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Volume 2, No. 9. May 24, 2002

A basket case
Crunch time was at hand for the crew constructing Scooby-Doo Ghostblasters: The Mystery of the Scary Swamp at Six Flags St. Louis in Missouri, and so was the Easter holiday. For more than two months the six-member team from Sally Corporation remained on site to work on the ride (see New Arrival above), consequently spending Easter far from their Jacksonville, Florida, homes.

This fact tugged at the hearts of the theme park’s staff, so they built Easter baskets for each of the Sally technicians, with chocolates and candies and, instead of a bunny, a Scooby-Doo plush doll. To complete the surprise, the baskets were placed in the technicians’ van after they had departed Easter eve.

The technicians arrived the next morning and first endured a moment of consternation. The Easter Bunny had cracked the van’s windows and door so the chocolate would not melt in the baskets. “They thought somebody had broken into their van,” said Dave Roemer, the vice president and general manager of Six Flags St. Louis. But upon investigating, the Sally crew found the gifts. They were so appreciative, Roemer had a Scooby tackle box awaiting him the next morning.

“This crew was here for nine weeks. They get to be part of your family,” Roemer said. The sense of camaraderie goes beyond friendship. “The better they do their job, the better we do our job.”