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1 comments:
Good news for the Dipper, for sure. Still, if my memory serves right, Astroworld at one point offered their wood coaster for free to anyone who would haul it away (before that I think it was listed at $8,000). The reason why it's so much more risky/expensive for a theme park operator to move the ride is that 1) the original blueprints for the ride are often lost due to the ride's advanced age, 2) the cost to physically transport all of the wood is much higher than the actual purchase price, and 3) much of the wood can't actually be reused, either due to deteriorating conditions or subtle differences in terrain. Factor all of these things together and it's in some cases cheaper to actually buy a new coaster. Look at the Miracle Strip Starliner which was acquired cheap but sat in their parking lot for a year before the park had the finances necessary to set it up. Granted, the Dipper is more of an asset than the other two (arguably), but it's still a very expensive proposition.
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