Drachen Fire being sold!!

Yesterday I e-mailed BGW asking them if they were getting any new coasters for 2002 and what is up with DF. Here is what they replied:

Thank you for your inquiry. We have no plans to add any coasters or reopen
Drachen Fire for the for the 2002 season. We have decided to sell the ride.
Once again, thank you for writing and we hope you will return in the future.

-----Original Message-----
From: USAirways777@aol.com [mailto:USAirways777@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:45 PM
To: BGW.GuestRelations@BuschGardens.com
Subject: 2002 Season

This means the ride is for sale, which everyone knows! It doesnt mean it has been sold yet though...
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Out of the coasters i've ridden here is wat i rank them overall:(ive been to canobie lake and SFNE)
1. S:RoS 2. Yankee Cannonball 3. Riverside Cyclone 4. Canobie Corkscrew 5. Thunderbolt 6. Galaxy 7. Mind Eraser 8. Dragon coaster 9. poison ivy's tangled

Drachen Fire was sold to a place in San Antonio for 4.5 million dollars

What is this place you speak of?? and is the ride being dismantled??
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Out of the coasters i've ridden here is wat i rank them overall:(ive been to canobie lake and SFNE)
1. S:RoS 2. Yankee Cannonball 3. Riverside Cyclone 4. Canobie Corkscrew 5. Thunderbolt 6. Galaxy 7. Mind Eraser 8. Dragon coaster 9. poison ivy's tangled

the place is apperently a coaster company and i am ussuming, dont quote me on it, but im assuming that the ride is going to be dismanteled
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Rollercoasters are my life, I think about them more than I think about....wait, thats all I think about :)

OK, and where is proof of it being sold to "a place in San Antonio"? Just another unsubstantiated rumor.
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- Peabody

There is no coaster company is Texas. Glenn, you have been here for 16 days. Please get proof first. And check you story for common sense. After all, why would a coaster company buy an existing coaster?
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What will happen if they dont sell it? will they reopen it?
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i play when i wanna play

Uh... let me think, it hasn't been open for how long now, why would they reopen it?
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Does CCI know how to make a bad coaster?

Randy Moss said:
What will happen if they dont sell it? will they reopen it?
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i play when i wanna play

oh they'll sell it alright, a coaster like that four 4.5 mill? lol, a park would be stupid not to buy it. plus with all the improvements that can be done to it nowadays (lapbars for example), i doubt they will have trouble selling it. also if the people are smart and look @ this site, they will see a lot of people want this ride re-opened (meaning more popularity for the ride). it all makes sense...

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Bid farewell to this thread...

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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like bananas.

Jeff, email me, and I will give you the skinny on Drachen Fire. It will breathe again........

themonkeymaster99 said:

also if the people are smart and look @ this site, they will see a lot of people want this ride re-opened (meaning more popularity for the ride). it all makes sense...
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Actually they'll see that 50 or so die hard lunatics want it re-opened. I'd imagine they already have the data that suggests a million or so visitors to the park weren't interested in riding it much at all.
Don't you guys ever get tired of talking about this? ;)

I'll start the countdown to this thread being closed. Everyone...join along:

"5!......4!......3!......2!......1!......"

Its been for sale for almost a year.
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i play when i wanna play

This is no surprise. Wasn't it obvious that BGW would sell the ride?

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Closed topic.