Hawaiian Coasters 325

Those days are over lol. I won't message him like that again. I learned my lesson during the Orion thread lol.

Yeah. I left back in July. It was voluntarily and I wasn't fired or forced out. I have no bad blood with the park or company. I had 6 great seasons as a ride op.

I also remember back in 2022 well before Adventure Port was announced that the big rumor was the 2023 addition was going to be a Phantom Theater revival in Boo Blasters. Looking back, maybe that was the original 2023 plan then it got put on hold when Slingshot left and AP came along and Snoopy and Soak City additions were a bigger priority at the time.

Well I no longer work at KI so nothing to worry about lol.

^^ Mason I believe changed the way permits/plans are filed. The website that was used last year when RiverRacers was leaked, has been basically disabled for several months. I don't know if there's a new site or we're back to going to the City Hall for plans. Has anyone tried that yet?

3 more days until the big reveal!!

It's literally the same thing as Hanks, but a different name. The main downside is they charge like 5 bucks extra for guac OR queso which is ridiculous lol. I'd much rather go to Hot Head where it's like a dollar extra for guac or queso tbh.

When it comes to dressing up the exterior of the building, I'd like to see them attempt to make it like this old original concept art

A couple photos I found of me and my next door neighbor at the time in the Mystery Machine prop they had out front of the ride. This was sometime in 2008. I remember bc I remember my dad pointing out the construction for what became Diamondback. I believe this was her first ever visit to KI and it wasn't too long after they moved into the house next door. We would then go on multiple trips to KI together before they moved away in 2011.

The more I think about it, the more I think how cool this would be with a phantom theater theme. Imagine this, you pass no legs larry directing you and you ascend upstairs to the balcony and cross the balcony with a view of the theater stage then you travel downwards through the rest of the course.

I don't see KI being sold off anytime soon. KI is a major money maker to the chain and has the highest market penetration. I don't think they'd want to let that go. Also I doubt they'd invest too heavily in a park they plan on selling off.

I really hope we get another teaser or 2 between now and then. The "to be continued" has me thinking there could be a part 2 of that teaser video.

What would honestly be cool to do is when the ride is cycled off for the night they allow a small group of people (sign up ahead of time first come first serve) to actually walk the Boo Blasters course with the lights on as a guided tour.

Imo I feel like it would've been better to announce it after Boo Blasters closes to allow focus to be on Boo Blasters getting its last rides. What I would've honestly done is let Boo Blasters run until its closing day (labor day) to keep the speculation going and then like a day or so after it closes, drop this video and have the story be "after the boo castle was boarded up, security was notified of some strange activity going on around the castle so they went in and this video happens..." then announce the official replacement like a week later.

I highly doubt they get rid of the Boo Blasters building. That building has been there since 1972 and I doubt there is anything seriously wrong with it. It also houses the park services warehouse, the Peanuts showplace, and an entertainment green room. I think the new ride is definitely in the boo blasters building and the crypt is either a throwoff attempt or a second attraction for 26 (legacy CF recently likes to do non major coaster additions in packages like how we got Sol Spin + Cargo Loco in 23, Soapbox Racers + the playground in 24, and RiverRacers + Splash River Junction in 25.) That being said idk why they would go through the effort to put the conjuring in the crypt this season when that is a 2026 new ride location unless the plan is to move the conjuring in 26 and start construction on whatever is next in the crypt once haunt ends.

Or they just decided to include a shot of the Crypt as an attempt to throw us off. Tony Clark (the head of PR for the region) has done this in the past lol.

Interesting they also had a small segment at the end in the crypt building. We all know that's where The Conjuring is going, but I could honestly see that being a temporary thing for now. Then if they wanted to eventually put a ride in there, they could move the conjuring somewhere else if it's popular.

I predict the announcement will come on September 25th the same day Over Texas announces their dive coaster. I think we'll see all of Six Flags rollout their 2026 capital plans that day. Whether that be in the form of a press release like we saw CF do the last few years or a video like legacy Six Flags did under Jim Reid Anderson remains to be seen.

I believe back in the day they did Kids Boo Fest in Picnic Grove (if I'm thinking properly). Then it got moved to Soak City.

Ik this likely wouldn't happen due to logistical reasons, but I'd like to see a Haunt on the Eiffel Tower brought back. Also bring back the scare zone at the base of the tower.

2 just like AlpenFury. A booster launch out of the station into the main launch in Congo's plot.

With AlpenFury being a major success, I created a Premier launch coaster concept for the Invertigo/Congo/Timberwolf/entry plaza area. The Action Zone area becomes an expanded Oktoberfest with a dark forest vibe and Drop Tower gets renamed "FallTrum. The station and queue for the new coaster would be on the skyflyer plot and Coaster Connection would become the exit gift shop/ride photo area.

Well that would be a safety violation on the maintineance crew as they can't cycle the train if there's someone in the ride area lol

Like I said, I was only 6/7 years old during the 2009 season, but does anyone remember if there were rumors during the summer of Nick going away in favor of Peanuts and if a lot of people doubted it bc they just redid the Nick area 3 years prior? Just wondering as with the talk surrounding the Peanuts IP in recent weeks, it makes me wonder if history may be about to repeat itself nearly 2 decades later. In fact, I remember finding out that Nick was being changed to Snoopy that Winter (2010). I think it was during our "annual" New Years staycation that we would take for a few years at the Comfort Suites in Kings Mills and our room had a view of the park which I still have photos from that so I'll share a few. Anyways I had no idea what Snoopy was at the time, but I knew of Charlie Brown as we would watch the specials at home and in school during Library. I didn't really know Snoopy and Charlie Brown were the same thing until getting to the park that Summer and seeing all the changes to kiddie land.

I have very vague memories of that summer as I was 6 (turned 7 that summer) and finished 1st grade. I was just about 48" that year and I remember bc the measuring was off at some rides. For example: I was measured with the height stick at Zephyr and was able to ride and then at Adventure Express in the station I was measured on the height scale things they had back then and was just a hare too short. I then got better shoes and measured tall enough for the 48" rides (I would not recommend doing that as ride ops do have the right to ask to remove shoes if they suspect the shoes were being tampered with). All that year I was terrified to ride bigger 48" rides like Beast, Racer, Vortex (RIP), Flight Deck (The Bat), and Drop Tower. I did end up on Adventure Express though and I remember hating it with a passion lol. I was in the process of growing out of my fear of coasters which took several years. During those days I would get dragged onto the Fairly Odd Coaster (now Woodstock Express) kicking and screaming bc I didn't like the "big" drop lol. I remember my Dad, my next door neighbor (who was a couple years older than me), and her Dad going on Diamondback and me staying behind bc I was too short and I remember thinking that was the biggest and coolest coaster ever lol. I remember going by the park while it was being built and seeing the big red crane and thinking that was the ride lol. SOB I have zero memory of it operating as nobody in my family or group would ride it as I was always told how rough it was lol. In fact, my main memories of SOB is just seeing it sit there SBNO when going back to ride Flight Deck from 2010-2012.