Re: Hard Rock / Freestyle Music Park Rides for sale
spicy said:
On the subject of Time Machine-
The thing is if you were a park owner with a few million to spend with a plot big enough for Time Machine. Still how feasible a purchase would it really be?
I assume you will have to pay for it to be deconstructed, then there's the purchase of the coaster itself, shipping, any re-painting etc, then reconstructing the thing.
Surely this would all amount up to be more expensive then just ordering a brand new custom built coaster from B&M?
Unless the coaster is going for something rediculous like 1-2 Mil or something...
You mention some very good points, and these are a few of the reasons I think this ride will be pretty hard to sell.
It's also on of the more boring of B&M ride's if I should believe what I read about it.
Darren B said:
^ I don't believe it's as expensive as you suggest, and certainly nowhere near the cost of a new B&M.
Walygator purchased Monster from Japan, deconstructed it, shipped it halfway across the world, reconstructed and painted it (well sort of). If a small park in France can do it then I really don't believe it's that expensive to do
Remember that we don't know what they paid for that ride, probably not much more than scrap value. Also that ride did become much more expensive than planned.
CoasterCrazy said:
In coaster terms, 1-2 million is actually rather cheap and if you desired B&M wingrider , that would only get you a train :wink: . Wildfire cost $14 million by comparison. Plus, remember shipping costs apply for new coasters too...
You need to remember that $14 million is the price for the whole project, the price for the hardware of a coaster is usually somewhere around 40-50% of the overall project cost. The rest is for shipping, land clearing, pouring footers, paying for the construction crew and their equipment and a big ass crane as well as building a station.
Let's say that the Led Zeppelin coaster was a $15 million ride (and that it would be the same today, which it probably would), then we are looking at a hardware price of somewhere around $6-7,5 million. A potential buyer is also going to have to pay for the deconstruction of the ride (expensive), as well as shipping it to his location, and the build it again. In order for the buyer to be interested the price will have to be low enough to allow for the deconstruction of the ride, as well as giving him a "discount" for buying the ride second hand.
The the question is if the people now managing the old Hard Rock park is going to be willing to sell it that cheap?