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Freefall got a controls overhaul (and at the time had one of the few allen bradley panelviews when that was high tech and not standard in every control system) and within 10 years it was still gone. I want to say it was 2000 it received a full overhaul and was gone in 2008 (with a year of SBNO thrown in as well). The control system was re-purposed at Jet Stream. All that equipment can just be reprogrammed and re-used. They can also have the code completely ready to go and even begin testing of components offsite. Ride just needs to pass whatever guidelines Six Flags and Premier rides say in their SOP for "acceptance testing." Depending on how that goes, test & adjust doesn't necessarily have to take more than a few weeks.

You can only weld things so many times before they lose their structural integrity.

It's certainly not top 10, but unless you stand on the seat wrong, it's still a real fun ride. Some floater air, a little force, nice giant loop for some hangtime. That can be great to someone!

Soooo....fright fest....they put no effort into this year. The scarezone in front of bugs bunny world is gone and the new maze is 90% the old vault 666. Best thing is that apocalypse is running good. Second best is the slider show. Condemned is still a good maze and sewer of souls still has one really neat effect, but the other mazes are very tired and not so good.

Something I love about Haunt that really can't be replicated is the passion from it being entirely "homegrown". Knotts does it all in house and many of the monsters and management play a role in the design and build too!

There are signs at the front gate that say which mazes are part of early entry. But in case anyone missed it: it's the studio tour mazes (Us, Pandoras Box) and all the lower lot except Killer Klownz (Stranger Things, Ghostbusters, Creepshow, Frankstein/Wolfman). I would recommend starting with the backlot mazes so you can get 3 mazes out of the way early on.

If you take advantage of early entry (5:30pm), you can easily hit everything without needing express.

Project managers job is to know the regulations and handle them accordingly. No excuse for any delay to be caused by regulations or permits unless the people running the project suck. Things happen. Not everything runs perfectly all the time, regardless of the project manager's ability to properly manage their jobs. Construction, especially in California, can be a huge wildcard sometimes. I've personally been on major jobsites where a safety consultant comes in, does a jobsite inspection, and corporate shuts down the project until all action items are corrected. I've also been on jobsites where their only person on site trained in competent person trenching is needed on another project elsewhere in the country, so the project needs to shut down until someone else is trained or brought in that can perform those duties. It's also not uncommon for a construction company to be awarded a bid sometimes less than 2 weeks before they have to mobilize to the jobsite, causing a mass scramble of personnel. Who knows what the reason is, but things can happen on a whim. Again, almost everything you listed falls back on poor planning or hiring bad contractors. As an example, somehow PCL has the resources to be the general contractor for Galaxies Edge at Disney AND Jurassic world/Nintendo/pets for Universal. Unanticipated delays are things like whatever the story is behind the late track deliveries. Permitting issues are 100% poor planning. Especially when the excuse is always “permitting” for the parks delays. I respectfully disagree with them being 100% poor planning, because of all the other factors in play. But I'm with you on that if my project managers blatantly dropped the ball like that, they'd be reprimanded and possibly let go depending on the severity of the situation. That said, PCL is also a much larger contractor with over 4,000 salaried employees. Compared to Borrego Solar's (the company working on Six Flags' solar projects) roughly 300. PCL is vastly more equipped to handle projects from Disney and Universal than most construction contractors. Again, I have no idea what the cause is, but many times a delay can have nothing to do with the actual project itself. Maybe I'm completely wrong, I'm just trying to provide an opinion from all angles. I'd say the odds are that SFMM chose the smaller contractor because they don't want to pay for someone with more resources who can get it right. If it wasn't a reoccurring issue that SFMM can't get rides open on time, I'd write this off as unusual circumstances. But it's clear something isn'r right on SFMM's end when their projects are behind on a regular basis....

Project managers job is to know the regulations and handle them accordingly. No excuse for any delay to be caused by regulations or permits unless the people running the project suck. Things happen. Not everything runs perfectly all the time, regardless of the project manager's ability to properly manage their jobs. Construction, especially in California, can be a huge wildcard sometimes. I've personally been on major jobsites where a safety consultant comes in, does a jobsite inspection, and corporate shuts down the project until all action items are corrected. I've also been on jobsites where their only person on site trained in competent person trenching is needed on another project elsewhere in the country, so the project needs to shut down until someone else is trained or brought in that can perform those duties. It's also not uncommon for a construction company to be awarded a bid sometimes less than 2 weeks before they have to mobilize to the jobsite, causing a mass scramble of personnel. Who knows what the reason is, but things can happen on a whim. Again, almost everything you listed falls back on poor planning or hiring bad contractors. As an example, somehow PCL has the resources to be the general contractor for Galaxies Edge at Disney AND Jurassic world/Nintendo/pets for Universal. Unanticipated delays are things like whatever the story is behind the late track deliveries. Permitting issues are 100% poor planning. Especially when the excuse is always “permitting” for the parks delays.

Project managers job is to know the regulations and handle them accordingly. No excuse for any delay to be caused by regulations or permits unless the people running the project suck.

Been wondering this myself. It's like they've totally forgotten. In some classic Six Flags Magic Mountain irony, the project is supposedly being held up by permitting issues. I don't know why the park can't seem to figure out permits, but Justice League, Crazanity, and WCR (the station) have all been held up by permitting issues. Even the Aftermath 2 maze in the back of the park was held up for the same reason and was never actually seen to completion. I don't think it is so much the park as it is the bureaucratic nightmare building anything in CA is. Somehow, construction across CA and in theme parks is still booming. If it's permitting, I suspect it is 100% a money thing---not hiring competent people to get the job done going with the lowest bidders.

Puppet Up > Elvira Super excited for that. And Origins sounds awesome! It will be another Jon Cooke maze (he still consults with Knotts even though he is now own his own with his own production company).

Adding a scarezone and more Christmas lights isn’t a huge improvement to the holiday events. Would be more impressive if they announced significant additions to the event instead of just dressing up a new area of the park that was likely already going to happen anyways. The press release was very obviously “oh crap, let’s announce something” and not very well thought out.

Christmas lights and a scarezone is the most underwhelming announcement...ever? I totally get why they had to do it, but their market niche is adding thrill rides, whether they are coasters or flat rides.

Just want to add to this thread that we are only here to discuss the park since this is a theme park discussion board. This is not the place to discuss global political issues. The comments on YouTube and social media that had to be deleted today were wild.

As long as the ant man brewery stays, it's all good!

Yes. Sony's deal is a film rights deal. All other rights (theme parks, merchandise, video games, etc.) stay with Marvel or anyone Marvel has licensed them to. So this only impacts Spiderman remaining in the MCU for future movies.

I would imagine that all existing agreements are still fine. The current lack of a deal would only impact future movies.

You should be fine without maxpass. Ticket should be able to be pulled up in the Disneyland app. Smugglers run wasn’t that bad at all. No gravity stuff, just normal motion simulator.

Six Flags will work with whomever gives them the bid they are looking for.

Here's the non instagram cropped version Even Better!

What a deal! It's $120 for a single night of the Halloween party at Disneyland and there is no pass option available.

As Chris mentioned, Knott's have never done their announcements in line with other Cedar Fair parks. Haunt has always rightfully been the main focus of all their marketing from August-November. Hangtime was announced simultaneously with the other 2018 additions, IIRC. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk You are correct. However, that has not been their historical norm. Every other recent announcement that I can remember and google can confirm was November. Rapids was November. Sol Spin was November. Voyage to the Iron Reef was November. Boardwalk overlay November. Mine Train refurb...you guessed it, November! Log Ride refurb was another outlier, but that came in January. Given how Knott's has carved out a niche for themselves in the so cal market with their seasonal events, it's not surprising the first part of the celebration they'd announce is that it is happening and will include food, entertainment, and merchandise (side note: count me in if they sell prints of that awesome piece of artwork they use as the promo image!) However, the OC Register notes "Additional details and “special surprises” related to the Knott’s Family Reunion will be announced in the coming months, theme park officials said."

That is all stuff a good project manager would have been able to solve...

Awesome news! I love all this "project stardust" stuff that is LONG overdue to improve what they can throughout the park. The park has grown well past its design...