Say what you will about "The Gates" (for me it would have been better to make them multicolored and vary the heights mix it up a little, dude!), but at least they are, except for the publicity, unobtrusive, a fairly harmless amusement, cost-free and gone after a couple of weeks.
A Noah's Ark-themed amusement park, costing $30 million, will open on July 7 next year in Williamstown, Kentucky, the park's founder announced on Thursday.
When bought outright, many amusement park rides cost $1.5 million and more.
Based on the current entertainment prices and cost of revenue structure in the local amusement and recreation industries, we believe that our anticipated FEC's will have the potential of several million dollars in gross sales in the first year of operations.
Reich's hypothesis would be cause for amusement if not for the cost.
Mr. Sitt had insisted on traditional retail space and housing to offset the cost of the amusements.
He has argued that time-shares and big-box retailers would help underwrite the cost of the amusements.
"The coaster arms race for taller, longer, faster is over," said Gary Slade, the publisher of the trade magazine Amusement Today, "because of the massive cost, and because it takes a longer return to pay your investment back".
The engineers have since softened the suspension's mountings, which has greatly improved the ride and quietened the roar but at some cost in precision and driver amusement: it's not as "chuckable" as it was.
With a five-hour opening ceremony and the creation of a "country fair" atmosphere complete with booths, amusement park rides, and concerts, the 1996 Olympics cost nearly $1.7 billion.
By May 29, it is supposed to be the home of 19 world-class rides, the first of many more attractions that Central Amusements plans to install around Coney Island, at a cost that already exceeds $20 million.
