Why do you do this six flags.. a little rant

Umm...last I checked SFDL and SFA have top 10 steel coasters. People who live in the middle of Montana or Alaska of Hawaii should be the ones complaining, if anyone.

And why does a park with such bad operations deserve a new coaster? If there's no competition, they don't need good operations or a new coaster. If there is competition, then the operations need to be fixed before a new coaster comes in.

Complaining is okay, but redundant and boring (and childish) but to suggest that it makes financial sense to put a new coaster in your park when it's so poorly run is just nonsense.

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DS said:
It's kinda weird how Darien Lake went from Funtimes, Inc's star park, to Six Flags forgotten park. I'm sure it's all about park income. If the park pulls in a profit, I'm sure they would get a new attraction.

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No, it's the other way around. If a park is doing well ("pulling a profit"), is there really any need to spend millions on new rides for it? The answer is "no", because it's doing fine as is. If Darien Lake were suffering, losing money, and attendance was dwindling, then you'd be seeing new rides. Since SFDL hasn't gotten anything huge in awhile, I think it's obvious the park is doing fine.

As others have said, the coaster boom is over for now. Look at the way things used to be. Valleyfair, for instance (a park similar in size to SFDL), went *seven years* without a new coaster (1989-1996). What's happening now isn't exceptional, it's normal.

-Nate

I honestly don't think it's that way, but I respect your theory.

Oh God. I'm agreeing with Nate ;)

His post is 100% truth and accuracy on both counts.

The days of new coasters every two or three years are gone. The bubble has burst. If you just got into coasters in the last few years, you're in for a rude awakening.

As far as the "pulling a profit" thing - he's exactly right there too. Add that to the market thing Jeff touched on and you have your answer as to why certain parks are "neglected" while others seem to constantly get new additions.

It's business.

Six Flags Marine World gets treated pretty well for such a small park, but they might get dumped in two years when their lease is up...

It's a fact (;)) that SIx Flags helped kill the Great Nortwest Theme Park project in WA. And that park had great plans. I feel that six flags has a duty, a responsibility, to install mega-rides and rollercoasters at their Seattle park to make up for the loss they obviously caused. I don't care that they've added major rides and rollercoasters already. I want more and I want it now. I've visited numerous times and they owe me!!!

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Lord Gonchar said:
Oh God. I'm agreeing with Nate

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Oh God. Its contagious;).

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The days of new coasters every two or three years are gone. The bubble has burst. If you just got into coasters in the last few years, you're in for a rude awakening.

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I don't understand how people are not happy with what they have...Yes, the coaster boom is over for now. But, hey! GUess what! There are plenty of coasters out there you haven't ridden at many other parks! Noone is forcing you to spend money @ Darien Lake, and there are plenty of places you could spend the cash.

See? This is why posts of this nature are frowned upon in the first place, Ride of Steel. Do you need any more convincing that it will turn into an argument than this?

Ride of Steel, I can empathize with your frustration at your home park being poorly run. Howerver, your willingness to pay the park $31.99 for what you consider to be a rotten experience does not put pressure on them to improve.

I can understand your desire to vent, but perhaps there are some more constructive ways to handle this that would put some gentle pressure on the park to improve, without causing undue annoyance to your fellow CoasterBuzzers.

Try toning down the anger a little bit, and post negative experiences like this as Trip Reports. Sending a letter park, along with an oath not to return until after your complaints have been addressed, will give the park management a chance to improve their service.

Everybody wins. You get to vent without annoying anyone, the park gets some much-needed constructive criticism, and CoasterBuzzers who are in imminent danger of making the same mistake you did (going to SFDL), have an opportunity to modify their plans after reading your TR. If your letter is polite enough, you might even get a free admission ticket out of it.

Edit: Grammmer 'n' stuff. Sorry. *** Edited 8/12/2004 7:04:58 AM UTC by Railshark***

As a commentary on Nate's post, I would think that parks that are profitable would need to keep doing whatever it is they're doing. If a park like GAdv. is putting in big coasters every other year and is turning profit, they may need to keep dumping millions in rides into the park to make it profitable. However, if a park like SFDL is doing just fine without new rides, there's no reason to change anything.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

You understand his desire to vent, eh. When was the last time you were at SFDL? and what's with this "You get to vent without annoying anyone"? From the sound of things, if RoS is correct, the park would be annoyed." I can empathize with your frustration at your home park being poorly run". Well, that we can agree on, Ben.

I'll have you know that Wild Waves/Enchanted Village gives me plenty to vent/not vent about!

Oh, really? Ok, go ahead...

Very well...

My home park, is SOOOO lame...

...its idea of "wildlife" is a fetid duck pond, filled with scores of reeking carp. For a quarter, you can buy handfuls of fish food to coax the entire population to one corner, where they pile up and push each other above the surface in one putrid, slithering mass.

Edit: "its" not "their." *** Edited 8/12/2004 7:52:29 AM UTC by Railshark***

Well, my home park is so lame...
their idea of a "Giant Log Ride" involves a visit to an over-sized bathroom stall...

My home park is so lame...

...the ads for its new wooden coaster last year used The Boss as a body double.

My home park is so lame...
...the only way to experience any *airtime* in the entire park is to climb the stairs of the Giant Slide and jump off the wrong end of it...

...the enclosed queues in the waterpark are in such moldering disrepair, they are more slippery than the slides they lead to.

My home park is so lame...
...the all-day wristband comes with the disclaimer "Not valid for anything you'd actually want to ride"...

...the ride-ops on the Arrow loop/corkscrew let the train do two laps, no matter how backed-up the lines get, just so they can claim it as a six-inversion coaster.

...the nurses station now says "All-day wristbands no longer accepted here" (hence the disclaimer)...