Either way.. I don't wanna see SFGE be in Enchanted Parks..
I worry what they might do
I worry what they might do
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News Enchanted Parks & EPR Acquire Seven Parks from Six Flags
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I think I'd be concerned if I were a Worlds of Fun local right now, but I think the smaller properties seemingly being offloaded (like Great Escape) probably only stand to benefit here. They were largely ignored in their respective chains pre-merger, they were stripped of all of their local management post-merger, and the cap-ex and corporate interest drought definitely wasn't going to subside anytime soon under Six Flags management. I'd be much happier being a Great Escape or Michigan's Adventure local now than a few days ago. Remember, some of these properties could have been sold as land, not as parks. This fate is VASTLY superior than that of SFA or CGA—and there's real potential for significant medium-to-longterm upside in my opinion as well.
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I highly doubt that they'd invalidate passes or remove that perk from passes that are purchased this year before the official sale of the park. I mean, it's not impossible with the other fuckery that SFEC has been doing with season passes, but that would be a very low-class move.
So we've got Great Escape, Michigan's Adventure, St. Louis, Valleyfair, and Worlds of Fun. If Six Flags also transferred the operating licenses for Darien Lake and Frontier City over to Enchanted Parks (which seems likely given EPR's involvement), that'd give them a pretty solid chain of midsize regional theme parks that could thrive without having to share their budgets with bigger, more resource intensive properties. Assuming CGA closes at the end of this year, the Six Flags Chain would then be left with 17 parks (all the larger properties plus a couple mid-size parks), which should be a pretty manageable number. This feels like a pretty likely way things are going to shake down at this point.
The alleged Enchanted Parks Instagram account has unfollowed most parks (minus Valleyfair??) as well as the marketing agency. Were we duped?
Someone at one of the companies likely didn’t want that information out yet. The follows alone suggest enough to spark premature conversations about it—like the one we’re having now.
These parks will almost assuredly receive more attention in a chain where they stand alone. Even if they don’t, it’s at least a chance that they truthfully don’t have with SFEC. Bobcat, Rookie Racer, and Zambezi Zinger have really been the only truly noteworthy investments I can think of between the parks in the last decade (and Rookie Racer’s definitely pushing the definition of noteworthy).
They're following Roblox and 3 other accounts called enchanted parks, I think we've been duped brochacho
The current followed accounts are very suspect, I'll give you that @Coaster_Merrick.
That being said, the contact email on the account checks out. As far as I know, Instagram will not allow you to display a contact email in this field that hasn't been verified.
Given that the email domain matches the web domain, I think it has to be real...?
Has anyone tried calling the phone number yet? The area code is a match for Innovative Attraction Management for what it's worth.
That being said, the contact email on the account checks out. As far as I know, Instagram will not allow you to display a contact email in this field that hasn't been verified.
Given that the email domain matches the web domain, I think it has to be real...?
Has anyone tried calling the phone number yet? The area code is a match for Innovative Attraction Management for what it's worth.
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Update. I tested it on my personal Instagram account and it looks like the email was going to require verification to change. That may not be true with business accounts though. It looks like I can change the BGWFans contact email and phone number with zero verification step. Seems like a huge oversight on Meta's part.
Guess it may actually be feasible to have faked this...?
Guess it may actually be feasible to have faked this...?
Has anyone called yet? That would be a major sign if is a dupe or not, and if not can someone call it soon to see?
The Facebook page looks like it was created after the original news broke and there really isn't anything else there to cross-reference for attempted verification.
The YouTube page still links to everything so if we can verify one of these is real, I think we can reasonably say it's all real. Once again though, you can list any email on a YouTube page without any sort of ownership verification check and the joined date is well after the original trademarks.
Bro, you literally responded to the post with the original followed accounts listing.
Please stop asking questions you can answer with three minutes of reading the conversation. It's dreadfully annoying. We're trying to actually gather and share useful info here.
Not to be THAT guy, but Six Flags Great Escape got like new stuff the last two years, Bobcat coaster, refurbished Flashback and new paint on the Storytown buildings.. no offense.
But I see
Comes back to some poor guy named Peter who’s probably going to have a decent amount of random numbers calling him.
Yup, if it's Peter Acquaviva, we're in business. He has authored one of the press releases on the Innovative Attraction Management site:
Any chance you got a last name @GASM?
Any chance you got a last name @GASM?
Just called back because I went “Peter HUH” the first time, that is indeed him.
Thank god for *67 still being a thing.
Thank god for *67 still being a thing.