jordanwilcox11

The original Cyclone @ SFNE was far less inspired than High Roller, and look what RMC did with that.

Here's why it has to go: Same reason as Excalibur. Because they are dangerous rides. In Excalibur, there is a moment where if you fling your arm to the right it would get amputated. It's 1:15 in this video: Likewise, in High Roller, the wood on the left and right of the trains is very closer (much closer than modern wooden coasters) and your arms could get amputated in High Roller as well. These are high risk rides, and Matt Ouimet to me seems like a risk averse dude.

A front-gate B&M would be ~$15 million. RMC High Roller = $10 million. Waterpark expansion = $20 million. Flat rides = $5 million. So that's $50 million over 5 years, or $10 million per year. Very doable.

What Valleyfair needs to do in the shortest amount of time and with the lowest cost in order to become a very good park: Year 1: Replace Dinosaurs Alive at the front of the park with an inverting B&M and remake the front gate, Fury 325 and Gatekeeper style. Year 2: RMC High Roller. Would be on the scale of Wicked Cyclone at Six Flags New England. These 2 moves alone would mean that Valleyfair would then have an Intamin (Steel Venom), GCI (Renegade), B&M (front gate), RMC (New High Roller) Years 3 & 4: Waterpark expansion. First, remove Excalibur roller coaster and replace it with a Waterpark parking lot. Then expand the waterpark into the unused space. This follows the plans submitted to Army Corps of Engineers. BTW, does anyone know what the status of this is in terms of being approved? Why is it taking so long: Year 5: Replace Corkscrew with flat rides or an S&S free fly, etc. That's it. Suddenly it's a great park, in only 5 years. And all it requires is some standard CapEx and approval by Army Corps of Engineers.