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retaining...a deep and talented management team to lead Cedar Fair in its pursuit of long-term growth and value creation has been – and will continue to be – a strategic imperative for the Company,” said Kinzel

Unless you happen to be Jack Falfas?

the Board of Directors will continue to work on our upcoming CEO transition through its subcommittee of independent directors that has been assigned to this task, given that my employment agreement expires on January 2, 2012.

Or at least until he decides to announce he's staying on yet again.

I thought that the fact that they even said that was interesting and in direct response to Q Funding's current push for a seperate CEO/BoD.

There are so many loaded terms in that press release I could puke. I especially love the "independent board" comment. No disrespect toward these guys, because I really don't know anything about them, but I would personally prefer to see an outsider. I think the Six Flags turn around really demonstrated that industry experience is not critical.

And frankly, I wouldn't want Kinzel grooming anyone if it means teaching people how to micromanage.

Too bad they're probably not interested in Shapiro, but now that he's free, I bet he could whip CF into shape, and hang on to the things Kinzel loves (like high food prices and parking ;)).

I said a long time ago that I thought Shapiro should be brought to CF.

Without being too graphic, my pants get sticky at the idea of Shapiro at CF.

The idea of your pants .... oh, never mind.

This press release reminds me of the last episode of "Flipping Out" with Jeff Lewis.

Lord Gonchar said:
Without being too graphic, my pants get sticky at the idea of Shapiro at CF.

Without being accused of being Vince Vaughn, you're so gay.

While I haven't seen it first hand, I'm not fond of the blanket advertising in the Six Flags parks that Mike described. But aside from that, yeah, he could create positive change.

Honestly, even as someone opposed to the desecration of park theming, all that wistful old-school nostalgic stuff aside, the advertising in parks and even on coaster trains didn't really bother me THAT much. Having both my beloved Mindbender and the uber-awesome Toro wrapped in way-too-colorful Stride advertising isn't exactly my first choice, but since I have to, I can live with it. Disney manages to have "class" while still getting the profitable sponsorship agreements in place...but that's Disney. I guess SF and CF could do a better job of integrating the advertising into the park in a more subtle fashion....but you'd have to convince the sponsors of the effectiveness of that strategy.

Along those lines, at least two bad coasters I noticed this year sporting AxeTwist decals - have to wonder if riding rough steel doesn't make you sweat more? Or just think about sweating more? ;)

Lord Gonchar said:
Without being too graphic, my pants get sticky at the idea of Shapiro at CF.

Try eating less fruits and fiber Mr. Gonch - and also avoid white colored undies - black masks those stains nicely! ;-)

I never once had any problems with advertising in the park. Doesn't impact my day one bit. Do I like theming and landscaping? Yes. Would the ads at SF parks be considered tacky by most? Absolutely. And yet it never impacted my day. One bit.

I was too busy having fun to notice.

That's an easy position for me to take as well... for parks I didn't grow up going to. I wouldn't care for it if it were CP or KI.

See, Kings Island (at least under the Paramount regime) really stood out to me as oversaturated with ads. You can try to pass it off as "themeing" because Paramount's in your moniker, but they're still ads.

For some reason, it really stood out to me at Disney this time, too.

As far as the train wraps on El Toro... can't see it from inside the train, and that's the best place to be.

Um, the ads didn't bother me in the park(s) I grew up going to. It doesn't bother me at all. Anywhere.

It would look out of place at a park like BGW, but it wouldn't bother me in the least. As long as the park is clean and I'm having fun, they can plaster the entire surface in ads and I wouldn't care.

I'm more upset when Bart removes landscaping from the midways at Carowinds because he wants people to see the rides, thereby causing a shortage of shade, but only because of the shade. He could put a wrap on ever train, every tree, every building. I go to have a good time. Ads can be there or not, I couldn't care any less.

Jerry said:
Try eating less fruits and fiber Mr. Gonch - and also avoid white colored undies - black masks those stains nicely! ;-)

That's bad sticky. I meant good sticky.

Shapiro is good sticky.

I could go on about that... but it won't contribute to the discussion in a good light. ;-)

As far as ad discussion - this is America - home of the free and capitalistic society - put up the ads - and make them tasteful. I don't recall an unwritten rule stating it is not in the companies best interest not to advertise their sister properties...

Bringing a whole new level of coaster porn...

Well, you can put lipstick on a pig but I'm still not going to kiss it. You can call them Vice Presidents, Executive Vice Presidents or even Super Special Senior Executive Vice Presidents but it doesn't change the fact that the company is in need of some new vision.