Dark Ride Artist

Thank you for the warm welcome! I understand the politics involved in these large parks as I am found in corp. meetings w blueprints in hand debating limitations/expectations etc. It's too bad that parks don't follow the Kennywood rule but even they have struck against their own structure and(by inside mouths)woefully regret parts of their decisions. I was just verbalizing a romantic sense of business for KI that nostalgia buffs would appreciate.However, there is a large , beautiful park willing to bet with me (and they have handed over to me a cash deposit for a very large renovation due before may 5th 2011) on a Pretzel ride (politics being what they are I'm not allowed to disclose who this is yet) that will dwarf the Camden renovation. I've already finished several of the large scale stunts and my sound man is making the theme this week based on our huge inventory of effects.By the way, I'm sure the paint is still drying on phase 2 at Camden,lol,you've seen the photos of that Pretzel I take it. Thank you for such a favorable compliment and phase 3 is sure to be a handful of surprises inside and out! Merry Christmas to all of you!!

Ello and Merry Christmas everyone!! I'm a new member on this forum and excited to have discussion(when I'm not busy servicing this industry) with great fans of this beautiful park and the equipment it takes to entertain guests in this great country of ours. I will keep controversial opinions to myself and rather admire all thoughts as a conosseur carefully(unless asked to be involved). Speaking from a fans point of view, I relish the parks' ambitious direction to add these spectacularly beautiful coasters and steel to continue to impress the publics' need for new and updated fads/interests. If I could see a piece(or two) to help put the park in a vintage friendly marketing standpoint, I would choose a classic ride for the nostalgic afficionados in some of us. The "baby-boomers" are all grandparents now and will be the ones (if not already) slowing down moreso to ride carousels, trains and other child hood favorites. They were the ones who liked the Halloween holiday soooo much so that they single handedly made it the second largest commercial holiday behind Christmas. With that being said, I'd LOVE for them to find , restore and install a good old fashione dark ride to scare the bejabbers out of the wanting public. It would be a great ride to market from many angles including the fact that they have everything else besides. When so many parks have shuttered, removed and/or junked their rides turning to the high-tech formats, everyone of those babyboomers AND their following 2 generations I've spoken with agree that the new rides(as great as some are) cannot really compete with some of those older scares and if built with the right facade and served up with a proper theme, would serve KI ten fold outside of a loading capacity. When you have a general admission though, you don't worry about capacity as much as bragging rights of a vintage classic such as a Pretzel dark ride!! I've been interested in this rather dead topic for quite some time however the people over at Laffinthedark.com agree with me 100%. I've recently completed 2/3rd's of Camden Parks old Haunted House gravity Pretzel(installed in 1960) and I've been notified that it really sells and belongs more at a place such as KI. Any thoughts?