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I would also suggest when doing park trips to also doing other things than parks. Life's too short to do such traveling and miss everything else around the parks. Diversify what you do on trips. On the trip I did last summer, I had a few other things including the best decisions I made in doing downtown Williamsburg and Virginia Beach first, squeezing in a brief visit to Gettysburg between VA and PA, and doing Longwood Gardens and their night fountain show near Philly for last.

^Yikes, I wonder what WWC is like.

@pianoman does this count as fountain ERT?

Anybody got any pictures from 2006/2007 with the sea of trash cans at KI?

^SFGAdv has a major pull from NYC (only an hour away which is nothing for the average commuter in that area). I saw TONS of NY plates and heard that accent everywhere when I last went. I also saw tons of the teen groups (line cutting was an issue) the chaperone policies are supposed to weed out as well. You also have SFMM which is less than 40 minutes from LA. SFoT is literally in the Dallas/FtW area, SFFT is very close to San Antonio, SFoG is a stones throw from Atlanta, SFGAm is less than an hour from Chicago, SFStL close to St Louis, Darien Lake close to Buffalo, La Ronde is in downtown Montreal, and Six Flags Mexico is 30 minutes from Mexico City. SFNE is a bit far from Boston or Hartford, but its still pretty densely populated in the area.

If anyone has been following the Flash construction at SFGAdv and the fact it hasn't opened yet, if KI is waiting for a part from Vekoma, this should surprise you none.

As much as I like Diamondback and MT, the era before they were built gave Rivertown this quaint feeling I miss. The lake DB used to inhabit was probably the best quiet area of the park, especially when the Tiques were still there. Eating in the back of WINGS back then was the best. Also, WAY more shade.

^Flight of Fear is essentially part of that area of the park. The joke among enthusiasts was it was an amalgamation of the different rides when you have Flight of Fear, Volcano, Avalanche, I-305, Anaconda, Backlot and Crypt in the same area. I went last year and it seemed more cohesive with the retheme of Avalanche and the new 4D coaster. The new wing coaster is going in the old Volcano plot which is kind of close to the path to P305. I would suspect a jungle-esque theme for P305 with it being by the new ride and Anaconda. I wish their Flight of Fear would be rethemed as well.

We now have teasers. From Kings Dominion's Facebook page. I'm also thinking we'll see a Project 305 re-theme next year as well.

I think we'll see a hint of their direction going forward when announcement season arrives and 2025 passes go on sale. I'm watching the original Six Flags parks with a lot of interest, I think it's going to be an opposite situation of what some enthusiasts believe- rather than the Six Flags parks dragging down the former CF parks, the CF style will uplift the Six Flags parks. How they handle the parks that are in close proximity to each other (looking at you SoCal and Philly) will be interesting to see play out as well.

I think it also speaks volumes to whatever ends that- 1. the OP poster has disappeared 2. this thread hasn't been closed/deleted

I was initially wondering how the rafts would get back to the top, but this model uses water jets alone to go uphill rather than the Pro-Slide version which use magnets.

Even more for those of us who grew up with KCKC.

Hersheypark and Knott's Berry Farm say hi. I think Banshee and Orion both are begging for another ride to interact with, especially Banshee and the currently unused SOB station.

^I take enthusiast talk with a grain of salt anymore. I believe in the 'those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know' approach. A lot of enthusiasts are 20-somethings who aren't privy to the whole picture of things and cherry pick one or two things to try and predict something without taking in the wider picture. I'll believe it when I see it, but I'm not putting much value into predictions with the initial high emotions a lot of enthusiasts are having at this early moment in the merging process. Heck, I don't even consider MIA or Great Escape on the chopping block yet either, it's too early to predict anything like that IMO.

I try not to post POVs that aren't from sources like Coasterforce or TPR as I don't know if they're done legally.

^I don't buy that. I drove that distance last summer doing my trip and SFA definitely has the DC and Baltimore markets to pull from comfortably. DC and Baltimore to KD, HP and DP are a hike. I'm taking the patient approach to all this. I'm nowhere close to the doom and gloom approach a lot of the KI fanbase is taking, especially knowing that CF higher ups are still mostly in control of things. I'm choosing to be cautiously optimistic for now.

I haven't been to the park this season, but upon looking at a Diamondback POV from what appears to be this season, there appears to be earth work or something around the Crypt building, the ground looks rougher around the building than normal. Anything going on there?

^Dat weather today.

I prefer Millenium Force. I like that you get to enjoy its high speed with areas lower to the ground passing trees and other things at 80+ mph. Orion feels too similar to more typical hyper coasters with some extra height. Orion is still a good coaster, its just I want a little more out of gigas with the added speed they have to play with. I like a balance between higher elements and low to the ground elements. For me, Fury is the creme de la creme of gigas, and for me, MF is the next best example which does with Fury does (which, I have high hopes for Leviathan whenever I get to CW). I do prefer Orion to P305 as the KD ride, while nice, focuses too much on sheer intensity for me. I prefer a giga be a scaled up hyper coaster over the hyper-intense focus of P305.

^Add onto that a certain other Arrow once at the park had structural issues due to taking unbanked turns too fast with heavy coaster trains.

Count me happy about a potential new water coaster. I was hoping we'd see one once HW had a few.

Hershey and Knoebels flood all the time and their wooden coasters in those areas prone to flooding are still doing good.

@TombRaiderFTW That feels like a very Dan Snyder move when he was at SIX to essentially patent/trademark everything.

You also have to take into account what Paramount/Viacom was trying to do with the parks, they were trying to make them more like Universal Studios parks. I think all 5 would have lost that more traditional seasonal park feeling and turned into directionless monstrosities. I'm glad Paramount left. Paramount couldn't have saved SOB if they tried. From what I know (I can't pull up sources since they're all archived into the ethers of the internet), everyone approached to fix SOB turned it down. Kinzel and his ego were so desperate to get it back they chose to do it in-house. I'm surprised Gerstlauer even approved the use of their trains on it.