Arie Force One purchased by Six Flags, location TBD

bigboy:

How does the park deserve a RMC?

It's been a very good boy?

I bet the brake run is turned into an unload ala Wildcats Revenge.

Alot of legacy SF parks already have RMCs, Dorney would be awesome, but they would definitely give it to GrAdv first. And yes KI should get a terrain RMC.

Also a good sign they bought it cause CF was off RMC but maybe John and the remaining CF people changed tact, alas one assumes Railblazer will be moved as well, though that really should go to Discovery Kingdom.

Coasterbuzz has spent the past 25+ years reminding people that parks don't make decisions to cater to the niche group of enthusiasts, they make decisions to best serve their overall customer base.

So of course Cedar Flags comes in teasing and then announcing something that 95% of their customers won't know about or care. Yeah, it's a cool thing for the coaster community, but I don't know how marketable the whole "saved a three year old coaster that no one outside of coaster enthusiasts has ever heard of" thing really is. I feel they could have gotten more good PR from saving Wild One from Six Flags America or an eventual plan to save Gold Striker from California's Great America.

As for keeping the Arie Force One name, I have to imagine John Arie's ego is such that keeping his name on the ride was in his terms and conditions of the sale to Six Flags. There's no other reason why they'd do it. Unless again, after 25 years, we're all being proven wrong about parks catering to and marketing to enthusiasts.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the ride is being saved. It's just an odd choice for Six Flags. I expected it to go literally anywhere else.

Saying it makes financial sense and saying a park "deserves" it is not the same thing.

Some of you are saying that Arie Force can't go to a busier park because it has low capacity. This is Six Flags we're talking about. They wanna sell them fastlanes.