Community relieved that Six Flags will retain Magic Mountain

Magic Mountain isn't (and never will be) a good fit for Cedar Fair. The reasons are too numerous to get into, but SFMM is one of those parks that is so identified with the Six Flags brand, that it would pretty much cease to exist without it. It's like stink on a skunk, you can never wash it off. I'm not the least bit surprised that they couldn't find a buyer for that park.

Allthough it makes sense for them to have gotten ride of the Seattle area property, I'll be a bit sad that I can't use my SF pass there...

Oh well.

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No matter how profitable, CF wouldn't want a park that competes so closely with their flagship, CP.

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I don't think I've had the chance to say this for a couple of years. Cedar Point and Six Flags Magic Mountain do not compete in any way, period.

I don't think it's a matter of CF wanting to keep the other parks down or not compete with the Point. CP is indeed still the flagship unit, but until it bought Knotts there never really was another park in the chain with enough attendance to justify the kind of investment that CP regularly gets. Now they own several parks that are right up there or not far off from the kind of heads and dollars CP pulls in. They're not going to short-change King's Island or Canada's Wonderland to keep those places in some sort of inferior position beneath the Point. CF is in the business of making money, and they'll put the attractions wherever it will help them make more money, period.

I suspect the folks in Sandusky are overjoyed they have a park like KI, that is so close to the level at CP. And neither is GL is being short-changed because it's too close. If that situation is a fiasco (remember, I said 'if'), it's not because those two parks compete. It's because GL has deep, inherent problems that have nothing to do with the other park down the road.

Funny, read the story once, went to re-read it and was told I needed to register. Anyway...

What do you make of that analyst's statement that there is a shortage of day consumer-oriented theme parks in the Los Angeles region? If there's room for more, shouldn't the parks already there be cleaning up?

BTW, if they can convince people to come out or come back to the park in its present state, as their statements seem to indicate, why would they worry about fixing anything? Or even whether the park is fixable or not?

I think the *suggestion* was that Knott's, and esp. Disney are more "resort-oriented"...

By the way Gator, the third station, which was the *coolest*, was inside the mountain.

1984 they still had several transportation systems operational at the Mountain. I vaguely remember riding the monoral and skyrides.

That's what I figured, gator. But even so, does anyone think building an entire park from scratch in that region is feasible? Is there a market for more parks in the LA area?