BoddaH1994

You are correct. Same with passes in general. “We can do anything we want and they’ll still come.” Won’t change until they don’t come.

You know, I can forgive stories of “my pass didn’t work” or “I had trouble with my meal plan.” That comes with the territory. It’s the associates telling people incorrect information that concerned me. Between that, and the less-than-ethical business practices that we’ve seen out of the company in the past year or so that makes me and others hesitant to purchase prepaid plans. I’m not sure if that will get any better anytime soon.

I agree that they are splitting hairs, but I'm almost lead to believe that if this hadn't happened, the Walkers may not have even opened next year. They haven't exactly been known for their slam-dunk business decisions over the past decade.

I actually recently ordered a new copy of this book on Amazon since I was thinking about it and couldn't find the copy I bought when it came out. It has some cool facts about rides that are kind of obscure.

Not to mention, Herschend has certain values that are not consistent with the thinking of many Cedar Fair people. When we had Joel Mandy on the Attractions Group Podcast, he spoke very highly of HFE and how they truly put the guest at the center of everything. For other Teams... "It's as adorable as it is predictable." ...and the sentiment shows.

Why was the Corporate Communications Manager serving you fries? Unless you're talking about Dollar Days in which... yeah, those people had to help serving fries...

Wait… they’re charging admission and showing a show that they don’t own? I’m the first to admit that I’m not a lawyer, but this sure seems like a copyright violation. Does anyone have any expertise on this that can prove me right or wrong? I’m going to assume that they didn't pay to license it for one day…

It’s almost like the budget cuts were directly aimed at Kings Island…

Scale of 1 to 10: how likely would to be for the Kings Island Team to even allow that?

From what I’ve read, they are expected to overwhelmingly vote yes.

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Oof… they better deliver…

Nothing would flatter them more

I’m thinking that being a non-rides-focused event the distance may work to their advantage.

We discuss this in the latest Tower Topics: https://linktr.ee/towertopics

Very few people in Cincinnati will forego Winterfest to go to this. The people of Louisville? Maybe. And that'll hurt. A lot.

Fine. Off-season event. Whatever.

I wonder when we’ll get an announcement from the Kings Island T…. :::laughs profusely::: Very cool announcement out of Valleyfair!

“Coney Island puts rides up for sale and you’ll never believe what happens next!”

That may be true for both. It would be dependent on how the next few years go.

Under certain conditions the purchase would make sense. For example, The Beach got their play structure from a defunct water park in Michigan. Since time and - let’s be frank, quality - wasn’t of the essence, they were able to get it running. Additionally, it could be sold for parts. I’m not sure what kind of shape they’re in, but the pumps alone are worth tens of thousands of dollars. That’s even in non-working condition. So no, I think the attempt to sell is honest and not “Facebook nonsense.” They’ll really sell them.

I’m 100% on board with School of Rock. Magic of the Movies? Not so much.

I think we ALL agree that Mr Koontz was proactive, professional, and demonstrated that he cared to rectify this situation. People reached out to Knott’s and got conflicting info. This was dispute the web site very much suggesting that the answer was yes. Clearly this was an IT/communications breakdown. No one went to Mr Koontz; however, he heard of the problem and rectified it. His efforts are not unnoticed.

Agreed, but I still stand by the idea that, no matter which park you are, if you are omitted from any of these “listicles,” management will want to know why. As you probably recall, they were left off of locals lists such as “Top 10 Things To Do in Cincinnati” when they had things like WF or Haunt opening that weekend. If it was just this one, you may be right, but since this is a common subject then I think most would agree that it’s indicative of a much larger problem.