The Interpreter

It's only about 200 miles from PKI, but it usually takes a bit over three hours, due to traffic. I've made that particular trip many times, sometimes stopping by SFKK on the way, sometimes not.

No, You seem to have read that into that. In any event, let's let bygones be bygones, and let the people find their own joys when they get a pass to PKI!

Nope....it doesn't say everyone knows that...it doesn't make fun of you...for some reason you seem to have read that into those words..it isn't there. I don't think you are stupid...even if I did, so what? It's just a person on the Internet on a message board! You will have people at the park who will be far more difficult to deal with. I've seen it far too frequently.

I have no problem with you and please don't take any post here by me as a personal attack. Just also don't assume what others do or do not know. You never know who is hiding behind these screen names...and some of us do so for a reason or reasons! In any event, have a great season. I am sure I will no doubt see you next time I am at Paramount's Kings Island...(opening day, perhaps?) As for being rude, I was not the one who informed me I don't know what I am talking about! No, it is not true I know nothing. But thanks for that very wrong assumption. All you got back was the same tone you started with!

I said only it was obvious to many of us...the parks did not fit with the other sorts of companies put on the CBS side...just as GE's NBC doesn't seem too thrilled to be in the park business either. It's kind of funny, when you look back, that Viacom moved the parks from Paramount Studios to its Blockbuster unit after it bought Paramount, after Paramount had purchased KECO and, along with it, Lindner's interest in PKI. . .

The Captain is, of course, right. Still, employees who are told not to post certain things publicly really shouldn't...

Wrong. I know a lot more about the new process than you probably do. But, like you, I won't be posting it...then again, I didn't even hint that I did until you informed me I don't know what you know. Those who know don't tell, including hinting at proprietary technology. That would be a wise course for you as well. This is NOT the employee room.

A wood coaster on steel supports is not a hybrid coaster. You think the Coney Island Cyclone is a hybrid? The Great White in New Jersey? The Comet now at The Great Escape formerly of Crystal Beach in Canada?

Hmmm. Looks at Paramount's Carowinds pass in user's pocket. Purchased last October. Wow, no picture. Yep, PKI's process is ever so confidential. Especially if one has been to, say, WDW in the past several years, with an annual pass.

Ignore the troll. He thrives on attention. And it's hard to get threw to him.

Nope again. Paramount is on the Viacom side. When the old Viacom split up and Paramount Studios went one way (with the new Viacom) whilst Paramount Parks went the other (to CBS, as did the publishing company, tv and radio), it was obvious to many of us that the parks would soon be divested. As they are being...

Radio stations in markets far from Cincinnati are giving away many, many tickets for opening day. This has been standard procedure for PKI for some time. In years past, they were for dry run day, though.

If they handle their opening as well (ha!) as Paramount's Kings Dominion did last Saturday...at 9:45, most ACErs will still be trying to get into the parking lot. And at 10:30, there will still be people outside the gates who last year would have already been inside for more than an hour, spending money!

Not to mention he thinks Paramount owns the parks now. They do not. CBS does. Sigh. Sometimes explaining finance on this board feels much the same as trying to teach pigs to sing in French.

There have been major changes in the PR and website people at Paramount. This change means exactly....nothing.

There has been no sale, as of yet. And that type of announcement isn't made by subtle changes on a website.

No one has bought it. . .yet. The sale is "well underway."

Oh, joy. Here we go again!

I also think it somewhat likely that the Canadian park may not go with the others in the sale...it may have a separate buyer. I am sure CBS will sell the parks together or separately, whichever ways brings the most shareholder value ($$$).

And finally, not only could someone in HR get fired for leaking this information (which they SHOULD be, even if they did have it to start with), they could be in very serious legal trouble with the Federal Government, specifically the SEC, and with individual shareholders. Anyone who did have this type of information and leaked it is hardly an admirable source...they are more correctly described as a despicable person who can't be trusted with information that they had access to only as a trusted associate, and violated that trust. Wonderful. Just wonderful. It's certainly up to the mods, but I'd recommend this entire thread be deleted, or at least that the subject line be changed. And that's not to say that it's impossible that Cedar Fair is buying Paramount Parks (it is possible but highly unlikely), but that the subject line is very misleading...

There is NO WAY in the world that the HR department at CF would know this information before it was released to stockholders and the public. The SEC would be on this in a heartbeat. Further, there has been no recent movement of FUN stock consistent with any such a leak. Sorry, I chalk this one down as a bunch of hooey.

True, but Knott's has nearby competition from Six Flags and Disney. If Cedar Fair buys Paramount Parks, the Ohio parks will have NO nearby substantial competition.

Can I say Shivering Timbers was contracted for and built by the old owner, before selling to Cedar Fair? Can I say Ghost Rider was also contracted for by the old owner, before Cedar Fair? Villian you say? Six Flags contracted for it. Cedar Fair now owns three CCI's. It agreed to build not a single one of them.

Yes, it does. For Cedar Point....more parks to borrow money against to fund more rides for Cedar Point! I doubt seriously it would mean bigger rides for Kings Island. After all, look at all the big rides they have put in at Geauga Lake since they bought it...can you say none?

The CEO of Viacom knows nothing about the deal. Viacom has no ownership of or connection to Paramount Parks. None whatsoever...other than as a licensor of film related rights.