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Was there a really big tree with it? Was the Raccoon armed and snarky?

As I've stated, I'd like to see the animals, but frankly, that's not going to happen in this lifetime. It's just not going to happen. Part of me suspects that they are putting in more rides to cover for the day they won't have the animals. I follow their social media, and from my point of view, the park should focus on the rescue, and quit with the numbers game of trying to get people into the park by any means necessary. More people on discounted tickets doesn't mean those people are going to buy out the souvenir stand. As a working class kid, I know. The merch is for "other people" and working class people on a ticket discounts don't buy them. Discounts don't bring in revenue. You can't bring rescue into the limelight by selling tickets to tagalongs when you escort turtles int the sea- it's too much like open water whale watching, it would do more harm than good. I suspect there will be a day when they just hand the whales over to the protestors, and the we'll have to foot the bill via taxes for 30 really huge funerals when they screw up and kill all the whales. I suspect the little protesting angels will leave the sharks be, as they are ugly and not cute and cuddly. I would like to see the Sharks, though.

So it's not my imagination that Whips don't go as fast as they used. At Lesourdesville, I felt like it was very fast, but later, when I was older, rode a Whip and concluded that it was because I was so young that I thought they were faster.

Voicetek, I don't see too many other posters with an HB av!

The Peanuts costumes look easy to maintain and clean, too. That's a plus when you have little kids coming up to them all day.

Usually, the only attraction open (& rideable) in Planet Snoopy was Boo Boo's Blasters (the Kiddie Carousel ran constantly as a prop for Freak Street). Everything else was closed and most of the paths were roped off, leaving the path from Boo's to Great Pumpkin and the path from Great Pumpkin all the way up to the former Peanuts Playhouse (with both entrances to Rivertown as well). Of course, now there's no maze in the Playhouse, so the path now (supposedly) ends at Snoopy Boutique and the restrooms. Mysteria was....an interesting attraction. It was a slight redesign from Death Row/The Asylum, which was chain-link fencing, mirrors, and a god-awful siren and strobe system, all set up in a pseudo-maze layout with dead ends and u-turns. Mysteria removed the siren and strobes, covered up almost all of the mirrors with white tarps, and dressed the actors up in full-body Morphsuits. Oh, and they cranked up the fog a TON inside. It wasn't as bad as the year prior when Death Row was an all-female cast made up of former Club Blood dancers thrown into an environment they had no experience in and told to act like deranged inmates, but it only lasted two years before they transformed it into the current Board 2 Death. But Blackout is either exactly what it sounds like - a literal black-out maze where everything (save for emergency exit signs) is pitch black and it's more of a sensory overload with the absence of sight - or a more abstract concept, maybe a Trapped or Alone-style attraction with elements of interactivity. I witnessed the Female Detention Center for Sullen Youths firsthand. I think I'd prefer the pitch black, featureless, albeit for Exit lights, Haunt. Of course, my first thought is, "Well. At least a dark room painted black saves on props and decor."

I don't know about the I intricate politics of Holiday World, I'd always wanted to visit, but being free lance means your dance card fills up at the oddest times. Looking at Alabama's Splash Adventures social media, it looks like a fun little clean park. The county it is in has had some troubles, but that doesn't mean the park is doomed. The Facebook page had very few complaints. Maybe this is what the area needed.

I think the color scheme and theming for Planet Snoopy are great. I love the Red Baron planes, and the way the log flume has been re themed into "Race for Your Life". I agree with you that sometimes all that is done is a paint job and mew fiberglass characters on rides, but for me, Nickelodean was too 'gloppy' looking with its crooked lines and colors. Of course I'm going to always love HB Land, that was my park as a kid, but Planet Snoopy seems so bright, and for some reason, more spacious to me than before. I think CF did a really great job with the Peanuts theming.

Thanks for injecting some common sense in the matter. Up until now, my only problem in riding with a child has been making sure they get the side of the ride where they can wave to their parents unobstructed, and for the last how ever many pages I've been reading all these dire implications.

I never thought about that.

I love the podcast, and yes, also listen to serial. I had no idea it was also a video presentation- Thanks!

Fisticuffs! In the John L. Sullivan pose! Honestly, it could have been something as simple as a person stepping on the heel of another's sandal more than once. Sometimes I get irate when the person behind me steps on my heel repeatedly. It seems to be as if they were in the queue across from each other, but it could also an invasion of space. I'm with unstop, it was just a long tiring day. Perhaps they were there just to cool off a bit, but the heat of the crowd didn't help the AC.

A rickety theme park ride is truly scary, and not in a good way. I recall serving beer in Cincinnati, and I know you've seen me in the nineties- I had earrings made from a Swiss Army Knife's corkscrew and bottle opener. I would work at events that were just... creepeeeee. The dead Rockstar ride that had horrible airbrush portraits and made a weird cranky sound, and the haunted house that were just two trailers tied together, despite the fact that Six Flags Haunted Castle fire was still relatively recent. The Rat Wheel game was the worst; they used real rats. You want to wash it all off as soon as possible, it was a sinister vibe that you didn't even want in your car on the way home. I looked at the news photo, and the ride looked like a German tin toy. That's a not-good scary.

So Planet Snoopy is going to be completely in the dark with the electricity shut off? I can't see why they can't have to two rides that are also for adults open? I'm seriously asking: is it because the circuitry of the park?

I must figure out how that's done. I have a recipe for maple bacon cupcakes that causes a frenzy, and really, they are so simple to make.

To younger patrons, the Peanuts are property of CF. When they see detergent and insurance commercials, they think CF. They want to actually see a kid walking around the park in a dust cloud. In some cases, they want to BE that kid. They go to the park, see the characters, and when Halloween comes around, think that the theme park splurged to make a cartoon about the Great Pumpkin. I've seen this happen. When I'd first heard of the Peanuts being the theme of the kid's section of the park, I thought it would be boring and bland, but my opinion doesn't matter. The reaction of the kids matter, and I've seen they like the Peanuts characters. The way they dress the characters in different themed costumes and the way the characters behave in a way that kids can relate makes it work. This has been the most attractive I've seen that area of the park in a long time.

This thread at least explains why my cousin and I are so wildly popular at Planet Snoopy. Two little old ladies that hop onto a ride with your kid doesn't seem bad at all considering what I've been reading. I understand that there's a potential for pedophiliacs being at the park, but sometimes a parent can't ride with a kid, either due to size, or a very small one in a stroller, or an odd number of riders. I'll ride with a kid. That way I can enjoy the ride as if it were the first I was on it.

Bum Deal. I wished they'd show the rides in each separate park getting the walkabout.

I didn't know they had a maintenance short on FunTV. Huzzah.

Well- so much for optimism.

I like it. I'll give it some time, it's just started. Maybe down the pike they will have interviews with designers, performers, etc..

I remember the upstairs trudge up the slides' stairs, burlap bag in hand. The bags were particularly prickly on a hot day. Now I realize why there was never a long line- the stairs.

I wish KI would bring back that slide that was in Coney. It was dry, and you used burlap sacks to slide down. It's idiot fun, but it's fun.