Why didn't ever show the concept art for the new rides????

Can anyone answer my question?

My guess is two things, not unrelated:

a. Costs.

b. The original concepts were cost-cutted such that the art is not something they'd want to show now.

NU will be fine, but it is not what was once planned, if my hunches, sources and instincts are right.

^Concept art in amusement parks seems to ALWAYS look better or too unrealistsc then the actual finished product. Although I hate to knock Kings Island.....theirs is always a little dissapointing.......the F-14 on top of Top Gun.......the forklift on IJ....etc

Why didn't ever show the concept art for the new rides????

Can anyone answer my question?

I'm certain that the original plans changed drastically from what they were originally going for and the art that was presented would not match up.

question... this may go on to another thread, so I'm sorry if it is terribly irrelevant for this one. But as for the whole NU concept, if Paramount proceeds to sell off each park individually as rumored they may end up doing if they don't all sell as a package, would that change the creative licensing agreements for the current NU ride personalities / other rides (ie- Top Gun, etc.)? I could see a license agreement going with a package, but if they were to go independently, would Paramount dish out licenses to five different parks/owners?

Retaining creative use of all of the paramount themes seems very advantageous... but would it be allowable?

just wondering.

It all depends on who is buying the parks, and whether they want to pay for the licensing. I would imagine that they are trying to sell the Paramount Parks division as a whole and not the individual parks.

And how much is that? $7,000,000,000.00?

I'm sure it's in the millions, but that's drops in a bucket considering what they'd pay for the parks.

Someone already the menitioned that Crocadile Dundee is already removed from the Boomarang Bay name of the waterparks at both PKI and PGA, and the new BB at PC. So the lack of Paramount names may start disappearing before the sale.

The Mission Impossable has already been dropped from PCW stunt show. So who knows what exactly is going to happen, until the sale happens. If the sale happen in 2006 though, I would think we would see any major changed till 2007. Like when Paramount bought the park in 1992, no changes were actually made till 1993.

Of course, the sale to Paramount didn't close until August of 1992, so there wasn't a lot of time to infuse Paramount branding before that season ended.

They sure did a lot over the 92/93 off season though! I was amazed by how many things were plastered with the "mountain" logo by opening day '93...

But yet, they really didn`t start implementing rides tied to their movies and properties to the full potential until the last couple of years. Yeah they added Top Gun in `93 and Splat City in `95. But not until Drop Zone and Face Off in `99 and then eventually in full force with Tomb Raider did they start to tie in the Paramount properties into the parks.