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Went to Darien Lake for opening today, I was on the first public train out for Mind Eraser, it's very rideable now, in fact I got right back on. It felt very smooth, there are still some goofy transitions, but it was fun and one of the smoothest rides in the park now. I was bugging a supervisor at Ride of Steel about getting the trains from SFA and he said there's a new train coming this summer (which would be great) MotoCoaster was down (what's new) Predator has a new purple train, based on what I heart it's a brand new train for this year, not a refurbishment of some other train. The blue train was on the transfer track. I didn't ride Predator because it wasn't open by the time I left.

I'd be really happy if it's true. I choose to be optimistic.

That would be big news. I haven't heard that from anywhere.

Probably not until they eventually paint the coaster also. It would be great if they did it this year or next year, but really who knows.

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)

Fair enough, They could still (if they actually wanted to) replace it though. If there was a stress crack I'm glad they took it down instead of ending up with an disaster

I think they also welded additional supports in the loop last year or the year before. I think it was just time for some new track before something bad happened. Good on them for fixing it instead of just scrapping it. I know it's just a boomerang, but I'd rather not see another SBNO ride or empty plot. (I just wish they would have done some repair/replacement work on the ferris wheel instead of just taking that down)

Slowest re-track ever... I'm glad they're continuing to do work on it though

If you're doing Kennywood, Darien Lake and Cedar Point, I'd recommend a few hours at Waldameer. It wouldn't be to far off your route it seems and you don't have to pay to park or enter the park. If you choose to do everything at Waldameer and hit it on a calm day you could probably be done in a few hours. I know I've done the whole water park in about 35 minutes on a slow day. You can choose to pay for what you want to ride and if you need a break from the car Presque Isle is right there and has some great Lake Erie beaches. Darien Lake is typically a half day park if you are only doing the dry side, it's been years since I've done the water park, just be careful to try to avoid a concert day unless you want extended waits, they only have one train for all of the roller coasters (except Tantrum).

There are absolutely some upset locals, but that's understandable. If the park has any desires for any sort of expansion there are going to be some annoyed people. I'm curious to see what they do with the space and how it will all be utilized.

I think the name is kind of lame, but I think it's going to be a fun ride. I'm really glad that they will have shade in the queue. I know it's for safety after everything that happened, but I'm still glad for shade.