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    TEA's 2013 Attendance Report

    in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News

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    How the (bleep) is Six Flags ahead of Cedar Fair?? I've been to 6 of their parks and I thought they was busted compared to just CP or KI alone.

    When?

    WHich ones?

    How were they busted?

    Note also that Six Flags is near virtually every major metro market...Cedar Fair isn't.

    Cedar Fair:

    NYC: no

    Chicago: no

    Dallas/Fort Worth: no

    Atlanta: no

    St Louis: no

    Meanwhile, Cedar Fair has parks in places like Shakopee, Minnesota; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Aurora, Ohio and Sandusky, Ohio.

    And some New Yorkers would sneer Cincinnati!

    That prejudice against Cinci is about as accurate as many's against a Six Flags they haven't been to in years.

    For instance, Six Flags was recently headed by the former General Manager of Kings Island, the former Chairman of Paramount Parks.

    The Flags of today is not the Flags of the midterm past. It is far, far better than that.

    And it's not really a competitor of Cedar Fair. I daresay that Matt Ouimet and James Reid-Anderson understand each other's companies, respect and admire each other and borrow best practices. Gary Story and Dick Kinzel, and their business strategies, are gone.

    Who did all season dining first at a seasonal park?

    What seasonal chain first adopted virtual lines (and still does a far better job of it)?

    Who started in park advertising on a wide scale basis?

    Where was an event like CP's after hours party first done in a seasonal park?

    Who started selling refillable souvenir mugs?

    Which seasonal park chain first widely adopted no loose articles on large coasters?

    Yep. And questions can just as easily be formulated the other way.

    Those who only see the best at their favorite chain are missing out.

    Illinois

    Kentucky

    Missouri

    Montreal

    New Jersey

    New York

    Texas (Arlington)

    So yeah I've been to a few, but it's just my opinion. The parks have a good gimmick going but to me they just don't feel or excite me like CP or kI, can you dig it?

    Adventure Expressions

    in Kings Island

    Posted

    I believe that Adventure Express is a staple and should stay put. I also think that it would be interesting though if the initial lift hill was the enclosed guardian section. Concerning BLSC umm yeah it's never on my to do list, just imagine what you could do with that area if BLSC wasn't there.

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    What would you hate to see go at Kings Island

    in Kings Island

    Posted

    The Eiffel Tower and the fountains, can imagine how weird the park would look without either of them?

    That could have happened. Paramount explored the idea of removing the tower and replacing it with a Ferris wheel that was shaped like the Paramount logo.

    I don't want to even think about that, if I'd seen it I would've walked away smh!

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    Haunt 2014

    in Coming Attractions

    Posted

    When does KI usually announce their Halloween schedule? I want to take the family this year and we want to prep as it will be our first haunt. We've read a lot of bad reviews of the surrounding hotels, we don't want anything to extravagant and would prefer shuttle availability, any recommendations would be appreciated :)

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