Going to SixFlags OT this weekend and was wondering if you can still take an empty coke can for a discount. Wondering if anyone has any insight!

Me too man! I grew up in CSTAT but my mom lived up in Dallas. Every summer we'd buy season passes and spend all summer at Six Flags!

Fairly certain I just bought a can with Six Flags advertisements a on it, but it's been a couple of weeks. They also say $5 discount for a can online. Think the discount for just buying online in advance is more at $11.

Yeah, ended up price at the gate was $80, but buying online after processing fees comes out to about $50 a ticket. Luckily I have a sister that worked for HEB and was able to get an even better discount than the coke can would've!

Long story short it's a lot harder to enjoy as an adult vs as a kid lol

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This thread made m think… Six Flags is probably pure hell this weekend.

Used to get season passes in the summers in the 90s and have a blast. Six Flags is absolutely disgusting now.

It was definitely rough. Luckily we went Friday morning and were done by 2:00. Then ate some grub at Bombshells, then caught the rangers game in some nice 72 degree AC.

I was really expecting it to be pretty gross, but I was very surprised.

LOL. The good old days. That wall of water would soak every inch of your ass.

I think it's been gone for several years now, but they are building a much more extreme water coaster called Aquaman on that spot. I think it was supposed to be done in 2020 but covid effed it all up. They are saying 2022 now but it's not open yet, so that seems to be getting doubtful too.

I'm loving the combination of nostalgia and PTSD all rolled into one. Denim shorts and cotton tighty whities were a lethal combination on that walk back to the car.

Found this on YouTube. Fast-forward to the 1:30 mark to relive your childhood glory:



(Definitely wasn't branded Aquaman when I was a kid, but if that's what it looked like after the "renovation," then I think I understand why they tore it down)

Man, this thread is really giving me morbid curiosity to go to Six Flags, grab a pink thing (probably not around anymore), and see the chaos it has become. Probably haven't been there since 2002 or 2003 I'd bet.

That bridge was the best when you were dying in the heat. The worst was the c*** tease Log Ride where you would wait for 1 hour hoping to cool down only to never get splashed once.

Yeah lots of nostalgia about the Splash Waterfalls bridge, log ride, the Giant when it first opened, Mr. Freeze, the bobsled, and the indoor coaster, Runaway Mountain. They even had a flight simulator where the seats moved around in sync with the show like you were flying a fighter jet or something. We used to roll in about 10am, ride a few rides, grab some grub at Gator McGee's, knock out a few more coasters, down a Surge Cola, and then peace out around 4. All summer. Now it's just a gigantic concrete pit of filth and sadness. It breaks my heart and definitely tarnishes some of my childhood.

Is it mostly riff-raff clientele, or have the rides and attractions fallen into disrepair?

I'd assume people are still using it as a daycare so kids run wild all day

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Yeah lots of nostalgia about the Splash Waterfalls bridge, log ride, the Giant when it first opened, Mr. Freeze, the bobsled, and the indoor coaster, Runaway Mountain. They even had a flight simulator where the seats moved around in sync with the show like you were flying a fighter jet or something. We used to roll in about 10am, ride a few rides, grab some grub at Gator McGee's, knock out a few more coasters, down a Surge Cola, and then peace out around 4. All summer. Now it's just a gigantic concrete pit of filth and sadness. It breaks my heart and definitely tarnishes some of my childhood.

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The jet ride was about chuck Yeager if I recall correctly. I loved that ride.

The roaring rapids ride was pretty decent for getting wet.

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Man, this thread is really giving me morbid curiosity to go to Six Flags, grab a pink thing (probably not around anymore), and see the chaos it has become. Probably haven't been there since 2002 or 2003 I'd bet.

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Pink thing is now pink dippin dots. Not even close to the real thing just sucks.

My memory may fail me, but I don't recall it looking like trinity river water 25 years ago.

Yeah that's right. I think it was called the right stuff and your mission was to break the sound barrier and hit Mach 1 or something.

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Yeah lots of nostalgia about the Splash Waterfalls bridge, log ride, the Giant when it first opened, Mr. Freeze, the bobsled, and the indoor coaster, Runaway Mountain. They even had a flight simulator where the seats moved around in sync with the show like you were flying a fighter jet or something. We used to roll in about 10am, ride a few rides, grab some grub at Gator McGee's, knock out a few more coasters, down a Surge Cola, and then peace out around 4. All summer. Now it's just a gigantic concrete pit of filth and sadness. It breaks my heart and definitely tarnishes some of my childhood.

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The jet ride was about chuck Yeager if I recall correctly. I loved that ride.

The roaring rapids ride was pretty decent for getting wet.

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It was also pretty decent for dying, if you're into that.

They still have the pink things, I can confirm.

I was so envious of kids that lived close enough to have season passes. At 2 hours away I was lucky if I got to go once a year. We'd hit 2 or 3 rangers games a year at Arlington stadium. Dad would always say "garrelli 5000, if we lived close enough I'd but season tickets."

Well, let's move mofo! That didn't work….

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My memory may fail me, but I don't recall it looking like trinity river water 25 years ago.

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Per my mother, it was gross back 35-40 years as well. It's like a Chuck e Cheese, it seemed fine when you're a kid, but now as an adult you realize how gross all of that is.

I worked at six flags one year in highschool in the 90's and that was the first time I remember noticing the nasty blue water

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My memory may fail me, but I don't recall it looking like trinity river water 25 years ago.

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It was absolutely disgusting.

I was going to take my kiddos one day this summer and saw the hours of 11-8. Didn't they used to be open 10-10? Seems like they were when I was growing up. (Not that I'm looking to spend 12 hours there; just curious).

You guys didn't just go and camp out underneath the bathroom hand dryer after the splash bridge to dry off?

Amateurs.

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I was going to take my kiddos one day this summer and saw the hours of 11-8. Didn't they used to be open 10-10? Seems like they were when I was growing up. (Not that I'm looking to spend 12 hours there; just curious).

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Thank covid worker shortages. Like the mall and so many other things, operating hours can now be covered with one shift.

I can't soeak to the riff-raff aspect, but our company rented the park out for a Friday night every fall for many years, and I always thought the park held up well. Didn't seem any more dirty or janky than it did when I was a kid in the 80s, and they did a decent job of periodically refreshing with new rides. That said, we haven't rented it out for 2 years now and I'm afraid that event may be gone for good.

Sad since we had so many great fall evenings out there with my kids for close to 15 years. My oldest was 3 and youngest not born when we started this, now they are 19 and 15. Our visit was like getting a gauge on how much they were growing up, starting from spending almost the entire evening in Looney Tune land, then growing to where they were riding the crazy stuff that I finally got too old for.