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I’m shocked they didn’t just originally stay with Top Gun considering how many rides they had named that.

True and we’ve also seen what happens with rides that were themed after series taken off the air. I’m guessing the costs for the rights for The Outer Limits were too costly considering it was going off air, so they removed the references to save money.

Someone on another site brought up another situation that could tie into it, and it’s an interesting point. As many know Paramount almost moved KD’s FOF to Carowinds, with the ride replacing the Carolina Cyclone. If you play with satellite imagery, you can get it to fit, if you remove Ricochet as well. Would KI be receiving CW’s Ricochet? Ironically, few coasters of the same model as Ricochet were built, and one of them is themed to Sponge-Bob. Would the ride look something like this?

This was brought up in the media, and it’s an important point. We know a second wave of the virus is coming, it’s only a matter of when and where. The problem with the parks’ reopening is that it could put them at risk of being a local source or hot spot during the second wave. The amusement industry is driven off of good reputation, and having a park be a hot spot is the worst possible event for a park’s or chain’s reputation. This is why Disney, even though Florida is reopening, won’t reopen Disney Springs-even though it’s in phase 1.

That would make sense. Would Tomb Raider be as costly since they had to pay for licenses from the studio and video game developers?

One of the marketing bosses at Paramount at the time told enthusiasts that.

Rights are really messy at times. Fox (possibly Disney) has the rights to the Adam West Batman, while everything else is through Warner.

Even though Paramount did not produce or make the film, they apparently had the rights to it.

True, but Paramount wanted their films to have rides, regardless of how it did at the box office.

The company as a whole consisted of several departments each working towards their own goals. There is a well known example where Paramount wanted TG at Carowinds themed to Godzilla, but the cost for the rights from a sister department were so high that the Parks brand balked at using it.

Paramount had the rights, but charged the park to use those rights. That’s why Top Gun was found at most of the parks (nearly all), because the cost for the parks was relatively low.

If we’re both thinking of the same coaster, that would have been an amazing ride.

It would have been the most interesting ride. They tried to resurrect the concept, but I think the threat from Kentucky Kingdom was the final nail in the coffin.

Speaking of a proposed ride, has anyone heard of ....

I think it would have been an excellent ride. I think the ride would have used the 2 bench PTC’s since those could handle turns better at the time the ride would have been built.

The thing I wonder is how Dinn’s version of the ride would have looked considering how many of Dinn’s coasters featured underbanked turns that created laterals.

It would fit nicely indeed. BTW, here’s a POV of the Star.

Well, much of the info was discussed in Coasterstock 2015. Furthermore, it’s been well known that a near recreation of the Aeroplane was in the works.

That would have been an interesting set-up for Rivertown.

This would have been a cool sight for Rivertown honestly. Where do you think DBack would have been placed had this been built?

In any industry, companies will know what their competitors are doing. Hence it is quite logical for a company to say we got project xyz because company A is working on said project.

That is conclusive. If a competitor said they got a project because their rival was to busy with projects x,y, and z, that’s a confirmation.

The fact Dinn had the KI contract meant that they couldn't bid for Fiesta Texas' new coaster: the Rattler. This comes from "RE: Rationale for Roller Coaster Corporation of America as Design Build Contractor for the Wooden Roller Coaster.", sent by John Hoover on October 19, 1990. This document was extremely useful in determining other projects, such as Opryland's coaster, which was nearly/almost contracted to CCI in the mid 90s.

It would have been interesting. I feel it would have carried the Rivertown theme quite well. Although the irony of an near Aeroplane clone in an area themed to the mid 1800s can not be missed.