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Knotts guest service building is full of idiots. IF there is one place that REALLY needs better employees its the guest relations.

I've stepped on many a roach and spiders. At least when you eat them, their death is not totally in vain.

I guess SF's new advertisement strategy is controversy. Nothing better then controversy to give you free publicity, imo.

The movie will only be good if they go the action packed hollywood blockbuster route that they went with Pirates, imo. If they go the crappy comedy like Haunted Mansion and Bears, it will suck

Knotts doesn't have a max pass. Their pass has always gotten you into all the CF park. I don't think that will change.

didn't faze me.

Yea, I can imagine. I ate one of those crickets in a bug pop. Tasted like death. I imagine this won't be much different, although since its larger there would be more death tastieness.

The guy sounds like a d!k. I doubt it will go very far, he's only one stupid person.

It gets a yearly rehab and its usually down for a month or a little more. Yay Disney!

They have put up the list of mazes. http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/hollywood/productions.html So from the sounds of it, there's 3 mazes. The tram ride (which counts for like 5, right?) and then a couple of shows plus the scarezones. I think the whole tram idea is very cool, imo. Should be lots of fun. Between this and its sister event, I'm guessing knott's will lose thier title as #1 halloween event. Haunt doesn't even sound all that interesting this year.

great idea!

I definately would like to get a dvd of this years event. Are any of you guys putting out one this year?

Knott's is operated better than Magic Mountain? Both parks suffer from awful operations/management. The only difference to me is that KBF ride operators still get costumes. Wrong! It takes me 30 minutes to get on a ride at knotts with virtually no line where as it takes me at least 1 hour to get on a ride at SFMM with virtually no line. Anyways, my problem with knotts. They take out to much of the good stuff everybody likes having there. Like grass. You used to be able to find grass all around knotts, and just other nice areas to walk through, that's all been turned into cement now! And what about the lake? THey killed it and 2 other rides in the process, imo. I always liked how the the little tug boat and the train went around the lake. I would go on both attractions if they had followed thier original course of plans, but management thought otherwise at some point during constuction of Silver Bullet. This is probably the issue that angers me the most. The next issue would definately be screaming swing. Fun ride, yes, but is it worth $5? MOst definately not. The fact that they even took at the Haunted Shack for vertigo to begin with upsets me. That was a fun attraction that I enjoyed going on from time to time. Why they thought a pay for attraction would be better in its spot, I don't know, but it angers me. Next is thier cement issue. Cement, cement, cement, cement! Why is it so hard to put down some sort of flooring that fits the knotts theme better? You walk down the remaining remnants of the roaring 20's area and you see a nice path themed to a street. Something that parks like disney understand. Do something with your pathway other then have it boring old cement. My only other complain would be ride capacity and thier foods operations. Thier food operation (non-sit down restaurants) is just as poor, if not poorer then SFMM's operations. They're food is subpar and it takes for gosh dang ever to get your food. But with all that said, Knotts does have potential for improvement. They have room for a parking structure, that I'm sure they could build. IF they did that, then that would free up room on all thier overflow lots which could allow for some more expansion, all though it woudn't be anything large. Maybe even an intamin mega coaster? (wishful thinking) But even then, that's not really that important as compared to other apsects. I'd like to see them put in another family attraction very similar to haunted shack, except maybe improved back in its original spot. A brand new dark ride in the KotD building. They need to also make a new story for thier western play. Thier current story is almost as old as I am, and even when I was 4 or 5 when it first came out, I thought it sucked. They could also add in a full time show in the birdcage theater. Maybe an improv show could go there year round? I really liked it when knotts had the petting zoo and the animal show. I thought it was nice, but I doubt that's coming back. (they butchered Camp Snoopy beyon repair, imo) I'd like to see them redo the lake area, just shut it down during the off season and make it how it should have been to begin with. Then put grass where grass can go, and above all improve the service. Now while knotts does have a lot of problems, I will say this though, that it is not that bad of a park. I've been on really good days, and I've also been on bad days. I find, though, that the good days outnumber the bad. Also they sell pepsi products and chicken, what could be better then that? Coke products and chicken? Na uh!!! Bleh, I forgot to mention. The fact that they use the SAME EXACT FREAKING COLOR SCHEME for thier past few installments (Le Revolution, Silver Bullet, Rip Tide, Perilous Plung Boats) pisses me off.l Especially the perilous plunge boats. What was wrong with the original color scheme?

Ha hA! It tried to make sure I couldn't save the picture, but with my l33t h4x!ng sk!llz, I did it anyways!

Anybody else think that they ripped both of those names out of Team America? I was watching that movie today and I couldn't stop laughing at the part where Spotswood calls Gary a "Maverick Renagade."

Disney doesn't do a "scare thing." It's just a halloween event. Anyways, does anybody have any real info on all the mazes? I know you'll be getting off the tram at parts, but what mazes from the original florida event should we expect if any at all? I'm pretty exited for this.

Why would you? Pepsi has Mountain Dew. And Mountain Dew = one of the best sodas ever.

^ no, its just the storyline for this years haunt. I'm going to be going to HHN this time around instead of haunt at knotts. Haunt was fun, but I was not very impressed to say the least. Just a bunch of mazes with nothing too stand out from thier mazes, save 3. I like the whole idea with "the director." Thats what makes this so cool is that its a little more then just "come to us because we have a bunch of mazes" where as USH and Florida actually have a theme for thier events.

^ is it now? I thought that they were strictly a steel manufacturing plant until they had built Goliath.

hopefully I'll ride that later this year.

It appears they are all designed by KMG although you can order through Chance/Morgan. http://www.chancemorgan.com/thrillrides3.html

My favorite would be BGT as well. There's just nothing like Kumba or Shiekra, especially Kumba. I wasn't very impressed with Montu, but still its just an extra addition to the awsomeness of the previously 2 mentioned. Next would be IOA, and not because they have a great line up of B&Ms, but simply because the Dragons are such good coasters, and although semi-forceless and uneventful, I still find Hulk to be a pretty good ride. After that it'd be SFMM, and then so on and so forth.

I was watching last nights re-run today and was dissappointed when the Jepordy guy showed up. I guess going onto the holiblog before hand would have kept me from being disappointed, but w/e. I'll wait for it to actually happen.

I think that USH pulls in enough cash flow as to where they don't have to shut down thier small ammount of rides do to budget cuts.

^ liar!!! Its most definately the one at USF!