Since I mentioned our impending visit to Six Flags and a few people have asked me about it, here are a few thoughts:<\/p>\n
First, I can save you a year of marketing classes in college by simply suggesting that you go to Six Flags and observe. \u00a0 These guys are brilliant in selling, upselling, reselling, and otherwise extracting every penny from your wallet. \u00a0 An example: sell a water bottle (colored and with a belt loop) for $15 that gives you free refills all day. \u00a0 Not attractive to you the buyer? \u00a0 Well, when a single Coke costs $4, it becomes moreso. \u00a0 Another example: charge $15 for parking. \u00a0 Another example: in between every ride, put many booths that charge. \u00a0 There’s more but I’ll stop.<\/p>\n
Second, if your kids are about the age of mine, I recommend that the first ride you take them on is not<\/em> Flashback. \u00a0 You do three loops and then run the whole thing in reverse. \u00a0 I had no idea what the ride was when we got on. \u00a0 Definitely not one to introduce rollercoasters to your kids. Since I made such a mistake, I wish at least I would have had video of their faces during it. \u00a0 Of course, any ideas they had about which rollercoasters they wanted to do before the day started based upon the map were immediately altered.<\/p>\n Third, I learned why it’s called “Six Flags.” \u00a0 Growing up, we went to Magic Mountain. \u00a0 Then some company bought them and tried to change the name to “Six Flags Magic Mountain.” \u00a0 But it was always “Magic Mountain” to us. \u00a0 But it turns out that Six Flags started at this particular park, and it was so named for the “six flags” of different countries that have flown over Texas<\/a>: Spain, France, Mexico, The Republic of Texas, The Confederate States of America, and the United States of America.<\/p>\n Fourth, it was interesting to note who was there. \u00a0 Not many kids the age of my kids. \u00a0 Not many adults my age. \u00a0 Almost no adults older than me. \u00a0 Mostly teenagers and their chaperones.<\/p>\n Overall, the kids liked it, especially as they got more comfortable as the day went on. They were sad to leave, though quite tired out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I mentioned our impending visit to Six Flags and a few people have asked me about it, here are a few thoughts: First, I can save you a year of marketing classes in college by simply suggesting that you go to Six Flags and observe. \u00a0 These guys are brilliant in selling, upselling, reselling,\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}