Worst Ride Sponsorships
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Rob Coasters
Hyper Poster
-Blue Fire sponsored by very dodgy Russian gas company
-Fantablivion
-The Walking Dead the Ride
-Red Force and just the general Ferrari sponsor of Ferrari Land. Will expand upon this later
There's also Wodan being sponsored by a jeans company but while incredibly strange I haven't heard anyone raise concerns about the sponsor, how it changed the ride, or the general dodginess of the company.
-Fantablivion
-The Walking Dead the Ride
-Red Force and just the general Ferrari sponsor of Ferrari Land. Will expand upon this later
There's also Wodan being sponsored by a jeans company but while incredibly strange I haven't heard anyone raise concerns about the sponsor, how it changed the ride, or the general dodginess of the company.
In Googling for an image to show it off - the one I was thinking of turns out to have actually been posted in a CF thread from many years back!
coasterforce.com
I always think of these as being incredible cheap and nasty looking.
On train ads ruin the coaster trains?
Last summer, I was able to ride Kingda Ka and El Toro. Amazing rides and all but when I got to board the train, I noticed that Six Flags added on train ads. I felt like it ruined the entire point of theming the train. The one I rode was advertising Scion's new car. Although it is a good source...
I always think of these as being incredible cheap and nasty looking.
CanobieFan
Strata Poster
Pretty much anything outside of a sign posted at the ride entrance, is terrible.
nadroJ
CF Legend
TWD isn’t sponsorship, it’s IP.
Rob Coasters
Hyper Poster
Oh whoops, got the two mixed up, guessing it's the same story with Red Force then. Thanks for catching that!
Benenen
Hyper Poster
Casual sexism and a Bluetooth fueled competition presumably designed for Blackberry owners, what a throwback.
A lot of the Europa ones frustrate me because it's too good a park to have as much advertising as it does. The Mercedes stuff on Silver Star is alright as at least the ride is racing themed even though it's area has the deadest atmosphere of the whole park due to it. Similarly whatever energy company is now sponsoring Blue Fire is fine as it loosely fits the theme of the ride. But the Mustang Jeans sponsorship on Wodan really bugged me. It's a gorgeous coaster with a beautiful queue, atmospheric soundtrack, etc but you have to sit on the brakes in the maintenance shed looking at jeans adverts. For arguably the most premium park in Europe it's brand damaging what they've done to Wodan.
Matt N
CF Legend
Wow... I always think of 2009 as being pretty recent, but things like this show that it was a different time even back then. That poster definitely wouldn't fly in 2022!
Dragon’s Fury and Skips crisps. What the prawn flavoured melt-in-your-mouth, maize-based snacks had to do with it is still beyond me? Maybe a connection with the queue-skipping help yourself fastrax ticket machines in the early days?
And Irn Bru at Blackpool. Like to think it had something to do the Scottish brand trolling Pepsi Max. “You might have the Big One, but ours is orange and makes your teeth hurt. Just like our drink.”
Nether of them were aesthetically jarring, they simply bugged me.
And Irn Bru at Blackpool. Like to think it had something to do the Scottish brand trolling Pepsi Max. “You might have the Big One, but ours is orange and makes your teeth hurt. Just like our drink.”
Nether of them were aesthetically jarring, they simply bugged me.
Indy
Hyper Poster
The West Coast Customs tie-in to West Coast Racers is pretty cringy. I laughed pretty hard when that ride got announced. Not only is it a sponsorship, but the ride is actually themed around it and they missed the boat by about 15 years.
I think Steel Curtain might be king though. Again, the entire attraction is themed around it. And to make matters worse, it doesn't fit the park, and especially that area of the park, at all. Yeah, it's pure Pittsburgh and I'm sure the city's residents loves it, but it's so tacky.
But in the more traditional sense of sponsorship, I hated when Six Flags Over Georgia had Mindbender wrapped in Stride gum sponsorship. It was a shame to see such a fantastic Schwarzkopf defaced like that.
I think Steel Curtain might be king though. Again, the entire attraction is themed around it. And to make matters worse, it doesn't fit the park, and especially that area of the park, at all. Yeah, it's pure Pittsburgh and I'm sure the city's residents loves it, but it's so tacky.
But in the more traditional sense of sponsorship, I hated when Six Flags Over Georgia had Mindbender wrapped in Stride gum sponsorship. It was a shame to see such a fantastic Schwarzkopf defaced like that.
Let's see two prefabs full of ad.
What about KIA Soll train on El Toro?
source: https://www.coastergallery.com/1999/El_Toro_4.html
Or another Prefab is doing "SKT telecommunication company" advertise on its name? and lots of ad board on the structure? Due to that ad, the ride name was Alpine Express, but it was changed to "SK"T Express. To see the pros, the name became much shorter and easy to pronounce in Korean.
What about KIA Soll train on El Toro?
source: https://www.coastergallery.com/1999/El_Toro_4.html
Or another Prefab is doing "SKT telecommunication company" advertise on its name? and lots of ad board on the structure? Due to that ad, the ride name was Alpine Express, but it was changed to "
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Christian
Hyper Poster
Energylandia does sponsorships pretty well. But their waterpark is something different. Starts with a stupid name. Either it's "Big Milk Water Park" or "Energylandia Water Park Big Milk". They use both names. And it has Big Milk written everywhere on slides and everything. It's so cringe that a waterpark has "Milk" in it's name. It's worse than naming a coaster after a petrol station. Which they also do.
Indy
Hyper Poster
You win.
Gazza
Giga Poster
Yeah I remember seeing Yorkies in the UK and thinking it was the most cringe thing ever.
How did the brand even come to exist? How did it last more than a few months?
