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Oh, I assumed you actually had to go to the park to activate it. Yeah… ignore me then.

Honestly, I'm not sure about discounts for Black Friday but buy it at Sesame Place if you live in Hershey... it's a lot cheaper.

Yes. This event is exactly the same as it's been for a half-a-decade. Firebird, Mind Eraser, Ragin Cajun, Roar and Wild One will be open along with all non-water rides in the front of the park. Everything behind Wild One will be closed.

As a card-carrying member of the Pony Express fan club, I approve. I actually like that a lot.

... so as I was saying. lol

El Toro update: There are new black steel ledgers on the first drop, first two camelback hills, and the rolling thunder hill. Work has been progressing non-stop since the ride closed. Photo credit (best I can tell): Joel Noufe from the CJ's Crazy Coaster Crew Facebook group.

The trend of closing coasters unnecessarily for budget and blaming construction so nobody questions it is annoying, but also par-for-the-course. lol

It seems like commercial painting companies that generally paint coasters were probably hurting this year with parks trying to save money and offered everyone great prices that they all jumped on at once. Tons of parks are randomly painting rides at the exact same time, and a lot of those companies are rarely willing to paint anything. Xcelerator, Tatsu, Bizarro, Sidewinder, SooperDooperLooper, Cheetah Hunt (with no warning during their busy Haunt season), Manta, Kraken... it can't be a coincidence. Thanksfuly Nitro still isn't being painted or I'd worry that the Universe was about to be knocked totally out-of-whack.

Right, but adding those rides so that they could run year round would also mean you'd be able to ride those coasters all winter (except Lightning Rod, lol).

The ride never made sense. It was originally themed to the old west but also Greek Mythology and had the very “western” color scheme of a Mountain Dew ad. Everyone needs to just give up on waiting for anything ever in the entire history of this ride with a sideways horse on the station to make sense.

Those things have been gone for years, but they did replace the seats.

It already makes zero sense anyway, so at this point let's just double down.

The park is apparently painting Bizarro in carrot colors. The park is also apparently never painting Nitro.

I'm the exact opposite, I think they should just add indoor dark rides and screen rides and open year-round.

I just hope they plant some trees over there, though that's kind of the opposite of what they've been doing lately.

I feel like it's complete but they may under-promise and over-deliver... That's really disappointing. It's the only park that was open last year that has cut back like this. Their staffing situation must be atrocious.

So... which holiday was this? This is some biploar-ass decorating.

It’s been kind of a weird two years. They’ve been a bit busy.

Galaxi update: Also, the loops for Quimera have been taken down: This is all from @GoleyNathan on Twitter.

Is anyone knocking them for buying the SLC? I'm not knocking them for buying an SLC, I'm knocking them for buying two coasters and having them shipped to another continent in one case and then almost literally to the other side of the world in the other and then being surprised to learn incredibly basic things about what they bought after they bought them and agreed to ship them across the world. Even if it will "work out" in the end, that's still insane, especially in the case of the SLC where you can find plenty all over the US to just go and ride. And again... that's assuming what they're saying in this video is actually accurate (and that's a big assumption).

If it's actually true that they bought two multi-million dollar coasters without doing any due diligence then LOL ... then again, it's not like they'd be the only ones doing that (cough: Gene Staples)

We went to Howl O Scream yesterday for the first time in a few years. I’ve got to say, we had a great time but it’s a shell of what it was even a few years ago. I feel like hopefully it’s a staffing thing but knowing that chain it’s probably a budget thing. There are less houses, the houses that they have are Six Flags quality and there are way less scare actors out on the midways also. They also just got rid of a lot of things they used to have like entertainment in the Sheikra plaza and they no longer bring out Halloween themed midway games / food carts everywhere. The big takeaway though is that the houses just aren’t very good (minus maybe one). We did a house at Six Flags New England last weekend and it was better than a few of these. That should never happen. That said, it was a great time anyway because no matter how much they scale back the event they still have Montu and Kumba. We got a back row Montu rain ride right at 1am after it had been running for 15 hours straight and holy-absolute-shit that ride is incredible. Death Water Bayou is still the best house. It’s like a relic of the past and it makes all of their new houses look like an absolute joke.

The only parks scaling back are the two parks in markets that didn’t allow them to open their rides last year due to Covid restrictions. I feel like this is partially a staffing thing and also caution about new restrictions when cases inevitably rise this winter. Hopefully next year things are back to normal.

Maybe they're here to take down the Skyway towers like 5 years late? lol

Interestingly enough, I also noticed offers from Capital One for SeaWorld parks. I never use my Capital One card anymore but randonly logged in and noticed the other day (I got the Savor when it had an insane sign-up bonus but downgraded after they stopped waiving the annual fee). On an unrelated note, a Marriot devaluation may be coming per tons of usually-reliable sources. Consider booking now if you have future trips planned and you're using your Bonvoy points.