Park Thoughts

We asked for your thoughts on water parks!  What did you think of them?  Great place to spend a hot day?  Hate them?  Maybe you love the idea but just isn’t your thing.  We asked Park Thoughts readers and an overwelming majority chose the 1st answer: “Love them, great way to cool off in the summer.”  Coming in 2nd with the votes was “Don’t care, great business idea, just not for me.”  And with nearly no votes was the final option: “They’re Horrible, tear them down!“

It appears that the water park is in fact a very popular place to cool down.  It doesn’t help that water slides like Bakuli (pictured in the poll header for this poll) are bridging the gap between roller coasters in water slides.  Thanks to technology, slide designers are able to do more with a rubber intertube and plexiglass slide than ever before.  Whether your favorite slide goes up hill, around a toilet bowl, or through a funnel, it seems like water slides are a real winner with parks these days.

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For the next two weeks Park Thoughts readers are participating in a battle of the characters!  Of course Universal and Disney focus heavily on movie/character tie-ins as a big draw for their parks, but recently more and more parks have been bringing in characters to help their attendance.  Cedar Fair has been adding Planet Snoopy areas to their parks in the past few years and plans on adding three more in 2011.

But Cedar Fair isn’t the only ones!  We want you to decide on which characters you think best fit in the theme park world?  Is it Six Flags and the classic Looney Toons?  A wide variety of characters ranging from Tasmanian Devil to Bugs Bunny.  Perhaps it is Cedar Fair with the Peanuts gang?  Charlie Brown, Sally, Lucy, Linus, and who can forget everyone’s favorite beagle, Snoopy!  None of the above?  Well then, how about Sesame Street friends?  These whimsical creatures of a street called Sesame are perhaps best adjusted to fit in their enviornments.  So which class of characters do you feel is best implemented into the parks?  Choose in by picking your favorite option in the poll below ↓ or on the sidebar →.

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Park Thought’s asked it’s readers which they preferred.  And the overwhelming majority said quality.  So step aside Six Flags Magic Mountain and Cedar Point, because according to this poll, coasters enthusiasts are craving unique, one of a kind, detailed experiences like Harry Potter, the Forbidden Journey and Expedition Everest.

This is quite a controversial topic.  Most parks have a choice, to go for quantity or quality.  Just a few years ago, Six Flags Magic Mountain was an excellent example.  They could either A, downsize remove various rides and make everything in the park top notch, or B, go after Cedar Point for the title of most roller coasters in the world.  Whether or not you like, that park chose quantity.  And there are plenty of other examples of the same ultimatum.

With the temperature peaking, people are hitting up water parks left and right.  Crowds inside these wet amusement parks can be extreme during the summer season.  Are these lines worth it?  What’s your stand on water parks?  Love ‘em or hate ‘em?  Share your park thoughts by voting in the poll below:

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Results will be posted 2 weeks from today with the next poll!  Check the side bar to see ongoing results.

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This week, we asked our readers to contribute your thoughts on the topic of Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom.  Six Flags may be sued for shutting down Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in the near future.  It is a questionable topic since Six Flags is in rough times right now, so to improve the other parks, they must give the axe to one of the parks that do not do so well.  Now, should Six Flags be sued because they are trying to improve their business?

Well it looks lik 68% of you readers say no.   Out of the 22 voters, 15 of them believe that Six Flags should NOT be sued for shutting down their Kentucky Park.  I for one agree with this.  No pain, no gain, if you want to improve your company, you must make some sacrifices and unfortunately, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom was one of those sacrifices.  However, 32% disagree believing that Six Flags should be legally punished.

This is not the only legal issue the company is having with the fellow Kentucky residents.  The Kentucky Fairgrounds are filing a law suit against the coasters are on the Kentucky Fairgrounds, which Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom is located on, and therefore the coasters are theirs.  However, Six Flags concurs, and files a lawsuit back at them.

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Now we have a question for you: Quality or Quantity?  Is it better to have a smaller amusement park but have that park work to the best of it’s abilities.  Quality means that the park has a few coasters but it has the best, it has the best food, and it has the best atmosphere.  It is a clean park, it is well staffed friendly and has a some of the best offerings around.

Quantity, however, is a park with more coasters, more rides, and a bigger park, however the park is not the best.  While this park may have double the coasters of a quality park, these coasters are not as good as the ones in the quality park but there are several more of them.  There are more staff, but not quite as motivated, there is more food, but not quite as good, and there is just more to do.

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So what is better?  Quality or Quantity?  Make sure you vote!  Poll closes next Friday.

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