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Small News From The Theme Park Industry
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TPoseOnTantrum
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True enough, it’s a little more complicated though since there’s a bunch more players in the game.
Wisdom Rides was the big American carnival ride hotshot when Chance dipped out but in recent years they’ve been floundering, with sales dropping and current orders all at least a year behind schedule even despite other companies recovering from COVID. Their merger with the Chinese also hasn’t really blossomed either. That leaves a few smaller companies domestically that are picking up the pace, and even them (ie Frederickson, Dalton, Battech) have been seeing success lately by manufacturing 70’s/80’s era attractions like slides and roundups. So yes, ample ground there.
Most of the bigger ride imports meanwhile are coming overseas from Kolmax, Technical Park, KMG, and Lamberink. The thing is that the latter three are in such high demand worldwide right now that waitlists are literally taking up to 2029/30 right now. SBF isn’t too established on the fair circuit rn and their premiere definitely-original Pirate Ship suffered a huge road roll-over accident while being trucked to the buyer this winter, rendering a huge new piece of hardware as unusable for now. They really needed to run it to prove themselves, now they’ve been set back a bit. God’s will or something.
The tariffs are also a development that derailed a few deliveries really recently, which is funny since the fairground industry and trades overwhelmingly supported “El Presidente” coming back into office only for this to happen.
So yeah again there was totally ample ground for Chance to come back.