Kennywood needs a big boost in the future??
JayChillerIce69 said:
I think they should at least add one more coaster if they're going to do anything in the future.
Clap...clap....clap....clap. We have a winner for "brilliant post of the day"
I think they should add one more coaster in the future if they do anything too! Who here agrees with me???
CoasterFanMatt said:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Rush at Thorpe Park had the exact same program as the one at Knott's. Still a very short ride (and every bit as unreliable!). :(
Thanks for the information....you could've lied to me and given me SOME hope though...;)
LOL! TGIF! :)
Oh...wait. You're right, Impuslive...just SHUT UP!
l. Other parks (CP, PKI, etc.) do indeed have more rides. But you can only ride so many rides in one day if there are any lines at all. If you take in a show or two, eat a few times, and play a few games, you can usually ride about 30 different rides, repeating some of your favorites 2-5 times. So anything more than about 30 rides is redundant. The groups I take to parks have said for many years that KW has more rides they want to ride than any other park.
2. KW owns almost all the homes up on the bluff, and the ones remaining they hold options on, which they plan to exercise when the retired owners move into nursing homes or pass away.
3. KW has pulled off a major miracle by maintaining its attendance for over a decade despite a steadily declining population in its region, and a steadily declining per capita income in its region. Other parks have a rising population and a rising per capita income and can't significantly increase their attendance every year.
4. It was Kennywood that Walt Disney sent his "imagineers" to visit twice when they planned Disneyland and Disneyworld.
5. Kennywood is self supporting. The megaparks are owned by conglomerates with deep pockets partly filled from nonamusement park enterprises. They can lose money on a coaster and use the loss to offset a profit elsewhere. In a perverse tax accounting way, losing money on a new ride is to the advantage of the mother corporation. KW does not have this luxury.
6. We visit a dozen parks a year. If gas prices went to $6 a gallon and we could only visit one, it would be Kennywood.
7. If we could work for one park, it would be Kennywood.
8. If we could own stock in one park, it would be Kennywood.
9. Every time we go through a recession, we lose parks. KW's close to the vest management survives. We're heading for another one. We'll lose a few megaparks. KW will still stand.
Only partially true, Cincinnati's Coney Island had the Land of Oz for children. Disney conversed with both the Shott and Van Swergens as well as a few other parks and eventually came up with his Themed areas for his park.
Cincy's Coney and Kennywood had a close relationship when it came to buisness practices and policys.
Chuck
Jaychillericeicebabywordtoyamotha8748,
You are silly. I hope that in the future, all parks get something to help their furture. Maybe they will get a futureistic themed coaster in the future. I hope the parks have a good future, because the future is importiant for the future of parks. All parks in the future, including KW, need to look at the future of all park's future so that in the future I can ride a futuristic new ride in the future.
Really? I hope the ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt visits you in the future to teach you that the present is much more important.
All of the above was me kidding around, but the rest is serious. Live for today, dude. One day you are going to realize that it has all passed you by because your excitment for what's next blinded you to what's now.
Dexter : I don't have a clue what you're trying to say.
In short, unless you are BORG, I don't understand who the other person in "We" is refering to. I was trying to be funny, but it failed due to my exclusive knowledge of Spiderman.
The "we" in my posts refers to the group I bring to amusement parks. I teach a course, "The Amusement Park in American Society." We study the history, design, engineering, marketing, sociology and psychology of amusement parks. Since one of the aspects we always look at is marketing, we're continually asking questions about appeal, and since we're our own most available population, we poll our own group after each trip and after each season. So when I say "we think..." it means the majority of the students I have that year indicate that preference.
I've seen the Spiderman films, but I have not read the novels or watched the cartoons.
The only Borg I know is the roller coaster down at Carowinds. *** Edited 6/14/2005 4:21:52 PM UTC by Trekker Park***
You've never seen any of the nineteen million Star Trek episodes and/or movies with the BORG in them?
What kinda geek ARE you, anyway? ;)
Venom has a very large fanbase and a lot of people hope to see his character portrayed in an upcomming Spiderman movie (and there has even been talk of a Venom spinoff movie franchise as well).
Borg are a group of space people who all share the same thoughts in Star Trek movies and TV shows. They take over whole planets and force them and their technolegy into their own society. "WE ARE BORG!" "YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED" RESISTANCE IS FUTILE" Really, you haven't heard of this?
OOPS, Did I just come out of the Trekkie closet, or what?
Sorry I have veered so far off topic, but that's just what this topic needed, imho.
Seriously though, maybe KW DOES need a big boost in the future...if it's going to compete with GL.
sorry again...
When I was growing up we played football and basketball. We had our own world and our own set of villains. The Evil Empires were North Hills, North Allegheny, Upper St. Clair, Montour, McKees Rocks, Stowe, Beaver Falls, Braddock, Gateway, etc. We were our own superheroes. Every victory over those people was a blow for the forces of Good. TV? We didn't have time for TV. We were outside practicing.
I went on to college at Kentucky. We had another set of Evil Empires. They included Indiana, Ohio State, Louisville, Duke, North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas, etc. God was on our side. We were fighting the good fight. TV? We had games to win.
As a coach, I have a whole universe of empires and Darth Vaders to contend with. TV? I have game films to study.
Relax by reading comic books or watching Star Trek? When I relax, I go to amusement parks or ski, backpack, canoe, raft or surf.
As Tom Sawyer said, Life Is Supposed To Be An Adventure. You Gotta Get Off The Porch.
So you're a football geek. I can live with that. I suspect it's necessary if you eant or expect any success as a coach.
Well, basketball actually. I was a football walk on in college, but I was able to letter in basketball. So now I ride roller coasters for a living and coach basketball as a hobby. Or maybe it's the other way around.
From your post it wasn't clear. Being a basketball geek is fine too, I guess. The sport doesn't do much for me, but tastes are different.
Trekker Park, I noticed FL wasn't on UK's list of "hoops rivalries"....I am SO hoping that changes and we MAKE the list. This year we made some strides in that direction.
bill, hasn't cared for anything ST since Kirk spent all those episodes seducing green women...and getting the crewmembers killed off one at a time...;)
Now back to your regular Kennywood discussion...or Star Trek discussion, or whatever...;)
Hmmm, maybe a Star Trek retheming for Old mill once they realize that Garfield was, like, so late 70s...
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