mistersg1
Active Member
In the case of just looking at Wonderland here, it's difficult to understand the future of that site.
Cedar Fair out in SF sold off the land recently where their park California's Great America sits, which presumably the park would close shortly after.
I know the situation is somewhat apples to oranges, considering Wonderland is the highest visited theme park outside of California and Florida in North America, which makes it the highest visited seasonal park as well. I wouldn't be surprised when the new AECOM Theme Index comes out, if Wonderland in 2022 had its first season with over 4 million visitors in history.
But consider the situation with developers, we all know the condo developers would love to get their greasy hands on this site, and let's not mention the newer residents complaining about the noise from the roller coasters. Is it possible that Cedar Fair may sell the land Wonderland is on for a huge profit and take off?
Now more to the topic at hand, what hasn't been discussed is the logic behind this, Wonderland for starters is only open daily from about June to Labour Day. It's open weekends in May, and then Sept-Oct. Finally, it opens daily (albeit mostly nightly) through most of December for Winterfest. So with that in mind, what would be in Wonderland's best interest to fund an expensive project when they aren't open long enough to justify the cost it?
Wonderland may have better data on this, but how do most guests reach the park? If you live within the TTC network it can be worthwhile, but consider Wonderland gets visitors from outside the GTA where a true transit trip is not viable. Within the GTA but outside city proper, Wonderland isn't exactly an easy destination to reach, case in point, from where I live in Brampton would probably take four times as long to reach Wonderland by transit then if I were to simply drive from where I am in Brampton.
Mostly, my guess is that the majority of people who would use the gondola would most likely be Wonderland associates, not that there is anything wrong with that, the only people that you could theoretically draw are tourists already downtown and want to visit Wonderland easily, and those that are in the TTC system, for everyone else, and I assume that's the majority of their guests, they are much better off to drive if they can.
Cedar Fair out in SF sold off the land recently where their park California's Great America sits, which presumably the park would close shortly after.
I know the situation is somewhat apples to oranges, considering Wonderland is the highest visited theme park outside of California and Florida in North America, which makes it the highest visited seasonal park as well. I wouldn't be surprised when the new AECOM Theme Index comes out, if Wonderland in 2022 had its first season with over 4 million visitors in history.
But consider the situation with developers, we all know the condo developers would love to get their greasy hands on this site, and let's not mention the newer residents complaining about the noise from the roller coasters. Is it possible that Cedar Fair may sell the land Wonderland is on for a huge profit and take off?
Now more to the topic at hand, what hasn't been discussed is the logic behind this, Wonderland for starters is only open daily from about June to Labour Day. It's open weekends in May, and then Sept-Oct. Finally, it opens daily (albeit mostly nightly) through most of December for Winterfest. So with that in mind, what would be in Wonderland's best interest to fund an expensive project when they aren't open long enough to justify the cost it?
Wonderland may have better data on this, but how do most guests reach the park? If you live within the TTC network it can be worthwhile, but consider Wonderland gets visitors from outside the GTA where a true transit trip is not viable. Within the GTA but outside city proper, Wonderland isn't exactly an easy destination to reach, case in point, from where I live in Brampton would probably take four times as long to reach Wonderland by transit then if I were to simply drive from where I am in Brampton.
Mostly, my guess is that the majority of people who would use the gondola would most likely be Wonderland associates, not that there is anything wrong with that, the only people that you could theoretically draw are tourists already downtown and want to visit Wonderland easily, and those that are in the TTC system, for everyone else, and I assume that's the majority of their guests, they are much better off to drive if they can.
