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Guys, clearly this is a SF/CF swap!!! Mr. Freeze basically had the same announcement, so you heard it here first, Mr. Freeze going to CP and TTD going to SFOT!

If all of these whiny entitled enthusiasts on Twitter and Facebook truly "never come back to CP," think how AWESOME that would be! I have read so many asinine comments like "first Wicked Twister now this! I refuse to EVER go back to the park." Cool bro! Enjoy Six Flags (while you can!)

Chuck is at the big announcement now and will have a full photo trip report later today from the announcement including track pix!

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Well, since they've been kind of running it half assed the last few years and this park is on a kick of killing off Intamins... MF next year? J/K. This sucks though. I like TTD a lot more than Kingda Ka so the "2nd option" of still getting the same ride experience kind of sucks IMO. We'll see, maybe the "as you know it" will just mean "oh we're just changing the queue line" and this will be overhyped. Maybe they're painting it purple, adding flames, and calling it Bizarro. Who knows.

On the weekend of August 19th through the 21st, 2022, I decided to do a blitz trip of almost all of the New England parks. Most of these were first-time visits, and the trip also included return trips to SFNE and Lake Compounce to grab the credits that I had missed during my initial trip to these parks in 2017. So I had worked midnight shift the night before this trip began, getting off of work at 7 AM. I was home and in bed by 8, grabbed a couple hours of sleep, and was on the road by 2:00 PM. My destination? An overnight stay in White River Junction, VT, to get a proper start on the trip the next day. This drive should have taken me only around 7 hours, but due to ever-present NY traffic, it took closer to 9, and I got into town and checked in to the Hotel Coolidge around 10:30. And let me tell you, this is small town America at its core - absolutely nothing was open. The hotel was very cute and boutique-y and was on a quintessential main street though, so it had that going for it. It was also right across the street from the "Center For Cartoon Studies", which apparently offers college-level degrees in cartoons. Yep, I'm in New England all right. The room, however, was extremely tiny for the cost (around $130): When I woke up, I grabbed breakfast at a classic small-town diner, and on my way back to the hotel noticed that nearby was a restored steam locomotive. Non-train-fanatics can skip ahead to the next text. I checked out, and was on the road to my first park stop of this trip... Santa's Village, Jefferson NH This was a quaint little family park, themed around Christmas of course, featuring two coasters and a pretty cool shooting dark ride. This place was surprisingly busy, which I guess makes sense being the only park in a 2 hour radius. On with the photos! The entry way. Once inside, you're greeted with very cutely decorated architecture from some period which I can't name. ...and a ride. Sorry, I know it's hard to tell due to the blurriness, but all of the "horses" on this carousel are reindeer. And we come to the first ride I rode, The Great Humbug Adventure. This is a shooting dark ride where you are trying to exterminate "humbugs," which apparent look like this: ...and stop them from stealing the Christmas spirit, or something? I don't know. The ride was fun, though, with plenty of animatronics inside on the course. I had an 18 minute wait. The queue was quite well done as well, including this animatronic guy explaining the premise. And here's a shot of the ride vehicles. Moving along... They had a log flume that was laid into the ground for the most park, and was very difficult to take other pictures of, and (from the sight of exiting guests) got you soaked. Pass. ...Which brings me to my next ride... Poogee Penguin's Spin Out Coaster, a SBF Visa spinner with a longer double-figure-8 layout. Okay, so I didn't ride this until I was about to leave, because it kept going in and out of operation, but when I did, I had a 21 minute wait and a not-very-spinny 3 lap ride, which was nice for me. Yes, this is the same ride that seriously injured a 51-year-old ride op a week later. Moving right along....there was some sort of kids show in here. Well-hidden bumper cars. They did have park-style swings everywhere. And they served beer! Guess they had to have something for the adults to do. They also have a small petting zoo. And this comically-named tube-down-a-hill slide. Going by the signage, this is apparently open in the winter, and is probably a bit more fun then. There were also these little elf dudes all around the park, each named for a different letter of the alphabet, and kids could put cards into the white boxes and pull the lever and it would punch a hole in their card. If you collect all of the elf-hole-punches, you get some sort of special prize, which I did not figure out what it was and the website doesn't say. For how well themed most of the park was, these plain buildings really stood out. Amusingly I did not spontaneously combust while taking this picture (yes, I made the same joke at Holiday World, sue me). Even in a park clearly marketed at families....C'mon, Cedar Fair! This was all this ride was. Get in the boat at one end, and let the current bring you to the other. Weird. Some vintage fire engines, for those into that sort of thing... ...right next to the kinda-out-of-place firefighting ride. Which finally brings me to the last coaster, Rudy's Rapid Transit. This is the same model of Zierer as is at SFNE and SFGAdv, and was a walk-on for back row. This is kinda in a dead end of the park, the only thing beyond it being a small water park, so I guess that explains the lack of crowds. It was fun for what it was, despite sitting in the station for 10 minutes while the ride ops figured out if they wanted to start the ride or wait for more passengers. Honestly, I only hit this park for the credits, figuring my chances of ever being this far north again were pretty slim. I'd like to say this report will get more interesting soon, but it probably won't for a while. Hang on though, because it does get good, I promise!

If only they would follow through.... Shorter lines for the rest of us.

It will free up some space to install some of the rides from california’s great america.

Themed, protected, and air conditions building queue along with a name change. You'll now be launching into space on LSMs with new generation Intamin trains and coming back in Alaska (for some reason) Disaster Transport 2.0 I'm sure the park would love to brand the ride to a disaster... that would go over great

That makes me think...maybe CP is turning TTD into the world's first stratastraddle coaster.

Everyone knows they are taking that launch track, turning it 45° and re-supporting it to become lift track that way they can be the tallest non-launching roller coaster in the world. Lift, turn, drop/spiral, brakes. Just renamed "Coaster".

No. This is the predecessor for the Dorney Park "New for 2023" announcement.

My faith lies in the "as you know it" phrase, but I hope for all that is good in the world that they do not do to it what they're doing to Montezooma. Everything Kumbak makes can die in a fire.

Glad you had such a good time! Canobie was a pleasant surprise for us, too. We went on a whim since we were kinda in the area for a bigger family get-together, and we were seduced by its charm. Couple things: That seems to be the overall MO for Yankee Cannonball. I waited nearly an hour due to one-train operations. Still enjoyed it, though. I had the exact same reaction to the popcorn stand as you (I'm pretty sure all of us coaster nerds who grew up playing RCT have the same experience lol). Fun fact - they had plans a few years back to open a pretty cool-looking river rapids ride directly behind Untamed, but ended up cancelling them after the rapids ride accident happened in Australia.

I've never been to OOB but I do know it's much smaller than any of the Jersey Shore towns and obviously way smaller than Ocean City MD. I just checked and they actually have 3 credits at Palace Playland...an SBF spinner and a kiddie credit like any good oceanside park, but also a legitimate windstorm-sized steel coaster. Also, if you're there to swim in the ocean be aware that the water rarely gets above 60 degrees north of Cape Cod. Save the ocean swimming for NJ lol. Vermont is a giant culture shock to just about anyone from anywhere else. A lot of the ski towns are lively at night, but otherwise there are like 3 cities with more than 20,000 people in the whole state and even those have very little going on at night. It's almost like a foreign land if you've never experienced it. I love it there but I could never live there full time, although January-April I'd be totally fine living near the mountains.

Knott's Berry Farm just held one of the most unique media previews ever for Knott's Scary Farm! 2022 is going to be an *awesome* year for Scary Farm, starting Sept. 22! TPR is ready to preview everything that Scary Farm has in store for this season! We enjoyed a pre-dinner reception featuring artwork from this year's Beyond the Fog art show, featuring artwork inspired by all generations of Halloween Haunt. Also enjoyed the "I Vant Your Blood", a syringe drink with vodka and Strawberry Lemonade. Yes please! We were then asked to find seats in the main dining space, for a legit Haunt banquet comprised of samples of a ton of the food and drinks that will be available throughout the park this year. "Kindly find your seats..." Here is what we sampled! Some of the photos were better at the preview table, so here they are! The Spooky Crabby Sushi Roll was on point! So was the Canine Candy Corn! Is "one of everything" too much? A look at some of the merchandise available this year. Haunt + Tiki = Yes, yes, yes! Take your pick! Which is your favorite maze represented? Oh hey, Snoopy! We can't wait for September 22, and seeing one of the new mazes this year: The Grimoire! Plan your visit: https://www.knotts.com/events/scary-farm/calendar

The next stop on my agenda for Saturday was.... Story Land, Intervale NH This is another family-focused park, with not too much for adult thrill seekers (besides Roar-O-Saurus). Thankfully, this place was included on my Palace Entertainment Platinum Pass, but I did find a lot of the kids stuff to be super cute. On with the report! First, the very bare-bones entrance plaza... ...and some sorely missed corporate sponsorship. So the first thing you come across here (if you go to the right, anyway), is life-size recreations of all of your favorite fairy tales. Here in the "kingdom" themed area, you have a few more classic examples... Including a pumpkin coach ride to... ...Cinderella's castle, complete with meet-n'-greets and photo ops. They also had this cool "assisted dress up" where staff would help your kid become a princess, knight, or whatever. There was a very small pirate themed area.... ...with a riverboat ride... ...and climbing structure (identical to one that used to be at an elementary school near my parent's house in Central NJ)... ...and a pretend jail. There was a "tales from around the world" section. This was apparently some sort of dark ride or walk through experience, but was closed. And finally, we come across the first coaster...Polar Coaster. Sadly not air conditioned on this very hot day. Anyway, this is a Hopkins/Morgan family coaster. About a 20 minute wait for the back row. Some decent forces throughout, especially on the final helix...kinda surprising for an obvious kiddie coaster. Some of the rest of the park.... ...including a splash battle... ...and their own version of a flying shoe ride. They even have a ball pit, sort of! Finally, it was time for the crown jewel of this park (or was it?), Roar-O-Saurus. It definitely is photogenic. 28 minute wait for the back row. It had a couple of nice pops of air, but it suffers from the same problem that Mine Blower does - on any kind of a turn, it jackhammers and shuffles around like its the trains job, slamming you every which way. Not fun. 3/10. Rounding out this park, here are some of the final pictures. And I'll close this par of the report with a truth-telling bag seen in the gift shop, featuring an insightful quote from a true legend.

Alright, I can totally respect that. I don’t agree, but I see why you would feel that way. @thisdougsforuyou have others who agree with you! Love the peaceful debate!

We did every house opening night!

Storm has gone vertical

A couple pages back I read that someone thinks Corkscrew will run forever because it looks great, can run in any condition, and I definitely agree with that. I do think though, if it's possible, having vekoma come in and reprofile the track like they did with Big Loop at Heide Park. The difference here is that Arrow designed Corkscrew, not Vekoma, but I wonder if they could still do something similar to make the ride at least a little more comfortable.

A retheme means.... No more "Ready To Go" on repeat. A moment of silence is necessary.