Cedar Fair buys Paramount Parks!!!

Originally posted by Real
Its a matter of numbers here. You cant have a park with a ton of rides in a small space and expect narrower walking areas with more landscaping. you will end up cramming people into areas they shouldnt be and in the end make navigating the park very frustrating. Ive seen pictures from before CF and it was a much more quaint park but you have a choice...no rides with more landscaping or more rides with less.

Some of the various city parks here in europe have a very limited space but still manage to be some of the best and nicest looking parks around. And some of this parks have more visitors than most large size parks. I think it is possible to avoid concrete and make it look good, while still allowing for people to have enough room to walk.

everybody seems to forget that CP's Millenium Island is a man made island, the lagoon for the paddlewheel, man made.

Also. if you have been to CP in the middle of July, They need that much concrete, That place gets really crowded, and the huge paths fill up.

[jayman]

o.k. when it comes to "knowing knott's" i, as you say "own all ya'll" i grew up in buena park.. watched the big "K" on top of the sky tower light up at dusk EVERY day from 1975-1989, and used to visit about twice a month untill 97 when my parents moved away.i rode corkscrew and montezoomas revenge when the paint was probabaly still drying. .. i can remember when the walkways were mostly DIRT, and thousands andd thousands of chickens everwhere in the parking area which was GRASS and shaded by huge oak trees. i remember summer days at the knott's lagoon , which was killed to make room for parking because the old parking area was taken up by camp snoopy. even in the early 90's knott's stil had SOME of it's old charm.. the ghost town still looked like a ghost town, .. now ghostrider is, for me, the realization of a childhood dream.. i had always wished that they'd find some way to build a woody, so long as it didn't affect the ghost town. they managed that pretty well.. REALLY WELL actually, then cedar fair bought it.
walter knott had purchased calico in the early 50s, and moved many of it's buildings to his park. the calico salloon was just that.. a real salloon, now it's a prefab amusement park building. the haunted shack, a really good example of a classic roadsisde attrasction, was ripped out a couple of years ago for a shitty ass swing thing that costs 7 dollars and belongs at a carnival. the old wagon train diorama show, a classsic orange county attraction and it's building were razed and now it's a gift shop.. alot of the old museums and curioo shops.. ( i can remember when a real antique pistol could be purchased at the gun shop) are gone. the shooting gallery , across from the log ride.. (we'll get to that later) was unique, and noone who ever went to knott's can forget the sounds of direct hits on the odd targets.. now it's boring.. oh, and the log ride, which used to meander through the mountain, giving people time to ... well.. enjoy the ride.. now speeds through the tunells at about twice the speed, making the ride seem much much less than it had been. same with the mine train..
silver bullet was fun.. sure.. but what's the use of having a stagecoach ride that has a big concrete slab and a space age rollercoaster as scenery...
i can forgive them for some of this .. they got ghost rider, but the old knott's is almost all gone.... but in all they've done well to preserve things like the bottle house, bird cage theater, schoolhouse, etcetra, but they did the unforgiveable when they ripped out reflection lake and the haunted shack.. on the other hand when it comes to parks like paramounts, which were built in the 70's to BE amusement parks.. it'll probabaly be a good thing.. pluss i will only need two season passes to ride all the good rides in california.... bala blah blah.. .k. i'm done.. gotta go back to work.. lunch over..

Some of the various city parks here in europe have a very limited space but still manage to be some of the best and nicest looking parks around. And some of this parks have more visitors than most large size parks. I think it is possible to avoid concrete and make it look good, while still allowing for people to have enough room to walk.

A city park compared to a amusement park? See thats the difference. Amusement parks are designed to move people. City parks are meant to move people but with far more emphasis on environment.

Plus, when you dont have 30 rides and 5 coasters taking up space along with vendors, buildings etc - it makes it alot easier.