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I enjoy camping, but if I'm going camping to enjoy camping I want to be in the woods, not in a field next to an amusement park, but that's just me. Maybe they hope people from a distance will think it's close enough to Niagara Falls to make it worth a stay. I thought that deal was odd when I saw it too.

Darien Lake indicated that they would do "a track profile make - over", but when I was there last year I didn't see any track come off or any new pieces come in, just a lot of power-washing and painting (there may be a lot more than what I saw however). If I had to guess I'd assume it's just repair, painting and new trains. I'll probably be there early in the season and can report if it's any better, it previously tracked horribly.

Based on what I've seen it looks like they may stick with the Mind Eraser name

I live in Erie, it's nuts here currently. I do always enjoy seeing Waldameer post pictures when we get a storm like this though.

Great addition and a new entry for Waterworld will be a huge improvement in the flow of the park

The Paratrooper news makes me wonder if they are going to change the entry into Water World, that's the first think I could think of when I heard they were moving that ride. It will be interesting to see what they do there.

As of a few weeks ago, I didn't notice anything visible to guests

It was the Pantheon and Tempesto crews, all the other ones seemed to at least be trying

I was just at the park this past week for 2 days, have the operations always been this awful? I haven't been for about 10 years, but I swear I remember the ride ops being pretty good and caring about doing a good job back then, it feels like everyone is either moving in slow motion or checking their phone every dispatch. Am I just getting old and crotchety?

I didn't know this was a thing Zamperla had either. Waldameer likes working with Zamperla it seems, this would be a nice addition/upgrade

Those are actually the two rides that I was thinking made the most sense in the Spider plot. I'm glad that Waldameer wants to stay locally owned. I agree that it does seem to be in good hands. I was actually walking around by the Waldameer parking lot, to the West of the park, the other day and walked around where the trailer park land is. I don't think I realized how much extra space this will give the park, it will be pretty substantial. No clue what the plans will be, but there's a bit more room than I expected from looking at Google Maps.

I can't think of the last time I rode spider. I'm not surprised they'd remove it, but I'd almost expect Wipeout to be removed first, it seems to give them issues every year (but they have done a lot of repair work on it lately

Agreed, I think they would have already done it if they were going to rebrand it

I'm sure someone can and will correct me, but my understanding is that they at least have parts for 3 trains for Viper, originally had 3 trains for Tantrum, and 2 for Predator, but they've just used all of them for parts. As someone who has never done maintenance on a coaster train I don't understand why they can't get 2 trains running on Viper and Tantrum (last time I was at the park Tantrum was running 2). I'm sure the other trains have been parted out pretty extensively though and I'm sure it would take a lot of work to get the other trains running, but we can wish.

One would hope, but you know they haven't If I had one request for the park it would be that they manage to get multiple trains running for most of their coasters (I just don't see it happening any time soon)