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Also, I know that theme park food prices are always high but I stopped by the pizza place in Boardwalk the other day and found out that garlic knots were THREE DOLLARS EACH. I asked for two small pieces of bread and the employee said "six dollars" and I almost choked.

For those who couldn't get tickets to the announcement event this year (cuz they sold out in like 5 minutes, lol), they'll be Livestreaming.

Well a month after closing 3 rides with no notice, we now have a *teaser* for whatever is happening in Camp Snoopy. Knott's PR, once again, doing the absolute least. https://fb.watch/mjKelJOvjL/

The ride was supposed to open more than a year ago. Obviously something is not going to plan (aka, a problem).

So like... Summer 2023 is rapidly coming to an end. Did anyone hear about what the problem is with Triple Loop?

I think the backward spike will be dope. Superman at SFMM also has a "stare down at the ground from 400 ft up" moment, and it's VERY cool. Even though the first launch is very toned down, I'm interested in the 3rd launch. You don't gain a lot of extra speed, BUT... you'll spend the entire length of the launch track traveling over 100 mph. That feeling of sustained speed is probably gonna be incredible. I'm not as down on Zamperla as most. The company has been aggressivley working to improve its product in order to become a major player in the coaster market. This isn't just "Cedar Fair went with Zamperla because they're cheap" situation. Zamperla has got something to prove and this project will be getting the royal treatment.

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how quickly is moving. I expected the ride the be down for the rest of the season, but at this rate we'll probably get it back by early August.

In light of Iger's recent comments on the WGA and SAG strikes, I just wanna say that switching Bobs was never going to be the magic cure everyone hoped for.

Okay, I have to say it... what the eff is going on with Knott's Rides and PR? Crickets for a whole year about Xcelerator being down (after the ridiculous decision to close it for a paint job during Merry Farm). Montezooma closed and then re-opened, and then re-closed, and has sat untouched for a year after the loop was removed. Crickets on that. Now they're closing and removing rides in Camp Snoopy and... crickets once again. I used to think it was just a Cedar Fair thing to stone wall all the time, but Carowinds is handling the Fury situation so brilliantly and I can't believe these two parks are part of the same company.

I love how the park's official account just blatantly teased a giga and the response from everyone is basically... "whatever dude." When the fake plans surfaced for the Knott's giga, the thread was LIT UP for like 2 weeks.

Not to be an armchair engineer here, but the more I've looked at this, it strikes me as odd... The supports of that turn aren't braced against the force of the vehicle, they're parallel to the force. You would expect the supported to be in opposition to the direction of the force to brace against it. Compare it to the turn going into the Treble Clef. But instead, they're positioned in a way where the force of the vehicle creates tensile force right at that joint area, where we would normally expect to see compression. Obviously, a real engineer checked this and it passed the calculations, but clearly something about this element didn't work out correctly.

One more coaster question. Are there any rides that are significantly better at night that I should prioritize?

I still think it was total BS that the park waited until the day before passholder preview to announce the delay. If the ride needed 3 more weeks to be ready, I'm sure that management was aware of that fact WELL ahead of time and could have given everyone a reasonable amount of notice to modify their plans. And add on top of that the whole raffle winners vs soft-open nonsense. Really a huge L for their PR team.

Every Six Fflags park is wiping the floor with every Cedar Fair park for Pride Month stuff.

Considering that Knott's has been waiting on parts from Intamin for over a year for Xcelerator, I wouldn't expect Ka to be back until at least 2024.

I'm sure its an announcement about Fright Fest, probably happening on the 13th

Thanks y'all.

Hey all. Visiting for the first time at the end of June. Any rookie mistakes to avoid? I'm planning to buy Fastlane, but I don't know a ton about this park other than the attraction lineup. Cheers!

One thing I notice is that there are a lot of "advice for first time visitor" posts in the various park threads, because this is the best place on the internet to get park info. Is there a function on the forum that could tag and index these kinds of posts so users could search them by park rather than making a new post in a park's thread? Just something I thought about while asking folks about parks I'm visiting this year.

First visit to Dollywood is coming up at the end of the month. I'm planning on two days in the park and buying Timesaver for at least one. I know to run to LR as soon as possible and to pay the extra for preferred parking. What are some other basic tips? Sorry if I'm the millionth person to ask the same question, but read back 10 pages in the thread and didn't see another one. I'm also planning to check out the various attractions in Piegon Forge & Gatlinburg. What tourist trap stuff in the area is fun and tacky vs lame? Which is the better of the multiple alpine coasters?

You obviously didn't try Googling "iroc" before you said this because the ride training is the THIRTHY SIXTH result.

By "infuritating" I do mean "moderately annoying".

I just don't understand why coasters from the same manufacturer, with the same trains and restraints, have different requirements. And different by such a miniscule amount. As a tall rider, it's incredibly frustrating to sit in the test seat and fit with plenty of room to spare, but still be unable to ride. Worse than that it when rides with no maximum height get one added later on. Other thing: What's with the 12 passenger trains? That's insane to me for an attraction of this magnitude to have such limited capacity. Unless the park is aiming for 60 second dispatches or something.

Ya, the merge-point for Millennium Force is kind of infuriating. I get it that FL doesn't promise no-wait, but it's expensive and you want to see the value. I've been there twice where FL didn't save any time at all on MF because the merge point is so far back. ElToroRyan did a whole video about how the capacity on MF specifically has gone down the tubes and it's also a hardware issue that the park appears to be unwilling to fix. It's a damn shame.

Lol, there hasn't been any discussion since the post of the press release, but Arctic Rescue opens next week!