Mad Dog
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Theme Park Insider also reported that earlier this week.Source: Screamscape
Theme Park Insider also reported that earlier this week.Source: Screamscape
I had my doubts about Cedar Fair taking over the Paramount Parks. There was a lot of doom and gloom around that acquisition because Cedar Fair were "over their heads" and "paid too much and could never pay the debts down", but they have thrived as a company overall. There will always be growing pains and culture clashes in any merger, but this is all about Cedar Fair running all the parks since the management bench at Six Flags is empty.mergers are just about always bad for consumers and I frankly don't have a lot of faith in either of these companies to handle such a large portfolio of parks.
The paramount parks were the bet thing to happen to cedar fair in a long time at the time.
Pretty sure this FTC will try to block the merger, and I feel like it will be one of their better cases against consolidation that they have filed lately.
I had my doubts about Cedar Fair taking over the Paramount Parks. There was a lot of doom and gloom around that acquisition because Cedar Fair were "over their heads" and "paid too much and could never pay the debts down", but they have thrived as a company overall. There will always be growing pains and culture clashes in any merger, but this is all about Cedar Fair running all the parks since the management bench at Six Flags is empty.
I look at it as cedar fair was GOOD to the paramount parks because they were the best thing to happen to them in a while, outside of cedar point and knotts, the other cedar fair parks weren't turning numbers like the paramount parks.I would argue the other way around. Cedar Fair was the best thing to happen to the Paramount Parks.