SonofBaconator

Coca-Cola Freestyle Coaster: each car is painted to resemble a Coke product. The parking garage gets painted to resemble a Coca-Cola facility, billboards have Coke advertisements on it, the tunnel hits you with different smells of Cola, Sprite, Fanta, etc depending on your ride. You want product placement? You got it!

I’d like to see them paint the trains a different set of colors. I know why they initially did it because they couldn’t use the mini cooper theming anymore but that doesn’t mean each car can’t be painted a different color: orange, teal, black, green, pink, yellow, etc. It doesn’t seem like it would take a lot of effort to repaint them to be honest. Heck if they want to do Easter Eggs, paint each train to honor the 3 major sports teams in Cincinnati: a FC Cincinnati themed train with each respective car being blue, orange, and white, a Bengals train with black, orange, and white, and a reds train with red, white, and black or grey. Or do something different, as long as the trains get repainted.

No worries! Vaguely but I’m sure we’d love to hear more!

That’s sort of rude. I just had a thought and didn’t think it was necessary to start another thread. It’s not always bad to bring back old threads.

I wouldn’t mind the idea of paid advertising on the billboards if it was done right. For example: a Coca-Cola billboard that already ties into their partnership with the park. Other ideas could be a billboard promoting Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, Skyline Chili, etc.

I have a really dumb question so please humor me…. Could the park sell ad space in BLSC’s billboards to generate the park more revenue? Would the park go for something like that? Would a company even want to buy ad space on a billboard/roller coaster prop?

They might make some alterations for this season so it might not be the exact same show.

This might have been discussed but is the concept of Oktoberfest truly gone from the park? Do you think they’d ever try and do a legit festival like Cincinnati does in September?

I wouldn’t mind a small footprint coaster like V2 from SFDK- I just wish it had better capacity.

@Delirium13, also static figures go a long way. There were figures that didn’t even move (the portraits for example) and most of the figures that moved only really moved a few body parts (head, mouth, arms, eyes, etc.) If they can incorporate more static figures into the ride, they could save some $$$ in maintenance and upkeep. If you look at the Haunted Mansion at the Disney parks, few figures move very much- some move very slightly or they’re on a mechanism that makes them move.

I’m not saying KI competes with Disney, but I think they should seriously look into some lower budget dark rides/indoor attractions that could potentially allow for a longer season during the winter weekends. With how Cedar Fair wants to incorporate stories into their attractions, they could come up with some concepts that people would enjoy; similar to how people have a cult following behind Phantom Theater. In fact, most dark rides have strong followings and fandoms that the chain could utilize in the form of merchandise.

KI used to boast 4 indoor attractions and now they’re down to 2. Do people miss the 4D theater as an attraction?- I never got to experience it..

I understand what you’re getting at, I just wish some buildings were used more- it doesn’t have to necessarily be every one. I’d still like to see a museum and maybe a ADA complaint fun house of sorts

I think some of the haunt buildings can be used for more than just seasonal attractions. Quite honestly, if they gut some of the buildings and design them like they were non haunt attractions, they could make minor tweaks to them to reincorporate them into Haunt. Take Blackout for example, they could use that building to tie into the story of Banshee and have it be an old abandoned house that adds to the theme that they could enhance during haunt- same with the SOB building, Killmart, etc. With how KI and CF are trying to push stories, having a building that ties stories into nearby attractions would be neat. In addition, it was fascinating seeing all of the temporary 50s nostalgia hit the park, it would be cool to see old KI historical “artifacts “ preserved in an on-site museum for older generations to go inside and reminisce on past memories.

I thought I’d create a large thread solely focused on the discussion of all animation that’s basically “non screen”. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with animatronics, practical affects, and optical illusions seen at parks like Disney, on old KI attractions like Phantom Theater, Enchanted Voyage, the old and new train figures, and non park attractions like what you see at those family shooting galleries with Daniel’s Woodland or even Chuck E Cheese. Happy discussing!

I don’t believe GWL was listed as a “preferred” hotel when Cedar Fair operated Camp Cedar for obvious reasons. Now that Cedar Fair doesn’t operate Camp Cedar, I don’t think it makes sense for them to list the property as a “preferred hotel.” We might see GWL return as a “preferred hotel”, now that Camp Cedar is no longer affiliated with the chain but who knows.

I also don’t see us getting a relocated coaster that’s that old. Would it be cool?-sure, but I’d rather have the chain spend more money on a more modern coaster than a relocation.

I’m a little surprised they didn’t change the name

I think that would be nice, and maybe rope off certain areas until it becomes night time. Has KI ever done live Reindeer? I think that would be a cool thing for guests to see and a lot of holiday events incorporate them in.

It would be cool if it was tied into Philadelphia a little bit. Would painting it dark green and calling it “Eagle” violate any trademarks by the Philadelphia Eagles?

I wonder if they’re going for a 200fter like Griffon: 1-2 inversions or something under 200ft that features more inversions like Emperor.

I always felt like the Plus system devalued some of KI’s rides. Of course newer rides are more popular out the gate so it makes sense that they’re on the plus system, but I always felt like coasters that aren’t on the plus (like Banshee and Diamondback) were deemed “not worthy” and therefore indirectly devalued them.

I think we’ll see Phantom Theater return in 2024 and see construction that year for 2025 but that’s just me

From KD’s Facebook page

If you get a building the size of Festhaus (maybe even smaller) you could pull off a dark ride of a similar quality to the Winnie the Pooh ride I showed earlier. That stage/barnyard could fit a building of a similar square footage. Whether that would generate a good ROI or not, I’m not sure.