I have to admit that as a Six Flags Magic Mountain season pass holder, I breeze right past the ticket booths out front without even giving them a passing glance. Therefore, I was quite surprised when I was waiting in front of the park the other day and saw digital reader boards/monitors inside each ticket booth. I’m not even sure if these are new or not because I can’t remember the last time I even looked inside one of these booths.
I almost didn’t even notice them because they are not very visible. The bright California sun combined with the very reflective, tinted, and presumably bullet-resistant glass makes a better mirror than a window, and the monitors blend in nicely with the dark interior of the booth. As you can see here, the glass is very reflective:
I think I counted five or six different screens that the monitors rotate through, stopping for about 30-45 seconds per screen. This is good for displaying lots of general information, but very frustrating for someone who simply wants to know how much a daily ticket is going to cost them and they just missed that screen. They must then wait a few minutes for the daily admission screen to come back around. I think each pair of booths should have two monitors – one that permanently displays all the various ticket prices and another one that rotates through all of the other information such as park hours, VIP Tours, and anything else they want to advertise.
Be careful what you do in front of these booths when you don’t think anyone is watching:
Does anyone know how long these have been in operation? I’m thinking they were probably installed just a couple of months ago, when all of the on-ride photography booths got new monitors installed. Does that sound about right?
I will check on this tomorrow…
I did in fact get out to SFMM today, but didn’t take a real close look at the digital price signs. What I did notice is that they are not readable at all with the sun shining on them (they face east, so the sun hits the window till sometime in the afternoon). If they’re going to use LEDs, they could have used signs with brighter ones.
They have been there for a while. i know since the beginning of the 2012 season
They’be been there for at least a year or so but they didn’t use to rotate information, they use to just show the prices. They must have just made that change.
They have been there for a while–since at least September 2011. And I know that they rotated when I was there at the beginning of this year.
Just found out I will be around there this weekend.
I usually don’t visit the park in July/August, because it is usually to busy and too hot.
Does anybody know if it will be busier or the Saturday or the Sunday?
Sunday will be much less crowded.
Thanks Andrew!