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Officials with Wild Adventures said Tuesday the offer to purchase VisionLand will be taken off the table and the company will not submit a bid to buy the park by the new Oct. 15 deadline. They say that the sale approval process is taking too long and would prevent renovation projects from being completed in time for a spring opening.
Read more from The Birmingham News.
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Don't even get me started with Montgomery.
They want more money than the park is worth. The town of Bessemer wants the companies to pay $25 million for the entire park. They don't want to allow for any kind of dismissal of back payments or debts. They are screwing themselves royally. I tell you what. They really shot themselves in the foot this time. Wild Adventures would have easily brought a ton of people into that park, and would utilize a joint season pass for both parks. They would have been some legitimate competition for SFOG. WAdv would have brought in some new rides immediately. Also, if any of you have been down to WAdv, you will also note that they are a park that takes excellent care of their rides. This is just a sad day. No Rip-Roarin Rampage next year.
This bites!
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"Sit down, enjoy much airtime and put your feet IN the fire!"
*** This post was edited by Scorcherboy on 10/11/2002. ***
The third company is a figment of the small-time political crooks' imagination.
Remember when they said Busch was interested and the Busch brass not only specifically and emphatically denied it, but documented all the (unsolicited) communication about the park offering too? That says loads about the Busch park brass--and all of it good. They weren't going to let those hoodlums inflate the price due to 'competitive interest.'
Their strategy might work on some other planet, but this is Earth. It's chock-full of people that can count.
-'Playa
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The CPlaya 100--6 days, 9 parks, 47 coasters, 2037 miles and a winner.....LoCoSuMo.
It looks like Visionland probably won't be sold in time to open next year.
EDIT: I guess we were wrong CPlaya, I just contributed a news item about the so-called second park. But from the sounds of it, this may have been a last minute bid that the board didn't know about when they made the claim.
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The third company is from san diego called ProParks here is a link to the story.
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Army Rangers lead the way
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The buzzer that used to be rampagelover.
bill, saying "buy my bridge before someone else does"...;)...Supplies ARE limited! *** This post was edited by rollergator on 10/13/2002. ***
While on the one hand there is a third bidder it sure isn't a deep-pocketed 'white horse' that would drive up the price or strike terror in the hearts of its competitors. Same ol' same ol'.
The article goes on to reveal even more facets of the little shell game they continue to play with prospective bidders.
What are they thinking?
-'Playa
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The CPlaya 100--6 days, 9 parks, 47 coasters, 2037 miles and a winner.....LoCoSuMo.
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