Dorney Park submits plan for 138-foot-high amusement ride

I don't know if they still have the Flying Super Saturator for sale or they scrapped it...

Sadly, I heard it was scrapped...

I agree with some points. Being that Dorney is my home CF park, the side with S Force, the Huss Frisbee etc does need a little more volume. Expanding the water park would be a great idea although I am not sure they have the room to do that, but maybe they do. A used roller coaster is exciting but they need something else. A new woodie would be nice or even a family style roller coaster such as a mine train or a roller skater. Even an indoors coaster if they have room. Sad to say the vekoma is coming and I would be shocked if it was anything else. Maybe they can take all of their CF garbage cans and build a mouse of of those!

......they could try and persuade B&M to build a giga there........wishful thinking..........

A lot of you are looking at this ass backwards.

If noone is going to the ride side of the park, then that's the part where they will get their greatest roi, adding things to boost attendance. Not to mention the longer operating season vs the water park.

I've yet to see evidence that adding to the rides side IS boosting attendance at all. And that still doesn't account for a higher maintenance budget for a ride of this type...that people aren't riding...because they're on the water slides...which are cheaper to build and maintain.

Exactly. It's chicken/egg argument.

Are people not visiting the rides side because they need more or is it not worth adding much because people prefer the water park?

I tend to follow the majority logic here. The water park is the draw. You can add whatever you'd like (and Dorney has done some great additions the past decade) and people will still be found in the water park.

Yeah, I mean, if after adding Steel Force, Talon, Hydra, and the Intamin weren't bringing people over, all high capacity, expensive rides (well, the Intamin wasn't high capacity), then I'm not sure this one is either. It'd be different at a park that hadn't added as many dry high capacity rides as Dorney has in the last 10 years with no discernable effect, but for whatever reason, the park just doesn't draw a crowd to the dry side.

Which is a shame, I loved the park, and actually wish it had been busier.

Just to stir the kettle (and since we've discussed Disney's variety of admission plans so frequently)....

Would/could it be more profitable for Dorney (WoF/OoF, KBF/SC, CP/SC, etc.) if they were able to sell "waterpark only" and "dry park only" passes separately as well as having combo passes? I'd be tempted to try that if I were in charge...and those waterpark passes would NOT be cheap! ;)

Any time a Waterpark is the main draw, I think it should be a seperate gate. Especially when the overall attraction is called "Dorney Park AND Wildwater Kingdom". Granted, it didn't work as well for Geauga Lake, but that's a different story.

When WWK opened it used to be a separate gate. Then in 1992 or 1993 it became 1 price for both parks.

CP Chris said:
I visited Dorney on an August Saturday this past summer, and the only time I saw ride lines longer than 10 minutes was after the water park had closed for the night.

Sounds like the last few years at Geauga Lake before the ride side closed.

Wow, with my disdain for lines.. I may have to get up to Dorney....

Doesn't the ride side have a higher overall capacity then the slide side? That has to be considered. It might take less time to do everything on the ride side than on the slide side, and that's why it seems that the slide side is more popular.

I did the ride side last time I went in just a few hours. I pooped over to the slide side, and it took an hour just to go down one waterslide. More people are in line in the slide side.

I think that Dorney may be thinking about balancing the time between the two sides. If people spend just a little more time on the rides, that's less people in line for the slides.

If the slides are that jammed up and your amusement park is empty, the problem isn't the fact that your water park is too small.

Looking at a google map of the area, they look pretty maxed out

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=dorney+park...a=N&tab=wl

I don't understand the attraction with water parks, and little kids crapping and pissing in the water LOL.

billb7581 said:
If the slides are that jammed up and your amusement park is empty, the problem isn't the fact that your water park is too small.

If people want to visit a water park, it is.

LostKause said:
I pooped over to the slide side,

Did they make you clean it up?

AFR!

LOL. As a rule, I will not correct that mistake, because it was funny, and the replies wouldn't make sense.

And Tek, The Urban Dictionary has really come in handy with all of these acronyms "floating" around on CoasterBuzz.

Ok so first of all even though the water park was packed when I went that is what happens at ALL water parks in the HOT summer... Second I think when you add a ride do a park like the invertigo ride it will NOT draw visitors at all. but if you add a major coaster to the park it gives people more of a reason to go there and actually desire going too. I think most of the flat rides are for the most part bonuses to the roller coasters as far as attendance goes because if you watch tv and they say "hey look at this Huge New Big coaster we have you have to try it" or "look we have Invertigo or boomerang, that MANY parks around nation also have" or " O look we have a great new flat ride WEEEE" which one is the most likely to draw a crowd.... [answering for you]... THE FIRST ONE YOU IDIOT the once with the big roller coaster! People will not drive to Dorney park just to see a boomerang/invertigo or flat ride if they are more then a half hour away they will most likely wait till the next big addition like a big roller coaster will come in and then drive out to see both but not just for the flat ride....

i am more than a half hour from Dorney Park and I am going to make it a point to go there this year now that I know it's not that crowded...boomerang shoomerang.