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The best Camp Snoopy, by far, is the original at Knotts Berry Farm. What makes the version at Knotts so great is that it is heavily saturated with big full trees, and the overall theme is woodsy (camp) and rustic. Its been overhauled a number of times - but the current version is superb. If KI must stick with the Snoopy theme, I too would love it if KI took the time to do a similar overhaul to their current kids area. It would require KI to completely gut the entire area, but if they did... it would be spectacular. Also, replicating the theme at Knotts would definitely compliment the now waning Rivertown theme... and could easily be blended to make the two areas cohesive and complimentary. Finally, Boo Blasters is crying out... no, SCREAMING... for a Snoopy themed dark ride.

2 years, 2 publishers, and 43 interviews later, I sent the final manuscript into the publisher today! One step closer to its release this spring. There’s a lot of amazing things going on right now with Kings Island: A Ride Through Time, so stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks!

I think taking a revamp and making itva Snoopy themed dark ride xamping through all 4 seasons or holudays, another Coaster, even enclosing the log flume and all. Ki has always had a Special kids family area. I think make it over the top bring a woodstock carousel in, highly themed dark ride, camp feel... win back the best, as we know its already the best of the rest. Not inclyded i still think 2 new dark rides elaewhere in the park. Would love to see a Knotts East visio. For the belived park with a major destination for all like Cedar , Knotts, or Dolly. Bring ki back to its full glory. For what is a great park. .

I'm really big fan of the first row or back row on arrow suspended coasters. Can't even recall if I rode The Bat in anything but those two seats in my 6+ years of going to KI, since the line for The Bat is never long...

I've seen this talked about on here every once and a while so I thought I'd make a thread about it. Traditionally the children's area was typically rebranded to whatever property the park was trying to promote from HB to Nickelodeon to Peanuts. Would it benefit the park to overhaul the kids area? Maybe add another kiddie coaster? The camping aspect would make a good transition to Rivertown. The park doesn't hold the title of "World's Best Kids Area" anymore so changing things up certainly wouldn't hurt. If not a overhaul maybe just adding some more modern rides.

Do you think they and other Cedar Fair parks will go back to reservations for visiting the park? I have gone this past year when it was in place and when it wasnt. I preferred the reservations...

Because of how beautiful International Street is, I don't hate the obstruction of it's view until I officially enter the park. It's always felt like a grand reveal of sorts, same with Wonderland and Dominion. I do wish the brown wall would be renovated and the building repainted/refurbished to look less dated and drab.

Found footage of Don taking Platinum Passholders back behind The Beast today in my ICloud. Hope you guys enjoy it...

They can't tear it down cause of the restaurant, but they can over hall it.

I would definitely be in favor of a Camp Snoopy overhaul. Doing the more rustic overlay would be a nice transition from IS to Rivertown.

^Very cool....I can’t wait to read it.

It's really not that simple. Keep in mind that the intended target for a Platinum Pass from a given park is guests who will use that park as their primary or "home" park. Platinum Passes sold by Canada's Wonderland, then, would be intended (but not exclusively) sold to Ontario residents. It's basically a loophole for a US citizen to buy a Platinum Pass online from CW without visiting the park, gaming the exchange rate. With the US-Canadian border, closed, it's not like an Ontario resident could visit KI or CP, for instance, and there are no other CFEC parks in Canada. So why keep billing when the actual number of pass uses in US parks was likely quite low anyway? If you lived near, say, Knott's Berry Farm which did not reopen after March 14, and had a Platinum Pass from KBF, there isn't another park anywhere nearby you could've used it. The closest park, California's Great America, is over 5.5 hours away and did not open in 2020. It's hard to treat all Platinum Passholders equally when the nature of this pandemic means they aren't equally able to use their passes.

Even if King's Island does not open in April the park will not lose out on a lot of money. Prior to this past messed up Covid season the park usually only opens for 2 weekends in April. No Sundays at all and one of those fridays is a 5 hour passholder day. They could even make up for those lost days by adding Haunt weekdays. Early last year the plan was to add back lost operating days later in the year.

Further point of clarification - if a park did not open in 2020 and has not yet resumed billing on payment plans, you're still considered up-to-date. If, say, you have a Platinum Pass from Canada's Wonderland, your payment plan has been frozen since April 15. It was valid for use at the parks that did open this year (e.g. KI, CP), and you don't have to resume payments until some date announced by the park in the future.

With the 2020 passes being good for 2021, is there anything said 2020 passholders have to do or are the passes just good from the get-go?

I am sure it is the government, the ones who have shut down several businesses and caused many to lose everything they have, while they go out and live life like nothing has happened. At least that is what we are seeing Newsom doing. Now, they want to help with giving the American people $600 to help them, while Billions are going overseas. I see this as an issue. How can the people speak up and force the openings of different places? With no known outbreaks linked to amusement or theme parks, why are we limiting the capacity?

I have asked, as I have not seen any accused outbreaks from any amusement parks, so why not open? Keep the social distancing places, and masks as needed, but open the parks up. Those that don't feel safe, stay home, don't complain that others are going. Those that feel safe, go spend money, help the economy, have a good time and live life, before it is taken from you.

I prefer not having to make a reservation, mostly because most days during the season, as long as we have passes, we just go spur the moment. Sent from my LM-X220PM using Tapatalk

Here is my 2 cents. I had to make a reservation for Taste of the Season at Carowinds and was only allowed one at a time. If I had been able to book more than one day in advance I likely would have went for two. Or if I had known the on site hotel had guaranteed entry to the park I would have booked there and gotten my 2 reservations that way. I did buy a tasting pass and several beers so that combined with the hotel revenue is maybe lost money on day two but another guest may have made up for it anyways. On the other hand I was able to make reservations for Dollywood way out in advance for 3 days in a row. Which I did due to not knowing what the weather would be that far out. Or knowing Carowinds calendar or weather. I ended up not using my first Dollywood reservation and used day 2 and 3. I'm sure lots of other people did the same and just did not show up on certain days. My Sunday visit had less people in the park than Sat did. Yet both days hit the cap and they put their usual facebook message up about not letting non reservation holders in at park opening.

It's much too early to speculate on that, IMO. Like @IndyGuy4KI hinted at, requiring advanced reservations is likely to discourage guests, both passholders and daily ticket holders, from visiting. The park wants every bit of reduced capacity filled if possible; it's a business, after all. The reasons for the reservation system in the first place was to ensure that they didn't have more people show up than the park could handle under pandemic capacity restrictions. The arrival time windows were to prevent a large gathering outside of the gate of people waiting to go through the health and security theatrics. The latter was relatively quickly abandoned based on data showing people continued to show up staggered throughout the day. (They do have historical data that shows trends of how many show up at open and each hour thereafter, from many years of operations). A museum near me has its own outdoor "village" component to it. When it reopened, both venues required advanced reservations, even for members. After a bit, they learned about the visitor habits and started easing up. Members didn't need to make a reservation for the museum, then the public didn't, for summer, while they were still required for the village. Once fall set in and people wanted to spend more time inside, they dropped the village reservations but reinstated them for the museum. So there's a lot of that currently up in the air. What will the park capacity cap look like in 2021? Will they need to stick to 50%, can they go up to 75% or 100%? That's affected by a variety of things, but mainly how quickly the situation can change. There's apparently a more contagious strain of COVID-19 going around that's been confirmed in the US. There are also two vaccines currently being rolled out with more in development. If the pandemic is under control and we start building enough herd immunity through vaccines, well, that'll help reduce the risks of large crowds like tend to happen at amusement/theme parks, thus perhaps allowing higher capacity. Of course, if the pandemic does start to die down, many people who were unable to travel and partake in public entertainment will have pent-up demand, which could itself be the key reason the reservation system comes back. All this goes to say that it depends on how things progress. The park wants to get as many guests through the gate and into the shops, restaurants, and games as it can. Reservation systems by design keep guests away, something they will avoid unless necessary to comply with health and safety guidelines.

I would say not if they can avoid it. The extra step of making a reservation possibly slows down ticket sales.