Knotts Great America?
Well it seems as if Cedar Fair has purchased www.knottsgreatamerica.com and it redirects you to the Great America page. The park was named Paramount Great America before Cedar Fair bought the chain and dropped the Paramount from all of the park names. This is interesting because it shows possible problems with the Great America name. Six Flags also has a Great America park. Interestingly enough, both “Knotts” Great America and Six Flags Great America were both owned and operated by Marriott, when they were in the amusement park business.
I don’t know how I feel about the “Knotts” name being used on other parks, it seems like a quick fix to me. I am sure that the “Knotts” name is recognized across California, not only as an amusement park but also as a food producer. We will see if and and an announcement is made about a name change.
March 13th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Why Cedar Fair? Why? This has to be one of the worst ideas I have ever heard!
March 14th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Maybe it is just one of those things a company would do just in case they do decide to change names. However, if they do add that to the Great America name, I think it would work well with that park. I just hope they don’t go branding some of their other parks with the Knott’s name.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
[…] According to RCDB the name of the park is indeed changing. If you look at the Great America page it is titled Knott’s Great America. It also indicates that the name change too place in 2007. We are just waiting on an official announcement on this, but if RCDB has it up, I have no trouble believing that it is going to happen. In our original post on this story the domain (that’s the web address) redirected to Great America’s current page. So with these two pieces of evidence, I’m sold on the fact that Great America is changing it’s name to Knott’s Great America. […]