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Okay, this made me laugh! Great analysis by the way! It's been a few days since I looked at the website, is the building that was demolished for Camp Snoopy still showing as a place to visit?

I'm actually genuinely curious....however, I definitely do no lose sleep over it. I don't post in Pointbuzz, but I do find CP comms more reputable than what we've got. I've never been a huge fan of Mr. Clark, however, he does a great job at communicating. CP tweets, folks ask questions and they reply....maybe not all of them, but they're actually active. The other parks, I'm not connected to, so I truly don't care. I mean why not throw in the Six Flags parks? How about SFOG? Oh yeah, I'm not connected to that park, so I don't care. Do I take Don leaving personally? Nope....did I and do I cheer him on? Yeah. It's not my mission to "badmouth," as I'm genuinely curious about how the comms team has changed in operations and I see the potential that is there. As someone who has invested a good chunk of change into Cedar Fair both for park spending and shares, I would hope that I can be critical of what I spend my $ on. TT2 with the lawsuit and the like, one has to look at it with reasonable thought...of course they had to be "lacking." The build up this year with the change of the site to the wall and then the announcement was on par of what would be expected. No vendetta here...just wishing better. I would welcome an actual conversation with Chad, if he actually intended to hear what I had to say...but he has made it clear that he has no intention of hearing what I (or others) have to say. For purposes of KIC, I will refrain from talk of Chad.

Haha, no thanks. I enjoy my life! Legit question, has he fulfilled this:

This turned out well....seems his love for the park/excitement to tell the stories was either short lived or fake. What's the latest story he's told? Was it that KI was fully staffed?

They did half....so half an attraction and then remaining half of the parking lot.

After congratulating him via text, I asked if he would write any KI articles, to which he replied “There will definitely be some KI articles but the focus will be Cedar Point.”

We'll probably see articles with calls to KI being unreturned.

I feel the complete opposite. I've ridden Invertigo more this year than I have in the past 2 seasons.

Why can't they figure out a way for patrons to visit the 50ft platform on the Eiffel Tower?

Haha!

I can see that...almost doesn't feel complete to me though. Oh well.

Almost feel like this should be "off tickets" instead of "of tickets"

On the topic of eateries.... I would make sure things were consistent. For example, one year the mac and cheese bar did not have consistency on serving sizes (the bowl size changed at least 3 times), one day you could get whatever meats and the next you could only get one, etc. Mobile ordering - enough said. I would make Jukebox something more unique....while I enjoyed my first time eating there in years a couple months back, it just wasn't amazing. Would like to see something other than a burger, chicken tenders, pizza in the park. More indoor dining. No Live E in Festhaus....trying to watch a show and enjoy a meal while people are essentially screaming all around you isn't great. Using peak times for expo-ing meals....Chicken Shack I'm looking at you! The amount of orders they take compared to what they can get out at any given time is sad....sure we got you through the line, but stand in an awkward corral near the self serve soda fountain to wait for your name to be called...but don't expect it to be quick. In peak meal times, so from lets say 11:30-1:30, and 4:30-6:30, for every two orders, two more should be cooked at the same time. This allows for quicker service.

It is so simple...but doesn't seem to be done.

Has anyone seen any updates from KI Comms about Haunt preparations? I haven't seen anything on Twitter. You'd think trying to get folks excited for Haunt could help drive attendance and potential pass sales.

I have been told by a team member of the decorating crew that this was not intentional, not sure I 100% believe it....however....what I do believe is that it was a half @$$ed decision to put it out without being fixed/repaired. It's shocking to me that coming from a park that won the best haunt event last year, does not care enough to keep details pristine. How long has it been damaged? Was this damaged during moving? Was it damage prior? Why couldn't it have been fixed before going out on park? How many of these tombstones with names on them get damaged like this each year (after year)? I've said it to a few before, why half @$$ something when you can whole @$$ something. If you're going to do something, do it right the first time...there is less headache later on. Just asking questions out loud here.

Would be a major improvement.

I say Voyage is not that good.

This!! The way they merge the TimeSaver and General line is what I think holds it up. They don't "pulse the station," filling the individual row queues like they should. Part of the problem I think is that they merge below the station floor so they have to walk up the stairs to see if there is enough room to let the next groups go through (at least that's how it was on my last visit).

https://x.com/dollywood/status/1701611625071919200?s=46&t=EVITZdIgEfyA3YhYpqB9Fg

He has not been as a guest since his departure as an employee.

Ahahahaa no!

Tony does such a great job with updates....short, sweet and to the point.

Working in the haunt industry and being trained by some of the awesome heavy hitters throughout the Ohio Haunters Association, I can say that roamers are good to have. At an outdoor attraction, such as KI, to get people amped up to enter the house (maze) or scare zone, you want to have queue actors (aka roamers at KI). Imagine going to a haunted house in the middle of October and there is nothing outside of the house to set the mood that you may get scared including actors. You just walk up to the building and enter with no "setting" being portrayed, no actors giving you information on the place whether rules/history/portraying a character that may be inside...it'd be boring for sure. If they half @** or not even that, the entrance experience you'd likely expect the inside of the attraction to be half @**ed. The queue actors not only amp guests up to head into an attraction, but they set the expectations of how to act within the attractions. Yes you have your greeters at the entrances of the mazes for the rules but in person interactions when a guest touches what they shouldn't touch (actor or prop) queue actors have more flexibility to roam, tell a guest to stop, flag security down, etc. I have not worked a Cedar Fair haunt, but I will say that I do know the haunt industry is way more complicated than what meets the eye.

Not sure, but is this the video that gets played on FunTV?