spatchCoaster post

[spatch]

When faced with a zillion Busch Gardens Williamsburg pictures and a ton of stories to tell, I decided to first start writing about exploring Lincoln Park instead.

When the Muse knocks, I guess...

Anyway, if you're so inclined and the RSS feed isn't in your reader yet, I hope you enjoy Part 1 of my four-part series on Lincoln Park: Open Year Round.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

One reason I feel compelled to enjoy Canobie in the near term is that I get the feeling it might not have too many years left in it. People still obviously come and enjoy the place, but amusement parks don't seem to be countercyclical things like some other forms of entertainment with lower ticket prices. Parks go bust in the down years, small ones are competing with big ones (which have a hard time turning a profit themselves), and the growth that does happen is in expansion of large existing parks rather than the opening of new ones.

In some ways it's a technological golden age--there are some amazing things happening in the tech of roller coasters, but I imagine they're monstrously expensive. And some of this may be desperation moves to up the ante and compete for the customer's scarce entertainment dime, like, say, 3D IMAX or the Pinball 2000 project.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...That said, Canobie does seem to keep adding new stuff, especially in the area of water-related rides.