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I'd love to see a couple permanent steel buildings go up to house mazes. They're really cheap to build.

I think we all saw this coming.

Well ACE events are big enough changing plans even a year out is something they don't want to do. Yes all three parks are still taking part in the ACE event - ours will just do it under its new name.

It has to mean the chasers are coming back. That's the experience it had when it opened.

You can't get IP deals if you aren't trying. I suspect the CEO knows full well they won't get all of them but it would help if they can get at least one.

Keeping WB was always a pipe dream. The only thing I could see is a targeted Loony Tunes-only license. And only because Cedar Flags might decide they want to use Peanuts as the sole kids IPs. Alternatively they make a deal to sell the Peanuts license to Enchanted. It truly doesn’t make sense for Cedar Flags to have both. That’s the part of the merger that’s always been a question mark IMO. It doesn’t make sense to have both.

Dang it - the UI didn't show me the first post went through.

It's really going to be funny if Mid-America, Worlds of Fun and Valleyfair end up growing faster than the lower tier parks remaining in the Six Flags chain.

You know I mentioned the Nebulaz and Flying Scooters forgetting that when the SFA rides would get relocated they'd probably not being going to an Enchanted Park now that they aren't in the chain ?? I mean they'd still work in those locations - but it won't be the ones from SFA, those are going to Great Adventure this season.

I could see an Air Race and Nebulaz replacing those two. Or Flying Scooters in one of the slots also.

Remember they let TWO original parks go. The Fair half of Cedar Fair was also sold off along with the 3rd Six Flags.

I’m making a joke about Mild Thing ?

Is this The crown jewel though? Valleyfair looks pretty good. The park has two mine trains.

We don't know anything about this company. This might be a hedge fund that set up a dba and they actually intend to part everything out. Given the stated objective of Cedar Flags to bring legacy Six Flags parks up to the level of Cedar Fair legacy parks I believed that they actually were going to do that as soon as financially possible. And in the meantime my membership would get me in to all of the other parks.

They’re actually posting even more than last offseason.

Unless we've been wrong or lied to all along it's been said STL is a profitable park. That should plant it in #2. Obviously if it actually doesn't print money it's in group 3.

Only investing in already humming along properties sounds like a recipe for a company to have zero growth. I don't have an MBA or anything but that seems like a dumb plan if you're trying to grow your numbers.

There's plan A, plan B and then "oh crap we can't buy anything".

I mean if it's replaced with something on-par with AlpenFury I'm sure SFOT would take that trade.

Like those are any more likely to happen.

The front half of the park is much flatter than the back - there are some choices that would not only be at least as flat as the area it's in at SFA but possibly even flatter (SFA is less flat than Darien Lake). And the Tidal Wave location has variations in elevation along any potential orientation but the overall elevation from station to turnaround wouldn't be drastically different heading forwards because there's a mound in the particular location by Batman, tall footers would cover the low points. I'm still not sure they want to spend relocation money either but scrapping coasters isn't free - there's a chance you could be unhappy for at least someone in the chain. It still costs several million dollars to scrap these things.

It definitely wouldn't. Yes you can get it custom built to the terrain but the material costs exist and there would now be tariffs on top of the usual material and transport costs. That would add a substantial amount to the cost of importing a roller coaster. B&M and Chance likely use imported steel and that would also be impacted by the same issue. There's never been a better time to relocate coasters than right now. I'm also not sure just how much of the relocation would need to involve grading vs how much adaptation could be achieved by adding height with either tall footers or extra new steel columns. The Six Flags America version ALREADY features tall footers and other quirks due to it being a clone.

Fright Fest can be good at other Legacy Six Flags parks - don't take this version as an indictment of the others. I genuinely don't know where the haunted attraction pass revenue is going if it's not going back in to the event.

Hopefully the entertainment enhancement includes a major revamp of Fright Fest. How many years are they going to just do the exact same things over and over?