James

There could be ways around this, such as building a coaster making use of the valleys on the SOB side of the park, or back behind the park in The Beast woods, if you've ever walked down there, as I have many times, you know they could well fit a 300+ foot drop in there without "technically" being higher than the tower. I only hope they would do this, as Millenium Force is still one of my favorite rides. With all the trouble Intamin's had (the bad press, actually) I doubt if that's an option at this point, though.

Dated? Flared jeans are dated, 80's rock is dated, heck, even all the coasters in PKI are dated. There are no recent state-of-the-art designs for coasters at PKI: Suspended, Arrow-looper, Arrow mine train, Wood terrain coaster, Junior coasters, Boomerang... Just because a ride is dated doesn't mean people don't want to ride it. Why do you think the Scrambler is still there? How about the carousel? I'd be interested to see how many people ride that. I'm not saying you should take any of these rides out, but just because a ride doesn't have great showings in capacity numbers doesn't mean it should immediately be taken out. PKI only did it in this instance because of the nature of Action Theater. They can change films and shows cheaply on the fly. That's why DOT was taken out. Hopefully they will just do a publicity stunt, and herald back the welcome return of this classic PKI ride later in the year, this time with some ADVERTISING.

Well, I finnaly gave in to my "no posting" policy, after 10 years of restraint, to say that I, for one, thought DOT was the best action theatre had, as far as excitement from start to finish. Also I agree that the low attendence was in no way due to the lack of interest, but rather the lack of advertising for DOT. All the signs say Spongebob in the park maps, and even until you get up to where the line splits in half. As a worker at PKI for 2 years, and a huge fan of my home park, I have to say somebody may have missed an opportunity here. Anyway, bombard me with slams or whatever, DOT was a great thing back in the day, and I'm glad I got one more ride on it in it's short rerun at PKI.