Titan Fan, SFAW has NO B&M's, and very little room for expansion! Even if they did try to compete with you, it would take them YEARS to do it! At the very worst, they'd probably offer to buy you out, if your park didn't make it, but I guarantee that the people around here have been FED UP with Six Flags and SFAW more than long enough that they would do ANYTHING for a park that would give them a good B&M! Plus, if you could afford one with 7 or more inversions, your park would be the ONLY park in Texas with a 7 inversion coaster! Even Superman Krypton Coaster at SFFT only has 6 inversions, and that's the closest that a B&M coaster has gotten to Houston so far. Also, SFFT doesn't have enough room for a larger B&M, and Neither does SFOT, and those two parks already have at least one B&M anyway. I know that it would be VERY expensive to build a 7 inversion B&M coaster, but it shouldn't be that much more than $12 million. It should only cost you about $15 million or so, and only $18 million at the most. Believe me, if you could afford to spend the money on a B&M coaster that was radically different from any of the other B&M coasters currently in Texas, people from all over the state and all over the world would flock to your park in droves! And it wouldn't be very difficult to come up with a layout that stands out from the rest of them either. SFOT's B&M is just a standard Batman layout with only 5 inversions, just like the one at Sea World in San Antonio, and SFFT's B&M floorless is currently the most unique B&M in the state. So, SKC is really the coaster that you should go out of your way to surpass. If I were you, and I could afford to do it myself, I'd spend as much money as possible on a B&M that makes everything else in Texas look like the garbage that it is, and use the profits that it made for me to slowly add other unique attractions! If a strategy like that can work in Florida, there's no reason in the world why it can't work here too. Florida used to have no roller coasters at all, except for the ones at Disney World, and now they have FOUR different types of 7 inversion B&M coasters, and every single one of them has made BILLIONS for the parks that they were installed in! Kraken at Sea World Orlando was the most recent one, and I understand that attendance figures at that park have skyrocketed ever since it opened to the public! And Sea World Orlando had NO roller coasters before that, except for their liquid coaster, the Journey to Atlantis, which is hardly a world-class ride. Now they have the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Orlando, and people can't get there fast enough to ride it! So, I GUARANTEE that anyone who tells you that building your park in or near Houston is a bad idea is STUPID. Personally, I think that it would make much less sense to build a park in north Texas, because they already have SFOT & a small mom & pop park in Amarillo, so you really don't want to put a smaller park out of business, do you? Competing with SFAW would be MUCH WISER, because they're no real competition at all right now, and even if they could compete with you, they probably wouldn't, because Six Flags is too busy spending most of its money outside of Texas. When they do spend money here, it's ALWAYS at SFOT & SFFT, it's NEVER here! They also COULDN'T compete with you very much here because SFOT's investors are NOTORIOUS for stealing rides that were destined for SFAW! Those people up there are the ones that you really wanna stay away from, because they DO have the money to compete with you, and they WILL, but if your park is nowhere near them, it would be very hard for them to compete with you, even if they did build better rides than you did! However, that's not very likely to happen either, because they have even less room left for expansion than SFAW! Why do you think that they built the Titan in their parking lot? All of the Six Flags parks in Texas are almost completely out of room, so if you could buy enough land down here to make room for some MAJOR rides, I guarantee that you could put SFAW out of business, and most of the people here in Houston would THANK YOU for it! Meanwhile, I'm sure that the people in Amarillo would be VERY UPSET if a new park threatened to shut down the little mom & pop operation up there, don't you? Besides, if you did put SFAW out of business, Six Flags would still have their parks in Dallas & San Antonio, so it wouldn't hurt them at all. In fact, it would probably be the biggest favor that you could do for them, and EVERYONE around here, because you could finally put poor SFAW out of its misery! PLEASE, look into it, SERIOUSLY! If I'm wrong, you name your price for revenge, and I'll be your slave for eternity! BTW, I run a website for coaster enthusiasts here, and I get TONS of mail complaining about how much SFAW sucks, ALL THE TIME, so I KNOW what I'm talking about! The fans in this area are READY for a new park! We just need someone who CAN and WILL build it for us!
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