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Six Flags Over Texas
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12 reviews for Six Flags Over Texas
....and I'm a kid again.
I've been going to Six Flags since I was prolly 7 yrs old. It was one of my favorite Summertime excursions. We'd pack a cooler and go late in the day and stay till close. No bedtimes for me!
This summer I went with some friends and every time we would get to a ride we would scream like little kids...yes we're almost 30 yrs old and we act like we're 10...so what?
The rides are great, although RIP Cliffhanger. :( I loved that ride, put a penny on your knee and watch it levitate as you quickly descend down to your death, I mean ride.
I ride all the rides. Nothing frightens me. So I try to maximize my time to the best I can....
I would DEFINITELY recommend buying the Flash Pass, during busy season. With said pass you can cut all the lines and move straight to the front. You can reserve your spot at a ride and when its ready, it beeps "You're ride is now ready" (ahem, that's what she said) and you make your way. Some rides it was useful, other rides I was just glad to have it. For example, the Superman ride is all of 3 seconds long. The wait time was 45 min. Since we didn't wait in line, it was fun. If I had waited 45 min, I would have been pissed. Plus I almost died of heat stroke at some point during the day...can't really remember...I was dying.
Buy your tickets online, they are cheaper and then you can get the Flash Pass when you checkout. It's priced by your group (so for 4 people, it was one price. For 6 people its another price).
So fun, go and enjoy yourselves.
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too overpriced (and that's ticket prices I'm talking about... this isn't counting FOOD prices which are astronomically high!).
I don't even care for the park for the most part. Dirty, lines are way too long and take forever, blah.
I do have to give it to them one year for having probably the scariest haunted house I've ever been to during Fright Fest.
I wouldn't come here again unless someone handed me a free ticket and I was somehow able to sneak food & drink in here somehow. Hah.
I really would like to like this place, especially since there aren't any other theme parks around, but I can think of sooo many better things to do than go here again. Maybe I'm a little biased, because I grew up in Florida, and we have all the cool theme parks, but this place needs serious help.
If anything, the people who work there need to realize they're in the hospitality industry.. I do have to say though that the teenagers that run the rides (I'll admit I was concerned at first when I noticed it was some 16 year old kid running the roller coaster and potentially ending my life) But those teenagers were the nicest people in the park..unlike the ticket counter and food counter people.. I didn't realize it was such a hassle for you to give me a napkin to go with my funnel cake.. sheesh, 'scuze me for asking!
Oh, and not to mention, they were like out of everything - How in the world do you run out of Frozen lemonade And Turkey Legs? First I pay a crap load to get into the old delapidated park, not to mention pay for parking in the run down parking lot, and then I pay even more of a crap load to eat some food.. No wonder they're going under. people are tired of being ripped off.
Needless to say, I doubt I'll return.
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I hadn't visited this park since I was a kid but this week (Spring Break) took my chiclets and some of their cousins for the day. There were 2 adults and kids aged from 0 to 12.
We got there about 40 minutes before opening time and by the time we parked, went through security we had a wait of about 15 minutes for the opening. The crush of people wasn't too bad even though a lot of folks were waiting. We hit the Looney Tunes area first and there was a lot of fun there for the pre-school set. We then broadened out to the other rides (though no one took on the large coasters or Tony Hawk). It was a Spring Break crowd but the only really bad lines were for a couple of the most popular rides. Kids ride waits were pretty minimal.
Overall everyone had a great time and it is clear they have been training and encouraging their staff to be friendly. Lots of smiles, greetings and waves to riders. Staff taunting riders in friendly ways too.
I am holding back a star because meal time was tough. Long lines everywhere and prices like Johnny Rockets were outrageous to me ($11 hamburger that was cold and on a stale bun...).
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I've spent a couple outings with my niece and nephew here when I pay them a visit. We have a good time and definitely enjoy ourselves. We've learned to avoid the parking fee at the park and park not so far away.
This one is in a nice location and very easy to get to. Out of the Six Flags I've been to, this is one of the better ones. I've seen better amusement parks though. Would I go back? Yes. I do want to pay a visit to the water park; I'm just not usually there when it's open for the season.
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it's true folks. everything is bigger in texas. i've been to other six flags locations and this is by far the best one. convenient location. the only thing i despise about going is the hot texas heat and the over-priced food and beverages. i think i paid 5 bucks for a bottle of water....had it been fiji water, i wouldn't have complained; but it was aquafina. who pays 10 bucks for a bottle of water, a pack of gum and a funnel cake?!?!?! i did.
the rides are fun. be prepared to walk a lot.
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Loved the new Tony Hawk ride! I have a season pass, so I'll be back for more. (But man are those parking prices outrageous!)
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Did you know that Six Flags Over Texas is the OG of the Six Flags Family of Theme Parks?
This place is pretty cool, they have a lot of old rides and they seem to be adding new ones every year. The Titan, Superman, Shockwave, they're all great rides.
I recommend going for Holiday in the Park in the winter or Fright Fest during the fall ..it's not as hot as it is in the summer so waiting in line won't be as uncomfortable.
Cool place to drop off the kids and do stuff.
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Six Flags Over Texas is not only a great place to visit, but a great place to work. I no longer work there because I moved and have no reason to kiss bum, but I just wanted to share with any potential employee. Especially as a student, high school or college, Six Flags will be flexible with your schedule. I went full time to UTA while working and could not have asked for more from an employer, bosses (Shenika and Reyna, sometimes Nathan) or my beloved coworkers (Georgia, Kristina, Barb, Sonja) who were always there for me. There is ample opportunity for transfering to other parks and climbing the many levels of management as well.
Just a note for everyone: The weather is Texan, so hydrate (not with soda) and dress appropriately. Let me beg you, pleeeaaase don't wear your string bikinis into the rollercoaster portion of the park. It's not flattering and it makes me want to spew.
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Six Flags over Texas makes it obvious you're not at a Disney park. Elements like efficient parking lot ingress/egress, cleanliness, attention to details, customer satisfaction, facility maintenance, and creating a fantasy filled experience seems lost on Six Flags. Let's face it, going to a theme park, is all about feeling like you have gotten held upside down by a bunch of thugs emptying your pockets on the ground. But if you have the right mindset, it's no big deal. Yes it costs a fortune to get inside, only to be faced with even more outrageous food and drink prices, and let's not forget all the shopping opportunities. But at a Disney park in comparison, all you can gripe about is the cost, and maybe how crowded it is, but if you can complain about anything else in your whole experience, you'd be in a tiny minority. Disney sets the gold standard for exceptional execution.
Six Flags seems to have a whole different mindset. You wait in a long line to get in the parking lot to pay $15 or more, and then it's a free-for-all in finding a parking spot in a parking lot that needed repaving 15 years ago. Inside the park, you see the same mentality. In some aspects they try to create a fantasy themed experience and others they just cut corners with what makes do using the cheapest solution. I just don't see chain link fence fitting into many peoples idea of a fantasy experience, but it works well for industrial sites, and Six Flags!
The biggest disappointment was the shoddy maintenance. On a very busy October weekend, they had two major rides out of service (Mr. Freeze, Flashback) and SpongeBob 3D converted to a fright night show (so they can extract extra money out of you). Also I noticed the paint peeling badly on the Splash Down ride, which looks like a tired old ride anyway, but at least keep the damn thing maintained properly until you kill it. As luck would have it, later on the Splash Down ride broke, stranding two boatloads of passengers on the top for about 30 or more minutes. I got some great pictures from the top of the Oil Derek tower of them unloading people off it with ladders. Priceless!
One thing also that really sucks is you have no idea how long the wait is for any ride line. Disney parks do a nice job of telling you the expected wait times. Even though Six Flags has their Quick Pass (extra money feature) for major rides, so they know the time for lines, they don't show it at the front of the rides.
On the plus side, the Giant and the Titan really are great roller coasters, but it's hard to justify theme park costs for just a handful of rides. If they had the other elements together, it would not be such a big deal, but in the end I felt more ripped off than satisfied.
I was trying to think of a creative and witty date before the TCU/Baylor game. What's a fun place to go while driving from Dallas to Fort Worth? That's right folks.....the place you use to piss yourself silly due to excitement when it was mentioned by your parents as a day activity before the Ranger game. Six Flags! Golden idea for a date right??? Can't beat the people watching right??? I mean how many times do you get to see a 24 year old man in a wife beater holding hands with his eighteen year old girlfriend. And when is the last time you went on a roller coaster? what...like 15 years ago. It was a winner. My friends text messaged me "Don't forget the ShockWave!".
A couple of downers for the day.
1) What the fuck is the deal with the ticket prices! 50 bucks a piece?! Inflation according to the CPI has been around 3 to 4 % for the past 15 years. Six Flags has went from 25 bucks to 50 bucks. Can't verify that fact but I remember it used to be affordable. How in gods name are they supposed to get my dearly beloved white trash friends in the doors? I can't see a family of 10 from Denton dropping five hundo on a day at six flags. I mean that would be a birthday/divorce finalization and graduation celebration all rolled into one. Not going to happen. Oh well....I did notice they take credit cards.
2)Roller coasters are much more dangerous now that I am thirty. Oh my goodness that Texas Titan is fucking dangerous. I blacked out. I am not fucking kidding. You will black out. If you bring someone over the age of 45 on this ride, then you have a good chance of sitting next to a corpse by the end of the ride. The 16 year old said that he blacked out. Note to a personal injury lawyer reading this......sit by the exit and pass out your card. Also..... while we are talking about improvements.......Let's smooth out that Texas Giant ride. Jesus! My date looked like I went off Ike Turner style on her arms and legs the next day b/c of the toss around factor on the Giant. Didn't enjoy that one.
3)Batman is over. Don't know if you got the memo, but naming rides after summer blockbusters is not a good idea. Really.....I have no idea what the fuck Mr. Freeze is named after. I think Batman.
Positives
1)White Trash is still running around....
These people really do not believe in birth control and I salute them. Please keep breeding. I love you at the fair and at six flags.
2)Judge Roy Scream
So simple, so great
3)Clean Bathrooms
The date informed me that the bathrooms are exceptional.
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back when i was a kid, i loved going to this place. it was open til midnight, they had their own mascot and the rides were def better. the guest service use to be great, but now most of the workers look like theyre just going through the motions. u can tell some of them dont want to be there.line jumping is supposed to not be tolerated, but theres no security at the rides and people get away with it. the foods ok, but def. reccommend going to mcdonalds across the street. the shows were not very good either as 2 of them u had to watch a video screen in the theaters, oh make it 3. hopefully, six flags will try to improve as a new parade makes it way, here in mid may. six flags opens in feb this year instead of march which is the normal month, which is when they have spring break out as well.
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