knottslover77 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 There has been rumors lately, on Screamscape that Bigfoot river rapids will be taken out soon. Well today I was at Knotts, and the main Q house was gone! Could this be the beginning of dis-constrution? I hope not this would make Knotts lose more of the charm that Silver Bullet and the new Mack spinner have took or taken away. If you have any information please post. Thanks --Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexy No Jutsu Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Well if this is true I sure as hell hope they're just re-making the same ride. Same name, new features(i.e. a drop or a bigger raft, or an actual bigfoot animatronic). Hey, this may be a good thing. But if it is going to go away for good all I have to say is, "WHYYYYYYY?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knottslover77 Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 re-making the same ride. Same name, new features(i.e. a drop or a bigger raft, or an actual bigfoot animatronic). they better or I will be pissed. --Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezus Juice Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 WTH? The queue house is gone? If this is true I think it's safe to say this ride is going the way of the bigfoot from the tunnel at the end of the ride; working the streets in Riverside! *zing* -Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 First to call AQUATRAX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 ^I second Wes... And I bet it will be red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Six Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Massive concrete and trashcan plaza. _six Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I hope it doesn't go. A good intamin coaster would be cool and all, but not at the expense of Big Foot Rapids. It's a great ride because riders from all demographics can enjoy it. I would understand if they were planning to expand into the backstage area a bit, but to start removing bits of the ride now for it would seem like they're starting at the wrong place. After all, they would first have to have an adequete building already up to relocate the stuff inside the whare houses to. We'll see. Hopefully they won't destroy it or I'll have no choice but to steal a crap load of money so I can become the majority shareholder in the company set things right with knotts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezus Juice Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 ^ Have you smelled the velcro restraints on it recently? The smell like a rank/moldy-ass gym bag full of acer socks. I say good riddence. Does Mack make raft rides? The one at Europa was pretty sweet. I wouldn't mind an upgrade. Raft tech has come a long way since, what, 1988? How old is this ride anyway? In my opinion the ride has been gone since the bigfoot in the tunnel moved to the desert and started working street corners. It's been a long, slow death. RIP my wookie friend. -Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastered Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 There has been rumors lately, on Screamscape that Bigfoot river rapids will be taken out soon. Well today I was at Knotts, and the main Q house was gone! Could this be the beginning of dis-constrution? I hope not this would make Knotts lose more of the charm that Silver Bullet and the new Mack spinner have took or taken away. If you have any information please post. Thanks --Jay Do you have any pictures of the site of this q-building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I am going to Knotts In an hour, ill post some pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 So I went to knotts...totally crowded! Any way, Big foot didnt open till 12, I had to leave at 12. But I decided to wait anyway. So I roamed around the park and got in line for it at like 11:50. Waited till 12, didnt open. Waited till 12:15 didnt open. I had to leave. But I have seen what they are doing back there already. Imagine a 4X4 piece of wood sticking out of a cement floor cut at a 45* angle. Now imagine a lot of them and a large pile of wood. What has already been is not what you would do if you wanted to save it. I also asked some on my contacts at the park about the ride. They all said that the next time that Big Foot has a major break down that it will not be fixed. It will be removed. But I was not told if they were ust going to replace it with another rapids ride or remove it totally. Long line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Many, many years ago when CF took over I was told that Bigfoot Rapids was the place they were looking at for a big Millennium Force style hyper coaster. Now, that was a long time ago, probably about 5 years, so who knows what's been changed since then. All I know is that this doesn't surprise me. The Bigfoot Rapids area was one of the nicer looking areas of the park so there is NO WAY it was safe! Just one more step to this park's death....oh, who are we kidding, it died years ago! --Robb "At least XLR8R is still fun!" Alvey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 It is very nice back there, I hope that what ever goes back there keeps the trees and the atmosphere the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 ^ By trees and atmosphere, I hope you mean concrete and trash cans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I thought that was implied There were a lot of trash cans out today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 And yet another layer of Knott's old charm will be stripped away--like when they replaced the Roaring 20s with that generic beach theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DallasAlvey Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Many, many years ago when CF took over I was told that Bigfoot Rapids was the place they were looking at for a big Millennium Force style hyper coaster. Now, that was a long time ago, probably about 5 years, so who knows what's been changed since then. All I know is that this doesn't surprise me. The Bigfoot Rapids area was one of the nicer looking areas of the park so there is NO WAY it was safe! Just one more step to this park's death....oh, who are we kidding, it died years ago! --Robb "At least XLR8R is still fun!" Alvey Even if they changed their mind about the coaster CF has to be crazy to think they could fit somthing like that there. --Dallas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Clinksalot Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 There actually is some room back there if they take out Mystery Lodge as well. Wonder if they will use the KOD building for the station. Plus, we all know Knott's will just build it high enough to tower over everything anyway. I'm still shocked most of Ghost Town is still there. Why don't they just change the parks name to Boardwalk because the whole park is starting to look like the Boardwalk area anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knottslover77 Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 That area of the is the nicest part of the park(IMO) and soon it will be TrashCanville. --Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socalMAN123 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 If they take out Mystery Lodge they take out the best maze at Haunt (13 Axe Murder Manor). Well, I really just hope they redo the ride, not completly tear it out. Or they could add more water so you actually get wet. ---Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COASTER FREAK 11 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 After all the years that I have been going to knotts, I fanally went on the Mystery Lodge the other day. It was cool, but really it takes up a lot of space. If they take out BFR and dont replace it for a while, the area will instantly die! Mystery lodge and the Wilderness Scrambler are not going to bring anybody to that part of the park. Sorry wes, I really do like that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cheat Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 If they take out Mystery Lodge they take out the best maze at Haunt (13 Axe Murder Manor). Well, I really just hope they redo the ride, not completly tear it out. Or they could add more water so you actually get wet.---Brent Not really. That entire maze is backstage, they could easily find a way to make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
music11 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Personally i didn't like BFR when i went a couple years ago all our raft did was float down the river and no one in our raft got wet so maybe a replacement might be good. a replacement of another rapid ride would be the best but maybe a spinner would be really cool. also mystery lodge was pretty cool but i agree it is way to big so maybe they should make it smaller and expand the river rafts so that people will actually get wet. a raft ride like the one at lake compounce would be great cause that raft ride gets everyone except one person soaking wet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 ^ they're already getting a spinner in camp snoopy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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