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In fairness I did first announce I would premier this Friday but then had to change it to Monday due to a private event at the park this Friday.

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Season 5 Coming Soon!

Season 5 of Shane's Amusement Attic will begin Monday, September 19th

I love teasing! Am I in Season 4 or Season 5 ????

I got your "Hunt for Red Oktober" coming up...and how about the rumored Morgan Elevator lift Hyper Coaster?!?!?! I got the concepts, theme and blueprints. Of course another EXCLUSIVE!

I am getting excited for another season of Shane's Amusement Attic...and I am kicking it off BIG! It will be an exclusive, not available anywhere except here! another teaser...

Did I miss something? What is Six Flags over Texas getting???

Opryland: Closing AstroWorld: Closing

Love it! As the creative and project manager for Invertigo at PGA, I must say I was very sad to see this ride go. But I must admit, I love the new name, I love the new logo…but still liked Invertigos colors. The memory of Invertigo lives on as a Tattoo on my left arm.

Jamaica TPR Cruise Baby! I can’t wait.

from what knowledge I have of how these things happen, I then imagine the conversations went something like this… Someone with some creative thinking says to CW: “let’s take that money and do something really creative and unusual…we could theme it, integrate it into the park so it interacts with the guests and make it unique to our park!” Marketing then steps in and says: “Well, Behemoth was a HUGE success…rather than reinvent the wheel let’s do the exact same thing only bigger, longer and faster…take all the money and put it towards making it bigger and better and just set it in the parking lot if you have to. Meanwhile back at Knott’s…”Well we lost our coaster what shall we do instead? Should we continue to repaint the entire park hideous colors and lose what uniqueness we had in order to become the Cedar Point of the west coast on 20 acres????”” Just my thoughts

This ride was obviously designed for Canada’s Wonderland. It would have had a completely differently layout if it was intended to go to Knott’s which is the only logical park in the Cedar Fair family that a Giga Coaster would make financial sense. So let’s role play the situation: Cedar Fair to B&M: “we need a BIG coaster for Knott’s in 2012, can you build us a Giga Coaster?” B&M to Cedar Fair: “Yes, we will get it on our books but we will need a budget and a small deposit to secure you a spot on our roster” Cedar Fair to B&M: “Done and done” some time later… City of Buena Park, State of CA and other red tape bullshit to Knott’s: “You will need to jump through some more hoops, pay more taxes and over engineer this sucker before we will permit it” Cedar Fair: “Uh-Oh, now what are we going to do?”…I know let’s move it to the one of our other major parks that will show a big enough return to justify the expense” Here is where the confusion comes in for me.. Cedar Fair to CW: “You guys are going to get Knott’s coaster” CW: “Sweet! so Knott’s was getting a Giga Coaster right? So rather than come up with something interesting that we don’t already have…let’s just take that idea and make it fit to our park.” B&M to CW: “Ok well, we can restart the whole design since what we had originally designed for Knott’s won’t really work for you. So you have $28 million to spend…what would you like?” CW to B&M: “We’ll take what Knott’s had…make it fit and paint it Red” B&M to CW: “We used all the red paint last year” CW to B&M: “OK Make it Blue” just my thoughts

Here is another thought on this interesting addition to CW. Even if the Giga coaster was meant for another park, say Knott’s for example, and it was moved to another park (CW) why did it have to remain a Giga Coaster? I mean it is pretty obvious that this ride was custom designed for CW. It is not like they said, “Uh Oh we can’t build it at Knott’s, let’s move it to CW”. Cedar Fair had a giant coaster contracted with B&M for 2012 but that contract just secures them a spot in the B&M schedule I wouldn’t think it secured them a certain typed of coaster. Why didn’t CW just turn the track upside down and build a super Inverted coaster since the one they have sucks? $28,000,000 could have built one hell of an Inverted. Just my thoughts

WOW! There has been some great stuff posted while I have been busy running Cowabunga Bay. I haven't had much chance to get on the site as things have been busy (not complaining). With the season winding down it is time to get ready for more from Shane's Amusement Attic and I have got some GREAT stuff coming up. So stay tuned, and feel free to keep the thread alive with your posts until I get back. Shane This is what we call a "teaser"

Is Wildebeest open all through the regular season or does it close when Splashin Safari closes???

Here is one of the stupidest things I have seen from the GP. This is an actual e-mail we got from a guest at Cowabunga Bay. Hi, Yesterday I brought my daughter and two friends in to Cowabunga Bay for my daughters birthday. I found the perfect spot to sit and watch the fun under one of your huge umbrellas. I did not get out from under the umbrella for the 4 hours we were there except once to use the restroom. Since I was not in the sun I did not apply sun screen while there ( I did before we left at home.) The kids had a great time and were loving every minute and I was loving being in the shade relaxing and waiting for the huge bucket to drop and mist the air every so often. It was time to leave and we packed up and headed home. When we got home my daughter said I was looking red- I told her there was no way I was red because as she saw I was under the umbrella the entire time. Well, my daughter was right! About an hour later I was bright red- and today I am still burned- BAD! I guess I am writing this to you to suggest you let people know that your umbrellas DO NOT protect at all from the sun! I am now fried and have a horrible tan line- not what I wanted at all! At least the kids had a good time- I just feel like I paid for nothing but a bunch of pain and an ugly line! Thanks for your time!

WOW! I just came across some incredible stuff. This could possibly be the BEST update ever to Shane’s Amusement Attic. It is so unbelievable, so exclusive and so cool that you will only see it here in “the Attic.” Stay tuned for this totally AWESOME update coming soon!

The oly real restricted element Flight Deck has to it is the helix. And 'm sure it's pretty easy to dig a hole. That ride is very relocate-able. I think it is pretty obvious where Top Gun should go...Hello Valleyfair!

What?!?!?! I have never seen this. I would love it if someone could post a picture of it.

Meyers- Thanks for posting all this information on the park. I grew up in San Diego and was very much aware of the park and anxiously awaited its opening. Actually I visitited the office as a child and met with you and Bill on a couple of occasions. I became very familiar with the plans and did some reports on the park for school projects. I really enjoy hearing your descriptions of the park and would like to hear more about how the project came together and what side tracked it. Looking forward to hearing more on what would have truely been an original and great theme park! Shane

I have a couple of older postcards I found from Canada's Wonderland.

Sunny Days are the best for water parks but there is a certain beauty when they are covered in a Winter Wonderland. We got lamblasted with a winter storm yesterday but the sun was out today and made for some beautiful pictures.

In stark contrast to this article I am HAPPY to report 25% increases in attendance. I can understand maybe some of the indoor parks are struggling as the capital costs are extremely high and tough to recoup.

I believe they did. I actually received 2 copies in the mail from the park many years ago. It is a beautiful publication and it was free of charge. Does anyone remember the park when it was managed by the Marriott corporation? I would love to hear stories if it had a different atmosphere under their control.