Can Huntsville Support a Space Themed Amusement Park (appointed, lawyers)

[3am green coffee]

Originally Posted by KE111691

Today, Huntsville is a modern city thanks to the space program and to BRAC...

Yes, because before BRAC, people in Huntsville were riding around in horse drawn carriages.

Originally Posted by KE111691

If Huntsville was to get a park, I think it should be a Six Flags or anything that's not on Alabama Adventure's scale! Six Flags Space Adventure, Six Flags Space Mountain, or Six Flags Space Kingdom

Six Flags has $2 BILLION in debt, while posting losses. Like so much of your other wishful thinking:

Not.

Gonna.

Happen.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by wakeful dreamer

That's how we know you're not from the Huntsville area. All schoolchildren by law (I wouldn't be surprised anyway) MUST take one field trip per school year to the space and rocket center.

My oldest attended day camp there last summer and my two oldest will be at Space Camp and Space Day Camp for two weeks this summer (by the way, I got $200 off, so $799-$200 = $599 for Space Camp).


And next year when my oldest is in 5th grade she'll do Space Camp again (a different version) with her 5th grade class so I do think all the Huntsville City School kids actually do attend Space Camp (though it isn't an overnight version).

I may go to the Space and Rocket Center when my brother in law visits in late March.

[A&M Bulldawg]

How about Space World or Space Adevntures?

[Charles]

How about NerdLand? Or Engineeratopia? Geeks Berry Farm?

Here are some rides and attractions:

1975 Dodge Valiant Bumper Cars
Swim with the Slide Rulers
Ethics Managers Adults Pleasure Tent
Mad "Latest Military Program" Coffee Cup Party
Defense Budget Cut High Dive
Paul E. Nomial and the Microchips on the Booster Stage
Fast Fourier Transform Freefall
SMEs of the Caribbean
$5 OA Kissing Booth
Doppler Shift From Hell
Pi Eating Contest
Concrete Canoe Jungle Adventure
3 dB Cutoff Roller Coaster
Feed The Shredder Food Court
Phase Lock Loop the Loop

"Falling Down" in IMAX 3D with free 3D birth control (Barry Goldwater) glasses

[mm42]

Originally Posted by Southlander

Somebody came up with that idea many years ago...in the 1960s. I think they sold some shares. I believe the guy was from Hartselle. When the thing didn't happen, he had to give the money back.

Not like today!

Yes, I think it was going to be called Rocket City, USA.

[Southlander]

Originally Posted by Charles

How about NerdLand? Or Engineeratopia? Geeks Berry Farm?

FOFLMAO! Charles, you are such a caution!

Originally Posted by Southlander

Somebody came up with that idea many years ago...in the 1960s.

Originally Posted by mm42

Yes, I think it was going to be called Rocket City, USA.

Bingo! Thanks, mm42!
Actually, I think the park I was thinking of (the one that goes back to the mid=1960s) was going to be themed around a railroad and a lake or something like that...and then the Rocket City thing was a little later.

[Sarges Dad]

Amusment parks are a dead business adventures. Why do you thing Opry Land went away. They saw the future.

[mm42]

Well, I don't really think Huntsville is well-suited for a theme park, but I disagree that the amusement park business is going away. Opryland failed because it was badly managed. Since it closed, Dollywood has thrived and expanded by appealing to the same customer base.

Six Flags is a badly managed company, and they tried to turn their parks into a national brand, but amusement park visitors are on vacation and they are looking for something fun and unique. Amusement parks need to be marketed as a unique experience, not as a known quantity like McDonald's.

Visiting a unique amusement park like Lake Winnie with character is a far more enjoyable experience than visiting a corporate-clone Six Flags with recycled rides from other parks.

Six Flags over Georgia, for instance, had a charming Southern feel to it when it opened, but over time it has been reduced to a generic Six Flags no different from the one in New Jersey.

[caution]

I don't think it would work. It seems the astronaut as big-time hero era or manned space filght era is older than me -- now it seems it's about rovers and "routine" shuttle flights. It's a shame people seem to take it for granted.

I guess the space camp is still popular with kids all over.

Wasn't Astro World in Houston sort-of space themed back in the day?

[g-man430]

It didn't work in Myrtle Beach. It sure as heck won't work in Huntsville.