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Or look no further than Twisted Colossus right up the road. I mean really, of all the things to be concerned about.

Wow, great report! This park does an awesome job with this every year. Dare I say HINP is the best Christmas event in Cali?

Twisted Colossus, X2 and Viper always have the best crews.

I'm not sure whether I'd blame the inconsistent SFMM operations on SFMM, or the insanely dumb California park visitors...and I'm being serious. Some of the stuff I've seen people pull here is mind boggling. And anyone who lives here can attest to it.

You'd have to be insane to buy a nearly million dollar home next to a loud ass theme park, and top that off by having to worry about fires destroying your property every year. No thanks On another note, when SFMM decides to add their next roller coaster, you're probably going to hear about something prominent being removed first. That's kinda the way Six Flags rolls now.

Honestly, though I'm not about to debate anyone on it, I do consider these to be coaster credits. I think what has happened with me is I now believe in adding roller coaster sub categories, and that makes it easier to not have my head explode every time a ride like this comes out.

I really like Green Lantern. Yes, I said it. It's the most intense ride in the park and really freaks people out. My last ride on it was outstanding. Those drops are amazing. I don't know, I feel like people like to pile on this one and the bashing of it is a little unfair. It's obviously not a ride for everyone I will admit, but I have a special place for unique, freaky ass coasters that have their way with with me.

Wouldn't bother me one bit if the park decided to move on from X2, I have such a love/hate relationship with that ride. I'd much rather have a ride that I could just love. But the ride is still iconic, no matter what we all say so...

Yeah, I'm not of the opinion that a log flume is automatically better than a new roller coaster, just because it's a log flume.A Log Flume CAN be old and crappy

^ Only in that it's another terribly short Gerstlauer ride that seems to have generated some excitement with a layout that's probably even less interesting than this one imo. But it is replacing a Boomerang, so yeah I guess...

Debatable. Replacing a log flume with a small Euro-fighter (with a ride time from the top of the lift to the brakes of under 20 seconds... shorter than Kingda Ka from launch to brakes) that's almost guaranteed to be running one train indefinitely forever a few years into it's existence would definitely be considered a bad thing by some (raises hand). As oppose to Hangtime at Knotts?

Can't say I agree. As much as I'd love to see jaguar get replaced by something better, Knott's won't get rid of it anytime soon. It's very reliable, has low maintenance costs, has great capacity, and is one of the most popular coasters in the park. If anything Knotts would probably take out Bigfoot Rapids or Xcelerator before Jaguar. Yeah I disagree, but that's okay. I could see Bigfoot being removed and the space wasted on something like Phony Express. Jaguar is more of a centerpiece of the park, and the centerpiece of the park deserves better. IMO Of course we could all be wrong and the park could find space elsewhere. I'm just going with my gut on this one.

I think any ground up RMC would take a big chunk of land and if they can swing that kind of project I'd rather they put in a giga hyper. Unless they can somehow get RMC to design a giga woodie hybrid. Or...RMC Raptor/T-Rex design I'll take a T-Rex. Not a Raptor. Knott's is just too busy a park to have such a low capacity ride. I would really love them to replace to Jaguar with a better ride but keep the temple. Maybe a custom T-Rex? It's interesting you mention Jaguar, because I agree it's the next logical coaster removal for something better.

I think any ground up RMC would take a big chunk of land and if they can swing that kind of project I'd rather they put in a giga hyper. Unless they can somehow get RMC to design a giga woodie hybrid. Or...RMC Raptor/T-Rex design

I'm not sure I would base Knott's next coaster possibility on what's happened in the past. Let's see what happens once HangTime opens. If it drives big revenue for the park, I wouldn't be surprised to see something else on the drawing boards in the near future. I'd love to see a ground up RMC at this park.

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Depends on how large the expansion is...

After the park removed Yankee Clipper, Logger's Run just wasn't the same. I'm sad to see the other half go, but the writing has been on the wall ever since they split up the two. We know a water park expansion and new water ride are in the park's plans, so we'll see where this goes.

Knott's management is insistent on preserving GR's history as an all WOODEN coaster.

2 Trains on TC.

"At some point, the company’s aim of drawing more visitors will make it harder to limit capital spending, which, as we show in the chart below, now averages about 9% of revenue, versus around 12% at Cedar Fair and SeaWorld. Purtell says Six Flags can spend more efficiently than other operators, because it’s the world’s biggest customer for roller-coasters and other thrill rides. Bigger crowds would also make it harder to maintain Six Flags’ comparatively low operating expenditures, some of which goes to upkeep of the parks. Purtell says cleanliness is a top priority and that company surveys show customers are happy. As a check, Barron’s studied the user ratings displayed at the website TripAdvisor. As we show in the chart on page 20, the top five U.S. parks of Six Flags got markedly higher proportions of “poor” and “terrible” ratings than did the top five U.S. parks run by Cedar Fair and SeaWorld; or the top two operated by Walt Disney (DIS) and the NBCUniversal unit of Comcast (CMCSA), giving larger parks more weight". As I have said, being cheap and thrifty will work for awhile, because SF already had such a extensive group of large rides thanks to the former regime's over spending. But that will only take you so far as people begin to stay home and save their money until the next "BIG" ride arrives. It will be interesting to see how they handle this going forward.

Definitely: SFMM Knott's Berry Farm Sea World San Diego California's Great America SFDK Cedar Point Kings Island Probably: SFFT

Unless you live right up the street from the park, the evening traffic just isn't worth it in the LA area.

Yeah, despite some opinions here, she's handling this park exactly how it should be being done. Once section at a time.

Honestly, I am happy to see the that they are moving around the park, targeting areas that have been abandoned and crappy for years. It is the best approach to what must have been a daunting looking task at it's beginning. We all know the park was ignored and rundown looking throughout he early 2000s to the point where by 2006, some thought it wasn't worth saving. Kudos to Bonnie and Co, who recognized what an untapped gem this park is and are piece by piece, bringing the park back to life. They aren't going to please everyone with their decisions, but they also aren't sitting on their asses doing nothing but installing temporary coaster fixes either. That approach DID NOT WORK. Oh, and the move to daily operations is an awesome move imo. Now the park can host all kinds of off season special events and hire permanent staff.