Cedar Fair and the Economy

CP was actually pretty crowded yesterday for this early in June. The park was also packed today.

^darn. Im going tomorrow and was hoping for less crowds ha.

JuggaLotus said:
^^ - because they already have enough amateur basketball players at the park.

+1

I've said it countless time to people in Games the last few years, give the darn things away not inflated! Then people can put them in the bins, and we don't have to worry about wannabes trying to show off their "mad skillz" and running over/hitting little kids and other park guests in the process. If people really don't like having to inflate them at home, then have a "pump station" for like $0.50 that's at the entrance gates at the end of the day. Or heck, make it free, I don't care. Just get the basketballs off the midways.

Oh, and get off of my lawn!

CP might cost about the same as a concert, but at least at a concert I don't spend $50 to wait 11 hours out of 12 hours of the day lol

^^ I tottaly agree. And the funny thing is people would pay $.50 or even $1.00 to get a basket ball or an inflatable guitar blown up. It is very annoying to see people dribble the basket ball or play catch with a football on the midway.

I've thought the same thing about those basketballs. My only thought is that they assume (and probably rightly so) that fewer people would play the games to try to win them if they were getting deflated prizes. But in the name of safety, the deflated basketballs make a lot of sense.

I think its Kennywood that gives their basketballs away deflated. I had a conversation with our Director of Revenue about this very problem just last week. I can't remember which one but he said at a Six Flags park they tried the deflated approach, and sales at the games with basketballs dropped dramatically. He said this was 2 or 3 years ago when they tried it.

I like when a kid dribbles the ball off his foot and it rolls to me. The ball is then punted where he has to go after it. Just be mean :)

There is an easy way to get around this, just display only inflated balls but when some one wins, pull a deflated one out from behind the counter.

I didn't think the park was too bad on Wednesday. We had a lot of walk ons.