June 26th, 2009

[rct2wizard360]

OH!

So now my definition of icon can different from yours.
But my definition of a good ride can't?

Picky picky pickyyy!

[onyxhotel08]

I didn't say that

[monsterfan99]

Icons:

History
Original owners
Don't really make em anymore
Still draw huge crowds

ALL of which are checked in this case...when I found out BB cost 5 million I nearly choked on a banana.

How would it being original to opening and not being made make it an icon. That would make it old and out of date more then anything. Plus that would mean parks like Cedar Point would have no icons. Also, the icon of SF STL would be an awful Arrow Flumes.

A better definition is an attraction that:

People think of the park because of them
Biggest Draws as in they draw people into the park
Easy to see from outside the park

Examples would be Spaceship Earth at EPCOT, Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point and Wild Thing at ValleyFair!. This can even be used for cities as a whole. With St. Louis people thing the Arch, not an old building that is orginal.

For Great America, people do not go "we should go to Six Flags to ride Loggers Run!!" or "mom, dad! Lets go to Six Flags for Roaring Rapids!" If you like a ride, it does not make it an Icon. It makes it a fun ride you really enjoy.

[[jonrev]]

[FParker185]

onyxhotel08 wrote:Icons:

History
Original owners
Don't really make em anymore
Still draw huge crowds

ALL of which are checked in this case...when I found out BB cost 5 million I nearly choked on a banana.

By your exact definition Deja Vu was not a park icon.

History- It had no history in the park except a history of lengthy downtime and cosmetic issues for a while.
Original owners- Marriott had nothing to do DV, and neither did Bally or Time Warner.
Dont really make them anymore- Vekoma will be more than happy to fabricate a brand new Giant Inverted Boomerang for anyone willing to pay for it, no matter how unwise of an idea that would be.
Still draw huge crowds- It never drew huge crowds, the line for the ride was 2+ hours cause of the crappy capacity the ride had. If that same 2 hour line lined up for Raging Bull, the line would have been about 30 mins tops running 3 trains.

I don't think a single ride in the park matches your criteria of an Iconic ride except perhaps Whizzer, which I don't think was your intention.

Monsterfan99's definition of an Icon I think is 100x more accurate. Especially since 3 of your definitions fall into most parks criteria of good and valid reasons to remove a ride. History = outdated, original owners = reminders from the past of a different way of doing things, which was probably better and best to let people forget about it cause it's never going to be like that again, don't make them anymore = parts are hard and expensive to come by.