The Interpreter

Cedar Fair is a VERY conservative company. I don't see any fire sale coming. The average member of the public won't even realize the park name changed, if it does change to Kings Island. Ironically, twenty years from now, some people will STILL be calling it Paramount's Kings Island. A few others never stopped calling it anything but Kings Island. One reason I had suspected a coming sale for about the past 18 months to two years is the fact the parks themselves were starting to occasionally call themselves just Kings Island, Kings Dominion, etc. At one time last summer, PKI tested calling itself just PKI. Strangely, they even ran a few radio ads in some markets that used the ride names Racer, Beast, etc., then referred to the parks as PKI. They didn't run very long, though. Then there was that survey about renaming the parks after CBS took over...

Uh, Scooby has been at Six Flags for quite some time, now. Only natural, since he is a WB property and Six Flags has a license on the WB characters. At one time, Taft owned Scooby, and you only saw him at the Kings parks... As for Nick, on the one hand, you have the considerable (and justifiably so) Cedar Fair company pride and desire to remove someone else's name from the park vs. the fact that doing so will cost money, and not just a little. I still think the Paramount theming will go, while Nick stays, at least for now. I could even see Nick going to all the Cedar Fair parks at some point. Maybe Cedar Fair could charge Paramount Studios to keep its name on the park--and the fee could be exactly the same as the Nick license. Nah, that won't happen.

Knowing how tight both Cedar Fair and CBS can be, I bet anything the contract says anything removed goes to one or the other. They'll probably sell it at auction to the highest bidder! Then again, Cedar Fair is known for being a very conservative company, and will not have a great deal of additional cash laying around for retheming.

I'm jealous! I love that ride, and getting stuck on that lift hill would be like fulfillment of a dream! And you just knew that, didn't you? The only thing better would be getting a rollback on Kingda Ka, which STILL hasn't happened to me yet, and I am beginning to think never will! I've gotten to sit at the top of the second lift on Beast several times, and gotten rides with me as the only person on the train. Both experiences were just grand.

Sounds Like Fandango.com. Is it called Parkdango? Ummm....no. I am pretty sure they universally do NOT call it that.

Parks ought to think about that. At Universal, one can buy the tickets online and pick them up at an automated kiosk in the front of the park by inserting the same credit card they were charged to...out they pop!

http://www.pointbuzz.com/news.htm?id=932 Although it quotes Carole Sanderson of ACE, the article itself says very little...

By now, the kid is probably tall enough to ride every ride in the park. The question is, does he?

And everybody knows that morons and vandals don't go to Disney or Universal. With extensive theming must come a commitment to theming maintenance, on a DAILY basis. Disney or Uni would NOT operate IJST the way PP does/did. Nor TRTR, nor Adventure Express, nor even Scooby and the Haunted Castle. I don't see Cedar Fair making that commitment to do so, nor do I see Cedar Fair offering the public poorly maintained themed rides (okay, kid in the back row, jeering and throwing paper wads...yes, YOU, the one who yelled out Disaster Transport!--you gotta point!) Any way, I see Cedar Fair gradually removing most of the theming. Or fixing it all and KEEPING it fixed. One or the other. What I really wonder about is how they will run their shows and entertainment, but that is a topic for another thread. For this one, they will maintain and operate Vortex as long as it is economically feasible to do so. Cedar Fair is REALLY good at steel coaster maintenance. The better question is what will they do with Son of Beast? Especially if it continues to require massive expenditures year after year for maintenance?

Nah. Nobody's perfect! He said this: Now, I am NOT picking on him. And I was impressed with the report. But 7:41 to 8:08 is only 27 minutes. He must have spent the other 11 minutes waiting for Outer Limits, back when it opened!

That's fairly odd.

Well, even if the FearFest is retained at Kings Island, you must admit it is still true that: Halloweekends is coming! Halloweekends is coming! You'd just have to get to the Point to experience them!

Halloweekends is coming! Halloweekends is coming! (And Winterfest may well be going).

WHAT??? No it doesn't. Yeah, reports from the CDC (Based Right Here in Atlanta) show compelling evidence in the connection beteew Plague and Pepsi. Atlanta, huh? Where COCA-COLA is based? But the local pediatrician in Purchase, New York denies it...

Yep. They even got Flying Scooters this year. From Larson.

Yah, in my case it is called....shoeleather! I usually get there well before the trams start running, and leave long after they have stopped!

Ha! The preferred parking last year at Six Flags Over Georiga was further from the gate than most of the free spaces at Kennywood are from its gate. Actually, on busy days, riding the ski lift to the park from the free lot is half the fun! Well, not quite half!

It was taken off during the rehab. What are they trying to achieve? A smoother ride and less maintenance...

Doesn't Kennywood still offer FREE parking? I seem to remember the $5 is only for preferred parking...

Junk???

On I-64 in WV between Huntington and Charleston last week, I saw billboards for Paramount's Kings Island and for Cedar Point. None for Six Flags, though.... Heck, I even saw a Camden Park billboard!

This morning: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...NION01/60526002

Believe it or not, one of SFKK's and Holiday World's MAJOR markets is Nashville. Has been ever since Opryland closed. And what would those patrons pass on the way? Beech Bend...now with a reason to STOP. That park needs to advertise on I-65!

I, for one, wish that Thunder Run had two trains and ran closer to home!

Good. I figured those seats WERE blocked off.