Volume 1, No. 9. June 1, 2001
Return visits
Cedar Fair's purchase
of Michigan's Adventure Amusement
Park in Muskegon, Michigan was concluded today (LOOP
May 18). The transaction was valued at approximately $28 million, according
to a Cedar Fair statement. Cedar Fair also completed its purchase of Oasis
Water Park in
Palm Springs, California, Tuesday with an announced purchase price of $9.1 million.
Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company is still in the due diligence stage
of its purchase of Dutch Wonderland (LOOP May
4).
Universal Studios Japan, which opened in Osaka March 31 (LOOP
April 20) reached one million in attendance in just 37 days, company officials
report. They claim it's the fastest million gate in theme park history.
Mick Foley, the professional wrestler (a.k.a. Mankind) who helped Six
Flags Great Adventure open Nitro (LOOP
April 6 and 20) last week saw his
second book, Foley Is Good, reach Number One on the New York Times
bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. The memoirs include discussion
of his roller coaster enthusiasm.
Our story about clown phobia (LOOP May 18) that worried Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk Communications Manager Jan Bollwinkel-Smith, prompted several compassionate responses from her colleagues. Linda Buckley, director of publicity and public relations at Universal Studios Orlando, also told us that during her park's Halloween Horror Nights event last year, which featured demented Jack the Clown, she learned that the medical term for fear of clowns is "coulrophobia." For a report on the opening of the fun house that gave Bollwinkel Smith such trepidation, see the New Arrival in this issue.
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