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Well, while it didn't come in 2021, one is coming for 2025. I like the track color. Courtesy of Kings Dominion Fanatics via Facebook

You mean 3? Bat, Iron Dragon, Vortex 4 if you count Ninja after the merger goes through.

Sky Rocket at Kennywood is mildly better than Backlot and FoF, though not by much, but I did find Tempesto decently comfy. Almost nothing was worse than the initial OTSR's on Flight of Fear.

My idea of a Congo Falls replacement would be a Mack water coaster, though, my imagined version would also remove Timberwolf so it could have enough area to do 2 splashes.

Apologies if this goes off on non-HBL tangents. I remember being creeped all the way out by the animatronic of Gargamel on Enchanted Voyage. I vaguely remember Sunshine Turnpike, the slide, and the playgrounds. I wasn't a fan of coasters on my earlier visits in the 90s (born in 86), and one thing I attribute to that is the tunnel on Beastie (wasn't a fan of AE or Beast for that reason early on as well). I totally get why they removed it- I think I would have warmed up to coasters faster if it didn't have the tunnel back in the day. I think I remember a Jabberjaw (the HB shark) fountain near the blue ice cream as well. I would say before I started to like the coasters, my favorite rides were both flumes, WWC, the original Tiques (my family mostly rode from the Rivertown side for some reason), and KIMVRR. Also, footlong Skyline coneys where Mystic Timbers is currently. I really miss the original ivy tunnel as well, it served as a nice area separator between RT and HBL. I remember the original wood carving shop used to be by the smaller flume. The Coca-Cola Cool Zone in The Beast queue was also nice in the summer. Strangely, I was only indifferent to Racer (pre-last drop removal), and it was Top Gun that got me interested (I think it had to do with it being so quiet compared to the rest of KI's line up at the time plus the theming was awesome early in its life). The single moment that got me hooked for the KI coasters was riding Vortex and my first Beast night ride back-to-back on a P&G buyout day (I think it was 94 or 95). There's one thing that I have a hard time remembering about Adventure Village that I think I get wrong. Before the water tower in Action Zone, wasn't there a body of water of some sort in that spot across from the old shop that you went through when exiting King Cobra? Does anyone here have any pictures that spot in Adventure Village before the Action Zone re-theme? Speaking of Action Zone- bring back the Skyflyer lighting package.

You know, with CF working with Vekoma again, Vekoma did create trains for an Arrow suspended coaster in England- Vampire at Chessington World of Adventures. Maybe they could do it for Bat to give it some more life if it comes to that?

Waldameer has been chipping away at Ravine Flyer II recently, could be for that. Twister at Knoebels has also started receiving track work recently.

Yeah, a drop floor seems rather inefficient compared to a few swinging gates. I'm always thinking of these things as something needless that can go wrong and cause downtime.

Just saw POVs of this and Good Gravy, and I feel having a drop floor is a bit overkill for a kids Boomerang coaster.

Another meta realization thing on this thread- if King Ding Dong comes back, he's going to have thousands of mention notifications with no idea why. Did we just low key create a KDD thread?

Has Eiffel Tower opened at all this year?

Photo request- can we get a shot of the new stuff from the Eiffel Tower?

I feel Carowinds has a pretty top heavy line up with Fury, Afterburn, Thunder Striker (formerly Intimidator) and Copperhead up there and a few decent flats like Electro Spin and the newer Aeronautica Landing stuff, but the gap between them and the rest of the rides is pretty vast IMO. KD has a way more well rounded and interesting ride lineup top to bottom to me and has its own good selection of decent flats like Berserker, Delirium, and actual in-park water rides which Carowinds has none, which isn't great for being in Charlotte. Most of the other aspects are pretty even park for park like food, entertainment, etc.

I'd also add that there's more to do around KD than Carowinds. Colonial Williamsburg and Virginia Beach are relatively close, and you're also not too far from DC and everything there.

^Its a start, but I'm talking more about adding shade to that area as a whole. Before the 2006 Nick Universe expansion, the back of the kids' area was pretty well shaded. It's become a concrete jungle since, not exactly good for the target demographic in peak summer heat. It's kind of a parkwide problem IMO sans Rivertown, especially in the CF era.

I hope they go off of KD's and Carowind's Camp/Planet Snoopys and plant some more trees. I really love Carowinds Camp Snoopy with the aura the trees provide. It's one of my favorite areas of the park.

CP was the one that chose to reboot TT2, so of course they're on the hook regardless of who built it. The TTD incident is still pretty fresh.

Disregard this post. For some reason I thought I saw water features in the concept art and realized it was the flume included in it that made me think it. Carry on.

I was able to catch someone like this during Haunt one time, but not for line jumping, but for thinking the Diamondback lower switchback queue was a public restroom. They had security at the exit of Diamondback and ejected him after he disembarked (was on the same train as me and the other guests who collaborated the story). So as much as we think reporting line jumpers is a hopeless endeavor, it can be done successfully.

Considering that both CP's and Zamperla's reputations are on the line for TT2, I imagine anything like this will be quite thorough.

Isn't WCPO kinda collapsing from what I gather?

^^Is it a mild fear or is it on par with acrophobia?

Isn't the Skyline in Coney Mall with touch screens? Did they switch it to people on registers again? Also, do they have physical tickets for the orders they're making or is it on screens? They could just be bad at keeping the tickets in order if its actually on paper. My first Skyline job was like that, though, Skyline restaurants do it where each person is at a specific station, doing strictly ways, coneys, etc. KI does it assembly line style which is really unnecessary. I do get its early in the season, and it took me a while to get it down when I was first training at Skyline, but 30 minutes seems excessive.

Reading the description of the Tower Coaster, it seems the concept creator was on the same drugs as the person at Arrow who created the 4D coaster. Though, its actually a ride used in RCT3.

Boom Boom sauce doesn't sound suggestive in the slightest.