United States Glenwood Caverns

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Colorado
halfabee said:
I’m trying to think of another permanent drop ride installation that secures you in a floorless open-air seat with just a seat belt. Are there any?
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Most notably Mountain Monster in Pigeon Forge and Bigfoot Action Tower in Branson, but a lot of mid-sized FECs have picked up smaller versions. Funland in Fredericksburg is planning one for next year. All manufactured by Stan Checketts/Soaring Eagle, who designed Haunted Mine Drop. They use the seatbelt only restraint as a main form of marketability so I assume they all have similar restraint designs, if not exactly the same as Haunted Mine. Curious to see if any changes are made to any of the existing rides or updated for future installations.

The more I read about this story the more unbelievable it gets. Hell of a way to take the wind out of their sails from the Gerstlauer announcement, if that's even still happening now.
 
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Pour one out for Soaring Eagle who, at least by my understanding of the case, literally did absolutely nothing wrong and, somehow, has been found partially liable here. Insane ruling unless I'm missing something huge.

And yes, the Glenwood statement is absolutely unhinged. I don't want to see any park close, but I certainly wouldn't object to this one trading hands away from the management that ACTUALLY failed to protect its patrons and, by extension, whoever the hell authorized this statement.

A Herschend logo could look great on this property, right? Seems to fit right in with their portfolio. Might be a good deal at the moment too—sounds like someone may be a little pressed to sell!
 
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Zachary said:
Pour one out for Soaring Eagle who, at least by my understanding of the case, literally did absolutely nothing wrong and, somehow, has been found partially liable here. Insane ruling unless I'm missing something huge.

And yes, the Glenwood statement is absolutely unhinged. I don't want to see any park close, but I certainly wouldn't object to this one trading hands away from the management that ACTUALLY failed to protect its patrons and, by extension, whoever the hell authorized this statement.

A Herschend logo could look great on this property, right? Seems to fit right in with their portfolio. Might be a good deal at the moment too—sounds like someone may be a little pressed to sell!
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Based on my understanding they might not have done anything wrong on there own but they were not exactly clean on it either. My understanding is the restraints didn't require cycling after each ride this allowed the 6 year old to sit down on the closed restain which still read as buckled on a panel. Yes the employee 100% should have been doing the required manual check and didn’t but my understanding is the argument by the family's lawyers was that it's been industry standar to require an open and reset of restraints after each ride cycle for many years and that neither the system or the manufacturer training required that. On top of that they argued that similar incidents had happened before and that Soaring Eagle was aware of those and boyh didn't modify the design to address it or even send out warning bulletins to operators. So yes I believe that 95% of the blame lies on the park and the ride operator that day but Soaring Eagle appears to not be completely blameless either.
 
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My understanding is the restraints didn't require cycling after each ride this allowed the 6 year old to sit down on the closed restain which still read as buckled on a panel.
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Super important note here. From what I read, the system actually threw an error alerting the operator that the restraint in question had not been relocked for the current cycle. The ride operator saw the error, had not received any training on it, and simply cleared it and started the cycle.
 
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Herschend looking at another "-wood" park on the market like:

gus sorola money GIF by Rooster Teeth
 
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The following information came out yesterday during Glenwood Caverns objection to a bankrupcty venue transfer from Delaware to Colorado.

9. With assistance of the Debtor, Hilco has established a virtual data room for potential investors. No travel to Colorado or Delaware is necessary to access the virtual data room. In addition, Hilco has prepared a Confidential Information Presentation for potential investors. For access to this information, potential investors need to sign a Nondisclosure Agreement. As of the date of this Objection, 21 parties have signed Nondisclosure Agreements. Twenty of them are from outside the State of Colorado. Two are located in Arizona; one in Canada; five in California; two in Florida; three in Illinois; one in Maryland; two in New York; one in Oklahoma, one in Pennsylvania; one in Utah; and one in Virginia.

10. Significantly, as noted above, the Debtor has executed a term sheet with a stalking horse plan sponsor and, if definitive agreements can be reached, hopes to submit papers with this Court in the near future. The plan is expected to call for an exit on or about July 1 due to seasonality of the business. Based upon this timing, the Debtor does not intend to seek extension of its exclusive right to file a plan. Even that aggressive timeframe will require an extension of the current stipulated cash collateral budget. The delay and uncertainty created by venue transfer would disrupt and create an obstacle to inherently delicate negotiations.

https://document.epiq11.com/documen...63&projectCode=GLQ&docketNumber=132&source=DM
 
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