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For those who aren't coaster geeks and don't know (or barely care), my local amusement park--yes, the one that had a train derail from their big coaster last night--is now going to purchase a whole slew of new amusement parks for $1.2 billion. This will include their THIRD amusement park in Ohio alone, their second in California and even one in Canada.

On the one hand, It's friggin' awesome to think I'll be able to take Da Babies to a bunch more amusement parks on a single season pass. On the other? I'm sorry, the Paramount parks are head and shoulders better than Cedar Fair's. They look better. They draw more attendees per park. When you enter one of their parks, you feel as if you've entered a whole new world--not just a sea of concrete with coasters plopped in it. They've purchased their betters from a large corporation too stupid to know what they sold. I hope they realize that and don't turn the Paramount parks into Cedar Fair parks.

Anyway...I'm on the phone right now, tied in to the CF conference call.
If anything big comes up, I'll post more.

Date: 2006-05-22 05:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com
Yep!

Well, Kings Island and the other four parks in West Virginia, Toronto ONT, California and the Carolinas. I might have a location or two wrong.

They will also own the Star Trek Experience ride in Las Vegas.

Date: 2006-05-22 06:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lumbergirl13.livejournal.com
Not West Virginia... PKD is in Virginia. Thank god, too, because if it were in WV, I'd never go there :)

Date: 2006-05-22 07:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com
Wow.
Footheels even YOU won't touch. :-P

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