Coaster Purchasing

[Cove26flags]

Does anyone know what a park has to go through to buy a roller coaster?
I mean they cant just buy one for 10.5 million dollars. where do they get the money for that?

[coasterdude12]

Six Flags has tons of money, that money comes from ticket sales, beverage sales, the effects of good managment. All you really need if you have private property like SF does is the money unless you want a coaster thats 225ft or taller

[w00dland]

You need a construction permit for anything over 100 feet, right?

[coasterdude12]

I thought 200ft because of Superman U:F was constructed days after it was announced and permits take about 7 days to clear

[mschulz5]

All Permits are usually passed months before the coaster is announced. Think how bummed you would be if they announced, say for instance, a rocket coaster and then the construction permit didn't pass.

[planea380]

Exactly because Kingda Ka started construction before annoucnements and had premission wa before.

[greatamerica2003]

Corporate usually makes desicions on things like that.

Look at when Premier bought up Six Flags. The littler parks they had could in no way, shape, or form afford the attractions they installed. I think its obvious that they like to raid the flagship parks (SFGAm, SFMM, SFoT, SFoG) and use that money for capital, although the bigger parks get their fair share.

[FParker185]

Basically it is just that easy, fork over the cash and topographical surveys of the land you want to build the coaster on, and it will be built. (even less than that with some of the used rides on the market, for instance if you have $650,000 lying around, you can have Santa's Village Typhoon, availability: NOW, see below).

SFGAm (and most parks) needs a construction permit to build anything (right down to paving walkways), at SFGAm anything over 125 feet needs a height variance, which is what the park has to wrangle over most of the time with the neighbors.

I'm tired if i think of more, I'll add it, but as for Typhoon......

http://www.italintl.com/detail_page.php?record_id=425

It's been on the market for less than a month and it's already had about $150,000 shaved off the price, and they seem intent on getting rid of that piece of junk immediately. Knoebels whirlwind is much cheaper, and despite being an older Vekoma, it's actually a decent ride that doesnt dish out violent roughness on perfectly straight track, unlike that excuse for a ride in Dundee, IL