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I went to Knott's today and SOL Spin is running well enough. I actually counted and the large center arm makes 6 counter-clockwise rotations per ride cycle. Silver Bullet and Sierra Sidewinder are back to two trains operations. The old burned fire station across the street has now removed. Grand Sierra Railroad, the smaller children's railroad near Silver Bullet is getting some plywood Peanuts scenery. I am also working on completing my top 20 list of the best meals on their meal program. For meal number three, I was back to the BBQ place for some smoked sausage. It was good but I prefer the tri-tip and pulled pork. The baked beans with bits of bacon were tasty and a new item for me. Boardwalk BBQ - smoked sausage, mac n cheese & baked beans Burned fire station is being cleaned up I think its missing something? Muck clean up in the log ride New Grand Sierra Railroad Peanuts scenery New Grand Sierra Railroad Peanuts scenery

I stopped by Knott's on Thursday for a couple of hours. My second dining pass meal of the year was another winner. I can state that the tri-tip from Boardwalk BBQ was equally as good as the pulled pork. Hangtime had two pieces of track left to install and the burned fire station had a bulldozer inside working on demo. The header on the front fire station door had just come down. Hangtime track almost complete Hangtime track almost complete Hangtime track almost complete Tri-tip is another winner from Boardwalk BBQ Burned fire station demo Band crossing?

I stopped by Knott's today for my first visit of 2018 and my first use of my season dining. Having never eaten inside of Knott's before, I was not expecting much. I have been to Mrs. Knott's Chicken and TGI Fridays but never ate anything more than snacks in the actual park. For my first dining plan meal, I ate at Boardwalk BBQ and had 1/2 lb. Pulled Pork served with a choice of 2 sides and cornbread. The meal was pretty large and felt like a pound of food at a regular price of $12.99. The pulled pork and macaroni and cheese portions were large, while the coleslaw and sweet cornbread muffin were smaller sized portions. Everything was actually pretty good and tasted/looked like it was prepared fresh on site from scratch and not taken from a microwave container. I would eat at this restaurant again. The park was dead and no waits over 5 minutes except for Ghostrider at approx 40 min per the app. I skipped Ghostie so I am not sure about the actual wait time. Hang Time's track appears almost complete. I could only see about 6 - 8 pieces of track left to install in the lot next to the fire station. HangTime HangTime HangTime HangTime That log ride is really drained! So many sauce choices at Boardwalk BBQ 1/2 lb pulled pork, mac + cheese & coleslaw (Boysenberry Cider was extra) HangTime Ghostrider is only attraction over 5 minute wait in the park.

This park looks better to me, abandoned. Was that mediocre looking wood coaster the best ride there?

I went to the park for a couple of hours today from 11 am - 1 pm. I did get a ride on Sol Spin but it broke down shortly after. Ghostrider and Silver Bullet had one train waits. It was a nice uncrowded day. One train wait on GHostrider New coaster goodness New coaster goodness Are they working on you? New coaster goodness New coaster goodness There's more track back there Was working part of the day There are no people on that coaster. New coaster goodness Rapids closed

A child. I'm not blaming the child, but the parents should be smart enough to know that a boat is going to slow down suddenly when it runs into a pool of water and hold onto their 5 year old child while going down the drop since log flumes have no restraints to speak of. Stanley Falls at Busch Gardens Tampa constantly plays recordings throughout the ride telling riders to "brace for a sudden slowdown at the bottom of the hill". I always thought that recording was unnecessary to anyone with any common sense, but I guess I know why it exists now. That article cites a lot of instances where the ride "suddenly decelerated after the final drop" and honest-to-god adults were completely unprepared for it. It's a boat slamming into a pool of water. What the hell is wrong with people? I guess that there are two issues here. One that there is no warning to hold on when suddenly braking with no seatbelt; and, the second that somebody was injured when the water level wasn't properly maintained to brake the log. I don't see any of the corrections required as being unreasonable. You should make sure that your guests know that there will be sudden deceleration and you should make sure that your brake system works all the time. I have never flown forward on Splash Mountain or Pirates of the Caribbean. Hopefully, they will be required to install a bathroom on Sky Cabin in case it breaks down again

You technically need a building permit to do any work on a home or business including replacing a water heater. City governments need their funds and want to be sure that repairs are to building code.

It looks like Knott's might be working on Sky Cabin soon. They got a building permit in October to work on it.

Thanks for the advice. I tired the beer and cider and found cider better but I will need to try them mixed. I do like snake bites.

I can't see anyone working on it when I walk by it but I don't know if anything is happening in the launch motor room.

I went to Knott's on Wednesday, November 1st for a few hours. It was relatively busy for a weekday and pretty much every ride had a line. Having Xcelerator, Ghostrider, log ride and SOL Spin down made it feel kind of crowded. I spent 20 minutes in line each to ride the mine train and Silver Bullet. The new coaster track is in a lot on Western Ave between the burnt fire house and the strip mall on the corner. I also realized that I like the Boysenberry Cider that they sell in the park! Coaster track storage lot from Western Ave Coaster track storage lot from Western Ave Coaster track storage lot to the right of burnt fire station as viewed from Coast Rider exit. Only the crane is visible. Log ride closed for Halloween removal Place with Boysenberry Cider! Silver Bullet line down the stairs on non-holiday weekday Haunted coach Silver Bullet one train still running Why does she get to stand in the planter? Water dummies only on SOL Spin

I went to Knott's on Friday but nothing really new to post photo wise. SOL Spin's ride program is actually pretty fun now and I got a couple of flips on every arm. I did all six arms on Friday and this ride has really improved by at least 50% since it opened. Monte is back with the same old train. I also asked a few ride operators about Xcelerator and all of them told me the that they heard is that it would not re-open until next year. No one would tell me specifically what was wrong with Xcelerator or what was being replaced.

Maintenance is a scheduled thing and I am sure they try to limit that to one coaster at a time if possible. If the ride just flat out breaks down and can't operate outside the maintenance schedule; they sometimes need to wait for parts and it can take a while. One of the times the Xcelerator launch cable broke; it took almost two months to re-open. I guess they ship and truck the items here from Europe for Xcelerator because they are generally too heavy to fly. Unfortunately, there are two broken right now while the other roller coasters and their trains reach their maximum cycle count and maintenance can't be delayed on them.

I love the YouTube videos. For people like me that don't have the money to travel and visit the parks; your videos are the closest I will come to riding most of these attractions and they look great. I am just going to need you to come to my house and violently shake my chair during the Hades 360 video to make it more realistic Otherwise, keep up the good work.

All I can say is Jasonland would be 420 friendly. It is going to have 50 benches, a Tilt-O-Whirl, Scrambler and Pirate Ship. I think I can make this work if land wasn't so expensive in SoCal. Texas or Florida would just lock me up and throw away the key so I will not be going there.

Alpine Slides like the one at Breckenridge, Colorado do make you sign a waiver that even if it is not your fault that you got injured that you can't sue them and the waivers hold up in court. I didn't want to ride it because of the waiver and I wonder how many other people were also turned off and didn't ride. If you are under 18, your parents would need to sign the waiver too so you would have to be sure everyone that visits your amusement park comes with mom and dad and not grandpa or auntie. There weren't that many people at Breckenridge during the summer and the clipboard area with the waivers was a giant mess so I wonder what a waiver area would look like with 30,000 people entering the park in the first couple hours of the day. My guess is that no large park wants to admit that their rides might not be safe and make people sign a waiver. Attorneys have also been trying to change amusement park rides to common carrier liability for quite some time to make it easier to win cases and that might push the legislative branch to change amusement park rides to common carrier if a big park started asking for waivers. The alpine slides need to do it because someone is probably insured there on a weekly or monthly basis and they would have been sued out of existence. Amusement park rides are generally much safer. Accidents caused by ride malfunction or operator error at large parks are relatively rare.

Last time I was in Vancouver, a six pack of beer at the liquor store was close to $18. What does a hard cider like that cost at a fair or amusement park?

I would just allow for 1 1/2 hours and take extra time to eat before you get into the park if you get there early. There are several fast food places near the park.

I see Knott's added a season long FastLane for $499 as an add on to the season pass. Since FastLane is not open every day, they give you a list of the days it is available. I don't go any weekends or much in summer so not worth it to me; but it was nice of them to make the handy graphic on which dates they expect to be busy so I can avoid them. it is also not good during Scary Farm or at any other parks so no traveling with this addition. I also noticed that when I renewed my pass online that the first member's agreement tries to get you to agree to auto renewing. You have to cancel out of the agreement and complete the checkout process a second time to get it to charge you without auto-renew option. The second time you check out it just asks you to check a box agreeing to all sales are final without auto-renew agreement.

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The scenery is pretty but it looks like it is hard to see through the glass floor of the water slide because of the rippling water in the trough. I wonder if you have a better floorless feeling when you are actually on the ride but most of the photos don't appear that the glass is see-thru.

I went to Knott's yesterday for a few hours. I got a good picture of the three trains on Silver Bullet as only one was running and line was close to 30 minutes. Ghost Rider was over an hour the whole time I was there. Everything else had 5 minute waits. Park was not too crowded. Planter work adjacent to Coast Rider Planter work adjacent to Coast Rider Xcelerator is closed Monte is closed Three trains on Silver Bullet but only one is running Red flags / markers?

They only had two trains before so I guess it would be new.

Yes, at 8pm Pacific Time. So they are announcing at the park's closing time today. "Here's what we are getting, now get out. Parks closed!"

It is still on the site's closure list and there is no active page for Sky Cabin under rides yet. Scheduled Ride Closures Sky Cabin Now - TBD Xcelerator Now - TBD Montezooma's Revenge 8/10 Sierra Sidewinder 8/28 - 9/1 GhostRider 9/5 - 9/21