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If you owned your own theme park
Rollercoaster Rider replied to martinb's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
How about instead of Wild Mouse, Madison Mouse? -
If you owned your own theme park
Rollercoaster Rider replied to martinb's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
^ How about Madison? -
If you owned your own theme park
Rollercoaster Rider replied to martinb's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Something I've thought about WAY too much, But here ya go: If I could Re-Do Walt Disney World Here's what I would've done differently: Put Alien Encounter in Hollywood Studios Build Winnie The Pooh in the England section of EPCOT ++ Not Build Animal Kingdom Put It's Tough To Be A Bug where Body Wars was Put Dinosaur in Hollywood Studios Add a Timon & Pumbaa Dark Ride to Hollywood Studios (Use some of the Killimanjaro Safari budget)(That + Festival of Lion King would create a Lion King Land) Put Kali River Rapids in the Canada Section of EPCOT Put Primeval Whirl and Triceratop Spin in Hollywood Studios but themed to Little Mermaid (Little Mermaid Land, Something for girls) Put Expedition Everest in Japan (With a Different theme) Put Avatarland in Hollywood Studios Retheme Great Movie Ride into "Great Walt Disney Ride" with every Animated film Walt Disney had a Part in from Snow White to Jungle Book Retheme Disney Quest to a Star Wars/Marvel building Add a Disney Princess Indoor Mini Golf Course to Disney Springs Add a Disney Character Wax Museum to Disney Springs Never Updated Hall Of Presidents and replace it with a Hall of Disney Characters Use the Mission Space Budget and build a Sinbad Attraction in Morocco in EPCOT ++ Keeping Horizons and Original Journey -
La Ronde Discussion Thread
Rollercoaster Rider replied to Skyscraper's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
That is a cool "Page not Found" Page -
Heide Park Discussion Thread
Rollercoaster Rider replied to Sebbe's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Actually according to the TEA (I know I know) Merlin parks (Excluding Legolands) seem OK-- 2016 v 2015 Gardaland- Up 1.1% Alton Towers- Up 2.9% Thorpe- FLAT Chessington- Up 1.8% Heide Park- Up 1% Alton dropped 25% in 2015 IIRC so marginal improvements probably aren't going to help much. Probably an improvement financially considering how they went up when 4+ rides were SBNO and 0 added that year: -
Heide Park Discussion Thread
Rollercoaster Rider replied to Sebbe's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Actually according to the TEA (I know I know) Merlin parks (Excluding Legolands) seem OK-- 2016 v 2015 Gardaland- Up 1.1% Alton Towers- Up 2.9% Thorpe- FLAT Chessington- Up 1.8% Heide Park- Up 1% -
Heide Park Discussion Thread
Rollercoaster Rider replied to Sebbe's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
This may not have been a rhetorical question, but I think I can answer this. At least Dragons has some logic to it from a financial standpoint. Harry Potter is Universal's main cash cow, so wanting to put a dark ride there makes some sense. However, Heide Park is trying to be a thrill park. It makes no sense for a thrill park to literally let their most iconic roller coaster rot. Say what you will about Six Flags, but at least they know what they are. Six Flags seems to understand that they do need to maintain their best coasters (if minimally). Heck, even Six Flags America, the butt of every Six Flags joke, still keeps their wood coasters in descent shape. Remember a few years ago when there was a scare that Six Flags would buy Busch Parks? Given Merlin's reputation, I am not sure which chain would be worse to end up in... Well let's look at all the closed attractions at Busch Gardens Tampa - Theater by Zagora Cafe - Gwazi - Terrace Restaurant 1/2 the Time - Bird Gardens Gift Shop - Tidal Wave - Curiosity Caverns - Rhino Rally - Questor Building But look on the bright side of SeaWorld/Busch Gardens/Merlin; They went public so rich people got richer and they pass the budget cuts down to the consumer. And not to add fuel to the fire, How are the Legoland parks lately? -
Heide Park Discussion Thread
Rollercoaster Rider replied to Sebbe's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I remember seeing Aqua Spin down a lot in the last two years (the park has an app that lets you see wait times and ride closures which I often check in on when I'm bored) and it was still closed for winter maintenance when I visited the park. Since Merlin killed Ripsaw at Alton last year I guess it was only a matter of time. It's really a shame too since the area with all the flat rides is one of the nicer spots in the park. At least it's themed cohesively with a decent atmosphere. Also to defend Merlin, ALOT of Parks have gotten rid of Huss Rides. Six Flags, Cedar Fair have gotten rid of Frisbee's and Top Spins When Six Flags can maintain their parks/rides better than Merlin... That's all I'm gonna say (COUGH Gwazi COUGH)