The current season and the future compared and contrasted: Cedar Fair and Six Flags:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13612942/

It's good that Cedar Point, KI and CW are all at the 3.5 to 4.0 attendance levels. In reports I have been reading, some are boasting that Magic Mountain is a full time park that attracts 2.6 million guests a year. I hope that's a misprint! That's pretty low for a year round park. Six Flags may have bought a lot of underperforming parks and expected to improve them, but Cedar Fair is buying parks with strong name brands and healthy earnings. (and I hope they restore all of the PKI carrousel horses like the ones Rick was in the process of doing years back. His horses were beautiful when he got done with them)

It's not a misprint.

And if you've been to Magic Mountain in the past five to ten years, you know why.

That park does not attract the nicest clientele, to put it mildly. The park itself needs a LOT of work to make it a nice place...and Messrs Shapiro and Snyder have apparently come to the conclusion it is better to sell the place and get what they can for it (land values there are very high)....