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A peek at the new maintenance shop.

By the way, the park seems to be in the middle of a blizzard right now. Check out millennium force in the snow.

MagnumXL200's entrance sign? Yep! Very good, I didn't think anyone would get that one.

Nope...and nope.

This weeks "where in the park is this"?

Great report so far, thank you for sharing.

Six flags over Texas was the subject of a question on Jeopardy tonight. The answer was "this theme park in Texas has a ride called Harley Quinn spinsanity". I felt like a true coaster geek knowing this.

Pretty much anything is more comfortable than a B&M stand-up. Lol....Ever been on a Togo stand up?

Yea, we were planning on hitting the park. Needless to say, those plans no longer exist.

Maybe.... Perhaps they would just leave them as is. I don't think they would change the SeaWorld brand much. The name is known worldwide not only for the name, but for the conservation work as well. Now Bush gardens on the other hand, may be a different story. To be honest, I'm not thrilled about how Merlin manages the parks(weather policys..ect).

So I just heard that six flags has just entered talks to possibly purchase SeaWorld parks and entertainment. Not sure what to think about this. They do have experience dealing with sealife, and run a park(Six flags Discovery kingdom). In addition, they also used to run worlds of adventure. On the other side of the coin, I wouldn't want them to change the name/brand of Busch gardens and SeaWorld.

Screamscape has reported that panda Express is being replaced with a chop six.

I really like the new layout of the store. It has a better flow to it, instead of smaller rooms. The one thing that I don't like about it is the lack of Disney magic that the previous store had. There are touches of magic in the new store, but not as immersive as the old store in my opinion. It just seemed a little sterile and bland.

Glassblowing Theater. If you do HW->KI->CP, I recommend the following: Fly in or out of Louisville or Evansville rather than Indianapolis. They're both actually significantly closer airports to HW. You'd be connecting in the US obviously, but you have to do that for Indy too. If you fly into Evansville (same goes for Louisville but at least it is all fresh road to drive on vs. going back and forth between HW and KK), then HW, Kentucky Kingdom, KI (and maybe try to time for Strickers Grove while you're at it), Columbus Zoo (small wood coaster but also a *phenomenal* zoo, like stuff that's literally Disney quality for enclosures plus the rides), and then Cedar Point. Then fly out of Cleveland or Detroit. Yep!

Great pictures, thank you for sharing. This park has really grown on me over the past few years. And by the way, it looks like attendance and profits are up chain wide for SeaWorld. Attendance is up over 9% ,over this time last year, and revenue is up is up 10% as well. Check it out here... http://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/attractions/2018/10/02/seaworld-reports-increased-revenue--attendance

Ok.... Time for this week's "where in the park is this" picture.

Damn....was planning on going this weekend, but got sick.

Winterfest map and information has been released. Very impressive list. Just a question, not a complaint...Mystic timbers is a great ride, but I wonder why they chose to run it over the beast?

And you can also see a bunch of crap next to millennium force as well. They used to have extra Gemini trains sitting inside of mean streaks infield. At one time, they even had a train from geauga lakes double loop coaster. I assume they were using it for parts.

The drop tower will probably be added as well. I cant remember where I read it, but it was mentioned that you could check out the lights from the top of giant drop. I'm really impressed with this list, but kinda surprised that a wooden coaster is not on the list. Typically, wooden coasters seem to run better in cooler weather. Not complaining, just surprised.

Yes. I am having the same issue.

Not at all. I feel the same way.

Are tickets to get in cheaper? Asking for a friend. I have a sfog membership, but he don't.

I'm sure that most people already knew that the park will be an actual six flags park next year, but this just confirms it. It also seem like frontier city will be a full fledged six flags park as well? This was on the pass renewal page.

We have a winner!