It would seem many enthusiasts are laboring under a basic misunderstanding of how major construction projects actually happen in the real world. A business like Six Flags does not and cannot just buy a big plot of land and start building.
Major projects like theme parks simply do not get to the construction stage without publicity following a lengthy zoning approval process before the local government.
There are permits to be applied for, at which point the project becomes a matter of public record and the local media jump all over it. Environmental impact statements must be filed. Zoning hearings must take place. Usually, a group of locals makes a very noisy protest over it see the history of most other modern theme parks. Public corporations like Six Flags must also inform shareholders what they're up to, so major projects will also be mentioned in their SEC filings and annual reports.
What this means is, if you haven't been seeing reports in the news for the past year about the planning and permitting process for such a theme park, and some twit assures you that they know someone who is involved in clearing land, or digging ditches, or breaking ground for one -- you can be assured that they are either delusional or lying to you.
You simply can't clear the first bush or turn a spade of dirt on your property without a building permit. There are no secret theme park construction projects. The aquisition of land was carried out mostly in secret, but the Orlando Sentinal blew Disney's cover before even that was finished. Secrecy was needed in this case because Disney was buying up huge tracts of land to put together a site of more than 20, acres, much more than could be aquired from a single land owner.
A Six Flags park would require less than a thousand acres that could be aquired in the single purchase of a large farm or ranch. Construction on Walt Disney World, on the other hand, didn't begin until several years later after a very public act of the Florida Legislature approved it, several press conferences were held, and years of publicity announced the fact.
New construction is also unlikely right now in this already overcrowded market. Orlando's theme parks depend on long distance tourism, while Six Flags style ride parks rely more on regional visitors on daytrips. The people elsewhere in the country don't need to visit a Six Flags park on an expensive Florida vacation -- chances are they already live near one back home. They come to Florida to get something they can't get at home: Disney and Universal. That leaves the locals market, which is already served by Busch Gardens, as well as the Disney, Universal, and SeaWorld parks which is why they offer resident discounts on annual passes and other resident deals.
While local enthusiasts always predict that a thrill ride oriented park would do better than Disney or Universal, that just shows a basic misunderstanding of the market. The money is in family travel, not roving packs of teen enthusiasts something the former Six Flags management discovered a little too late to prevent a take-over. Boardwalk and Baseball tried going the thrill ride route and never made a profit.
Islands of Adventure was touted as a Disney-beater by enthusiasts before it opened, yet even Disney's half-day Animal Kingdom usually sees more annual visitors attendance at IOA since the opening of the Harry Potter attraction has been much higher -- but note this is a family oriented addition based on a hugely popular media property that rethemed the existing roller coasters rather than adding more and is far above anything Six Flags has ever attempted.
It's easy for coaster enthusiasts to picture a Florida Six Flags park the equal of, say, Magic Mountain which still attracts fewer visitors than Disneyland in the same market and can't even stay open days a year , but that's in no way what a newly constructed park would look like.
It takes years for a park to get that many coasters, one or two at a time, year after year. Even if Six Flags did build in Florida the park would look more like Visionland or Jazzland did when they opened than a Disney-class park due to the starting investment required.
Islands of Adventure cost nearly a billion dollars and enthusiasts still think it needs more rides. Still think Six Flags would outdo Disney? Disney also has an advantage in this market no outsider has: the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Back in the 's the Florida Legislature basically gave Disney the ability to build whatever they want, whenever they want, without a lengthy approval process.
If they wanted to, in the time it would take Six Flags to get approval, Disney could build their own competing ride park and open first as they managed to open Disney-MGM Studios between Universal's announcement of a Studios theme park and the actual opening.
Also, consider this: Six Flags hasn't developed a park from scratch in decades. As I update this article in , the company is emerging from Chapter 11 and is not likely to buy or build anything new soon, in any market, let alone one as crowded as Central Florida. What about elsewhere in Florida? South Florida has a large population, but it's still in the outer range for the Orlando parks, while Southwest Florida can reach Busch Gardens.
It's an old population, however, with a smaller group in the young theme park demographic than would appear at first glance. There's also a limitation in driving range -- build a park in Miami and you serve that area but Orlando is to the north, there's only a small population to the south, a swamp to the immediate west, and nothing but water to the East, making the population sparse in the outlying areas compared to parks in other areas of the country that can draw from miles around them.
It could possibly support a smallish park, but the track record for getting new projects approved see Blockbuster Park and Interama, among others isn't good, and Pirates World failed, as has the Dania Beach Hurricane. Maybe somebody will go in someday, but it sure won't be Six Flags any time soon. The Jacksonville area is another possibility, but when the local government practically offered to give Six Flags free land in the booming 's Six Flags turned them down.
To the South of Jacksonville the older population of some of the other counties would be expected to fight any big development the head of the St. The panhandle has become a more likely target now that Miracle Strip has closed, but the population including tourists couldn't support anything much bigger than Miracle Strip already was the land under the park proved more valuable than the amusement park operation.
A big park will not be going in there any time soon yeah, I know, a Six Flags has been rumored for years in that area, but they have always flatly denied those rumors -- it's just not true. I've also heard rumors for the Spring Hill area and Sebring -- also not gonna happen. Look at a map: modern theme parks are not built without major Interstate Highway access.
A theme park could never get approval to add that kind of traffic to clogged US 19 or US every retiree home owners association for miles would protest it. Parks you can't get to go out of business. The idea of a Six Flags Florida is still just wishful thinking on the part of coaster enthusiasts. And, if they ever do decide to build in Florida, you won't have to hear it from your Mother's Brother's friend's dental hygenist's bridesmaid's nephew -- it'll be in the news long before construction begins.
WinterWonderlando With a name like that, I almost wish they had built this cool sounding park. Instead, I'll keep dreaming of a white Christmas in Orlando. Interama graphic from early Interama promotional materials in the author's collection.
Hurricane World concept art from the author's collection. It was a great billboard. This Orlando project was supposed to be both a serious hurricane research center, and a tourist attraction featuring giant simulated storms. Now, it's gone with the wind. Land was even cleared and a few buildings constructed, including a preview center, before the project ran into financial trouble. Actual building materials, and even buildings, were imported from England for the first phase, a small but authentic country village.
Paramount Orlando The Orlando Sentinel once reported the rumor that Paramount was looking to buy the old Lockheed Martin property to build a film studio.
Paramount did not, in fact, buy it Universal Studios did, but later sold it. Viacom, Paramount's then owners, had very little interest in developing more theme parks -- see Blockbuster Park above. The complex was to have opened in and yet it never did. C'est la vie. Shortly thereafter the project, not unlike Henning's career, slowly faded, then disappeared. Henning died on February 7, at the age of only Gift www. Best www. Code www. Sale bleacherreport.
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