Mermaids

[William_MacKean]

I'm assuming the location was partially chosen for easy access to water for the aquarium and electricity to heat the water.

Except they did not heat the water and the mermaid got sick and turned blue in the early afternoon on Sunday, so they closed the exhibit.  Guess the heater is on backorder.

[groomporter]

Humph, I heard from Anita in entertainment that it would be heated after I joked on Facebook about frozen fish sticks by the end of the run. 

[groomporter]

I keep wanting to make aquarium related jokes, gonna need some big snails  or a lot of them to clean the walls... and really big plastic bags to let them acclimatize to the water temp... show up with a industrial-sized box of fish flakes to feed them?

[William_MacKean]

When I stuck my hand in there Friday, it was cold.  And Erin Casper told me, as Carr was hollering on the radio just out of hearing range, that the mermaid turned blue.  To be fair, I am putting math together to draw a conclusion, so I suppose she could have turned blue some other way.

Either way, it was vastly popular.  A few tweaks, including some ropes for queueing, ValleyFair style, and it should be popular.  For my money, they should have kept the Secret Garden houses from falling apart and put her near the waterfall to draw a crowd in there.

They'll get it figured out.  Anita and Carr are smart people.  100% faith in them.

What we need is a guy that looks like Tom Hanks to stand in the tank, naked and covering his no-nos with his hands, screaming "I am not a fish!"

[groomporter]

http://www.carrhagerman.com/blog/2012/08/23/mermaids-exist/

[Merlin the Elder]

You wouldn't have to worry about cold water at Scarborough...well, there was the snow on opening weekend in `07, I think it was...in April...in Dallas

[saphire_glade]

Oh I heard that while they will be heating the "tank" it will only be 70 degrees.
I was a swimmer, the pool was ICE COLD at 75 when you jumped in.
I don't think the girls that they got realized what they were in for.... I am guessing that it is going to go from HOT to FREEZING in no time.

[LadyFae]

Ok, so my girls and I were able to make it out (finally) on Sat and we followed the instructions from everyone and bypassed everything going on at opening gate and beelined straight for Mermaid Cove.  We were the first in line and waited about half an hour for the "exhibit" to open- the line behind us was CRAZY!  Sadly, with that many people we didn't get to "enjoy" the mermaid experience.  We were rushed through, probably worse for us because we were in front, those behind us got to watch and interact with the seated mermaids, we couldn't.  We did get to "speak" with the tank mermaid for a bit but, again, with the huge crowd behind us our time was rather limited.  The mermaids are beautiful, that's a given but that's about the only thing we took away from the experience.  I had a friend who took his family out on Sunday and he said that his daughter cried when she had to leave the mermaids, she LOVED them!  I don't know, I love the idea still but it isn't really "working" very well so far. 

[Genta]

well it might be more of a business strategy than a customer strategy.

make people wait for a high demand display right next to food/drink area.

[Will Gamwell]

I would die for 70 degree water.  Sadly the pond at Gypsy stage does not have that option. 

I saw the mermaids a few times and they did a great job as well as the rest of the performers in the cove.  I sent so many kids over there with their parents in tow.