CoasterBuzz Podcast #127 posted

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Jeff, Mike and Pat review this week's news in the amusement industry.

• Sexual attack at Valleyfair surrounded by questions and few answers. Why is it that someone who knows the victim in various crime and accidents end up on our forum?
• Alton Towers finds all kinds of crap under their Corkscrew, which is coming down. Did they not do track walks in decades? How do you not notice someone loses a prosthetic leg?
• Strange case against the city for Coney Island Cyclone after man dies several days after claiming injury. Suit suggests engineering neglect.
• Expoland declares bankruptcy, and we're fascinated by the cultural differences in Japan that keep parks closed for months after accidents.
• Universal's Dubai park will be mostly air conditioned. Sounds like the grand excess of Las Vegas. Jeff goes off on a tangent about oil, autos and bailouts for GM.
• The boys contemplate the significance of Diamondback at Kings Island. Haters annoy Jeff.
• Dollywood retains marketing partnership experts, and Gonch finds it hilarious that this is a precedent started by Six Flags.
• Sidebar: Video game nonsense, including killing Jar Jar.
• Hall of Presidents going to be closed for upgrades and an Obamatronic.
• Hard Rock Park won't open without a new buyer. We had the same discussion in the forum again about why it failed.
• Dollywood putting off their attraction on concerns of wild material costs.
• Cedar Fair results, per cap is still down. Told ya so! Five dollar fries suck.
• Interesting piece in CIO magazine about the many metrics and IT endeavors at Universal Orlando.
• Busch Entertainment likely for sale in InBev deal to reduce overall cost of Anheuser-Busch.
• Disney seems to be proactive for forthcoming decline in room booking in Orlando, and the discounts are pretty serious.
• IAAPA is next week, and Jeff has three badges for some reason. They lo-jack you coming in and out of the floor.

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