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WooferBearATL

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  1. Well, I worked for the park for 7 years.

    I (to this date) maintain that my employment at the park was far superior to both High School and College. The skills and knowledge that I obtained through park sponsored training, travel and contacts last to this day. I remember arguing accounting and business principles with my Accounting and Economics professors in college. And as example, I could site managing an operation that would gross almost a million dollars within a 6 month period.

    The governor is right in that public education needs reform. Days are simply not the only thing that needs to be looked at. They need to look to what is actually done in schools and allow the teachers to actually teach. The sooner that schools can ditch the Every Child Left Behind program and stop being babysitters, the better.

    OK .... WooferBear off his morning soapbox.

  2. This from the same guy who said Anheuser-Busch was an American company that would never sell out to InBev....

    Terpy, just sayin'

    And yes, I'm still amazed.

    I never would have thought it would have happened.

    One thing I've noticed. Advertising for Budweiser products has decreased on television specifically and in general during sporting events.

    Sponsorship by Anheuser-Busch has been down at various festivals and events around the country.

    I would expect the Anheuser-Busch name and many of their products to be folded within the next 5 to 10 years.

    My predictions about customer's remaining loyal to an InBev ownership remain valid.

    This Bud's Not For You

  3. If I were to pick a favorite, other than letting the parks slip into becoming their own company, I think that Disney would be a masterful caretaker for these animals. Walt Disney's Animal Kingdom has proven that they can take conservation issues very seriously. And A.K./Busch Parks tend to hire Animal Keepers and researchers with similar educational backgrounds, which if I may say so is somewhat different than traditional zoo's. And I don't think that anyone could dispute the fact that Disney could afford to keep the parks in their current condition, if not ( dare I say ) even be able to improve the quality of these parks. Imagine Mickey Mouse meet and greets while waiting for a Shamu show. Imagine Disney providing transportation down International Drive to SeaWorld, Aquatica, and Discovery Cove. Imagine a year master pass that would take you to Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, SeaWorld, Aquatica, Discovery Cove, and Busch Gardens.

    I don't know if this is a likely scenario, but it sounds cool. It could really put the favor in Disney's pocket with a walk in Hogwarts castle in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, coming soon to Universal for local competition.

    Those are not images as much as they are nightmares.

    Disney involvement with the Busch Parks is certainly one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

  4. The plopping sound you hear is WooferBearATL fainting as he reads the following. Cory, the fears you have expressed about what Disney would do if it acquired the Busch parks are eerily familiar. They are the same, exact sentiment many of us felt when Paramount Communications bought the KECO parks and Kings Island. We knew a lot of what Taft and KECO had worked so hard to create would disappear and be replaced with a generic movie studio theme. In many ways, we were right. In other ways, it was far worse than what many of us feared. Paramount missed many an opportunity with the parks. I still wonder what would have happened had Taft never sold.

    I would absolutely cry if Disney purchased the Busch parks.

    After I was done crying, I'm certain I would become violently ill.

    Interp.... You are so right.

    Gee, thanks, Robbie. I've been Terpied! :)

    Yes, some of us know all that. Put another way, what I wonder is what would have happened if those who had the vision and foresight to build Kings Island from scratch, and poured their heart, dedication and devotion to the park business into it, had retained control, instead of selling to the likes of Carl Lindner and Paramount Communications....

    Some of us know it. Some of us even lived it. <G>

  5. The BBQ did not arrive until the Snyder days. And any park's food back when you were in college is hardly a good data point for food service in a park these days. Virtually all food service is done in a totally different way now than it was then. This is true from the McDonald's of the world all the way up to sit down table cloth restaurants at the Disneys and Universals of the world.

    But does not excuse why some Disney parks and all Busch parks can achieve excellence in food service.

  6. Not to be mean, but when did you last have Cedar Fair food? I, for one, can not possibly put Cedar Point and Kings Island on the same level foodwise...nor Dorney Park and, say, Worlds of Fun. The Cedar Fair chain has more variability in food than any other chain, in my humble opinion. And before Mr. Dan Snyder arrived, Six Flags food was all over the map, from the wonderful (Six Flags Great Adventure) to the mundane (Six Flags Great America) to the truly awful (Six Flags Over Georgia). Since Snyderization and the Papa John's and Panda Expressing and Johnny Rocketsization of MOST of the parks, the food seems to have leveled out there, to a level slightly above the old Six Flags Great America.

    Not been to Cedar Point since I was in college. But at that time the food at both Kings Island and Cedar Point was pretty amazing. I have been to Knotts and I have been to Carrowinds though, recently.

    We will agree that Six Flags Over Georgia can not be considered food. Well, other than the BBQ. It's not bad.

  7. Both Disney and Universal have good food, but I think the best food overall is at the Busch Parks. The food they served at Discovery Cove was absolutely the best meal I've ever had in a theme park.

    The Busch do have the best food over all. I think that it's the only chain that I make certain to have at least one meal in.

    Six Flags and CF parks have comparable food. (Not exactly stellar on any realm of the imagination.)

    The only Disney parks that I find to have decent food is at Epcot and Animal Kingdom.

    Dollywood's food has come soooooo far from what it used to be. It's just about at the level that the old Opryland had.

  8. GE should not be so piggish. The economy is getting worse, not better. Should they foreclose on the Great Wolf Lodge, who do they expect to sell it to? Seriously! Nobody has money now, especially for investing in the entertainment industry. In tough times, people cut out luxuries first. Should GE not make a deal, it will be stuck with a property that it can't sell for quite some time.

    No bank or mortgage ever wants to foreclose on any property.

    Anyone that works in banking will tell you that it's more work for them than if the purchaser ..... actually pays what is owed.

  9. A cookies discussion. Ashland. Archway?

    Or is that a man's field?

    Terpy, who just had to (and who points out if there was ever a park massively changed by the installation of a B and M hyper, look to Austell)

    Yeah.

    Goliath is just a perty sight, ain't it!

    My theory for why there are so many accidents on I-20 near the Six Flags hill.

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