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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.

He'll be missed in this area, it's going to be very strange to not see him driving around on the golf cart when I'm at the park, he was always around and was a a very visible owner

It would be great if they did a lot of the ride, but I'm really just expecting that turn around... maybe I'll get back up there in 2024 to check it out again, I did like the improvement that it had last year. Small steps in the right direction, but I would love them to take a larger leap for the park (at some point)

I feel like Whipeout has been having problems for years now

It has been expected for a long time. It makes me wonder how different the park is going to look in the next 10 or so years, that's a pretty large addition of land, but they'd need to make some large changes in the park to make it accessible.

Something like a Raptor would be great for the park, but I expect it to be something much smaller. I look forward to whatever they do though.

Completely understood... I hate it

The thing that I wish they would do that would cost them very little would be to re-open the path from Boomerang to Motocoaster, creating 2 dead ends with no real reason is silly (to be fair I'm sure there's some reason I don't know, but I still think it's stupid)

Looks like I pretty much had the location right. It's all going to be really crammed in there, I'm kind of looking forward to how it all looks when it's in place

I didn't realize that the volcano remnants were gone, thanks for the heads up. A Sky Roller would seem to fit based on the tease

Whatever it's going to be it will most likely be in the old volcano plot. Retheme the volcano rock work to some sort of crater and that could work with the alien theme. I'm trying to think of what kind of flat is at Canada's Wonderland that it could be, otherwise I think they may have said North America

Back on January 15th the Conneaut Lake Historical Society posted this on their facebook page (Link for anyone who is interested in looking - https://www.facebook.com/ConneautLakeAreaHistoricalSociety/photos/a.1522566177863979/4650707001716532/ - the train still has snow in the seats when it made it into the building it seems )

I think at least the lead car of one is in a local museum

Waldameer could have gotten in on it, they should have named their new water coaster Ravine Flyer's Vengeance (I mean they already have RFII and RFIII)

Themed, protected, and air conditions building queue along with a name change. You'll now be launching into space on LSMs with new generation Intamin trains and coming back in Alaska (for some reason) Disaster Transport 2.0 I'm sure the park would love to brand the ride to a disaster... that would go over great

Now let the speculation continue as to what that actually means. I think now a changed launch system (even though that's not the thing that closed the ride this time) is probably coming. We'll see what else happens... maybe more track added so the ride does something more than just up and down? Who knows...

using the plans from the article here's the best approximate location i can do for the slide, it's going to be pretty tightly interwoven with existing structures

RocketBlast is confirmed (although the news page didn't label the one picture of the slide stairs correctly) https://www.goerie.com/story/news/local/2022/08/31/waldameer-park-water-world-erie-pa-new-attraction-slide/65413942007/

I know it's unlikely but it would be funny if they just randomly put a marker in the incorrect location to mess with people

The sign for the area they're closing off at Darien Lake indicates that it they're opening it on the weekends, here's hoping they open up sections at SFA over the weekend too

I rode the train with my family tonight to find the marker and I missed it the first time past because it's nowhere near where I expected. I guess when they said requiring an exact fit they weren't kidding. This satellite image is out of date too, it's missing the bowl slide that's on the tower just north of the marker. Here's a different approximate angle