Surf Dance Chris <
surfdancec@aol.com> wrote:
: What?s everyone?s thoughts on this? : I?m ok either way, I like some
: aspects of each company, hopefully we?ll get a ?best of? as far as
: thinking and policies. I?m still surprised it ended up being Six Flags
: that merged with Cedar Fair, and not the SeaWorld parks.
They can call it a merger all they want, but this is really Cedar Fair
taking over for all practical purposes. FUN's unit holders would never
approve it any other way, and because this way the ownership of Cedar Fair remains substantially unchanged they don't even have to approve it,
although Six Flags shareholders do.
I have not generally had poor experiences at Six Flags, although some are clearly better than others, and it seems to come down to whether anybody in
the front office actually gives a qnza or not. That's why I have always
found the St. Louis park to be quite impressive, and some of the others to
just feel like they're worn out. Perhaps the most telling was back in...I
think it was 2008 so it barely counts today...when I visited Great
Adventure and Dorney Park on consecutive days. I had a good time at Great Adventure, but enjoyed myself more at Dorney.
I don't know how this is going to work, but I really think in the end all
of the parks are going to look and feel more like Cedar Fair. If the whole thing doesn't go down in flames and get parted out to private equity. But
then, I think that's why this merger is going down in the first place, to
keep that from happening.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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