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Looking forward to checking out HW this summer for the first time.

You got me there.

Oh yeah. Cedar Fair thinks Kingda Ka is a threat to the totally fine and operational Top Thrill 2. The raving success of that ride had led them to close Kingda Ka out of sheer vengeance and not because the ride concept has been a total disaster since opening, Makes sense.

Sorry (not sorry) for the double post, but… Happy Winterfest, KIC!

Can’t wait! Always my favorite time of year at the park!

Could not agree more. But unfortunately, I think it “works” to well for the park for them to make any major changes.

I mean…. Let’s see this happen.

Wishful thinking, but I’m hoping dark ride.

I was talking about Action Zone. Not sure what that has to do with TR:TR. But the theme and IP were, and would still be horribly out of place. So, hopefully they won’t do that. Pretty bold claim to make without having experienced it. Cedar Fair isn’t really to blame. Huss, the ride’s manufacturer, created a faulty product that literally tore itself apart. The ride’s removal was inevitable. You should check out the Defunctland video if you haven’t. Enjoyable if you’re interested in the subject.

As opposed to what’s there now? A mismatched, hodge podge collection of thematically unrelated experiences? We’d be lucky if they decided to overhaul that whole section of the park. Should they do it right.

A Gotham City retheme of Action Zone would be welcome.

I’ll second this. More dark rides! Phantom Theater revival, DC, Peanuts, new ideas, etc. Let’s see a few!

Chad, is that you?

Haven’t made it to the Point (yet), but it’s still disappointing to see the lake of care and quality chain wide. I get that as long as people keep showing up, nothing will change. But where’s the pride in the “work”? Standards need to be higher and anti-consumer anything is obviously not the way to do it.

Cracking up at the fact that the park “thinks” the massive steel coaster with a 300ft drop is family friendly. Family attractions may be a focus, but I’m sure thrilling coasters are on the horizon!

Sure. But TT2 and the decision to try and revamp the ride and that’s so far proven unsuccessful. I wonder if they’d go for something like that now. Ideally, maybe they could do another Beast “sequel” devoid of any direct connection to SoB. That could be a good happy medium. It would also be a fun marketing/theming/story opportunity.

Can’t confirm, but I remember reading here that it was a result of parade floats not being able to pass under. Lame.

Totally get where you’re coming from, but I think there are some key differences there being: 1. While a failure, the ride experience was significantly better than SoB (from what I’ve heard), and the closure was more due to engineering issues. 2. The Bat didn’t send a train full of park guests to the hospital. With that said, let’s have some fun and say that there’s potential for a ground-up RMC project on the table for the park. As an example let’s use Zadra at Poland’s Energylandia: https://rcdb.com/16184.htm Per the power of Google, the ride was estimated to have cost around $13 million USD. Which by comparison isn’t remarkably expensive, but for the sake of conversation let’s roll with it. Would the park/chain want to make that type of investment just to have it associated with a ride that had such an overwhelmingly negative history? Doesn’t seem like a solid strategy.

I’ve thought the same thing. Even if not a kids area, it would be cool to see how they could expand that space instead of another coaster. I’d honestly rather see something like that with the current state of things. To reference the original topic… Orion has left many people wanting more (I personally don’t give a Snoopy sh… er, poop about the stats). I wouldn’t want to see the same reaction to a Vortex replacement should it be hindered by the merger, budget cuts, etc. Of course, they could have had something in the works for a while, but who knows. Whatever they do, I’m hoping they stick the landing! We know they can.

That’s not even bad park etiquette. That’s straight up weak parenting.

Freedom of the press is important. Anything otherwise draws unflattering comparisons. Important to remember.

You jinxed it! Ha! https://www.npr.org/2024/10/05/nx-s1-5140056/menendez-brothers-case-review-explained

No way knowing for sure, but I can’t imagine they would be happy if that were the case. So I’d assume there would be some kind of NDA-like agreement in place.

Doesn’t that pretty much confirm this isn’t happening? I wonder if that means they had proposals to overhaul the ride before it was demolished.