American Heartland Theme Park, Oklahoma

[Buried20KLeague]

With the right programming and, dare I say, a price decrease, the park could work in colder weather, depending on what attractions and shows they have.

Branson is two hours away from there and corners the market on the Christmas holiday. Very few people would make a cold weather weekend trip around a single place like this with Branson and silver dollar city not far away.

The location is the problem. There’s tons of cheap land FAR closer to Branson that would siphon off guests. This won’t.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Branson is two hours away from there and corners the market on the Christmas holiday. Very few people would make a cold weather weekend trip around a single place like this with Branson and silver dollar city not far away.

The location is the problem. There’s tons of cheap land FAR closer to Branson that would siphon off guests. This won’t.

Yeah, but people can stay in the nearby trailer park!!

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

They recently posted art for what I can assume is a new attraction for the park.



Hmm, I wonder what this is supposed to be?

 

[JoeCamel]

They recently posted art for what I can assume is a new attraction for the park.



Hmm, I wonder what this is supposed to be?

So they kicked the bears out of MK and sold them off....

 

[BrerFoxesBayouAdventure]

So they kicked the bears out of MK and sold them off....

Country Animal Jamboree!

 

[JoeCamel]

Country Animal Critters Jamboree!

FTFY
alliteration at all times is the title mantra

 

[lazyboy97o]

Anyone who says they never wanted to visit Lester’s Possum Park is lying.

 

[MisterPenguin]

They recently posted art for what I can assume is a new attraction for the park.



Hmm, I wonder what this is supposed to be?

Let us know what song you think the "Critter Band" is playing in Bayou Bay.

Hmm... I'm keen to guess. I'll say: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (the Night Queen aria from The Magic Flute [Die Zauberflöte]).

 

[some other guy]

ORIGINAL JAMBOREE DO NOT STEAL

 

[Disstevefan1]

I am rooting for this to succeed. I posted previously that I wonder where they are going to get the workers from? Are there nearby towns to attract workers from?

 

[JoeCamel]

I am rooting for this to succeed. I posted previously that I wonder where they are going to get the workers from? Are there nearby towns to attract workers from?

I think this shows the location or pretty close so Tulsa is about 30 miles?

 

[Haymarket]

Texas would have been nice. The second of the three megastates (CA, TX, FL) by population.

 

[MichRX7]

Yeah, but people can stay in the nearby trailer park!!

Just drove from MI to TX through Oklahoma. I thought MI had a lot of signs selling marijuana until I drove through Oklahoma. That park is going to smell just awful, but it may steal the moniker of "Happiest Place on Earth".

 

[Disney Analyst]

I got a bad feeling about this …

 

[Disstevefan1]

Just drove from MI to TX through Oklahoma. I thought MI had a lot of signs selling marijuana until I drove through Oklahoma. That park is going to smell just awful, but it may steal the moniker of "Happiest Place on Earth".

"Smell just awful", is a subjective opinion.

To me, its going to remind me of walking the halls of High School..... The good ol' days

 

[jpinkc]

"Smell just awful", is a subjective opinion.

To me, its going to remind me of walking the halls of High School..... The good ol' days

Wow in my High School days the smell would send a Principal or Teacher kicking in bathroom stalls and a trip to the School Board. At the Catholic High School you dont want to know how hard they came down.

 

[bpiper]

This from Screamscape:

Things are not going smoothly with the proposed American Heartland Theme Park project it seems. I can’t say that I’m surprised, as the proposal was a bit ambitious for something they wanted to open by 2026. In our last update back in May 2024, it was reported that design firm, FORREC, had filed a $5.5 million lien against the developer over not being paid for their work to design and create the plans for the proposed park.

This week the local news has confirmed that all work on the project has been halted due to non-payment issues, with Crossland Construction now filing their own $350,000+ lein against against developer, Mansion Entertainment Group and OGB Holdings for non-payment. Meanwhile they have yet to resolve the lein filed previously by FORREC, so the bills are now stacking-up.

 

[MisterPenguin]

When people (and their dads) have "billions of dollars," surprising that they can't pay $355K.

Or... they realize they're in it for at least $6B and then, all of a sudden, a few billion here and a few billion there's starts to add up to real money, and they slam the brakes.

Hey, kids, wanna go to Lien Land?!

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

DOA. They let a lot of their trademarked attraction names expire. I can see some semblance of the RV park and maybe a playground and pond but I don't think the "park" is gonna happen.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

It's a shame...I was looking forward to this, though building a theme park in the middle of tornado alley never really did make that much sense.

I hope Storyville Gardens fares better.