There will be people who react to seeing YOLO in that video with as much excitement and enthusiasm as I have distaste for it. Why else would Six Flags include that bit other than to potentially hype up the ride in the minds of some viewers? The graphics, the text, the music... anything in addition to the simple animation of the ride's motion is designed to increase the ride's appeal beyond its inherent level. So just as I initially undervalued the ride based on one portion of the video which I found objectionable, I'm sure there will be others who will overvalue it based on the same kinds of characteristics of the video.
Absolutely - no argument here with regards to why they did it. It surprises me you'd liken your anti-YOLO reaction to a pro-YOLO reaction, though...
There's a difference between you and a random YOLO-er - you know why these things exist, and you look at them from the perspective of someone with a hobby, as opposed to someone who is getting excited over this in the same way they would over anything that
isn't a hobby.
You know it's all just hype over a new ride, designed to catch attention and speak to what they feel is the current market - you know it's just marketing. You also know, as an enthusiast, that such things mean little in terms of the actual ride experience. You - for the purposes of this Full Throttle example -
know better.
So I find it interesting that you equate your hobbyist knowledge (i.e. you understand the marketing parks use and why they use them, and how little it means for the actual ride) and the resulting reaction with that of any individual, be they pro- or anti-YOLO.
Again, not pointing fingers - it just seems to me that enthusiasts, given their hobbies, should be able to see beyond something like this to get to the core ride itself...and thus,
it surprised me quite a bit to learn of how many were seemingly quite incapable of doing that.
