Kentucky Kingdom name could change if Koch deal for Bluegrass Boardwalk is reached

KPJB said on the last page:

Amen!

COMING IN 2013!!! "Roller Coaster Station: The Ride"!!! Only at Kings Island!

There is a lot of importance to find a good name with any product. If there is something wrong with it, like it's not catchy or isn't easy to say, it could mess up any other work put into the product because customers will not latch on to it.

I don't know why they didn't just rename them all Afterburn or Mach 3 or something other than Flight Deck.

^Because Flight Deck souvenirs fly off the shelves faster than Potter merch at IoA? ;)

I still think (and maybe this has already been proven wrong) that this is a play for the water park, and maybe minimal ride side efforts.

I know that my family, who live 3 hours from HW, gladly drove right past KK, to go to HW. In fact, they never went to KK or SFKK. However, as HW has grown, especially the waterpark, and after the demise of SFKK, they have started to talk about how much more crowded HW is than it used to be, and that it's not the same crowd. Specifically, that while the rides still have short lines, the Waterpark is always jammed full.

Locals will remember that SFKK invested in their waterpark, perhaps to the detriment of the ride side (in my opinion) at the end, and well, that's probably what the Koch's are eyeing. They see the opportunity to tap a market that perhaps won't drive to HW (It's an hour and half away from most of suburban Louisville), and yet not cannibalize HW too much. I know that it wouldn't hurt my feelings if some of the "Lousiville" market stayed home. The Koch's are pros at the waterpark business, and that's the real driver for HW. I suspect they will do much the same with the Boardwalk.

I really think that year one will be heavy on the Boardwalk part, and light on the Kingdom part.

kpjb said:

I'd rather have 50 rides named "Batman" than one named "Flight Deck."

I agree but another good thing about Cedar Fair is that it doesn't name rides the same at different parks. The paramount rides are different because they had the same name before and they cheaply named them all the same because that was easy at the time. You won't find Stinger, Leviathan, Magnum, Millennium Force and Behemoth at any other park.

Except for Thunderhawk, Windseeker, Power Tower, Riptide, Dominator, Screamin' Swing, Ripcord, etc...

-Nate

Yes. Exactly. Six Flags is certainly used generically to mean amusement park

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...or crappy service! It is not often a Brand Name comes along that can mean so much to so many different people.

Maverick00 said:
Also if you see a coaster with Batman, you know it's Six Flags. That's one of the things I love about Cedar Fair. They don't theme EVERYTHING after comic book characters.

Not true. I have been to Cedar Point many times, and have heard guests refer to Raptor as the Batman ride. I really giggle when I am at these parks, because the general public doesn't seem to have a clue about the names of the rides they are riding, and most don't care. They refer to Top Thrill Dragster as that big yellow one in the back of the park.

I was watching a youtube video of some girls riding thunderhawk at Michigan's Adventure. And, they say here we are on the Thunderbird. I surprised they didn't call it the Thunder Chicken!!

I also had a friend who said he took his kids to Six Flags, and I asked him which one? And he goes, you know the one in Muskegon. And, I said, there is no Six Flags in Muskegon. I asked him if he meant Michigan's Adventure, and he goes oh yeah..that's it. I think.

I know my brothers sure can't tell the difference.

I think you might be describing one out of every 20 guests at Cedar Point. In my experience, most people who visit that park know more about it than the average park patron.

Who cares if someone doesn't know the names of the rides? I mean, really. Does it make it any less fun for you? Does it make it any less fun for them?

Didn't think so.

Aaaaaand, who cares if they called it Six Flags in Muskegon - just goes to further my point that people associate the name with a day at the amusement park. To most people, it goes like this: There's Disney, and there's everything else. Once again, the best part about it is, it doesn't matter.

The important thing is, if we hear someone utter the wrong park or coaster name, we immediately correct that person. It's our duty as enthusiass--er, -asts.

Yup.

New rumblings:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120815/NEWS01/308150091/10...ck_check=1

This is all turning into quite the interesting soap opera.