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Their opening day isn’t until Memorial Day. I have full faith that their operating season is safe. I’ll probably try to make it out again this year (it’s about an eleven hour drive). Small parks are probably going to need a little bit of extra help. Either that, or once people get the all clear to go out again, they’ll go out full force. Either way, I feel like 2021 is about to be a big year for Alabama Adventure and Splash Adventure. This seems to be a smaller investment year, so I feel like either a new slide complex or a new coaster will be coming in 2021. I think a new water slide complex is more likely. Either a mat racer or a water coaster.

Looks like 2020 is the season of shows for Alabama Adventure and Splash Adventure. The former pirates themed dive show will get a Wild West retrofit and they’ll be adding what appears to be a trampoline stunt show. It’s exciting to see new investments into the park every year. I feel line something big will be coming in 2021.

I feel like they are either adding a couple waterslides to their Polar Splash area, or some sort of thrilling flat ride. I’m actually quite excited. I feel like their opening in May will be safe from the COVID-19 craze.

Anybody want to make any guesses about what Marineland is adding for 2020?

At 1:47 in this video, they are testing the prototype for the Big WaveZ. This looks like a real hoot! I really hope that Six Flags starts putting these at some of their parks, especially since so many of them are starting to remove their Shoot the Chutes rides.

Santa's Village is adding another larger attraction for 2020. Along with the two new waterslides for Santa's Springs, they are also adding a small SBF Visa Dance Party ride. This one came from the now closed Coney Island and will be called "The Blizzard." This announcement came from their email newsletter and that's where the link came from.

Nice! It looks like Six Flags America is really doing a lot for 2020! It seems like Six Flags is really doing a lot of capital spending into just improving their parks overall this year. The two best examples would be Six Flags America overhauling that section of the park with repainting and adding new lights to Riddle Me This, completely repainting Joker's Jinx, adding a big new thrill ride, and adding a new shop and bar. Six Flags St. Louis is overhauling their front entrance and adding a big new thrill ride.

From the park's Facebook page Vertical construction has started on Jersey Devil! And it looks like there is already a nice sprinkling of supports up with some larger ones in place. Looks like this ride will be ready for a Memorial Day weekend opening! If not a bit sooner! These things are supposed to go up quick aren't they? As per usual, looking through the comments was disappointing; so many people complaining about construction times and such.

Construction officially started in August. They have all the permits they need, they secured funding from both the state government, the city government, and through their own investment. This project is already off the ground. I will definitely be visiting.

I was wondering about that ride at the top left corner. In the sketches for the park, it looked like there was for sure a mine train, but I almost feel like from the map, it won't be coming in the first year. I know that the largest attractions in the park will be relocations, but I am still so excited for this park! It just seems like it will be something spectacular!

Wow Six Flags is on the ball this year. Crazy it’s is already testing and Aquaman is nearly completely built.

Double post, but I found a map of what the part will look like. A few notable features: the top left corner appears to have Kanonen, the far ride side appears to have the SLC with helix from Ratanga Junction and then a mine train of sorts. There looks to be two water rides, one with two splash pools (probably a log flume. The front entrance plaza will lead up to a lake, where there will be a large Ferris wheel on the other side directly across from the plaza. There appears to be a kiddie area on the bottom right corner by the SLC with a kiddie coaster and either a playground or a splash pad as an area centerpiece. There also appears to be a dark ride just to the side of the entrance plaza. Overall, it looks like there will be around twenty total rides when the park opens. I honestly can’t wait for this park!

I know this is pretty old news, but Lost Island won all the approvals it needed to start construction and they broke ground back in August on the 24th.

Any news on Vipère? Any vertical construction or anything? (Please lord don't let anybody say something like "it's Six Flags, vertical construction won't start until April.")

I almost kinda wonder if it will go behind the new Santa Springs area. It just doesn't seem like it would fit anywhere else in the current park unless they started getting rid of the animal exhibits.

Big couple of weeks for the Azoosment Park, though their Facebook page now says just “Santa’s Village Amusement Park.” Aside from the IAPPA announcement of Yuletide Plunge (that they hope to have up by 2022), they also announced two new water slides to stand aside the new for 2019 Santa’s Springs. The new slides are set to open in the summer of 2020.

Did you guys see that Santa's Village Azoosment Park just finalized the purchase of the old log ride from Kiddieland? They will restore it and rebuild it as a multi year project and reopen it under the name "Yuletide Plunge." This is going to be a huge project and I love that they are undertaking it.

I'm actually quite excited for this, mainly to see if they can get this right. I mean I never thought that it was that bad at Magic Mountain, just dull. I never got any flips and I always managed to just be tilted on my back the entire time. I actually do think the coaster fits in well with the La Ronde lineup and it's nice to see something new there. Plus Super Manage just looked hideous.

Any updates on Viper?

Any ideas on a new for 2020 addition?

Honestly at this point, I think an RMC Boss would actually be a really good idea just because of the maintenance costs of the current Boss. Not having to maintain all of that wooden track would save a lot of money eventually.

Honestly at this point, I’d just like to see Tidal Wave get removed for either an S&S free spin, a Zamperla giant Discovery, or a Mack powersplash. It is one of the rides of my childhood, but it just doesn’t seem worth it anymore. At a small park with three huge wooden coasters to maintain, I just would think the cost to keep it around wouldn’t be worth it, especially given that it will only get worse in the future.

Aside from a small handful of FECs getting stuff from Coney Island, I think we could be seeing a couple of those rides go to Alabama Splash Adventure. They seem to be buying rides up from parks that close: Scrambler and Tilt-A-Whirl from Lakemont, YoYo from Lake City, and Galleon from Bowcraft.

Makes sense for them to want to focus on the water park. Water parks are some of the most profitable attractions out there. Whereas at an amusement park, you have to constantly add attractions to keep people's interest, but you can go five years without adding a new slide at a water park, but attendance will still stay relatively the same. Plus the best way to make money is to keep guests inside the park as long as possible. At an amusement park with four rides, you would keep people for maybe an hour. At a water park with four slide complexes, you can keep a family entertained all day. I'd love to see them get a lazy river and a combo raft slide (like what Six Flags keeps getting) in the near future.