Amusement Parks 50 years from now....

[rcoaster]

I was thinking a lot lately about how amusement parks will be different within 50 years from now. Would there be something in the place of rides such as raging bull, X, Dragster, or anyother popular rides? Will Six Flags still exist?? I'm sure that there already is a topic on this deep inside the pages, but now with more technology are answers can change dramatically from even a year before!

[demon boy]

I hate to say it, bus amusement parks might not even exist in 50 years. Or they will be, but not as they are now with PHYSICAL rides that are they if you know what i mean.

[rcoaster]

Na, I don't think so because what kind of world would that be?

[rct2wizard360]

For some reason, something tells me it's going to be extreme no matter which way you look at it.

I either see them not existing, or I see them being the place to be again.
Like they will be the first thing that pops into everyones head when they want to do something.

And I mean EVERYONE.

[Trailblazer Tony]

I think every park will be struggling to find land to build on/rides to demolish....

[rcoaster]

I think that we will have these newly invented roller coasters that do things I can't think of right now, but I also believe that they will continue to make rides like they do today. Unless the coaster companies team up with NASA, we won't be seeing many rides too much higher than what we have today.

[SheiKra13]

Whats there left to invent.

[cycamps]

They'll come up with something.

[rcoaster]

They always do!

[Trailblazer Tony]

Whats there left to invent.

I think if you told someone 15 years ago that in the future we would have waterslides that go uphill, coasters where the vehicles do somersaults while riding, and rides that are over 40 stories high, they would think you were nuts.

The question we should be asking is what CAN'T we invent

[tp41190]

Maybe in the next few years they'll invent a clear track roller coaster. Or a LIM looping water slide. We got a LIM water slide....we have had a looping water slide....just put two and two together

[!)EJAVU-FAN!]

LMAO- now tell me tp...where in the heck do you come off saying there WAS a looping waterslide? First of all...you'd have to be traveling so fast if you were to make a complete 360 around...Second of all, who in the world would be brave enough to make something like so?

[!)EJAVU-FAN!]

LMAO- now tell me tp...where in the heck do you come off saying there WAS a looping waterslide? First of all...you'd have to be traveling so fast if you were to make a complete 360 around...Second of all, who in the world would be brave enough to make something like so?

[tp41190]

It did exist but only for a short time...and there is such thing as a LIM water slide. I think there is one at SFKK.

[!)EJAVU-FAN!]

woah- neat picture.. that loop looks like it's 20 feet high. you'd be bending your body in half as you came around that loop.

[tp41190]

theres some people on here who have ridden it.
http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/vi ... sc&start=0

[!)EJAVU-FAN!]

WOW- now this waterslide looks like FUN-http://www.proslide.com/sub.php?mainRideID=2&rideID=5

[Trailblazer Tony]

wow, i've learned a lot about crazy waterslides from this topic now!

[tp41190]

I really think that we will see more water slide inventions more then coaster inventions.

I mean, we have a slide where you can go off a 3 foot high jump, and fly 10 feet in the air and land on a sloped slide and do it with total comfort!

....just as long as we don't have stupid people we will be fine

[themanoftheland8]

Personally, I think that as technology gets better (or perhaps it's already good enough), there will be a lot more virtual reality parts on rides.

For example... Imagine riding a roller coaster where as you are riding, the track is falling all around you, and you just barely make it to the station alive. (Or at least that's what they want you to think)

[SheiKra13]

or maybe they'll die away. i hope this isnt the case but lets say theme parks get less and less popular, then there gonna need to close. If parks continue purchasing million dollar investments and not paything them off and then end up selling properties, eventually there wont be any left(Coughsixflagscough)

But i like thememan's idea more though.

[SteveRestless]

I suspect that it't be very hard to get rid of them entirely. there are too many people who want to make money, to see that happen. Worst-case scenario, we see a shrink in the number of existing parks, and you might have to drive farther to get to a good park, but so long as there are people who'll pay admission to get some thrills, I can see there being parks of some kind still around.

[rcoaster]

Personally, I think that as technology gets better (or perhaps it's already good enough), there will be a lot more virtual reality parts on rides.

For example... Imagine riding a roller coaster where as you are riding, the track is falling all around you, and you just barely make it to the station alive. (Or at least that's what they want you to think)

If they ever create something like that it'll probably be at a Disney park......

[Trailblazer Tony]

It seems to me like amusement parks come in waves so to speak. For example, as Six Flags Astroland and other big parks (Geauga Lake) begin to shut down, other little parks are beginning to rise. I have a feeling that my kids will be talking about Dollywood, Holiday World, and Hersheypark the way that we talked about Six Flags parks and Cedar Fair parks when we were little. For every park that dies, it seems that another one grows larger. Extinction doesn't look likely.

[rcoaster]

^ Good point and yeah generations will change a lot of the amusement parks.... who knows what parks will tend to exist in fifty years!