Maybe if BGW actually invested in new flats, they wouldn't have ended up with an aging collection all dying simultaneously...
Attraction The Flying Machine
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Nailed it. When these failures compound, it’s usually from an unwillingness to do what should have been done to begin with.
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I concur. Four flats removed over the past four years (Flying Machine, The cradle, Mach Tower, and Battle for Eire). We may have gotten three new coasters, but that doesn't make up for those removals. I really hope that they put some good thought into reinvigorating the Davinci garden.
Coasters sell tickets, flats don’t (with rare exceptions). We all know that flats round out a park, but that doesn’t show up on a financial sheet. This is why parks being run by a publicly traded company do what they do. It’s all about the short term goals of revenue.
While those rides were lost, higher ticket harder to maintain attractions have been spared (so far) that most parks lost YEARS ago (Skyride and Train). I’d guess if you asked people who are fans of any Six Flags park, they’d gladly have given up other random flat rides to keep their Skyride or Train.
When you have people running companies who “don’t get” the intangible elements of the theme park business and they are constantly under pressure from shareholders to cut costs and improve profits, this is what happens. Even Disney makes boneheaded moves to increase profits and reduce costs in their parks, and for the same reasons.
While those rides were lost, higher ticket harder to maintain attractions have been spared (so far) that most parks lost YEARS ago (Skyride and Train). I’d guess if you asked people who are fans of any Six Flags park, they’d gladly have given up other random flat rides to keep their Skyride or Train.
When you have people running companies who “don’t get” the intangible elements of the theme park business and they are constantly under pressure from shareholders to cut costs and improve profits, this is what happens. Even Disney makes boneheaded moves to increase profits and reduce costs in their parks, and for the same reasons.
DarKastle was a dark ride, not a flat.
Similarly, simulators like Battle for Eire are not generally considered flat rides either. The Dark Ride Database lists them as “show rides,” which many consider a subcategory of dark rides.
Figured it could still be both. Like death metal is a sub catagory of metal but it's still metal.
In order to fit it, most of the area would have had to have been demoed. I agree that Tempesto was poorly placed, but I definitely wouldn't have wanted it in Da Vinci's Garden either.
Tempesto’s best location is in another park.
I always thought Ireland
would be a great spot. I’d probably call it “Finnegan's Run” or something like that.Idk that area is bigger than I think you give it credit. Just eyeballing it on maps… if they only demoed flying machine and cradle, they have spare room on either side to fit it
The issue is the Colonial Pipeline Easement. The easement runs DIRECTLY to the right of Cradle—Cradle is as close to Marco Polo as BGW is permitted to build. The easement is marked on the concept layout image in this post if you'd like a visual.
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I mean, I'm not sure what anyone expects right now - unless they have a replacement flat or something temporary to fill the space ready to go, I'll wager it'll stay in a similar state for a long time.
Call me crazy, but couldn’t they do what Alton towers did last year and bring in a traveling flat for a season or two while they plan a permanent replacement? Lots of traveling flats fit that kind of plot pretty easily. Obviously it would look out of place but it’d be temporary.
You know they can just move the orbiter at sesame place in longhorn and rename it repaint it and put in in the spot to look like the flying machine