Who owns the Warner Bros. Movie World chain?
My understanding is that Six Flags own the German park. They have around a 10% ownership of Madrid, and hold the managing rights to that park. Warner Bros. also have a 5% stake in Madrid if I recall correctly.
The Australian one is owned by Village Roadshow and Warner Bros. It's never had anything to do with Six Flags (despite rumours at one stage that there was a buyout imminent). The only ties between the Australian park and European ones, other than the name and ride clones, is that the CEO of Warner Village Theme Parks (they own three parks in Australia) did consulting work when they were designing Germany.
Anyone could technically open a Warner Bros. Movie World park; send WB a nice cheque and you'll be free to open one.
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So what if the best coaster in Australia is a second hand Arrow?
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*** This post was edited by auscoasterman 4/27/2003 1:37:41 AM ***
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The australian and german version were designed to emphasize on movie themes. The Madrid park is like a blueprint for what a SF park could be, if they were all built from scratch and with lots of cash!
Even the spanish park could in no way give IOA a run for the money. Apart from SUPERMAN, (the best B&M of them all), you´ll find a BATMAN clone, a BORING woodie and a Vekoma Giant Invertigo which runs as reliable as the others (i.e.: barely ever).
The theming is partially very nice, partially inexistent. But whats more interesting is the emptiness of MW Madrid. You can basically ERT on the coasters, just the water rides have a queue. It seems the park is not the success it was planned to be. Madrid is the only big city in the vicinity. It is a tourist destination, but its in no way a holiday destination because its in the middle of the country. PORT AVENTURA has the better location and is still a strong tourist market, because its is located next to the sea.
It is always said that the spanish love to go out with the whole family (i.e. big family). For a family of, say eight or ten people, it is nearly unaffordable to go to Movie World.
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i was a teenage rollercoaster designer
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Never Has Gravity Been So Uplifting.
Vekoma woodies are great (especially THUNDERCOASTER at Tusenfryd) but the woodie in Madrid is made by Intamin/Rcca! Its designed by Stengel and it is easily one of his weaker designs. The ride is not about airtime (it has none) but it is full of wide stretched helices. It is actually quite boring.
The woodie in the german park is as well by Intamin/Rcca. It is a Cyclone-clone which now runs Premiere trains (SOB). Its a decent ride, but the maintenance lacks some tlc.
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i was a teenage rollercoaster designer
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Never Has Gravity Been So Uplifting.
-Nate
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Mike
Favorite Wood: Viper at SFGAM,Shivering Timbers
Favorite Steel: Magnum and Raging Bull
BGT has two OUTSTANDING B&M coasters- Kumba and Montu. It has a GCI woodie- one with two unique tracks! I found it to offer everything I could ask for in a wooden coaster- airtime, laterals, disorienting layout and a hint of roughness that doesn't detract from the experience. And don't forget a simple but still fantastic Schwarzkopf looper. The only "loser" in the parks collection, as far as I can tell, is the Arrow corkscrew, which isn't BAD, just isn't very thrilling.
I can name, on one hand, how many parks I have visited with four great coasters. BGT is definitely one of them.
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-Rob
Pink Floyd Fanatic said:
I am not totally convince that it is that great unlike S:ROS @ SFNE which every review was great. I can trust that coaster giving me a great ride even though I haven't ridden it yet because of so many people saying it's the best.
Okay, first, you need to read the post that delt with Biggest dissapointments on overhyped coasters. Just cause lots of people like something, dosen't mean you will too, trust me. Second, Florida isn't that huge of a state, and it already has 2 Major Theme parks and one VERY large themed resort. I'd almost bet we'll never see a Six Flags down there, unless some small park away from Orlando grows larger in a few years, and SFI sees it as financially feasable.
As for WBMW, as far as I know, they started those parks when Time-Warner still owned SFI, and were trying something different. Though they still own in part or whole the parks, they sold SFI for a reason, and decided to get out of the theme park business as a whole, and have just retained some parks that have a larger holdings on AOL Time-Warner properties/licenses, since thats how they make their $$$ from SFI(probably another reason they are in such debt...). What I'm trying to say is, don't hold your breath. I live in West Virginia, and the only park we have here is Camden, it's 7 hrs. away, and I'm not very close to any other parks, big or small. Florida has a few Big parks and a few small parks, so be happy with what you have there, and try not to speculate too much, it just tends to let our hopes down....:)
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Yeah, if coasters WEREN'T men we'd have Raging Cow instead!;)Y
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