Posted Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:34 PM | Contributed by Jeff
The Oklahoma-based owner of Alabama Adventure is considering selling the Bessemer amusement park, citing poor attendance this summer. The park blames a combination of 100-degree heat index weather over two weeks in early June, plus a continuation of a sluggish economy and fallout from the April 27 tornadoes.
Read more from The Birmingham News.
100 degrees at a park which is very close to a dog food plant? No thanks. I could barely stand the smell when it was in the 80's.
Visionland? Wonder if the old owners saw this coming... ;)
Didn't Cedar Fair consider buying this park some years ago when it was VisionLand? I live in Huntsville which is about 1 1/2 hours from Alabama Adventure and I have never been to it. What I hear from people who have been there, I have not missed much.
I had a blast there this summer and had no olfactory issues. You have missed much...namely Rampage which is a kick ass ride.
Im up for trying it. We moved down here from Muncie, IN last year and had 3 great parks within a 4 hour drive (Cedar Point, Kings Island, and Holiday World). We miss not having a great selection of parks close by.
Rampage is an amazing wooden coaster! You'll also recognize something that used to be towards the front of Cedar Point if they finally put it in... They have a few interesting water slides in the water park area as well. Its really not a bad little park.
Last edited by maXairMike, Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:45 PMI'm glad the fountain got new life instead of being scrapped.
Steve Shives said:
Im up for trying it. We moved down here from Muncie, IN last year and had 3 great parks within a 4 hour drive (Cedar Point, Kings Island, and Holiday World). We miss not having a great selection of parks close by.
Ever hear of Indiana Beach? Just wonderin' ;)
Last edited by CoasterDemon, Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:22 PMI'm gonna start taking bets - over/under on how many posts a thread gets before Billy mentions Indiana Beach. :)
Just when I had wagering on OTSR posts down to a science, you go and change the game.
He said 3 great parks. The overpriced one with the closed rides, bad operations and lack of a real person on the phone may have missed that list. :)
kpjb said:
He said 3 great parks. The overpriced one with the closed rides, bad operations and lack of a real person on the phone may have missed that list. :)
Exactly......
Lord Gonchar said:
Just when I had wagering on OTSR posts down to a science, you go and change the game.
What's my formula look like as of now?
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