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While we're spending Disney's water let's just let them buy all of Grand Island (or Niagara Falls NY)

I'm just following this thread to keep up with the ongoing beer bets

All the kid rides look so new and shiny. Thanks for the look back into the past there, I know the bumper boats weren't the best things (and the big ones just smelled like gas) but they were fun and I occasionally miss them.

Would be nice if they did some interesting retracking on all of Predator, but even if it's just testing like White Lightning I look forward to seeing how this new track type can change some of the industry. I'm hopeful, but I'm also realistic in understanding that Predator will probably always be terrible and could very well just get 5 ft of this track for "track testing" and "refurbishment".

I honestly would like this name just for the sheer oddness of it.

Greater than 10 pounds

I just saw this also. I can understand they are probably getting harder and harder to maintain but it's still unfortunate (especially to remove them all at once)

I didn't hate Cyborg when I rode it last year, but it just didn't really do anything great for me. The most amusing part was that I rode it completely alone, there were no other riders even in line for it as I sat on it alone. It looks cool, but isn't really a good ride.

Hopefully this will finally make some people give up on the thoughts of it coming back (there is nothing there but broken concrete and old plumbing) Big Dipper has been down for years

it would be nice if they had that part of the park open for HITP (if it ever happened) but the Moose on the Loose area of the park is closed down for Halloween, so I'd guess they would just keep that area closed (That said, Moose on the Loose in the snow would be great)

I must say reading the comments after such a policy would be hilarious. @jconsolmagno, the answer to your question is they absolutly get more snow than New England, they have the joys of lake effect snow from Lake Erie to deal with. Could they do Holiday in the park? Yes Will they do it this year? I can't see that happening.

Lapbar only on Tantrum, unless something explainable or really strange happened to it in the year of shut down it was perfectly smooth in 2019, a very nice small Euro Fighter. The two really rough coasters at the park are Predator (if you're in the front it really isn't all that bad but anywhere else is unpleasant) and Mind Eraser, but that's to be expected.

Darien Lake does not do Holiday in the Park.

As a local I would like to see a Chance coaster here, but I think it's unlikely. There seems to be a lot of people who would like them to get an inverting coaster so even though I'd love something like Lightning Run from KK I don't see it happening saddly. Ravine Flyer is not going to change, there really isn't a reason for it to, it's still running great like you said. There's a Raptor rumor, but I don't know where that started (so it's honestly probably not a valid rumor) and don't know where they'd put something like that without taking out a lot of their picnic pavilions and I don't think that's their desire.

I saw the Instagram post yesterday, I can appreciate the park trolling people. I'm sure they're just retracking some of RFII but I think whoever runs the Instagram likes to mess with people.

I must be honest I completely missed that they opened the campground, sorry for my unintended snark

"did not technically open this year"? The park didn't even theoretically open this year, it was completely closed. Is there a possibility they could get something else? I suppose, but I would put the likelihood at about .005% if I'm being generous. They're just getting wahoo wave if you ask me and that's perfectly fine, I would rather Six Flags doesn't throw around money that they don't have at this moment to do what they can to avoid financial problems. (all that said if Six Flags adds more than what they announced last year for parks like Darien Lake I'd be amazed, but also pleased)

Comet at Waldameer. Last year my daughter rode it with me once and then was done, this year (at 4 years old) she wanted to ride it over and over, which is great.

Villain was bad, it hurt a lot. I don't know if I'd say it was the roughest I ever rode, but it would be hard to pick one that I have a worse memory of riding.

Interesting thing is season pass holders don't need to make reservations, so hopefully that works well for them (I'm sure they know what to expect for numbers from season pass holders from previous years). Don't know how much I'll make it there this year, but I may get a pass just to support the local park.

Glad to see Hershey can open in a few weeks. Their county goes "green" next Friday, yet Erie and Waldameer are just stuck waiting. Kind of a bummer that I'm heading to Harrisburg this weekend instead of 4 or more weeks from now.

I'll be going to Waldameer when it opens to support my local park, and BGW in August if it's open. If masks are required that's fine we'll manage, with everything happening currently who knows what the world attitude/regulations will even be like that at that point.

I'm sure other small parks have gone through major challenges somewhat like Conneaut Lake, but being close to Conneaut Lake I don't know how they continue to survive, they're the little park that keeps chugging along. I hope they survive this just like they've survived all the challenges that have already faced them.

It was nice to see the park kind of coming back (even if slowly). I hope they can survive this

I liked Possessed, but overall I really won't be that sad to see it go. Without the holding break it's kind of "meh" for me. Very happy for Dorney Park if this happens. (pretty much anything will be better than what Stinger was, that was the most unpleasant coaster experience I had ever had)