robbalvey Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Just like the "greatest achievement" thread, what was the biggest blunder? What it Hard Rock Park? Geauga Lake closing? Six Flags bankrupt? Disney's California Adventure? Post what you think! --Robb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Hard Rock Park. They went from $400 million to bankrupt in less than one full season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterfreak101 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Hard Rock Park. They went from $400 million to bankrupt in less than one full season. I feel like the only other possible answer is Geauga, but Cedar Fair almost ran that one into the ground. HRP did it all by itself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downunder Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Hard Luck Park, damn that was dumb. Did anyone think California Adventure was pretty much p!ss weak world for at least half the decade (I went in 2001 and wasn't that amused, haven't been back)? At least Disney is fixing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernierocker Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 The closing of Astroworld. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterkyle Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Arrow going bankrupt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Mad_Hatter Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 California Adventure! Walt Disney Studios Paris! Hard Rock Park! Freestyle Music (or whatever the compony was) buying Hard Rock Park! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chroniq Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 C'mon Now- The answer is clearly DUBAILAND. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrykoala2112 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Schwarzkopf and Arrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Knotts Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 The original X. What a mess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKI Jizzman Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Son of Beast. What a piece of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeemerBoy Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 C'mon Now- The answer is clearly DUBAILAND. I considered this too. The biggest difference is that Hard Rock Park was actually built, so I'm giving that the nod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) I'd say at the "whole park" level, definitely Hard Rock Park. As for individual attractions, I think the makeovers of "Journey into Imagination" would probably take the prize, along with Superstar Limo at DCA (which was almost bad enough to be endearing). Edited December 30, 2010 by cfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajc47 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Geauga Lake Cedar Fair's actions leading up to their current situation Six Flags bankruptcy Hard Rock/Freestyle Park(possibly biggest fail ever) Son of Beast(rode it when it was all of 10 days old and it was horrid even then) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyEisentrout Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Dick seeing the need to buy the Paramount Parks, aka - Own Ohio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyEisentrout Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Oh, and InBev dropping the beer tasting from the Busch parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightbeawannabe Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 -Kat Jone's calculus grade. Well, the whole ordeal. -Hard Rock Park. -Six Flags filing Chapter 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Alex Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Six Flags New Orleans. Gerstlauer trains on CCI coasters. The loss of CCI and a large chunk of their coasters. Six Flags whoring out with advertising campaigns. I feel like train skins ruined part of the park experience. SFI's lack of theming on certain installations, as well as their rushed installations. Vekoma's Giant Inverted Boomerang. Losing Astroworld, though I never visited and have no opinion on the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Cold Medina Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Hard Rock Park Son of Beast Simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcdude Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Hard Rock/Freestyle Music Park Disney's increasing reliance on movie-based attractions instead of original rides Cedar Fair as a company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coasterdude5 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 I believe the closing of Geauga Lake and Astroworld are both contenders, but only because I don't believe the decision to close either park was well thought out. Hard Rock Park could easily be the biggest failure, if not the double-fail that was Freestyle Music Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbia Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Blunders of the Decade: Parks: Hard Rock Park Marketing Tactics: "Xtreme" Branding Across the Industry (But mostly Six Flags) "Panamaxing" Parks with Coasters (Get as many as will fit, everything else can suffer) Concepts: Giant Inverted Boomerang / 4th Dimension Coaster Specific Coasters: (Note all of these are at ex-Paramount Parks) Son of Beast Stealth (Great America) Hypersonic XLC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn54 Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Schwarzkopf and Arrow Going as they were great manufacturers for start up parks and some parks wouldn't be the same with out there rides and it's a shame they didn't continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudtheWeiser Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 One of the biggest for me is the overblown marketing of th13teen and its minimum 1.2m height rubbish but the number 1 for me is easily Hard Rock Park for being such a giant scale disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groteslurf Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 For sure one of the greatest blunders was Vertigo @ WB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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