CoasterBuzz Podcast #205 posted

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

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

Ferris Wheel mania hits Las Vegas. What audience is Vegas after these days?
SeaWorld attendance is up. Perhaps there's a halo effect from the Harry Potter stuff at Universal Orlando.
New Jersey touts low injury rate, until girl fall to her death from Ferris wheel. No mechanical issues suspected at this point.
Fatal mini train accident attributed to speed. Questions arise about who is at fault. Gonch relates the story to the responsibility issues around the accident in Wisconsin.
Former Santa's Village becomes a zoo-like attraction. Mike says they went from competing with Six Flags to competing with two zoos.
Q Funding loses a proxy fight with Cedar Fair, then asks for another special meeting but is denied. Cedar Fair says it has pissed away $3 million on stuff relating to the Q lawsuits and proxy votes.
Cedar Point's Wildcat has a minor crash, this time at the final brakes.
Universal Orlando is totally Comcastic! NBC-Universal buys up Blackstone's half of the resort.
Six Flags America to retire Skull Mountain. Jeff recalls a story there. Despite some scary news stories over the years, the park's coaster package is somewhat underrated.
Dorney Park snaps up some new land. That park has awesome walk-ons when it's hot and everyone is in the water park.
Dallas beats Miami, Jeff launches into a Lebron slam.
Cedar Fair's CFO quits. Jeff saw it as a retention problem, but Carrie suggests that perhaps he just didn't see any upward mobility without going elsewhere.
Microsoft previews Kinect Disneyland Adventures for Xbox. Jeff doesn't quite get it, but Mike's princess girls totally do.
Water parks: Small kids and their dads.
Jeff took his family to Great Wolf Lodge in Washington, had a good time. It's a fairly solid value, though the food selections need help.
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Part of the problem with selling SFA is that a lot of the land is wetlands, that the park can't build on, plus there's a protected historical site past Batwing.

And I fully agree with Gonch about Joker's Jinx. It's awesome!

I think the deal with Universal, Sea World, and Busch Gardens still exists. When I did it about 8 years ago it was $200 for 10 days at any of the parks and you could buy it at the ticket window.

Hobbes: "What's the point of attaching a number to everything you do?"
Calvin: "If your numbers go up, it means you're having more fun."

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