Stupid Guest Tricks

I was at church tonight, and we had a new guy from burger invasion there, and we were talking about DCA and what are the parents going to do while the kids are in the wineries, wineariese, winaries... place that serve wine (because there alot of thing for kids to do and alot of things for adults to do, but not alot they can do together, inside type conversation) but anyway, we were talking about how it just sorta lack the magic that DL has, and he came up with a great idea, just open the park and charge for each thing, sorta how the main park was when it first opened, and i can see that working, that way you can see what you want to go on, and not go on, and if nothing suits your fancy than you didn't waste $50 getting in, but you can still shop or whatever.

Well, waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy back in the day there was such a thing as general admission AND the old ticket books. You would either pay $15.00 or whatever it was for the admission and ticket book or you could just buy an admission ticket to get into the park without going on the rides. The good old days of E-tickets. When I was in High School in the early 70's, I could get in for $4.00 Junior general admission price. It was great because everyone already had left over ticket books, so we would go in about 5:00 pm or so just to ride the Matterhorn and Pirates and then go dancing at Coke Terrace (with good old Papa Doo Run Run).

The reason they stopped doing ticket books was the competition from Magic Mountain. They were the first park in this area to do the one price admits you to all attractions and shows thing. I think it must have been around 79 or 80, because I remember using E-tickets when Space and Thunder opened in 77 and 79 respectively.

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but if you think about it, that park get's it's ass kicked by pretty much all the other parks in the, well world, or at least the ones i've been to that are considered major themeparks, and not just permanent carnivals, i think that if for a few years it was more easily accessable, and people could just see what there is to offer, then go back maybe after like five years, to the way it is now, it'd probly pick up attendance, however, i was talking to someone today and he had done the calculations on how much the park makes off admission (this is DL) and came up with a little more than the estimated cost of running the usual two a night Fantasmic! shows.