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I went to the park friday and someone on the team was out answering questions. From what I heard from sources over the past season I have put together to my understanding- the parks plan as of now. To get things out of the way, there will be no new attraction for next season. As of now nothing is planned or being relocated. This is in anticipation for the park to finally get "A big investment" in 26 or possibly the year after. I dont see this being RMC boss, the park had previously talked with RMC and with the parks budget it would cut down the layout of the attraction so much so that it wouldnt be the show stopping coaster everyone thought it would be. Then Covid came along and it got the Axe, it likely would never see the light of day. IMO Id expect something more along the lines of a B&M dive. The park should receive its own park president soon, my choice for it would be Ron Mckenzie. Previously the President at Over texas, He worked with St louis for many years, knows and loves our park and I believe if given the chance, he would return. I sometimes see him post things about our park on social media and make jokes about returning on his old coworkers posts. In the meantime, the focus for next year is really just looking at what the park has done right the past couple seasons and continue with it. A return back to entertainment, how large scale the shows would be, im not sure. But also continuing to focus on events and looking at guest feedback. I believe a return of Holiday in the park has been thrown around but Id doubt it would be for next season.

Some notes from a fun week at Universal! Sunday night we rushed over from the airport in order to ride Spiderman before it closes for refurb. Love that ride. Luckily we still had time for one more ride before closing and decided it was as good of a time as any to finally get a night ride on Hagrid! A posted 90 minute line ended up being closer to 50 which was nice. This ride is amazing at night. It almost should've been built as an indoor coaster because I feel like the darkness really accentuates a lot of aspects of the theming. Monday was a pretty typical IOA day for me. It's probably my favorite park I've ever been to and other than Velocicoaster, my other favorite activity is watching people get destroyed by that high pressure waterfall on Popeyes right by the footbridge down to the lagoon. I could stand there for hours. Tuesday at Studios I don't have much to report other than I had a really weird ride on ET. The cars started stacking right at the "Welcome Home You Have Arrived" dude. And the rest of the way the cars would pull forward like 30 feet at a time and then come to a jarring stop. Very strange. Thursday night we had a fun night with @coasterbill at HHN (preceded by a great Velocicoaster night ride). This was the first time I've ever done Halloween mazes outside of SFNE or Lake Compounce, and what a difference. The level of detail put into the sets was just incredible. The thing I didn't like is that they just conga-line everyone through each maze. I can see why, as the lines are insane and I can't imagine how long they would be if everyone went through in small groups. In 5 hours we were able to do 3 houses plus Gringotts, Mummy, and Rockit from the singles lines. Very busy, but overall a really fun event. Also on Thursday I snagged tickets for Epic Universe on my birthday (which will be the 2nd week the park is open). Really excited to see it for the first time.