20 years ago when I was there a Pepsi truck that went through the main entrance had issues navigating their full parking lot and jackknifed and stuck my aunt’s pickup while we were in the park. We came out to the truck at lunch time with Park management waiting for us and made us wait all day with them in the parking lot for Pepsi’s insurance people to arrive. They did not offer us replacement tickets until I mentioned if there is anything they can do for a day lost in the park. Pepsi’s insurance people did not come until an hour before closing.
I’m praying some park (cmon Knoebels) decides it’s worth the hassle of relocating, never been to SFA but this is the one ride I’m super bummed about missing. Batwing would be cool as the last Flying Dutchman (and my only one), but I honestly have a feeling I’d hate it unfortunately.
I'm in Philly and I'll be driving down there. I'm not suggesting a carpool, just noting that it's only 2.5 hours by car and this will be the only year to make that trip before the opportunity is gone forever.
...Who's gonna be the one to say it?
It’s a shame I never realized just how close it was when I lived in South Jersey. Living 3 hours away from Carowinds as my home park has made me miss just how close everything was in NJ.
It does not appear so based on the info. released during the quarterly report but I can't say for sure but I say the odds are probably 95% against based on the currently available info.Is it possible SFA gets bought by Herschend or a similar company?
SF would almost certainly demand major concessions from another theme park operator to not pillage guests from KD. I'm not even sure how that's possible outside of the park being really narrowed to a point they aren't really pulling guests away from KD - e.g. a small, local water park setup.
I'm sure they explored selling it off to something like EPR Properties and then trying to secure a contract to manage the park (ala Frontier City or Darien Lake). Maybe even shopped the park around a bit to other operators. Realistically, there's very few options left in the industry thanks to consolidation and other financial doom and gloom about the economy right now.
The land is not that valuable for non theme park uses. There's no demand in that area for mixed use or other high intensity land uses that would generate high returns. The most likely use is for single family homes, but that's not a very desirable area for anything but lower to middle end housing.
The Nebulaz could fit any number of parks. SFNE's getting a steampunk-style coaster with Quantum Accelerator this season - if they refurb the Flashback (Boomerang) and remove the Balloon Race in front, it could fit right in - or in any of the spots below. (Ideally, they'd move Balloon Race next to Houdini).
