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Regarding Planet Snoopy, a little while back someone said a Camp Snoopy conversion could be the end of the Snoopy Boutique shop in the old skyride station. I disagree, that building is perfectly fine. Personally, if anything current aside from the amphitheater is in the way of improvements, it’s Woodstock Whirlybirds. The station and queue structure takes up a good amount of space, and the track and support columns cause both height clearance and ground interference around the entire route. The capacity isn’t great and it’s just kind of in the way around the main core of the area.

Is this finally the end for the remnants of the failed Intamin flume ride?

Looks like a transportable model of the ride, I guess the operators don't know the carnival trick of walking around back and unplugging it.

Well I was wrong, good thing I'm not into betting! I guess they figure Dragster was the most commonly known part of the name, so Top Thrill 2 for two towers works out?

I fully expect the name is a placeholder, and that's interesting regarding the stats. The speed of the reverse launch that's listed certainly wouldn't require a 420-foot spike... It's obviously an incomplete placeholder page, all the images were generic stock photos, and again Top Thrill 2 would be like Son of Beast.

Remember B&M and SkyHigh on the contractor list? If Flying Ace gets replaced, there's also this option: https://bolliger-mabillard.com/product/family-coaster

It's happened to me twice, both times resulting in the phone getting tossed out the side of the train somehow. In 2002, my Nokia 3285 somehow got out of my front pocket on Beast and they found it in the dirt, minus the battery pack, the next morning. Being a Nokia it still worked fine despite having hit something sufficient to knock the battery off into the unknown, never to be found. All it needed was a new battery pack. In 2010 I had a Samsung Alias 2, normally I had it in a holster case but of course that particular day I forgot the case and it was in my front pocket, after getting off Diamondback I reached for my phone while walking into the exit shop and it wasn't there. Went back to the station, wasn't there. Filled out a form but it was never found, best guess was it happened during the helix to the midcourse brakes and got hurled off into the woods because it continued to ring when called for a while afterward, so it was working but apparently somewhere that isn't checked. In both instances, I had absolutely no idea it had happened until sometime after the ride. Both times were in my front pocket with my wallet but only the phone was somehow lost. Like @DoomPlague said, usually when sitting my front pockets are, or at least should be, too tight for either of those situations to have happened, but somehow they still did. Ever since the second time, I always use either a belt holster or a secured cargo pocket. With Diamondback's seat and restraint design, I can see how it happened, but Beast confuses me to this day.

Mine is around here somewhere, it's actually really nice for a freebie.

I know the subject is a dead horse but I’d be okay with a clear-the-park method if it was being done to uncover and set up the edgier theming and whatnot. I miss the more “adult” version that Haunt debuted with in 2007, mazes like Club Blood and shows like Dead Awakening and Hot Blooded.

The last time I saw a coaster train on the pavement like that without the transport frame was the third X-Flight train in Geauga’s parking lot during the relocation, that train was used for spare parts and never ran again. It’s possible a third-party inspection of the trains has been requested as part of the lawsuit, so the vehicles were brought out to a more accessible location.

Yeah, it seemed like a sketchy concept for a while, 500' lift up on top of the cliff? Second hill higher than Kingda Ka? But now they're actually installing track based on ground level and lifting equipment up onto the cliff. But, regarding Dragster, I think Tony is just doing Tony things. The track that was taken off Dragster was sent to the Port of Genoa in Italy, and has now returned from there after modifications and painting, in addition to a bunch of new steel. It's obviously not proof that Intamin isn't involved, but considering CF's relations with Intamin ever since the i305 problems and the flume ride at CP being a total failure, I still think we're looking at a Zamperla project.

RCDB hasn't listed it yet but there are photos of construction underway, with white Intamin track. https://www.themeparx.com/six-flags-qiddiya-saudi-arabia/

They're just sitting on their wheels, not even in the usual frames. They had previously been back by a maintenance shop during Winter Chill Out, I HIGHLY doubt those are getting used again. Maybe they had to be brought out for inspection as part of the lawsuit.

I wouldn't say no to a Manta-style B&M flyer, either as part of an Area 72 expansion or maybe even in Vortex's plot.

The white track could be part of Intamin's Falcon's Flight at Six Flags Qiddiya, it's currently under construction.

The “it’s not really a giga” claims drive me nuts. Apollo’s Chariot is an undisputed hyper, but with a sub-200 structure and terrain first drop. KI building a giga that way is a very KI way of building a giga because of our history with using the available terrain in ride designs.

Matarese is not #1.

Wood doesn’t rust, the most this has is some kind of primer or fabrication coating. It’s scuffed up where the rigging was attached to it.

Ah, a not-so-shiny new column!

Looks like the lateral brace column is also being replaced, the one being raised in that video thumbnail has a bolting flange on it.

Apparently I’m the only person on here other than you that’s seen the movie a current attraction is named after.

A normal Lazy River in Soak City to fill the "calm, relaxing" role that was lost with the conversion of the original to an Action River.

To answer the thread title's question, I'm going to say the original Antique Cars. Paramount was bad at putting things where they didn't fit, like building IJST using less than half of that land instead of Action Zone where it would actually fit the theme of the area. Action Zone itself was meant to be a backlot, but instead they bulldozed a large area, an attraction the park itself was designed around, and just thunked it down there while leaving the rest of the property a bunch of flat grass. Regarding Diamondback, I'm sure it would be done differently now in a more area-fitting way, but the early Cedar Fair years focused more on catching up on things Paramount had lagged on, especially the spree of building B&M hypers. Maybe if Paramount hadn't done IJST how they did, Diamondback's station area could have taken the place of the closed Rivertown Antique Cars area and crossed the pathway using the lift hill instead of the drop, without removing the lake. The return run could have been a tunnel under the midway to get back to that side of the path for the finale element and brakes. Obviously there's no way to bring back Swan Lake as it was, but there's a lot of open grass on both sides of the pathway there, behind Showplace and also across from Diamondback that's sat vacant for a very long time now. A new lake as an entry to Rivertown could use both of those areas, with the pathway bridging over it. Diamondback's repaint is a welcome step in making it blend in more, but things like landscaping around the pool, upgrading and theming the queue, replanting the excessive number of removed trees behind the former Crypt building to better obscure the back half of the ride, there's plenty of things that can be done just with theme and landscape work to fit the area better. (There is still a box of broken flip phones that forms the "theming" for the queue. That got old ten years ago, guys.)

It's probably both a matter of a new spinning ride getting broken in, and there's probably also a mechanism where every car has to be set to the same rotation limit. People keep saying some spin easily but others barely spin even with a lot of power, so they're probably just not all matched yet. It seems a certain person thinks that these rides are supposed to be direct replacements for Keggers and Skylab.

Okay, first yeah that was a minor spoiler, but that being said...