AstroDan
TS Team
- Favourite Ride
- Steel Vengeance, Cedar Point
Would it be cost effective just to buy another Enterprise compared to how much they spent?
Effectively if they ever got rid they’ve had to put another circular ride in. Nebulez or however you spell it anyone?
Also I’d LOVE to see a Top Spin come back, Ripsaw was one of my favourite rides at the park. I doubt the park would look at getting one again, and for that matter has any park ever got rid of a ride and then bought it back as such?
A great many things would be cost effective in the long run than spending money on dead wood like Enterprise or Blade, or on hiring funfair rides for entire seasons. But a lot of it comes down to pots of money.
The period at Alton Towers since Wicker Man has represented some of the lowest - if not THE lowest - period of capital investment in the park's history. There just isn't the money in the 'new ride' pot. There is obviously money in the 'marketing' pot, though - hence the hired rides etc...
Business...