CoasterBuzz Podcast

My husband and I saw a commercial for Maverick here in Indy! It was pretty cool!

NASA is on track. Why not go back to the moon? Seriously, we should never have stopped going there. The moon is rich in material as are the other planets in our solar system. Had we not stopped, it would not cost 15k per pound to shoot something up there. Space travel is in the private sector now and profits, more than anything else, will drive space exploration and technology.
Enough of that soap box. Cedar Fair IS a brand. When I hear my nine year old refer to the old Paramount Parks as 'Cedar Fair parks' then it is a brand. Kids tend to call things by their full names (at least until they get totally ruined by instant message speak...ugh) and/or the brand names. We here in Virginia don't care HOW Cedar Fair got it's name, we're just happy they got Kings Dominion. We can already see the changes and it is good.

So you say Cedar Fair is a brand, and yet it doesn't matter to anyone that they're running Dominion. That makes no sense.

Cedar Fair is not a brand. It's a company that owns amusement parks.

If its not a brand yet, then it is becoming a brand, and will be a brand before long.

While I partially agree, NASA should not be spending tax dollars on rides like this. But if you think about it, this will be creating revenue right?

If you stand at the gates to Dominion, or Dorney, or most of the parks, and ask people what Cedar Fair is, they won't know.

Dude...you totally missed my point. I said that it did not matter HOW Cedar Fair got it's name...a refernce to the comment you made in the podcast that it was a mashup of two parks-Cedar Poiont and Valley Fair. No one cares about that. And, yeah, it's just a company that owns parks-like GM is just a company that owns automakers.

Well if your point wasn't about branding, then why did you bring it up? Do you know what a brand is in the advertising sense?

Of course I know what a brand is, however, you have totally misunderstood my original comments. There were two-in addition to the NASA comment. The first point was that "Cedar Fair" already is a brand. It may not be a Disney or a Coke, but it is a brand.
My second point was that it does not matter how the company got it's name--a reference to the explanation that you gave during the podcast. I was just pointing out that no one really cares where Cedar Fair got it's name, at least here in the Richmond area.
Cedar Fair is already doing a far better job of running KD than Paramount ever did.