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  1. A full trip around Voyage is quite the workout. I did the ACE construction tour in March 2006, which involved hiking ALL the way back on the left side, around the turnaround, and then back on the right side. The station wasn't complete, the walkway bridge into Thanksgiving was just dirt and gravel making getting down there and back interesting by itself, but trackwork was either completed or in progress on the entire course. Some of the tunnels hadn't been enclosed yet due to trackwork, which made for some interesting views.

    I've done countless Beast tours over the years including ones that went all the way back across the second tunnel and down right next to the track near the second left approach, but the Voyage route doesn't give you any straight, level areas that are basically nature walks, that terrain makes you work for it. Standing next to the midcourse brake, with the track barely a few feet above ground level and looking down the hill back towards the lift hill, that's quite a view.

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  2. 6 hours ago, guy1115 said:

    School of Rock and Magic of The Movies were probably the best two shows of the last few years of Paramount.  But the cuts in that department in the early 2000s were rough.   And after being built up to the apex  in the past few seasons, its sad to see what they are doing to all of the parks entertainment.

    School of Rock was a great show, but the only thing good that happened with the sorry excuse of a "Hollywood magic show" that was Magic of the Movies was the chainwide renovation of the indoor theaters.

  3. Good Gravy is a major by-itself addition for Holiday World, but for KI it's a major chain park with a lot of coasters expanding the kids area. I don't think the stock design is "bland" because it's the first instance of it in the US. Sure, there are numerous instances in Europe but "New Vekoma" is just now getting into the US market.

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  4. I have no problems with it being a stock design. Cedar Point's new Zamperla spinning mouse is one of the stock designs, and meanwhile across Planet Snoopy you've got Woodstock Express and there are countless instances and variations of that old PTC figure-8 junior coaster layout.

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  5. RCDB shows Good Gravy as being 721 feet, and under notes it says the distance traveled is "nearly 1,500" feet, and Good Gravy is a custom design while SSBR is the "208m Rebound" catalog model.

    So, slightly shorter, and a stock design instead of custom, but ultimately for parks like Holiday World such a ride has to serve the role of a major attraction, rather than a "this is part of a kids area project" attraction.

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  6. On 1/31/2024 at 8:20 AM, DispatchMaster said:

    This view made my heart drop. I know it's early in construction so things might change, but they absolutely decimated the ambiance of Race For Your Life Charlie Brown. Hopefully they'll replant a lot of trees, but not only am I not hopeful given recent budget choices, but even if they do it'll be another couple of decades before the flume will feel like a voyage through the woods. 

    I've said it before for other things, I'll say it again. A lot of the problems regarding trees removed due to construction or demolition could be fixed by planting rows of fast-growing pines to fill in. There appears to be enough room between the flume and the closest foundations to do that here.

    Behind Cargo Loco/Adventure Port in general to separate from Banshee? Row of pines. Next to Beast's first turn where Vortex demolition left it so open? Row of pines. Divide Backlot from Rivertown? Row of pines along that side of the pathway. The clearcut area behind the former Crypt building that leaves Diamondback too open? Pines.

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  7. I doubt I could find it now but a while back I posted a detailed overhaul idea for Backlot that would turn it into a ride-thru classic funhouse theme for Coney, including removing the way into the entrance plaza that's towards the Rivertown side, restoring the serpentine brick wall there, and angling the entrance to make it fully Coney instead of the haphazard half-Rivertown half-Coney setup it has currently. There's way too much concrete just for the entrance plaza space, so a lot of that would be taken out for landscaping. The parking garage would also be removed and a wall of trees planted down the path to separate it from Rivertown.

    Cover up all the exposed steel structure of the midcourse stop, turn the midcourse stop into something like a house of mirrors and light tricks (same for the tunnel), remove or cover the shipping containers, bright paint scheme, remove the fire effect system, etc. I got into more detail when I originally posted this idea over a year ago but I don't remember what thread it was in.

  8. Ultimately, CF is the controlling stake of the merger and very little of existing SF corporate will remain. CF rejected SF when an offer was made that would have been the other way around, but agreed with this.

    I'm not expecting cookie-cutter cheap carnival rides like the Larson Loops, at least one park has already removed theirs, although down the road it's possible that the DC Comics IP could come into use.

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  9. Surf Dog has only been there since 2006, but the Whirlybirds I could see being removed because the station/queue structure takes up a lot of room and everywhere the track runs creates both ground (columns) and height (track) restrictions in the area.

    With a "New Vekoma" in the form of SSBR, I could see Invertigo being removed if anything of significance were to fail or maintenance costs start to outweigh ridership. It's the only Invertigo model left in the Western Hemisphere, too.

  10. I didn't care at all when the Subway closed because the couple times I actually got something there, it wasn't even a very good Subway. Seemed like they were getting lower quality ingredients than a "real" Subway.

    Festhaus is my primary gripe. The worst LaRosa's in the park, generic burgers-and-fries stuff, and a Panda Express. Should just use one side for what Oktoberfest Gardens once was, and the other side to replace the Biergarten.

  11. I'm not really sure what happened but by late season the road wheel paths on Diamondback's rails, particularly on the lift hill and other near-midway sections that were painted first, already had the paint worn off and appeared to be on bare steel.

    Maybe they started running trains too soon after the paint was applied? Even here, just on the lift hill itself, it's visibly worn and the same can be seen on the water brake stretch.

     

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