scotty Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Is Great America going to be renamed Knott's Great America? When you click on the link below, it takes you to Great America's page.... www.knottsgreatamerica.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragerunner Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 The Knotts name does have major recognition in the California area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vortex Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Well their are two Great America parks one owned by Cedar Fair and the other Six Flags. A new name could help out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shman Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Well their are two Great America parks one owned by Cedar Fair and the other Six Flags. A new name could help out. And this is the reason that the Knotts name is going to be attached to it. The 2 parks were built very similar together. The Cali. park carried a trademark on the name Great America from when it was Mariott's Great America. Until Paramount let the trademark run out, now Six Flags owns the trademark for thier park and Cedar Fair has to do something to get away from an infringement.......adding "Knott's" to the name is logical due to the reputation they already have in California. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Uh, no. Great America is used by both Six Flags and Cedar Fair Entertainment Company under license. Neither owns the mark, and Paramount did not let the trademark lapse. They couldn't...since they never owned it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shman Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Sorry....I was just using this information as the basis of my post: From a quick search of trademarks it doesn’t appear that Paramount made any effort to keep the trademark use of “Great America” and actually let Marriott’s trademark die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westcoaster Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 [When I heard about this yesterday, I thought it would boost Recognition for Cedar Fair for Great America. And Just going to Knotts a few weekends ago, I liked Knotts. But what I thought was even more interesting before Knotts was bought by Cedar Fair they were planning a second park in California, Had anyone heard this before? and Knotts has 3 water parks under the Knotts banner too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzarley Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Uh, no. Great America is used by both Six Flags and Cedar Fair Entertainment Company under license. Neither owns the mark, and Paramount did not let the trademark lapse. They couldn't...since they never owned it! Are they still paying the license to Marriott? I've always been really interested in Marriott's foray into the theme park business. Working in the hotel industry, I had several colleagues who were former longtime Marriott guys, but none of them ever seemed to know too much (or, at least--wouldn't talk too much) about the theme park experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reclaimer Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Great America has posted their 2007 map and the logo is quite interesting. It doesn't contain any mention of the Knotts brand, and is also not in the Cedar Fair style, but rather the old Paramount style, sans Paramount mountain logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 With CF taking over is there any change PGA could stay open year round like KBF does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 The weather in Northern California is substantially different than the weather in Southern California. I really doubt they stay open all year. And I believe the sale of the parks to their respective entities by Marriott included terms to continue using the Great America name under license. If memory serves, whether or not a payment was required was not publicly disclosed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Could the Great America map been produced before the new logos came out? I was also wonder about the Great America logo on the 2007 park map, same logo minus the Paramount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 For what its worth.... Dorney is now listing "Knott's Great America" as a park ou can use your Maxx pass at. http://www.dorneypark.com/public/trip_plan...n_pass_central/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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