It's pretty good for a park starting from scratch. It wouldn't be too smart for a start-up to have much more than that before seeing what it can support. Five seems about right. Actually, I wouldn't have expected five, to be honest. Six Flags Fiesta Texas has eight. One of those is a kiddie coaster and another is Boomerang, a painful boring-ass clone ride that a million other parks have. They have six legit solid coasters. So -- five seems good.
Yeah, I understand that. But you're talking about May 25, 2015. That's like 10 months away. It's all grass right now. They haven't even removed the crap, like the water tank, that's sitting on the land. They have to build a road to the location. Pave a large parking lot. And then, oh yeah, they need to build a friggin water park. Even if it's as small as Splash Town that's a lot of work.
Yeah, I think they will hire a lot of workers. They will help speed the process and complete those stuff in 10 months.
Yeah, you don't start a brand new theme park building 10+ roller coasters and challenge Magic Mountain out of the gate. Takes time.
This isn't five guys building a house over the course of several months. If you throw enough money at something this size, it can be built in a few weeks. A big chunk of it is also going to be prefab. Here's a video of a 30-story building being built in 15 days: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Hdpf-MQM9vY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
And I'm pretty sure Schlitterbahn ain't throwing five guys at their new park. But it's going to take them 2 years just for phase 1. And I'm pretty sure they have a lot more experience at building them. http://www.screamscape.com/html/schlitterbahn.htm
I'm pretty sure they're not trying to build the same size as Schlitterbahn. Probably half of that hence the ten months span.
Well, you'd be wrong. Schiltterbahn Fort Lauderdale will be 64-acres but the two year timeline is only for Phase 1, which is the north end of the new park. Grand Texas water park is 40 acres.
You can call me cynical or skeptical but after years of Disney rumors, Earthquest Adventures being a scam, and the very company that is supposedly doing Grand Texas also promising to do one in Tomball but not fulfilling... frankly I'm surprised more people aren't skeptical.
Since you're being dense on purpose.... or you can't do math... but it's not smaller. If Phase 1 of Schlitterbahn is half their final size, it will only be 32 acres. Even if Phase 1 will be 2/3rd of the final size they will be equal in size. Either way it won't be twice as large as Grand Texas and thus... you... are... wrong.
