I'm not in a very good mood and I started thinking of all of the rides at sfne compared to other six flags parks. The one that sticks out the most is great adventure. They've got el toro, bizarro, kingda ka and the Dark Knight, just off the top of my head. All I can think of for sfne is bizarro, pandemonium, catapault buzzsaw falls, and the water coaster. Oh and Blitz. We have not gotten a big coaster in a while and when we were supposed to get a new coaster they screwed it up. We also have had many rides removed: the barrel ride up by houdini, time warp nightwing, collosus, double trouble, chaos. I don't now. :( Mabye its just me. But I think that we keep getting ripped off. Please respond if I am wrong or if my facts arerong or just tell me how you feel about it.

Don't forget the removal of Black Widow.

Yes, I agree SFNE is getting left behind by other parks but its fast becoming outdated, smaller pathways, not a good layout to the park, ect.

I think they should do a major revamp of the entire park. Destroy the old, replace with new. Wider pathways, more organized layout, makes more space for better rides.

I think they should leave-

Catapult
Bizzaro
Thunderbolt
Batman Floorless
Pandemonium

Destroy-
Cyclone ( I used to love it but its ruined now )
Most of the flat rides
The entire retro area

All the others im still deciding on.

Riverview was simmilar to a trolley park like Canobie when it started, the parks paths are old, outdated, and narrow. The park seems like a plant in too small a pot now. Redo the entire place with better rides and infastructure and the park will be much more sucessful.


I know this sounds stupid and unreasonable but its what needs to be done. SFNE is a classic old fashioned park masquarading as a large corporate park. Its just not ment to handle any more in my opinion.

Do they have the ability (beyond $$$) of expanding the boundaries?

It does have some walking around issues.

"Why no no rides???" Because it's cheaper to re-theme a popular ride and advertise it as a new coaster.

SFNE is pretty much land locked unless they can relocate the park side parking lot and get it rezoned for amusement rides (unless it already is... i'm not sure on that one).

As others have stated here already, Riverside Park was a small trolley park that was comfortable with around 750,000 visitors a year. The Six Flags re-branding and marketing push that followed pushed that attendance number to well over 1,000,000 but the park still can not hold that capacity very well.

Before Premier Parks came into the picture Six Flags had plans to build a park in Connecticut. After Premier Parks purchased Riverside and then Six Flags, the plans for Six Flags New England were scrapped and the re-branding of Riverside Park was chosen as the alternative.

I liked Riverside. It had its issues but it was a fun park. The minute it became Six Flags New England it felt cramped and crowded. Six Flags has tried to make it into a larger park than it is. It will never be on the same level as Six Flags Great Adventure, Magic Mountain, SFOT, or SFOG. As Canobiecrazy stated above, I think the only way they could even attempt to get close to those parks would be to completely change the layout of the park.

I think they should keep the rides that canobiecrazy said as well as tomahawk, scream, and blizzard river
And maybe the scrambler

from this news article they have plans for 2010 and 2011

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/200...d_presiden.html

Six Flags New England president: Chapter 11 won't affect Agawam theme park

by The Republican Newsroom
Sunday June 14, 2009, 5:19 PM

By JIM DANKO
jdanko@repub.com

AGAWAM - The president of Six Flags New England said the filing of bankruptcy protection will have no effect on local operations.

"We are absolutely not going to close," Larry D. Litton said. "We are investing in the park this year. We have plans for 2010 and 2011, when Six Flags is going to celebrate its 50th anniversary."

Litton spoke on Sunday about the amusement park company seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to reorganize and shed $1.8 billion of debt.

"It's a restructuring of our outstanding debt," Litton said. "It's got nothing to do with the day-to-day operation of the park."



Six Flags says it actually had a great year in 2008. It saw 25 million visitors and posted record revenues. But executives are trying to lighten a $2.4 billion debt load that they say is unsustainable.

"We're continuing to hire," Litton said. "It's something we're very proud of. We hired more people this year than we ever have. ... We're probably going to add another 600 to 700 people."

He said there are more than 3,000 employees working at the park.

Litton blamed financial problems that led to the bankruptcy filing on decisions by prior management. He said the current management started running the company 3½ years ago.

Saturday's bankruptcy filing came after earlier plan to negotiate an out-of-court deal with creditors failed. Six Flags in April announced a debt restructuring plan, including a stock-for-debt exchange offer, intended to help the theme park operator avoid filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The offer and consent solicitation were to expire on June 25.

If the plan failed, Six Flags warned, it would explore restructuring alternatives, which might include filing for bankruptcy court protection.

The company took that action Saturday.

Six Flags shares have traded below $1 since September. They closed at 26 cents on Friday.

While much has been removed one reason they haven't seen much lately is they expanded too fast before. instead of getting just a coaster of flat ride they got a coaster and a water ride, a flat ride and a water ride. They filled in the spots in 6 years you would have seen filled in over 10-12 years at most other parks.

One reason attractions have been removed is since the park can't handle large crowds the crowds of the 200-2005 have died off significantly. People have moved on to more comfortable parks. but now the park can't afford the volume of rides and cost of maintaining the rides.