I'd bet the wraps were already attached to the fence walls from the last time they were used. I don't know if the park owns those fences or if they rent them (why they'd still be renting them at this point IDK), but if they're constantly in use there's no need to take the wraps off. There's also the facts that most guests will think it looks better with them on and that people like us will talk about it. I'd say anyone riding Diamondback is also not doing much to look below the track during that helix. Maybe this weekend someone can take a photo of where more fences were next to The Conjuring from The Beast's queue. I'm sure we might see more work behind the AAB fences this weekend as well.

It's really nice to see all of these photos from 2002! I've never been able to find a good quality photo of the auditorium scene, so I enjoyed those in particular. Between the two glass walls and the grainy footage, that scene never translates well to video. One thing I'll make a wish for: If this new ride does turn out to be a new Phantom Theater, I hope they find ways to improve on the aesthetics of the queue room and bring back the charm of how the loading area looked. Returning the skeleton chase and living room scenes back into one large auditorium would also be amazing, but I'll have to see what's in store with whatever we get tomorrow.

Very excited for the announcement tomorrow, however, I do think there is one thing that we need to understand, first of all there’s no way that if we do get a phantom theater ride then it’s going to be as good as the original, I just don’t see anyway how it’s better, but hopefully the younger generation will be able to make memories with the maestro, I don’t mind screens on rides as long as they complement the ride with animatronics, I will say Disney does a good job with their Toy story mania ride at Hollywood Studios, I do think that it would be a good idea to keep the competitive element on the ride, not sure if the younger generation would go for a phantom theater ride unless it has the blaster element and I for one I’m fine with that as long as it gets some TLC, even a moderately decent Phantom Theatre will be better than boo blasters

The market cap is low enough that it could be scooped up by a deep-pocketed buyer. Considering the Paramount Parks were bought for about $2 billion dollars in today's money, ($1.24 billion in 2006 dollars) $5.2 billion is incredibly low. It just goes to show how bad off they are financially.

I wonder if Kings Island will do a walk through for a small amount of visitors for Boo Blasters similar in 2002 for the Phantom Theater before the next ride transformation. https://www.dafe.org/articles/darkrides/phantomPharewell.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAMbXz1jbGNrAxtesWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeXdNQhTPZmblExf2EDIDA-6PjJ4KE3QCTt9_1khv0JjoI2zJgU41B_UAOubw_aem_hQ2Bm8kNrwtiT7lP6XdCbg