Peanuts coming to five Cedar Fair parks in 2010

...and totally destroying the regular guest's park experience. Let's not do that until November, please. :)

I still agree with you dropping Nick is a very bad move.

Andy Hoffman, I'd shake your hand, but pull away quickly halfway through. I might pat you on the...back. ;)

Carrie M. said:
Cool. Since Gonch decided to link to it, you can also read my 1,002 reasons why I think this is an ok move. :)

Also known as 1,002 reasons Carrie is wrong. ;)

Wha....bu...shut up!! :)

^^^^ Lord Gonchar, I agree completely with what you said about CF not having Q-bots. I have been waiting for the perfect time to break out my new signature and this is my first post using it. I will let my signature be the 2nd half of this response.

RatherGoodBear said:
A lot of people have talked (complained) that there needs to be consistency across the chain, including the former Paramount parks. So then why expect CF to manage two licensing agreements to market two separate sets of characters in the parks.

I totally agree! Change all of the parks over to Coke™! Pepsi™ blows! :)

I second that one. Ditch Pepsi.

I spend three times as much for sodas at Cedar Point, A true Mt Dew Diehard, besides Pepsi products are generally cheaper than Coke.

Kings Island is already charging .75 more than Cedar Point!

They only charge that because people are paying it. If people didn't buy enough, they would lower the price.

Not jumping in on Q-bot (or VQ of some kind) is the biggest oversight that CF is currently making.

I'll bet you $100 CF announces some sort of virtual queueing within a year after Kinzel's retirement. His aversion to technology---even when it would give immediate ROI---is legendary. As far as I know, resort charges at Cedar Point are still done on paper-forms-in-triplicate.

Earlier this week USA Today ran a story on Michael Jackson's legacy. How he will continue to make money after his death. Included in the story was a list of dead celebrities and their income for 2008. Number 2 on the list was Charles Schultz. (Elvis was #1).

^^I believe they still have switchboard operators, too.

Brian Noble said:
I'll bet you $100 CF announces some sort of virtual queueing within a year after Kinzel's retirement.

I would not take that bet because I think the same thing. :)

^But until then...now I think I know how Raiders fan feels about Al Davis!

tambo said:

I totally agree! Change all of the parks over to Coke™! Pepsi™ blows! :)

We just received an e-mail from the university the other day informing us that NO Coke products could be served at UF functions. Short of telling me I can't drink Coke products at home, this basically covers everything from Christmas parties to office meetings....we're not allowed to drink our (my!) beverage of choice. :(

The same thing was implemented at the university I used to work at. But they never meant you couldn't drink it, just that you couldn't serve it and you certainly couldn't sell it. BYOC was still ok. :)

^Agreed. They'll have to pry my new "contour 2-liter" of Diet Coke from my cold dead hands...that's my personal pimp-cup.

But seriously, a university-wide e-mail reminding every entity on- (and off-)campus, that their holiday office parties, presumably using UF funds, couldn't serve delicious Coca-Cola products? Ludicrous! Pepsi is, to use the word researchers kept coming back to, "cloying". The only reason the Pepsi challenge ended up the way it did was because they served shot-glass sized samples. 12 ounces of Pepsi makes your tongue feel like you licked out the inside of a cotton-candy machine.

That's true. It makes my teeth feel fuzzy. Eeew.

Personally Diet Coke>Diet Pepsi>Pepsi>Coca-cola. My bet is whoever offers the better deal to CF will get the full chain branding when the time comes. On one hand, Coke can pretty much seal up the theme park market with CF converting (having already gotten SF, Disney, and Universal.) While Pepsi probably wants to maintain some presence in American parks (anyone remember what the Busch parks serve, cant remember that one.)

Mt Dew is my drink of choice. So, I guess I'm a Pepsi fan by default. Vault is not an acceptable supplement to Mt Dew. Though, I don't usually buy soda at the park. If I get anything, I get beer. Though, I'm making sacrifices there too. Very few parks have beer that I like. AT least Hard Rock had Yuengling. Mmm. I'm almost out at home. Thank goodness I'll be in PA Monday.

Just because it's Friday (and Jeff hasn't blocked my IP yet)...;)

Peanuts: Diet Pepsi :: Nick: Diet Coke