DevDays, Cedar Fair and Six Flags
Went to DevDays in Cleveland today. It was good to meet Alex Lowe in person, as well as local Steve Smith from ASPAlliance.com.
Wouldn't you know it though, I had to leave at lunch because of a huge breaking news story for CoasterBuzz. Cedar Fair, the parent company of my beloved Cedar Point, purchased Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, the park formerly known as the combination of Geauga Lake and SeaWorld of Ohio.
This is a big deal for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that Six Flags ran the parks into the ground after acquiring the wild life side of the park from Anheuser-Busch in 2001. It's also a big deal because Cedar Point is the king of amusement parks, and now they own the competition. For locals, it's a big deal because both parks create strong emotional responses in those of us who have lived here for a great many years.
I'll have to write more about DevDays later, but if you want to see what my distractions are about, check out the news and views...