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Someone pulled a Robb and put a camera on top of a piece of luggage at the airport to film an interesting POV video of a wild ride through conveyor belts and sorting gates through the airport. You even get to ride through the X-ray machine. Now for this to be a ride, they would need extra stunt luggage for near misses and activate more of the sorting gates but it is not boring on its base. Plus the motion simulator would need to tile, vibrate, and have sudden jolts, with a good sound system it might be fun. POV: You're a bag that was just checked at the airport

I would think you could edit out most of the straight sections. Stop it from operating in a block mode for a day and let the luggage run into each othe, etc.. for filming. It is definately too long of video but I couldn't find a shorter version, so I would skip to hlaf way through the video if you get bored. I just assumed the conveyor belt traveled in a circle to the other side of the wall and baggage was then thrown on a cart and driven to the plane. I had no idea that there were miles of merging converyor belts with automated sorting gates under the airport.

I've read your posts. There isn't much of anything in them that I see as completely unreasonable. There are definitely reasons to be concerned here. Like I said, the track record for consumers with large mergers like this is not great. Competition breeds better results. The only other reason I am not as doom and gloom about this other than what I said above is that I don't think the chains competed much anyway, only in a couple markets overall, so in that sense this might not be as impactful as most comparable mergers. But I could be wrong, for sure.

I hope you're right. I gain nothing by winning an argument in this thread.

I have become more cautiously optimistic about this. I get all the concern though. The track record of large corporations merging his historically not benefited consumers to say the least and that could very well happen here. I am not blind to that very real possibility. It is just that this "merger of equals" is PR bullshit and I am happy about that. Cedar Fair is legally the acquirer in the deal. Cedar Fair shareholders are getting more than 50% of the stock. All the high level management is coming from Cedar Fair. This "merger of equals" is Cedar Fair acquiring Six Flags spun in a way to try to not impact the Six Flags brand, full stop. Long term, it is harder to make predictions about the future. It always is. Again, there could be some bad outcomes here. But in the short term at least, it seems to me we are going to see the Cedar Fair model applied to the current Six Flags parks. For the smaller Six Flags parks, not great probably! But I can at least look forward to the flagship parks currently in the old SF chain to get cleaned up and improved presentation coupled with much more aggressive capital investment in new attractions.

It’s looking like project 2025 is most likely a very large Premier Rides launched coaster, which should be awesome given how big this is shaping up to be. Hopefully no comfort collars.

^Depending on what rumor you believe, that's part of the next major expansion for Magic Kingdom. I'm just worried they wouldn't really commit to it. Just imagine an entire dark ride themed around Night on Bald Mountain. Hell, there was zero mention of Dr. Facilier in Tiana's Bayou Adventure. But at the same time, how awesome would a new-gen Vekoma flyer would be themed around Maleficent? Back on topic, very excited for Dark Universe. Probably the land I'm most excited for at the park. At the moment, I'm aiming to visit in 2027--gives them time to work out some kinks and a bit of the newness/#FIRST to wear off.