AmyUD06

So, my SFEC Gold Pass+App was renewed through KD, and was the year before too. I just got an e-mail containing a survey that was all about a "winter event" at Kings Dominion. Here are what the questions were: 1. Have you ever attended WinterFest at Kings Dominion? 2. In what years did you attend (options of "2024," "2023 or earlier," or "never have") 3. Free-Text fields asking what you did and did not like about the previous WinterFest events. 4. An "A-or-B" choice between "Immersive holiday-themed event with limited ride operation" or "Closer to normal park operations with limited shows/decorations" 5. 1-to-5 scale questions for "How Likely are you to visit a winter event at Kings Dominion" and "How likely are you to buy a season pass to visit a winter event at Kings Dominion." 6. A free-text field asking what you think the "must haves" are for a winter event at Kings Dominion. It would seem that they're actually listening to all of the push-back they got for cancelling last year's event and are considering reinstating it.

Agreed 100%. Between making Gold Passes into Regional Passes and this, they seriously cannot figure out what they want to do with their season passes. Definitely a more Legacy-Six than Legacy-Cedar type of move. Like....make all the changes you want, but announce it for the following year before passes went on sale.

Not really sure you're gonna get a response from an AI bot haha.

As for parks actually considered "in LA," there's Knott's Berry Farm, obviously. Universal Hollywood. There's a small FEC (John's Incredible Pizza) that has a credit in the form of a SBF Visa figure 8. And Santa Monica pier if you want the smallest Morgan credit ever built. Castle Park, about an hour drive from the LAX airport, has a Vekoma Junior coaster. Everything else will be farther. May I highly recommend flying through Burbank Airport (BUR) instead of LAX? It is a much smaller scale and thus less crowds and nonsense.

This reads extremely AI generated. And yeah, none of that is going to happen. The most likely solution is throwing a layer of dirt over the parking lot and laying down sod. And that isn't going to happen either.

Diving Machine G5 at Janfusun Fancyworld in Taiwan doesn't, but it also has no inversions period and literally is just the main drop, a turn, another tiny drop, then brakes. Oblivion at Alton Towers also does not, but also has no inversions. Otherwise, yes, all of the B&M dives have an immelmann as their first element (unless you count tunnels or splash downs as elements, since some of them have those).

Pretty much haha.

Honestly kills the view for anyone staying in that side of the hotel, and will undoubtedly make the amount of crashes on that stretch of I-495 (the major beltway used to bypass driving through Washington, DC itself) go from "absurdly frequent" to "near perpetual." But I'm excited to have something like that so close to me.

Seriously, I do not see anything changing for the worse at any of these parks if they are sold to another operator. Status quo? Maybe. But they will certainly not get less investment than SFEC was going to put in to them. Also, seriously, the first time SFStL has real news in how long, and we've got nothing from @prozach626 ? I'm disappointed haha.

Will it be an actual Universal venture, or something the Saudi developers build and slap the Universal name on (like the Six Flags park)? Though it wouldn't surprise me that Universal would be willing to go the extra steps (admittedly there are several) from platforming JKR to supporting that market. The almighty dollar has spoken, after all. Also, the SF park has been open to the public one day. A bit early to call it a "success," no? Also also, does a park that isn't even beyond the earliest planning stages really need its own discussion thread? Here's your paywall'd article for free: https://archive.is/20251220015545/https://www.wsj.com/business/media/universal-studios-plans-theme-park-in-saudi-arabia-1ecdcf06 No one should support the WSJ with subscriber revenue.

Thank you for demonstrating that having an actual discussion with you is impossible.

Based on you calling it "Swiss Twist" I have to guess that your last trip there was pre-1993, when the ride was renamed. You know that Log Jammer has been gone for almost 15 years now (removed in 2011), and they still have another log flume, right? Spinout and and Sierra (nee Swiss) Twist have been gone since 2008. I agree that Rotors and Bayern Kurves are fun rides, but all things wear out eventually. The Spillikin Corner area of the park is still there, it's just called something else. Like did you seriously not expect the park to change in literally over 30 years? Yeah, legacy SF parks aren't the best, but these are all something to complain about, especially this long after the fact.

Since when has FoF had a "pre-show"? Do you mean the TVs in the queue?

I'm eagerly awaiting the rest of this. There really is no better place than TPR for Trip Reports (I've got about two years worth to write LOL), and I always enjoy yours, so thank you.