News Fright Fest 2026 Cancelled

[warfelg]

Does anyone know how much Northern Californians even care about amusement/theme parks? In my observation there are parts of the country where parks are an integral part of people's lives. Virginia, Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, for example, seem to support the industry culturally. A lot of people who live elsewhere, however, may plan One Big Disney Trip for Their Families once or twice in their lives, but generally focus their leisure spending on other things entirely. So, does NorCal have a large "thoosie" population? If not, then regardless of the animals, large amusement parks don't seem like the best financial use of the land.

I don’t know much about it but I wonder how much of this could be a “chicken and egg” type argument? Like I wonder if they regularly got investment or just picked one of the parks a while ago if they would be in better shape.

 

[Nitro230]

if discovery kingdom goes, that would leave six flags great adventure to be the only animal park left

That is something interesting to take note of. Cedar Fair said they didn't want to take care of animals when they acquired Six Flags Worlds of Adventure way back when. They went as far to demolish what was left of SeaWorld Ohio in order to do so. Sure a lot has changed since then but I imagine there's still an element of that in the modern Six Flags company. The real tricky thing there is that Great Adventure is seemingly doubling down on its safari. They're advertising the property as three parks because of the safari and you can't forget about the Savanna Sunset hotel.