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Especially when there's already vacant space. If you ever visit r/kingsisland you have people putting B&Ms in literally every green space

IMO wing coasters have become saturated in our region; we have four within 5 hours of our own park. The only way a wing coaster works, again IMO, is if its gimmicky. A compact wing with a ton of near miss elements, like you see with X-Flight at Six Flags Great America, is the only type of wing coaster I would ever want to see at KI.

I believe it was a city thing because CGA went through a ton of legal issues when Marriot tried to sell off their parks. I believe a company wanted to purchase their land for real estate which the city didn't want. I'm sure the California park was seen as baggage yo Six Flags where as the Chicago-Milwaukee park was more appealing

I'm not for removing Timberwolf. Once something is gone, its hard to bring back. I'd rather them fix it up and make it work vs demolishing it. We don't need a coaster on every vacant piece of land. Most music venues are downtown over 20 miles away so there's enough distance for it to work. Its not like Dave Matthews would stop playing at Riverbend to go to Timberwolf. KI could host their own music festival and bring in people who are looking for their big break.

I think it worked out. SFA already has the exact same coaster so it wouldn't have made sense to have two right by each other. Plus, they needed a high capacity coaster that had good uptime.

Time will only tell how the 20s will be

Please don't derail this thread. I feel like this park is transitioning in terms of how they operate. They're not really competing in any capacity

A while ago a made a very bland poll asking members which park has the best B&M collection. I'm updating it and basically including parks that have three or more. Don't worry, I was planning on doing one for Intamin as well as other large manufacturers also.

Unless its a comedy

I wonder if this was planned pre covid or if this was something they cooked up during the 2020 season. It fits in line with the company's desire for more interactive, experience based attractions

I'm honestly surprised more people haven't been talking about this. The park is called "Lost Island" https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/zoning-hearing-set-for-lost-island-theme-park/article_f7d2a416-fab6-5cf9-aa49-ff7ed99bb418.html

I purposfully didn't include La Ronde since they have a coaster of a similar design. I doubt Magic Mountain will ever get a 4d coaster after Green Lantern's failure.

Contradicting to this thread, I wanted to point out that there are 6 parks in the chain that have yet to receive a 4D freespin. Imagine being St. Louis fans waiting for years for their new coaster only to know it'll most likely be a 4d freespin.

People miss it so of course they're going to continue to ask for it to come back. I'm sure people had a lot of fun memories when it ran backwards.

Is that all people look for is airtime?

Would it be better to touch up the yellow lift and drop supports on Diamondback or repaint them to match the rest of the supports throughout the ride?

I'm honestly surprised this has become popular now, I bought both of these in 2013 in a gift shop

As of now, excluding the pandemic, Knott's is the only park in the Cedar Fair chain that operates year round. What are the chances of more parks offering year round schedules? The two that make the most sense would be California's Great America and Carowinds. California's Great America because its in a populated region that doesn't get harsh winter weather like other parks do. Carowinds just because they mentioned it a while back. Would it be advantageous to make these parks year round or would it cost more money than its worth? What about other parks I haven't mentioned?

I shared this before, its a Mack Blue Fire clone at a park overseas https://rcdb.com/12340.htm

I mean he is of Canadian origin so maybe there's a bit of an accent there. You'd be surprised at the number of people I hear in the states call Mack "Maaack"

Smiler has 14 so I don't see 6 more being an issue

I feel like if CP got a record breaking Gerstlauer they would go for the inversion count. I feel like they could go for 20 and kill any park's chances of breaking the inversion record.

I am not particularly a fan of the Six Flags brand. Don't get me wrong there's some parks in the chain that I would absolutely love to visit someday but the brand itself is problematic. The reason I singled Six Flags out is mainly because they are the most universally known amusement park chain. If you're an enthusiast you know about chains like Cedar Fair and Herschend but most GP know about Six Flags; and to an extent Sea World but I'll get back to that later. Here's the problem- no parks have proper brand identity. With the exception of 3 parks, 12 properties have the name "Six Flags" slapped on them. It seems lazy when you have parks with cool names like Magic Mountain, Great Adventure, Great America, Discovery Kingdom, Fiesta Texas, etc. I understand some parks are literally named after their region with the name "Six Flags": Over Texas, Over Georgia, St. Louis, America, and so on but changes can be made. Then you have the combined announcement videos where park patrons see how much they're loved- "Great Adventure gets a ground up single rail while St. Louis gets another flat ride." I understand not every park can get a big ride but combining your announcements seems to damage your brand. Now look at Sea World and the controversy they've been facing. There are 5 major thrill parks in their chain and 3 of them have the name "Sea World" slapped on them. If they didn't have the Blackfish controversy, I wouldn't include them on here but given there's 3 of the same parks, the controversy caries where as the Busch parks are left alone. Finally look at chains like Cedar Fair and Herschend where their brand is almost transparent. Yes their parks are similar but if you were an average member of the GP, you'd never know that Wild Adventures and Silver Dollar City are owned by the same company- the same can be said for parks like Carowinds and Canada's Wonderland. By letting their parks have their own independent identities, Cedar Fair and Herschend have built in deniability from a PR standpoint. The Shoot the Rapids incident affected Cedar Point but not Cedar Fair as a whole- compare that to someone dying on the Batman ride at Six Flags over Georgia or someone getting their leg severed on the Superman ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. Would it be beneficial for chains like Six Flags and Sea World to take a page out of Cedar Fair and Herschend's book in terms of branding?

I argue the bare minimum was done to DA, but I don't believe it was ever meant to be necessarily permanent unless is was a huge success If it was its own park with its own gate, parking lot, etc I'd argue more would have been done- exhibits updating, a sitdown eatery, maybe a few small Dino themed rides.

Invertigo should've been renamed Screaming Demon when it was repainted back in 2012