Holiday World's Future

Does anyone know what Holiday World holds for the future? Holiday World is a GREAT amusement park, but could use some type of new attraction in the park, excluding Splashin' Safari. Splashin' Safari is right where it needs to be right now, in my opinion. But, what I would really LOVE, is a B & M coaster! This would do absolute wonders for Holiday World. Almost every park you go to has a B & M coaster. Who knows, if they built a B & M, they may just end up w/ the #1 steel coaster, instead of wooden.

"Almost every park you go to has a B & M coaster."

I dont know what parks you've been to but not almost every park has a B&M If you think about it not even 1/4 of ALL parks have one so lets think before we type.

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Im the #1 Canobie Lake Park Fan!!!These are my top 3 coasters:
1. S:RoS @ SFNE 2. Yankee Cannonball 3. Cyclone

MikeMir87, let me rephase this. A lot parks that I GO TO, have B & M coasters. I just think that having a B & M at Holiday World would help it out. This is the problem, a lot of things would be better if we didn't have people like you in the world, MikeMir87.

I personally think they should get an Arrow looper that flips to around in the woods but that is just me. Why don't we analyze their finances like we do every other park and try to find out? ;)

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Off with the trims!
My fellow Americans; Let's Roll!
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Excuse me... Is it my fault you made a stupid statement, because obviously you dont proof read. Who cares what a park gets, Wait for it and be excited when or if it comes. Dont always expect a park to get something just because a few enthusiasts say "i would love if HW got a B&M Hyper with inversions or w/e" so this world would be better without people like... well i dont like to say names so ill just say the creator of this ignorant post.

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Im the #1 Canobie Lake Park Fan!!!These are my top 3 coasters:
1. S:RoS @ SFNE 2. Yankee Cannonball 3. Cyclone

Lets try and salvage this post from tempers.... back to the original thoughts.

Really, anything HW "gets" in the future is icing to me. I don't think the park really *needs* anything.

No, I take that back. Actually there is something that HW does need.... desperately... A Grande Carousel.

I would trade any possible future coaster or ride installation at HW for a beautiful carousel sitting in the fountain area in front of Kringles Cafe. Imagine a large carousel building there with hand carved reindeer or sleighs etc. The band organ would be real, not cd, heavy on the bells and would churn out Christmas standards such as Rudolf, Have a Holly Jolly, We wish you.., Here come Santa Claus, Jingle Bells etc. etc. etc. Or better yet, Silent Night, Hark the Herald, We Three Kings etc etc etc.

Honestly the investment would be large, probably upards of 5 million. However the return on such is far greater than any 3 or 4 million $ coaster they might build.

To me a park without a Carousel really does not have a "heart" to it's rides. Now the staff and service at HW are what gives HW it's heart, not any particular ride. However this would be a visual reminder of it.

Plus, we have all wanted to know at some time or another what it would be like to ride in Santa's sleigh, or alongside Dasher, Blitzen etc. This would give us the chance.

Shaggy

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Shaggy
A.K.A. John K.

I really don't think HW needs anything. It is great as it is.

What I might want there is about 2-5 more adult/family rides with a carousel in there.

Chuck, who really isn't a big B&M fan and thinks parks are getting wiser by building $3 million dollar super good coasters instead of $20 million dollar motion simulators. Sorry if that sounded biased toward a good woodie but I think if HW put in A Shivering Timbers type woodie, I would like it even more than any steel coaster out there

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Charles Nungester
Lesourdsville Lake, The great American amusement park opens the season June 6th Thurs-Sun every week. Park phone is (513)539-2193

Good lord no! Leave the B&M's to the bigger parks! The only thing HW needs is another woodie! I wouldnt really want a huge steel coaster at HW, I would like for the park too stay wooden. :)

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I don't see them getting a B&M coaster. They are too expensive and Holiday World is a family owned park. They should get a woodie like Timbers. BTW Timbers was only 4 mlllion dollars. They could afford that.

I know just what HW needs. Turst me on this one... A third World Class Woodie. ;) Talk about icing on the cake.

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Formally Known as Ozzyhead.

I talked briefly with Will Koch at SRM and told him how much I love the park and coasters and that I tell about 50 peeps a week about it.

His reply was simple. The more people they get, The more they will add. :)

Chuck, who says that works for me :)

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Charles Nungester
Lesourdsville Lake, The great American amusement park opens the season June 6th Thurs-Sun every week. Park phone is (513)539-2193

Shaggy said:

"I would trade any possible future coaster or ride installation at HW for a beautiful carousel sitting in the fountain area in front of Kringles Cafe."

Although I love the idea of getting a carousel at HW, I would be very sad indeed if they took out their Christmas Square fountain. I for one love the entrance fountain at HW just about as much as anything else at the park. It also makes the area very Bavarian, (fountain in the middle of a square is very common) which the buildings there are representational of...except the Holiday Theater. So please...put the carousel somewhere else!

Martin

Rockrc480 said:
I don't see them getting a B&M coaster. They are too expensive and Holiday World is a family owned park. They should get a woodie like Timbers. BTW Timbers was only 4 mlllion dollars. They could afford that.

Actually I belive it cost 4.5 million.

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“If you give a enthusiast a footer.......He’ll want a coaster!!!"

Wow, Shivering timbers was one hell of a bargain. are all CCI woodies this cheap (excluding the 24 million ghostrider because earthquakes and a themed area including a resturant and arcade)?

His reply was simple. The more people they get, The more they will add.

Okay, I'm on my way to Wal-Mart to stand out in front and pass out ads ;)

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Top Gun: TJC flights - Approx. 293 (107 in 2002)

I wouldn't mind seeing HW get some of the older "classic" rides: a Ferris wheel, whip, Roll-O-Plane, etc. I really like the way the park feels now and think these types of things would just add to it. I'm not sure a big hunk of steel looming over the park would look right. Of course, they could leave it as it is and I'd still happily go.

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Jeff-Jeff
Wood - Raven
Steel - Millennium Force
Generic, isn't it?

Personally, a dark ride, ala Exterminator at Kennywood, would be the best, IMHO. It's a fun, thrilling ride that all (most) ages would enjoy that would fit their client base more than a big steel coaster.

While most coaster fanatics think parks build for us, it's not true, they have to look at their demographics and while we are a good sized segment of their attendance, we are not their largest, families are.

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Posting, "Me too" like some brain dead AOLer. I ought to to the world a favor, and cap you like old yeller...

I haven't been to holiday world and I don't think they need anything. There are alot of good parks out there for steel coasters, but none for wood like Holiday World.

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Can we change the name of Top Gun to your mom so no one wants to ride your mom?

I agree that a Carousel, Ferris Wheel, maybe a Ricochet or Saturator, maybe a Mine Train, would be more appropriate and more affordable. We all love megacoasters so much we keep foregetting they are not affordable by normal financial accounting. The parks putting them in have access to the almost unlimited finances of international corporations, which manipulate tax formulas and use other financial tricks only available to those corporations. And as the insurers keep jacking up the liability rates, they become even less affordable. HW, like the KW family, is operating very intelligently within its own financial framework.

HW doesn't "need" anything, it's world class as it stands. But there are several things that would greatly enhance the atmosphere of the park. As mentioned a carousel would be one of my first choices along with a nice ferris wheel. I also wouldn't mind seeing some other flat rides like a Musik Express, swinging ship (if they do have one, then I just forgot about it), whip, and maybe a modern one or two like a frisbee.

As far as coasters are concerned there are only three avenues that I would want to see taken. A new world class woodie would be super. A mouse of some sort would fit in nicely, just have to theme it to one of the holidays. What about instead of mice they were cats, black cats, that would fit into the Haloween theme and could fit behind the high dive show between Raven and Legend. But another idea I have is something akin to LoCoSuMo. People have mentioned they would love to see HW get a dark ride. How about something that starts out like a dark ride but finishes like a roller coaster. One of the things I was thinking about while riding LoCoSuMo was how awesome this concept could be if CCI had as much room as they wanted. Just imagine a slow journey through some type of building with a hidden lift that then sends you on a tremendous journey that cannot be viewed from the paths in the park. Sounds yummy to me.