WWF Theme Park - CoasterBuzz

As the Rock would say:
"Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-WHOA! Stop right there!"

While some may not like the WWF the ratings have shown that Smackdown is consistantly shown in over four MILLION homes each week. Not to mention that the live television events (Heat, Raw, SmackDown) are sold out EVERY week! Smackdown does EXTRAORDINARILY well when you factor in it is shown up against Friends, Survivor, CSI, and Millionaire. That the oppositions TOP draws. And not all of them drive mobile homes. Next time you're in NYC, stop in the WWF restaurant and see how many 'Yuppies' are in there!

There *is* a market there. I'm just not sure that an entire park should be dedicated to it as people are fickle.

Funny, four million people watch SmackDown every week, but Cedar Point doesn't even draw in four million people in the entire season. NOW which idea is moronic?
lata,
jeremy
--WHAT?!?

...and the park employees could dress-up as famous wrestlers and SMACK the patrons around!

Yeah!

~Tocci

there's no accounting for taste.

the WWF restaurant: it's called curiousity. how many people go back more than once? Just like Hard Rock Cafe, Rainforest Cafe, Fashion Cafe (which is gone, go figure). How many people do you suppose read fashion magazines? Hey, how 'bout a Fashion Park? Every section themed after a supermodel.....or the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Park?

Liz
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Jeremy. Trying to convince these people about wrestling is obviously a lost cause. We find entertainment in wrestling but some people just have to throw their 2 cents in and ridicule it with ignorant statements like "Trailer park". If you dont like it , fine, but leave the ignorant comments to yourselves.
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"The Peoples Elbow" or "The Spinaroonie?. Cant decide which is the most electrifying move in sports entertainment!!! LOL

I think the idea of a WWF park would be cool, but the practicality of it may not be the greatest. I think ride names would have to change periodically... I mean if they had a park and had a ride for "Latino Heat" Ediie Guerrero... It would definitely have to be re-named, unless it was a drunk driving simulator.

The novelty of the idea is great, and it would provide a good place to hold PPVs, but I dont think that it would be the booming business a theme park would need to survive.

and yes, im a WWF fan. *puts on his Hardy Boyz hat*

This accounts for what I like to call the "Nascar/wwf" demographic. Theme a park around both of those and you'll have every Billy Bob and Raegene in the country drinking 40s in the parking lot in their double-wide trailers.
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Doesn't it seem as though morons always have the caps lock on?

The WWF has a deal with Viacom, (They own TNN MTV, and UPN, to name a few), they own Paramount, so if any park got a themed area it would have to be Paramount.
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Anthony Clauser

As I said in the beginning, I dont think the market would support an entire theme park, but I *do* think the idea has at least some merit. When you think about all the other attractions around the globe themed to silly S-H:
Wax Museums
Ripley's Believe it or not.
Space Camp
Star Trek: The Experience
Speed: The Ride
The Holy Land Experience
Santa Claus Land
JazzLand
A Jules Verne Novel (Worlds of Fun)
A friggin RODENT (self explanitory)
Why is this *one* so out of left field?

As for the Fashion Cafe, I've never heard of it. But do you *really* want to suggest that if Hugh Heffner opened a park with Playboy Bunnies walking around that place wouldnt make money hand over fist? (supposing of course that the so-called 'Christian Right' didnt close it down immediately ;))

BTW: NASCAR is the fastest growing sport (in terms of popularity) in the nation.

I'm not trying to convince anyone to watch wrestling (I dont own WWFE stock), just to understand that there is a wide audience out there. Could it support a theme park? I dont know. But if a park was well run, and had decent attractions, I would think people would be inclined to go there regardless of the theme.
lata,
jeremy
--"You didn't say that. Tell me you didnt say that!" Booker T

it would be an all out mullet convention

"roll out"

Tocci- lol, i'm totaly with you. I don't care if a park themed to wrestling had a coaster that was part steel, part wood, a thousand feet high and went five hundred miles per hour...i still wouldn't go there.
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"who needs drugs when you have coasters...they're like a natural high"

IMO, I'd want it to be as sucesful as the XFL unless it had Six Flags quality themeing (none). In that case, I'd go once, but not ever again unless they had some coaster which is so unique, so extreme, and so utterly impossible that it would cause even me to puke (and I have never felt the least bit sick on any ride)

The main reason I wouldn't want one is it would be a magnet for people like Will. I know none of you know Will, but just think pasty-white, quote-too-much, crazy, greasy haired, raggy clothes wrestling freak. I know thats not what all wrestling fans are like, but there has got to be more than one of them, and they would flock to the park (daily, probably)

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Hi! I'm Hungry, whats your name?

I don't see what the big fuss is about the WWF. Is it really that entertaining?
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Ha ha ha... "a mullet convention." Well, some parks are like that anyway. ;-)

I'm taking the side that a WWF park would be so, so sickening.

so amusementparkfanatic85, i guess your not a real coaster enthusiast then. coasters are coasters no matter what type of park their in or what there themed to for that matter. In your member profile it shows that youve ridden Millenium Force...im sure you probably enjoyed it, its one hell of a coaster. Now can you honestly tell me and the rest of the people reading this that if Millenium Force was in a Wrestling theme park, or even just a themed section of an existing park w/a different name...say it was called I dunno...The Undertaker's Last Ride that you wouldnt ride it because its related to wrestling?!? I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT!

and for all of you people that say that people that watch wrestling are beer drinking rednecks who live in trailer parks are completly wrong. Watch RAW or Smackdown! sometime, and you'll see that the people in the crowd are just like everyone else. And alot of the times you'll even see celebrity's sitting ringside @ PPV's or RAW/Smackdown!. So say your fav. celeb was sitting ringside this sunday during the WWF PPV would you not like that actor/actress anymore because there enjoying a live wrestling event?!?

The point is, a park would not survive themed to anything having to do with wrestling. "Famliy" people would not go to parks promoting senseless fighting of umm, practicaly "fake" people...

Y'all cats kill me! I didnt know there were so many prejudicial-sterotyping-closed-minded-bigots here on the 'Buzz!

I find it VERY strange that so many people are repulsed at the very thought of being around this percieved image of "trailer park" people. This is as bad as people who dont like SFA because there are "too many black people" there. I'm not going to tell you all *WHAT* to think, but I will point out *HOW* you are thinking.

It's funny, people think *I'm* insane for not wanting to go to Knoebels, Holiday World, or Silverwood because I fear the clientle (and there is REAL basis for the fear), yet there are so many people abhorred by a pretty much harmless group of folks.

This just tells me we still have a LONG way to go in the fight against "-isms".
ONE!
me
--"Pin me, pay me!" JOB Squad motto

I'm sorry, but a WWF theme would not be a trailer park convention nor would it be a mullet convention. while a WWF fan would be more inclined to go there, it would still be an amusement park and cater to adrenaline junkies. even though you may not approve of WWF programming, there is no need to use name calling or ignorant statements to get your point across. the purpose of this topic isn't whether or not you would attend the park, but if it could become a reality.

IMO, the liklehood of a whole park themed to WWF is extremly unlikely. however, a section of an existing park is extradionarly probable. the number of people who will boycot a park just because it has one section dedicated to something they don't like would be an insignificant number. attendance figures would only increase along the same lines as any other addition to a park. a WWF fan who doesn't like coasters isn't going to spend $30 to waste their time admiring a theme.

I will not respond to the attacks made against WWF fans, but I request that the name calling stop in this thread. we are all adults here and the majority of the responses in this thread sound like they're coming from four year olds. I don't care if you don't like WWF, but shut your mouth if the only thing you're going to say is, "Oh, they're all just trailer park trash." that wasn't the reason that this thread was started. no body cares about your opinion of WWF on a COASTER board.

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Knott's Berry Farm Cuba ~South Park

well said coaster jedi!

hurler was themed to puke and people still rode it so i dont see why a coaster or section of a park cant be wrestling themed and people not want any thing to do with it

just because its called the undertaker doesnt mean they have to show matches of him burying people alive in the que line

I still say it's a god-awful idea, one I never hope to see turned into reality.