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2007 attendance figures for theme parks/water parks

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Postby Bob O on March 14th, 2008, 12:59 pm
Below is a link to a 16 page report on theme park/water park attendance for 2007. For us here SFGAM ranked number #20 in North American theme parks.

http://www.themeit.com/attendance_report2007.pdf
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Postby Colonel Mustard on March 14th, 2008, 8:52 pm
Six Flags Does Not Release Park By Park attendance features.
SFGAm's should be a bit higher then it is. (And when I say should, I don't mean my opinion)
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Postby Bob O on March 14th, 2008, 9:51 pm
No park releases attendance numbers due to the its affect on stock prices, but im sure that some numbers do get released to people who are high up in the industry.
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Postby batcave on March 15th, 2008, 11:41 am
Six Flags Great America is where it should be the past season, but SeaWorld Orlando definitly had over 500,000 more attendees than the figures said
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Postby Director_Guy on March 15th, 2008, 1:09 pm
Disney is the king on all continents. Huzzah!
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Postby Coaster Justin on March 20th, 2008, 7:26 pm
Yeah but they got a 20% Decrease in attendance at Hong Kong Disneyland.

Great going Eisner. :lol:
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Postby FParker185 on March 20th, 2008, 9:40 pm
Eisner has been gone for some time now.
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Postby Bob O on March 21st, 2008, 12:45 am
Hong Kong Disney has the same problem that most disney parks have had since EPCOT, they are initially to small with not enough to do and then it takes years till they add enough attractions to make it a full day park.
They have done this with MGM/AK/DCA and DLP. The only exception has been Disney Seas in Japan, but that was built by the Oriental Land Co si it wasnt built to small at opening.
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Postby zjohn1988 on March 21st, 2008, 8:51 am
YEAHHH MY WATERPARK TAKES #1! 8) ....shock to me
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Postby Coaster Justin on March 21st, 2008, 1:56 pm
Also Walt Disney Studios in Paris was built too small as well and it wasn't until 07 that things started picking up for the entire Disneyland Paris resort.


Isn't it sad that Santa's Village was on less land, yet had more rides that Hong Kong Disneyland has now.
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Postby batcave on March 21st, 2008, 10:09 pm
As a side note, last year was the first tie Disneyland Paris made profit.
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Postby zjohn1988 on March 22nd, 2008, 12:19 pm
It should be interesting to see if Aquatica makes the list for 2008..its a good waterpark but i dont know if it has potential to be successful...
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Postby batcave on March 22nd, 2008, 2:51 pm
Good waterpark?!? Ha! Huricane Harbor is much more quality than Aqutica could ever be. Busch cut soo many corners and its evident.
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Postby Danhockey04 on March 22nd, 2008, 5:01 pm
I'm going there next week, so I'll throw in my opinion as well afterwards. Anyways, I can still see it being in the top waterparks just because of the name of Busch attached to it and the attendance increase it should give SWO.
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Postby batcave on March 22nd, 2008, 5:06 pm
It is not at the level of quality of other Busch parks.
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Postby zjohn1988 on March 22nd, 2008, 8:30 pm
Not at all, but they do have wonderful sand! :) I must say that marketing for Aquatica is very good, but the theming and selection could be better.

batcave wrote:Good waterpark?!? Ha! Huricane Harbor is much more quality than Aqutica could ever be. Busch cut soo many corners and its evident.


I can agree that Hurricane Harbor is better than Aquatica.
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Postby cycamps on March 22nd, 2008, 8:51 pm
It's great to see SFGAm on that list...
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Postby Coaster Justin on March 23rd, 2008, 4:12 pm
Batcave you said that Busch cut soo many corners and its evident.

Where is it Evident?
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Postby Director_Guy on March 23rd, 2008, 7:15 pm
CoasterBoy wrote:
Isn't it sad that Santa's Village was on less land, yet had more rides that Hong Kong Disneyland has now.


Please.... Don't compare Satan's Village with Disney.... hehe
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Postby Chitown on March 23rd, 2008, 10:54 pm
^And you keep calling it Satan's Village.

The park was magical and a great place to visit in year's past. You obviously visited it for the first time when it was run down and on the vurge of closure.
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Postby Director_Guy on March 24th, 2008, 12:19 pm
I've only lived in Illinois for a handful of years, so that must be it. Typhoon was probably my first non-Disney roller coaster.

It's kind of a shame it still isn't a great place, I live right down the street from it. It would be interesting to see it in "the good ol' days" if you have any pictures. Of course, things are always better the way you remember them not the way they were.

However, I would call it Satan's Village regardless because I don't like Santa. He eats kids.
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