CoasterGuy06

Who would buy all the parks that CNL owns? None of the other "big names" are currently buying parks, and the smaller companies likely don't have the money available that it would require.

Night ride on Fury 325 two weeks ago.

It's just an empty concrete pad now.

According to the 2015 Annual Report they own 31.0% of SFOG and 53.1% of SFOT.

Visited Carowinds last Thursday for the first time since Coasting for Kids 2012. Some thoughts: -Got there right at 4pm and stayed until 10pm close. Got in 25 rides on Fury 324, 3 each on Afterburn and Intimidator, and 1 each on Hurler, Carolina Cyclone, and Vortex. -While most employees were at least pleasant (big ups to DeeDee at Fury 325), all nine (!) employees at Hurler looked ready to shoot themselves. -Half of the rides were assigning seats, the half you could pick your seat. Give it up Carowinds. When trains are going out half empty, let people pick their seats. I'm sure the Mom with her two kids loved have me as a random stranger riding with them on Vortex. -Scanning a train FOUR times prior to dispatching is so frustrating to watch. Remember when Cedar Fair was big on capacity? -Intimidator was running really well. Much better than it was back in 2012. -Afterburn is still a kick ass ride. -Fury 325, outside of two people that seemed to enjoy throwing their entire body weight into you as they checked restraints, had a great crew. They seemed to hit 40 or more dispatches each hour. Often times they were dispatching one train before the previous train crested the lift. -Fury 325 blew me away. So intense. So much airtime. This is probably now my #1 steel coaster. Well done Carowinds and B&M! Here. Such an impressive entrance to a park. New #1 Are you authorized? It was hauling at night. 25 rides in 6 hours. Can't wait to get back.

They are contractually obligated to invest money into SFOG and SFOT. SFGAdv , not so much.

When I was there Wednesday it opened late (between 11-11:30). I Rode it about 1 after a 45 minute wait. Both trains were running. When I came back by that way a little after 3 it was down, and from what I heard it was pretty much down the rest of the day. I was planning on staying until closing, but by 8pm they were telling people it would not be back up again that day.

And the ride closing is.....

Those stairs were actually built for the very short lived Dino Domain walk through attraction that was only there for 1999. There was a building up there too that was used as the haunted house for Scare Fest when they had it (last in 2004). When Stratos Fear Screamer was built in 2001 you also used those steps to get to the attraction, but when Southland Entertainment split the park up in 2003 they blocked them up. Plus I had to use them everyday when I parked next to the old haunted house

Arrow showed Vekoma how to make their track so they didn't have to ship it from the US. I believe RMC is still making the track for all their rides.

It was repainted in 2007. It just seems like it was a really terrible paint job that did not hold up.

To be fair, the old Ninja Trains were nearly 30 years old.

Sunday is a Bring A Friend Free day. It will be crowded. If you get there early you should be able to get on most rides with minimal waits the first couple of hours, but it will start to fill up after Noon or so. I went last year on Mother's day and was able to get on Batman, Mindbender, Goliath, Ninja, Great American Scream Machine, Superman, and Dahlonega Mine Train by about 12:30. The lines started picking up then, and as I was only there to try Batman Backwards I left.

Good to see they're still triple stacking Diamondback this season

White Water West still makes log flumes through their division the have with their Hopkins Rides purchase. They built one in Canada in 2014 and their built a Super Flume (like Fiesta Texas and Dollywood have) in South Korea in 2015.

But did those trains actually lose seats though? I thought they received new trains back in 2009 that didn't have seats there, as that was where the audio box was?

I'm guessing the fact they keep putting "Ninja" is a hint the name is going to change. They don't put any other ride in quotations. Maybe they will use a name that still has a theme that will allow the statues to still make sense.

No real news today.

The park's all time attendance high was nearly 20 years ago. Why would they enlarge the actual park area when they are likely to stay in the 3-3.5 million a year range for the foreseeable future?

^Mindbender received a plaque during the 2008 CC.

Supposedly Goliath's trains are getting major work done this year that is causing them to take longer for rehab. Again, they have literally cut their off season in half. It's much easier to get trains done with a 21 week offseason (Carowinds) vs a 10 week offseason (SFOG). I'm sorry, but I enjoyed riding coasters in December when I was in Atlanta. If the trade off is fewer trains in March then I'll take it. But maybe that is just me.

Part of the problem is they have had several weeks of offseason disappear thanks to Holiday In The Park.

My understanding is each park's contract with Panda Express has different expiration dates, and Chop Six is replacing them as they expire.

Yesterday the park posted the schedule for the new rides opening on their twitter account. Source: Six Flags Fiesta Texas twitter

"The New Revolution" is the VR experience. The coaster is still Ninja.