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Great points. Here's my take. Absolutely. This plays into what I'm saying. My concern is that the experience/service/product is all going to feel very much the same, and this is a big step toward that. This may not matter quite as much to the consumer who isn't interested in traveling anywhere outside of their regional market, I agree. However, that's not good for the people desiring a diverse experience by traveling, and it can eliminate incentive. We may not be significant in percentages, but we are vast in numbers. If World's of Fun ends up offering a very similar experience and ride offerings to SFStl, there isn't much of an incentive to travel. It's numbing. On top of that, you'll pay the same high price at WoF as you will at STStl, because they can more effectively influence more of the norm. It's a reasonable expectation to pay $300 per ticket, when most other parks charge that much. Maybe they don't care if those who can't afford the $300 tickets attend, because there will still be enough consumers willing to pay. Less guests/higher cost/less crowded parks sold as a "premium experience." This can result in the same or higher profit with as much effort as they are willing to put into guest experience... because they control the standard of guest experience. Lower the expectations and increase the prices. It may not work all at once, but it's a step in the right direction for people looking at numbers completely disconnected from the parks. Shareholders couldn't care less. It's not dissimilar to the food service industry in general. Restaurants are feeling more corporate and less diverse. The conglomerate owners don't eat at TGI Fridays, Texas Roadhouse, or Applebee's. Their concerns are focused less on consumer satisfaction as they become formula/profit driven by those who don't care. I'm somewhat of a car guy. Even the automotive industry is just turning copy/paste automatic transmission focused designs for models that were once considered enthusiast cars. There are fewer standouts as companies start to merge or partner. Performance numbers and outputs are very oddly similar. Subaru partnered with Toyota. Toyota released the GR Corolla, which is a fantastic machine. Although there were some outside contributing factors, the Subaru STI got killed for this chassis (FML). Many critics praise the GR Corolla as 'feeling' very similar to the STI, but modernized, which would have obviously been the natural progression of the next generation STI. Those are my concerns. The probability of the theme park industries impacts are anyone's guess, but they are by no means unrealistic to those of us paying attention.

Whoa there. Let's not get crazy, I'm 56 years old but only about 60" and a half (maybe 61" with my shoes on) I don't want to cut it too close