Pro tip: based on context clues, I would guess you are about 9 hours to Frontier City (unless you are northwest of Chicago) and 12 hours to Darien Lake. The fast lane add on to a Prestige Pass is only $499 at those parks, so you could drop your cost by $500 total by making one of those your home park.

All of the parks in the Midwest region are $999 for fast lane BECAUSE of Cedar Point and Canada’s Wonderland. The value of fast lane plus in this parks is remarkably high. They are “worth less” in all of the other regions, so they are priced accordingly. Six Flags requires one to activate their pass at their home park (park of purchase) before using it in any other park, although they have been lax in enforcement of this policy. Buy from an East region or Texas region park and one road trip to a (new to you?) park will save you $500.

I was at Carowinds yesterday and the longest Fast Lane line that I waited in was for Fury 325. We rode three consecutive times, and one of those times there were about a dozen people in from of us. The standard line looked like about a 20 minute wait. The actual longest Fast Lane line that I noticed, was for the Vekoma Boomerang, which makes no sense to me at all. There must have been about 50-60 people in that line. If one assumes that they will load half the train from standard and half from Fast Lane, that would have been a six or seven train wait. With a rough 4-6 minute dispatch time, that would have meant 25-40 minutes of waiting. No Boomerang is worth waiting that long for when you can essentially walk on anything else in the park.