News Kings Island to Retire Boo Blasters

[Zachary]

I'm so glad this technology exists. Hopefully the chain will take notice when they make many, many thousands of dollars off this stuff they were about to throw in the trash. The chain's warehouses, boneyards, and deserted attractions are full of huge sums of unrealized, potential profit that these parks just allow to rot away before eventually paying to dispose of it.

Six Flags should obviously be doing this for SFA stuff right now. They could hire any of us thoosies to go through SFA to pick items with a U-Haul, and we'd earn the chain insane sums of money with an auction like this. Easy cash, Six Flags, think about it.

 

[mtorange]

I'm so glad this technology exists. Hopefully the chain will take notice when they make many, many thousands of dollars off this stuff they were about to throw in the trash. The chain's warehouses, boneyards, and deserted attractions are full of huge sums of unrealized, potential profit that these parks just allow to rot away before eventually paying to dispose of it.

Six Flags should obviously be doing this for SFA stuff right now. They could hire any of us thoosies to go through SFA to pick items with a U-Haul, and we'd earn the chain thousands with an auction like this. Easy money, Six Flags.

Not to mention I know for a fact many parks just throw stuff in a giant dumpster when they’re done with it.

Think of the money some would pay to own a mannequin prop from No Vacancy, for example.

 

[Timchat2]

I'm a little bummed the Tonic Production prop doesn't come with the little conveyor belt. That was always one of my favorite animated props. The action was simple but the staging had a neat cartoony bounce to it.

 

[GASM]

The chain's warehouses, boneyards, and deserted attractions are full of huge sums of unrealized, potential profit that these parks just allow to rot away before eventually paying to dispose of it.

I know I’d burn stupid money in Great Adventure’s boneyard. Lemme load up a few Skyride gondolas with whatever I can fit in them and I won’t complain about the tetanus shots I would need after bumping into the nearly 30 year old remains of Joust-a-Bout.

 

[halfabee]

I have to imagine liability concerns would be an issue, at least in park executives' minds, when selling disused (sometimes large) equipment that hasn't been maintained for a while.

Charity auctions feel like a bit of an exception given the overall do-good nature of those events. That's a contextual and presumed-behavior argument rather than any strong distinction, so I doubt it means much legally -- but it still seems dissimilar from more general auction events in scale/volume, frequency, and possibly participant list.

What are the typical protections for regularly active auction sellers? Would implements like signed liability waivers, insurance policy riders, and in-house item inspection and remediation be enough to provide adequate coverage against damage/injury claims stemming from sold property? Would they make the auction enterprise prohibitively expensive?

I don't know much about that stuff so there may be ready answers. It just seems to me that smaller selling orgs and individuals aren't typically as rich a lawsuit target as large corporations, regardless of the merits of any individual claim...

 

[Jonesta6]

I'm not sure it applies here, but when I worked in a car dealership sometimes we'd sell really fucked up used cars that pass state inspection and run, but otherwise would be far too expensive to rehab and wouldn't fetch enough to bother with sending to an auction. Those were usually sold really cheap, but with an as-is affidavit that basically meant that if the car falls apart and/or injures the buyer post-sale, the dealer will not provide any kind of warranty or otherwise can not be held liable for it - buyer beware.