh fuck amusement parks, take me back to the 90s when it was just paper tickets and all just one line.
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Blue_Target posted...

I've tried fast pass for Disneyworld and Universal Studios and I probably cant go to another amusement park without one. Yes it is more money but if I'm not in the Florida area often I would like to be able to experience all the rides within a day.

At Disney World you can only book 3 Fast Passes though, and the real popular rides are "sold out" of them months in advance.

Corman321 posted...

At Disney World you can only book 3 Fast Passes though, and the real popular rides are "sold out" of them months in advance.

Yeah the fast pass system at Disney is weird. My friend was a Disneyworld expert though and he booked the popular rides in advance for us. We managed to skip lines for Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain, Aerosmith, Hollywood Tower, and Indiana Jones. He even managed to get us a second fastpass and we rode Space Mountain twice in a day.
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If going to Disney World and staying on property you can reserve fastpasses 60 days ahead. If staying off property its 30 days ahead.

DoubleDare posted...

Ugh fuck amusement parks, take me back to the 90s when it was just paper tickets and all just one line.

How about arcades and tokens/paper tickets, too.

(What's ironic is that paper seems to be disappearing in grocery stores, and plastics more prevalent. At least it seems that way because I shop at Wal-Mart....either way.."Progress"!)

(Also, fuck the police state and/or nanny state)
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RE_expert44 posted...

It's like a micro transaction

That... That's just... Ugh... Glad I got most of my time in amusement parks done back in the 90's.
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NeonOctopus posted...

Food in Six Flags is the biggest ripoff. And the guards ban you from bringing in your own when you go through the security gate. It's a joke.

That's why when we went to Canada's Wonderland when I was a kid we would leave the park and eat outside. Then go back in when we were done. You'd regularly see people having picnics on the grass outside the parm.
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One time I was stuck at the top of the dragster at cedar point for 15 min. It went backwards before they could get anyone up to fix it. Then they tried running the ride again. This time it didn't make it up the hill all the way and went backwards. They closed the ride because of that.

DuneMan posted...

RE_expert44 posted...

It's like a micro transaction

That... That's just... Ugh... Glad I got most of my time in amusement parks done back in the 90's.

Yeah shit started going downhill in the 2010s.
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MuayThai85 posted...

NeonOctopus posted...

Food in Six Flags is the biggest ripoff. And the guards ban you from bringing in your own when you go through the security gate. It's a joke.

That's why when we went to Canada's Wonderland when I was a kid we would leave the park and eat outside. Then go back in when we were done. You'd regularly see people having picnics on the grass outside the parm.

That's how it is, or at least used to be, at the six flags in Illinois. We'd go out for a picnic for lunch, then head back in.

I got my niece a season pass for her birthday a few years ago, and got some dining passes. It was cool that it showed the average cost per meal go down on the receipt. By the end of the year, it got down to about $1.80 per meal.

I kind of wish they would ban outside food at Disney, though. Everytime I take the family, there are tons of people going through security with several over stuffed bags and coolers, and it makes it take forever to get past the bag checking stand.

I got the Platinum last time I went to Magic Mountain. That was 4 years ago. Is it still flooded with gangbangers?
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