The Interpreter

Pretty good list, but I bet Happy Days Diner becomes Coasters. Wings might become Macaroni's.

Does the roof leak?

Or the one installed at a certain park in Atlanta, Georgia, near a WooferBear... Goliath, I think it is called.

...which, to date, they still don't have. The deal isn't closed. It isn't final til the money changes hands. It still needs government approvals. Patience, grasshoppers. Patience.

Only because you hear virtually no one say "Let's go to Geauga Lake." Period. Sigh.

If Cedar Fair is going to ship that thing for $3,000; they have little experience on EBay!

And it still does....

Not now. But there was!

Actually, just us road geeks know that. . .

The houses. Not like the situation at Dorney Park. There, the park was there long before the houses where the chronic complainers live. . . Kennywood had a similar situation, but recently bought out the last of the affected residents.

They lived in houses right beside the fairgrounds. The original proposed location would have subjected them, they said, to high levels of noise, especially on their porches. Bells agreed, as part of a settlement, to build the coaster landward of Zingo, and not in the parking lot by the houses. There is very little space back there, and I can see a Cornball type coaster being built to fit what is already in the park. Gravity Group has been engaged to design the ride. Zingo, the existing wood coaster, must close no later than 9 each day under an existing court order. Under no circumstance is it allowed to operate later than that. The new coaster will have the same restriction.

Zingo, the classic woodie with a court ordered closing time of 9pm, was hit by a falling tree, the Ferris Wheel was basically folded in half. The park is closed. This right after they had finally gotten court approval to build another wood coaster. Reopening plans to be announced soon: http://www.kotv.com/news/?105568

Any park that can put six flags over Coney Mall... Any park that can have a game called Power Tower... Any park chain that can put the initials of the other Paramount Parks as runway markers at PCWo... Can certainly change that sign so it DOES read like the one posted. I, for one, think the idea is brilliant. I'd love to see them do that...and before the takeover. I do, however, wonder what will become of the Paramount Story...which Paramount Parks itself completely and totally ignored for what? The last five years? When was the last movie "stone" added to any of these? It seems it has been at least that long...

Well, it IS mounted on land and it does go somewhat high!

a. There are already about six zillion coasters there, installed by the former Six Flags management, even though the park's infrastructure is not capable of handling the crowds the coasters potentially could. b. The park is virtually empty these days (ask those who went the the Geauga Lake extension of Coaster Mania). Reasons? Everything from the animals at Sea World being gone to the bad rep left by Six Flags to the Cedar Fair construction of the waterpark with non-union labor in a very highly unionized area. c. Other Cedar Fair (and now Paramount Parks) competing for limited capital investment funds.

Even if it's Snoopy?

If Avatar is a coaster, why isn't Lassie? --The Interpreter, somewhat seriously

So, do you consider log flumes coasters? How about turnpike rides that go up and down hills? --The Interpeter, stirring the pot

Shaggy, I believe you meant that there had been coaster installs since Cedar Fair took over Worlds of FUN, (not Worlds of Adventure...where there not only have been no such installs, but aren't likely to be) --The Interpreter, just trying to help (and actually a fan of Geauga Lake)

So, did the guest get their deposit back? It's not like security shouldn't be watching to see that those strollers don't leave the park. I've often wondered how the guest is supposed to be responsible for the acts of others while they are riding, when it is the park that can most easily police that strollers and the like don't leave the park.

As it is at Kings Dominion, kewpie dolls and queue-tv show and all. . . You may as well also point out that Carowinds' Hurler got a new entranceway--the queue was actually moved in part.

Most of the people who participate in the Karoke can't perform either, but it doesn't seem to stop them!

That would be truly be a shame. The acts that places like Hersheypark, Six Flags Great Adventure and Dollywood and even Wild Adventures get bring lots of people and money to a venue. A new steel coaster, no matter how grand, can't compare to a roster of first class acts and groups.

It could be worse. Original theming plans included fake vomit hanging down over the riders on the lift...

Review: http://www.thrillnetwork.com/stories_view....ler_reborn.html Heaven knows, it needed it...