jcgoble3 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Includes brontosaurus, but not the Hanna-Barbara license agreement: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/flintstones-bedrock-city-arizona-sale-million-brontosaurus-included/story?id=31523653 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingsislandfan1972 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 A very good video of this is when AdamTheWoo visited here. Heres a link to the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QABtLVb9zkc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollerNut Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Hmm, sounds to me like the license came up for renewal and they didn't have the money to pay it. Pretty much useless without the rights to use the theme wouldn't you say? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkroz Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I went here when I was a kid. Very barren. Kind of a neat roadside tourist attraction for kids. $5 entry. Not much to do / see. Still, it's a cute little place! A little stone age "movie theater" plays (/played) Flintstones cartoons, a few houses from the characters, a big volcano with a golf-cart train ride through it. There's a Flintstones Bedrock City camp ground / "theme park" in South Dakota that's much more... alive. It's very similar to the Yogi Bear campground concept - a regular ole family campground with a themed mini-golf, some character statues, a "drive-in" theater, themed buildings, etc. http://www.flintstonesbedrockcity.com/ However, the Bedrock City in the Arizona desert (the one that's for sale) probably doesn't lend itself well to a big expansive green campground. It does have camping and RV parking though! http://www.bedrockaz.com/index.htm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoaster Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Love this place and it's yabba dabva doo wonderful.. What a piece of Americana... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XGatorHead 8904 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 We drove by there in 1996 on our way from Grand Canyon NP to Flagstaff. It was definitely out in the middle of nowhere. If I had been the one driving with my family à la Clark Griswold, I would have stopped, but I was with my mom and stepdad on our last family vacation before I got married and they chose to just drive on by. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voicetek Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 The first time I ever saw/heard of this place was when I watched the Adam the Woo video a couple of months ago. The place looked deserted. It was amazing to me that the place was "supposedly" still in business. Not sure who'd want to buy this place, especially without the rights to the characters. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkroz Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 But what are the operating expenses? Probably little to nothing. The property includes "Fred's Diner" which is a restaurant that can be accessed without entering the "theme park." I'm sure that's where they make money. The "theme park" itself is old dusty buildings. Americana is exactly what it is - an old roadside attraction not unlike any other ghost town or historic recreation village that requires little-to-no staffing. Upkeep? Sure. But as it is, it's just a themed RV park with a diner and few themed buildings. I don't know the terms of the IP license, but in terms of day-to-day operations, I wouldn't guess it's burning through cash. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanna Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 In the comments, jimbo's review is killing me. It seems like the Land of Dour, according to his description 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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