Mark Rosenzweig

On Jul 18, 8:31 am, serialthrills <serialthri...@> wrote:
> On Jul 15, 5:08 pm, Coastin_St...@ (Coastin Steve) wrote:
>
> >    The new train on the SLC is wonderful.
> >     It took that ride from a headbanging nightmare that it was,  to an
> > "intense" re-ridable ride.
> >    There's still alot of shaking going on,   but without the OTSR to
> > pinball in,   it feels like a whole new ride
>
> Everyone Ive spoken with says that the GNE is amazing and rerideable
> now.
>
> Rumor has it, the new trains arent cheap either (heard it's about a
> mill per train?).  However, if Morey's can swing it, there's no reason
> why the big chains cant redo their SLC's too.

One would think that an operation like Morey's had more incentive to
re-invest money into GNE for at least two reasons that aren't as
applicable for larger gated parks...

a)A large chunk of GNE's ridership comes after sundown by those
purchasing ride cards. The new trains have surely increased levels of
re-ridership. (are there any other SLCs that *aren't* in gated
parks?) The arguement against this theory is that both Paramount and
Six Flags did re-invest in their Premier Rides LIM coaster trains with
the lapbar modifications back in '01-'02, but I doubt the number was
even in this ballpark.

b)GNE continues to argueably be Morey's marquee coaster. Save for
maybe Elitch Gardens and Wild Adventures, is there another park (gated
or not) in North America that calls a Vekoma SLC its marquee coaster?

-Mark