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Old 07-02-2007, 01:11 PM
 
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It depends what park your at too. Magic Kindgom has always had the most attendance over the others.
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Old 07-02-2007, 01:36 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Well, Animal Kingdom wasn't that crowded (was still packed and we had to wait in lines). MGM Studios was pretty crowded though. Downtown Disney was packed as well.
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Old 07-02-2007, 02:53 PM
 
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No we don't. I hated seeing and hearing the freeways, seeing power lines, and still feeling like I was in the city while at Astroworld. Since this is in New Caney, you will be escaping reality for a few hours.
Not inside the loop. What about all that open space in northern Houston?
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Old 07-02-2007, 02:54 PM
 
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You do know that the park I'm talking about is the park that Guerilla is talking about, right? All theme parks are cheesy. You overlook that for the atmosphere it provides. And this one could do a great job of doing that.
Like hell they're all cheesy. Coney Island was very urban and very fun, Six Flags over Georgia was also very cool. We need something targeted towards adults as well as kids. Just a big, humongous carnival with exclusive rides would suit me just fun. Something urban that mixes with culture and becomes a staple in our city so that it doesn't take a day trip just to get on a decent rollercoaster.

Why put it in a suburb? Haven't we sprawled out enough?
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Old 07-02-2007, 02:59 PM
 
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I went to Disney in March of '02 and it was packed. Luckily, we had that fastpass thing.
Which Disney?
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Old 07-02-2007, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Like hell they're all cheesy. Coney Island was very urban and very fun, Six Flags over Georgia was also very cool. We need something targeted towards adults as well as kids. Just a big, humongous carnival with exclusive rides would suit me just fun. Something urban that mixes with culture and becomes a staple in our city so that it doesn't take a day trip just to get on a decent rollercoaster.

Why put it in a suburb? Haven't we sprawled out enough?
Six Flags over Georgia is cheesy. I've been there. You been to one six flags theme park, you've been to them all (even though the best one is in Arlington). I might have went overboard by saying all theme parks are cheesy, but most of them are. Again, the atmosphere it provides trumps the cheesiness factor when it comes to theme parks. This new park will be fun targeted for both adults as well as kids. It won't take a day trip. It's right in the Houston metropolitan area.

Also, most theme parks are in the suburbs. Only a few are in cities. Name most parks, they are in rural areas seperated from the hustle and bustle of the city. Schiltterbahn was voted many years in a row as the best water park in the nation and it is in the rural areas of New Braunfels between San Antonio and Austin. Also, I may be wrong on this one, but theme parks really don't create sprawl. But they do have huge amount of parking.

This park would be built in Eastern Montgomery County. Take a trip away from the city and relax.
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Old 07-02-2007, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Texas
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And it isn't even that far north. If you draw a line from New Caney out to I-40, you would be just north of the Hardy Tollroad/I-45 merge.
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Old 07-02-2007, 04:43 PM
 
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We went alot to the kingdoms, MGM and Magic Kingdom are packed quite a bit. It also depends what time of the year you go. Summer is very croweded and so is March due to spring breaks happening. That was one of the things I liked living there, we did get to go to the WDW quite a bit as well as Universal Studios, which is my favorite.
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Old 07-02-2007, 04:48 PM
 
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Six Flags over Georgia is cheesy. I've been there. You been to one six flags theme park, you've been to them all (even though the best one is in Arlington). I might have went overboard by saying all theme parks are cheesy, but most of them are. Again, the atmosphere it provides trumps the cheesiness factor when it comes to theme parks. This new park will be fun targeted for both adults as well as kids. It won't take a day trip. It's right in the Houston metropolitan area.

Also, most theme parks are in the suburbs. Only a few are in cities. Name most parks, they are in rural areas seperated from the hustle and bustle of the city. Schiltterbahn was voted many years in a row as the best water park in the nation and it is in the rural areas of New Braunfels between San Antonio and Austin. Also, I may be wrong on this one, but theme parks really don't create sprawl. But they do have huge amount of parking.

This park would be built in Eastern Montgomery County. Take a trip away from the city and relax.
Well Splashtown in San Antonio is in the city, the last time I checked and people love its location. This park that Houston metro is getting is not what I'm looking for. I just want to know where all of these bad ideas are coming from.
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Old 07-02-2007, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Texas Hill Country
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If you want to say Splashtown is in the city so is Fiesta and Sea World, both are within the city limits.
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