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I took this picture on Saturday. We were hoping for a soft opening later in the day but sadly it never happened. Maybe next weekend…
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They're apparently building a Top Spin, but this is not replacing the log flume.
A Top Spin in 2024 is... a choice. lol
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You know... while the demolition crew is in the area, maybe let's do something about all of this???
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If you would have told me a few years ago that a park would open an hour from my house that was indoors, open every day of the year, had an Intamin multi launch, an air race, a drop tower, a record-breaking Gerstlauer, an Intamin half-pipe, a legitimately-kick-ass frisbee and a bunch of other kick-ass rides and I would never go there I would have never believed you.
If this park was even operated moderately-well, I would spend $500-$600 a year on a season pass and not bat an eye. It's stunning how terrible this park is, and I want to love it.
Sandy's Blasting Bronco operates less frequently than any other coaster in the region... even the ones at parks like Rye Playland that open in May, close in September and are often closed weekdays. And like, if I'm begging for your operations to be on the level of Rye Playland then you really, really, really suck.
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Well the people who paid to ride things can't ride anything anyway since it's all closed, so it seems only right that they should make them pay their fair share...
... I hate this place
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If you guys are wondering when peak season is because you think that if you go then, they'll make some effort to have Sandy's, Shellraiser and the other major rides open then you don't understand how this park works.
They scheduled the start of a multi-month long planned closure for Sandy's at the beginning of December. They're a mall. December is sort-of busy at malls. Sandy's finally reopened like 5 days ago... everyone was excited. It's already closed again.
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Wow... that's a lot.
Counterpoint: the reason that nobody goes to this place is that it sucks, there's no need to over-analyze it or make it a microcosm of anything greater than that. The Garden State Plaza mall is less than 15 miles away and every time I drive by it it's packed beyond packed (and often traffic spills out onto 17 and brings everything to a standstill). The major rides weren't closed because you were unlucky or because it was the offseason, the major rides were closed because you went to the American Dream mall and major rides are closed on any day of the week that ends with the letter y. They're also severely lacking in shops, they occasionally have shootings, the water park has theming elements that fall from the sky and try to kill you, their ferris wheel offers sweeping views of the Jersey Turnpike and the world's worst NFL stadium, but the promised "sweeping NYC views" can be better experienced from one of the 758 observation decks that are actually in NYC. Oh... and their ski slope catches on fire.
It's the worst-run park in America by a lot and season passes (if you were to purchase one for each "season" are more expensive than they would be for any park or even chain of theme parks anywhere in America except for Disney...
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If they run a decent amount of rides, that's a super-cool announcement. Good theme park Christmas events are awesome.
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Well well well... I bet nobody expected to see this thread bumped today.
Just two years after rocking the coaster world to sleep with the addition of Fireball, this park is actually up to something big. Disclaimer: by "big" I mean "really really small" but big for Adventureland because the park is the size of a postage stamp.
A few days ago they announced the closure of their log flume:
And today, they announced the closure of their pirate ship.
In that post they teased a "MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT" </caps lock>.
Now... Dorney just announced a gift shop and called it major. I get that "major" means nothing but I actually think that this might be kind-of big.
Now I know what you're thinking...
"But Bill. I don't give a sh*t"
"These two rides are old, of course they're removing them"
"There's a park called Adventureland on Long Island?"
... Two things. A) You clicked on this thread, not me. Did you expect a Millennium Force clone? B) Okay so hear me out:
Again... when I say that this is a "big" space I mean the size of the Dollar Tree next to the park but in Adventureland terms they are freeing up enough space for what COULD be their biggest ride ever. I kind-of hate this because if I never have to experience the Long Island Expressway again as long as I live that would be great but I also love this because this park is super cute and I kind of like it.
My prediction based on literally nothing is one of those ultra-compact Zamperla family coaster /flume combos that Coney Island the the lesser Adventureland just got.
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Oh, you're right. I know that they have 4 trains and thought that they had 4 bays but apparently I made that last bit up. lol
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Kumba has 4 trains and 4 transfer tracks if you look at the transfer table.
Once upon a time, this park used to care about stuff so they had one more train than needed so Kumba could always run 3 trains. You see how well that's working out...
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On 2/17/2024 at 12:59 PM, teacherkim said:
the big guns like Hagrids, Hulk, VC all close their lines about 11:30 or so to satisfy both local noise ordinances and enough time for maintenance (or at least that's the official explanation)
While some rides close early for the event, Rip Ride Rockit cycles until about 3am every HHN night, so if there are noise ordinance concerns then I guess they only care when they decide to care.
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Universal's hours are awful. We were just down in Orlando for 2 weeks and spent almost all of our time at Disney instead specifically for that reason. We'd finish working at 5 and the parks would close at 6. We could go to Universal on weekends of course, but the parks are mobbed on the weekends and Express passes are expensive. We usually picked Disney on weekends too since you can spend like $25 at Disney and never wait in a single line all day no matter how busy it is.
There was one random Friday night when studios closed at 6 and Islands closed at 9 and it was awesome! We got to the park like 20 minutes before 6, got in line for Rockit at park close and didn't wait long at all, then went to Islands and had a great time. It's a beautiful park at night and the coasters are all great night rides. I really, really wish they would stay open late more often.
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Despite the bunched up cabins in the concept art, I'd imagine this is most similar to the Disney Skyliner on a tiny scale? Either way, this seems like a smart move.
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I've thought about this way too much because we love Coco.
I feel like the problem with that would be that there would be absolutely nowhere to put the queue. Right now, the pavilion can barely handle the queue for that dumb boat ride.
My dream scenario that will never happen is a Coco ride show building behind the Anna and Elsa meet and greet with an entrance near Plaza de los Amigos but this will absolutely never happen ever.
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I feel like Cedar Fair is one of the only American chains that doesn't typically limit rides on their newest ride with the skip-the-line system anyway. This makes sense.
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I'll just keep saying what I've been saying this whole time. This ride is perfect, don't screw it up.
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People under-estimate how cheap this park is. People put them up on a pedestal, but at the end of the day they're a regional park in Ohio that sells day tickets for $49.99.
All we heard about at IAAPA was about how cheap the train was and how cheap it would be to maintain. It's proof-of-concept for Zamperla so they probably got a good deal, but I feel like people focus too much on the up-front cost and not the continuous costs of ownership. Intamin's spare parts are expensive. Zamperla is... Zamperla. Intamin could have built an insanely kick-ass ride but it would have cost more money up-front and probably more money every year going forward.
Cedar Point is cheaper than most enthusiasts want to believe that they are. The entire motivation behind removing an Intamin multi-launch and replacing it with a Zamperla Wild Mouse was cutting costs without acting like they were cutting costs. It cost them money up-front, but think about the change in power consumption and staffing / maintenance costs every year forever. The entire motivation behind Top Thrill 2 is... exactly the same thing. Less staff positions, less maintenance, cheaper parts... etc.
I'm not even upset about either of those things, but let's call this what it is.
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I heard rumors that Sandy's was actually open last week for a few days, but it looks like it's already closed again. I hate this place. I want to love it... I really, really, really do and on the 6 days per year where most of the good rides are open it's actually fun but I've never ever seen such a dumpster fire.
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47 minutes ago, Zand said:
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, but I literally commented to my wife on the way in that it didn't look like they had even touched a single tree, nevermind started construction.
You are correct. I'm not even convinced that this thing is opening next year, and if it does I would expect it to be open somewhere around mid-to-late Holiday in the Park.
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As one matures in life they graduate from team Sheetz to team Wawa.
Sure, you look back fondly at your party days of getting blackout drunk and then going "YEAH MAN PUT MOZZARELLA STICKS ALL OVER THAT BURGER AND SPELL IT WITH A Z" but there's no shame in not being about that life anymore.
Also, I'm sad about that Super 8.
I used to stay at shit hotels all the time and now that I've grown up a bit and become a fancy-ass Wawa person my tastes have changed and I'm more of like a Marriot / Hilton / Choice but Comfort Inn / Suites or above person. That Super 8 was always WAY too good to be a Super 8 though and I feel like even now I'd consider staying there if it were still like it used to be. I'm sad to hear that they checked the sign, saw that it said "Super 8" on it and realized that they were supposed to suck. That's a bummer.
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On 9/16/2023 at 9:44 AM, Zand said:
1. Visit Centralia
2. Look at Cornfields
3. Hang out at Sheetz
4. Yuengling brewery is somewhat close
As said above, the park is in the middle of nowhere with nothing really of interest in the area (other than hiking...plenty of that) but it is definitely worth visiting the middle of nowhere in this case.
This made me LOL. Two of these suggestions are actually great though. I'll let everyone decide which two.
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On 8/29/2023 at 1:47 PM, Danrarbc said:
The app has a slightly different description. It mentions a themed queue.
The one at Fiesta Texas has the same name and a themed queue.
Knowing the Six Flags web team, it's very likely that they just copied and pasted this description from that one. It may have a themed queue or it may not.
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On 8/2/2023 at 11:29 PM, downunder said:
How much electricity will this use (like a lot); or will they put Tony Clark on a hamster wheel to keep the generator humming and save on power bills?
Don't forget that they just closed Wicked Twister and replaced it with a small Wild Mouse with a lift hill.
I don't know the answer to this question, but I'd imagine that replacing Top Thrill Dragster and Wicked Twister with Top Thrill 2 and Wild Mouse is probably not an insane jump in power usage in either direction. I'm prepared to be very wrong on this though.
Knoebels Discussion Thread
in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
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Highlights:
- The new Power Surge is not a portable model. It's permanent. I didn't even know that they made permanent models. The program will be crazier. The ride will not open on opening day.
- They repainted Impulse even though it barely needed it
- The park is very well staffed this year already
- Every car of the Bayern Kurve apparently had it's own PLC. They've changed that. The delays have been due to that but it should be open in 2024. They also just had to reallocate people to other projects last year, like reopening the Skyway (suck it Lake Compounce).
The ride will be the fastest ride in the park. The max speed is 70 mph. They're not sure if they can safely run it at 70 mph but they're going to try and if not, run it as close to 70mph as possible.
- Some changes have been made to some haunted mansion scenes.
- The cub cars are going away for awhile but will probably be back. This is where the Rock O Plane will go (between Phoenix and Fandango). The ride will not open on opening day.
- They replaced a lot of sections of the flume. It will open around Memorial Day.
- Paratrooper and the Teacups are both undergoing restorations and will open later in the year.
- Sky Slide is coming back after being closed since the start of the Pandemic. It may not reopen this year but it will finally reopen. Hopefully no lawyer actually looks at it.
-They've done a bunch of track work on the three wood coasters but that's to be expected.