Star Spangled Nights

[GeoUSA]

I guess the park made more money on cocktails and hot dogs than we thought to cover the nightly firework show cost.

I hate to be the only person with a positive about Porno Nights 2014, but I enjoyed having an extra draft beer choice or two in San Marco and the fireworks included a couple of effects I had never seen.

Sounds like Porno Nights 2015 is happening. Any ideas to improve it besides 86 the boiled dogs?

 

[James]

The animals were evicted, and tons of staff were unceremoniously fired, but they can afford to expand Porno Nights?!?!?!?

You're missing the bigger picture. It's almost as if all those people got fired and all those animals were taken away so Porno Nights COULD be expanded....

 

[Jrbgwfan06]

 Any ideas to improve it besides 86 the boiled dogs?

Kill it. Now.

 

[Nicole]

I am seriously sitting here trying to think of ways to be constructive and improve the event, but I honestly just don't think there is anything you can do.

 

[Jrbgwfan06]

You can buy a Kings Dominion pass and choose not to even tolerate it, like me. That'll improve the amount of emotional stress you choose to put on your self.

 

[GeoUSA]

I had the same difficulty, Nicole. Not sure how it would work, but there are a growing number of craft brewers in the area. It would be nice if they could partner with the park. This would be a better component of Food and Wine Festival than Porno Nights though.

 

[Nicole]

I would love if they used local breweries and wineries for the F&WF!

 

[jpcommons]

How about turning the music down and/or moving the ginormous speakers off the pathways. There were many times last year that I had to wgalk away from an area because I could not hear what people in my group were saying.

 

[Jrbgwfan06]

Don't worry Nicole and Geo, I'm sure your idea for improvement will be the first on the park's list, because as we've seen at HOS, more booze fixes everything.

 

[Party Rocker]

Fireworks, their known for having nightly summer fireworks and it brings people in.

 

[Nicole]

My understanding is that the fireworks are quite expensive. I do hope the hotdog and booze sales do exceed the cost of the event.

Does anyone know if they plan you have a fireworks show every night, or only on weekends, when they stay open later?

 

[MAZ]

Good point Nicole. Weekday early closings would have the display at 8:30 or so and there is still daylight in the sky. By not having fireworks during the week like last year, the event may be significantly cheaper for the park this year even with the 'expansion'. Professional fireworks usually average $800-$900 per minute.

 

[wombat96]

 Any ideas to improve it besides 86 the boiled dogs?

A night time show in the Teatro about the history of music in America with a live band that would show twice a night would be an awesome addition in my opinion. I love watching a show in the Teatro with the nice summer breeze coming through, reminds me of the Monster Stomp days in the Canadian Palladium. I imagine it wouldn't cost that much and could probably use the same muscians used in Mix it Up.

 

[Thomas]

^ The goal was to improve it, not make it worse.

 

[Jrbgwfan06]

Making it less expensive should be a goal also, producing another additional show would not help that.

 

[Thomas]

If they wanted to cut the cost of the event, I would recommend not having it at all...

 

[GeoUSA]

Could there be some sort of partnership with Colonial Williamsburg? I was blown away by the joint marketing with Kings Dominion for 2015.

 

[James]

There is no way that them keeping around Porno Nights had anything to do with CW.

 

[GeoUSA]

I was asking if anyone could think of a way that a CW partnership could improve the summer event. BGW was trying to tie the 2014 event to American history or Americana, or porno -- I'm not sure.

 

[Nicole]

I remember thinking last year that if they really wanted to do a 4th of July event, it might make sense to collaborate with CW. Since they went with 40s Americana theme, however, I'm not sure the logical tie is still there.