Michigan's Adventure Future Plans
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Wolf said:
How far does the property extend, adjacent to the parking lot and the Africa section? Doesn't the train turnaround somewhere past the Afrtica section? I seem to remember it going past the Boomerang at one point
The property goes on quite a ways from the actual park on that side. If you ride Orient Express and look over that direction, they own all the land out to the shed in the trees. Granted a lot of that would be expensive to get ready for an expansion, but they do own it.
...Which, you'll note, isn't in the Americana section. And you still need to get there.
Actually it is. Americana runs from Timberwolf all the way over to Skyliner, which is next to Orient Express, making virtually all of the park closest to the "green space" by WOF Ave Americana.
I suppose you could do something with that *long* walkway out to the raft ride. What was Zulu again? The Enterprise?
Yes Zulu is the enterprise
I think the link was CPlaya's insistence that Mamba ruined WoF and killed all their future cap exs. Then we had something about market size and expansion room.
True that we are the second smallest market according to the stock holder meeting notes of 2003. However attendance was up last year - proving that adding something will raise attendance.
This whole thing got started when CPlaya denied the viability of a "pretty much already confirmed" steel for 2004 at Michigan's Adventure.
Not touching that - I know enough about MiA to get me in trouble, and that's all I care about.
BTW -- what was Beat Street? And where the heck was Powerhouse? It's not on the 2003 map, and I don't remember it from last year.
It does look, though, like you could squeeze out past the go-karts. Or the Skycoaster. Darn up-charges.
Beat Street is the row of (now vacant) shop buildings behind RipCord that also houses Rockin' Reeler (Musik Express) and Skyliner (Ferris Wheel). Powerhouse was the arcade that was there, and was the last thing open in the row of shops that was there. Anyway, those are supposed to be removed after this season to open up the front lawn. (OR that is the word as of now)
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SELL THE PARK TO SIX FLAGS(Premiere). JK!
For real though, I would think the big marketing plan to attack here would be trying to get two "new" rides in the same year. That could be their selling point for the whole season. TWO NEW COASTERS. Kind of like the way SFGAM and SFMM did a few years back.
Now the problem here is cost. So what I would do is buy an old coaster, my choice would be Shockwave from SFGAM. Repaint it, rename it(obviously), reride it!
Then I would build a brand new ride. And since shockwave has many inversions, How about a B&M Hyper. A nice and TALL one, bigger and "badder"(is that word?) then Nitro. If this is unreachable due to costs, then I think the park would do just fine with an Intamin or Morgan Hyper. That would give them two great wooden and two great steel. And of course a new beginning to a park that was already great.
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BackSeat BULLer said:
, my choice would be Shockwave from SFGAM. Repaint it, rename it(obviously), reride it!
Would that be the "Shock" or the "Wave"? ;)
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I would think the big marketing plan to attack here would be trying to get two "new" rides in the same year. That could be their selling point for the whole season. TWO NEW COASTERS. Kind of like the way SFGAM and SFMM did a few years back.
If MA wants to compete with the "Big Boys", CF will have to shell out some $$$. It will take a least a decade or more and that's in a perfect world with capital improvements every year.
You mentioned parks that draw about 8 times MiA's audience. It simply isn't realistic. And as for the chain that did the two-to-four coaster thing--their stock is trading at less than a third of what it used to.
CF is reaching new highs in investor confidence cuz they don't play dat.
MiA will never 'play with the big boys.' It would be nice to see them carefully developed to a park that doubles its current attendance...but guess what? Not everybody cares about big ol' rollercoasters. To draw those numbers it will have to cater to everybody.
Just think what they could do with some imagination and some freaky waterslides like HW (who incidentally has closer competition and fewer coasters than MiA). Just a thought.
If this dead horse gets beat much more, MiA fanboys will start being haunted by cans of Alpo.
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QAF's season finally is this coming Sunday. What's going to happen to Ted and Emmit?
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QAF's season finally is this coming Sunday. What's going to happen to Ted and Emmit?
Ads in Detroit area are needed to draw from this side of the state. I know lots of people who go to that side of the state for camping trips, yet very few even KNEW MiA existed.
Here's hoping for a better season for MiA
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QAF's season finally is this coming Sunday. What's going to happen to Ted and Emmit?
Make the really big changes with rides. Several flats will make a big difference.
Add at least 1 sit down restaraunt.
Some kind of accomodations. Camping is even cool.
Make us go through an intense gaming area before leaving!
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Blue People fly sideways when it rains...
Closed topic.
