They're certainly not looking to expand to the UK, which I have to imagine has a completely impossible number of alternate names for every conceivable road. (My employers are in a field that's very geographically linked; it's imaginable to expand but there's a lot of good reasons against it even disregarding the company's organizational challenges.)
And yes, losing Jack Rabbit hurts both for the heritage and the name. (Jack Rabbit was a popular roller coaster name in the era --- the Roller Coaster database lists thirty or so roller coasters of that name (http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&ne=jackrabbit) --- and it would've been the oldest Jack Rabbit we've ridden.)
My sense is that Clementon Park had to basically sell stuff off to keep the rest going, rather than obliterating the park's history for the fun of it. They've got slightly larger corporate management these days than they used to but it's still not an Octopus Corporation project.
I did find a copy of the 1986 guide to Alton Towers, by the way, in the MSU library a few months ago and it was fun reading. Their corporate Twitter folks responded back saying it was quite a find. I loved its exquisitely British tone of ``this might be fun if not done to excess'', as, for example, it mentioned that parents might enjoy this Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-inspired exhibit although kids will probably have no idea what it's about.
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And yes, losing Jack Rabbit hurts both for the heritage and the name. (Jack Rabbit was a popular roller coaster name in the era --- the Roller Coaster database lists thirty or so roller coasters of that name (http://rcdb.com/r.htm?ot=2&ne=jackrabbit) --- and it would've been the oldest Jack Rabbit we've ridden.)
My sense is that Clementon Park had to basically sell stuff off to keep the rest going, rather than obliterating the park's history for the fun of it. They've got slightly larger corporate management these days than they used to but it's still not an Octopus Corporation project.
I did find a copy of the 1986 guide to Alton Towers, by the way, in the MSU library a few months ago and it was fun reading. Their corporate Twitter folks responded back saying it was quite a find. I loved its exquisitely British tone of ``this might be fun if not done to excess'', as, for example, it mentioned that parents might enjoy this Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-inspired exhibit although kids will probably have no idea what it's about.