Breaking: Sources inside Busch Entertainment say the company has been sold to Blackstone

This could VERY interesting. Blackstone has its fongers in everything from hotels to telecom to baking.

I can't stop laughing at the word "fongers" to comment intelligibly on this. :)

Apparently it's a German Bicycle Company. ;)

Hmmmm.... interesting where this will go.

Jason, thanks for that link, it has some really good old bicycle photos.

Quickest derailing of a thread ever.....

It's not German. Looks more like Dutch.

Inside employees? I knew the Dippin' Dots guy was a reliable source. ;)

If they are waiting to announce until they can inform their personnel on the west coast (it is only quarter after 7:00 there now) then I give them credit for doing that. Classy gesture to their human resources.

this must be true thats why they were so quick to close bbw someone at inbev wants it for themselves so they had to get it out before the sale was made public

There's a picture of an 1898 Fongers military folding bike here http://www.foldingcyclist.com/Fongers-1898-military-folding-bike.html. Also there's the history of folding bikes on the site too. It's an interesting read.

I was reading the comments on one of those links by someone who name was seaworld employee and his fear was he would be fired and hired back for 5.00 an hour less.

I would think the wages will not change and the bennies will go up ie.Free admission to universal for seaworld employee's and vice versa (do they have that already?)

As a customer will they sell AP's for seaworld,busch and universal ?

Will Universal start a shuttle there (soon to be)sister parks ?

Will onsite at universal hotels get you front of the line at seaworld and busch ?

Will HHN and HOS get a both parks ticket ?

Will there be cross advertising and promotions for the Parks ?

Will the new rides and area's force disney to step up with new E ticket attractions (or a whole park)

You should have ended your post with something like "Find out next season on the internet". You had the perfect ending to a cliff hanger of a season ending of a show with all those questions haha.

Keven38, I know that Universal employees and Sea World Employees can visit each other's parks for free...

I'm not entirely familiar with Blackstone. I worked for Universal for a year, and except for the pay, it was a very good experience. Is this news good or bad? I am hoping that the Busch parks will have minimal changes.

Blackstone operates it's parks under Merlin Entertainments. They are the largest amusement park operator in Europe and the 2nd largest world wide. I don't think they will do anything detrimental to the parks judging by how the parks they own look. Although I've never been to any so I can't really comment on that.

If this happens, I think it will be a good thing. I would assume that most any plans at BE have been shelved since the InBev purchase. Stagnation is never a good thing. You are either moving forward or going backwards.

New 2010 at BGE ... Big Bad Wolf!!!

^ But they're going to rename it "Fonger." So we can say that Blackstone is giving us the Fonger.

Oh boy! I didn't mean to make that typo!