Theme park may be coming to the Triad (Alamance County)

[BrianGC]

Sounds like the right person but wrong location. I'm a huge theme park/coaster fan, but this park would have to be home run initially to get us to visit it so far off the beaten path.

[gsoboi78]

Originally Posted by LM117

Welp, that’s that.

NC theme park: Former Disney imagineer scraps plans for 'Whirligig Woods' | News & Observer

Two problems

Bad location and wrong concept.

The location was way out in the boondocks. The concept was outdated, seemed more like a theme park from the late 1960s, not the 21 century.

Additionally, construction of new theme parks in the United States has slowed down almost as much as mall construction.

[poppydog]

Yeah, it was clearly the pipe-dream of someone who is an engineer/builder of such things, not a marketer or business person. Terrible, terrible location both for difficulty of access and poor infrastructure (roads, sewage), and because the local community was not in favor of it. A concept like that might work in the mountains where there is already a tourism economy that trades on nostalgia, but as it was proposed it was just a bad idea.