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It will be removed for Beast 2.0

One could argue that this implies 2025 and not 2024, but vague enough (like a lot of their messaging) that FUN legal will say this was for rest of 2024:

And what better way to accelerate that schedule than to start removing stuff... (looking at you Coney Island eliminating rides...)

Given the amount of daily work going into Steel Vengeance I would say Fury has a much longer life left than Steel Vengeance. Especially if the bean-counters have their way... That is the "advantage" of a wooden over a steel coaster is that with proper care, the wooden coaster can last a lot longer and The Beast should be around longer than any of our current steel coasters. Theoretically forever LOL, but at some point the O&M costs may start to get too high and corporate makes the decision to remove...or RMC it LOL It is sad though when bean counters start making cost-cutting measures just for the sake of cost-cutting without considering the impacts on a long-term basis.

The point being made is when bean counters look at strictly cost and disassociate all other factors (that happens all too often in businesses in cost cutting modes), then decisions that are unpopular to the public happen. But you do realize as a steel coaster that Fury will be removed at some point...same with KI steel coasters...

I am not saying it is the case and let's hope SIX never gets to this point, but the problem that is often the case is that you get a bean counter that simply looks at the dollars and cents and takes all emotion out of the decision. They say eliminate the ride with the highest O&M cost without taking other factors into consideration and that is how a popular ride that draws people gets eliminated.

And yet people say KK having a Winterfest event competes with the greater Cincinnati local passholders of KI's Winterfest.....

Slingshot was literally in the middle of getting repainted and then was stopped and torn out...

I am sure all those older rides were posted to Facebook

Keep in mind we have seen this before at our own park... Did the guests that loved Slingshot get to say goodbye? Did the guests that loved Pipeline Paradise get to say goodbye? Granted one was a paid attraction and not everyone did Pipeline, but a ride has the distinction of being a favorite ride for somebody. Maybe KI once again was a test park for this new kinda rollout

Fixed it for you

You forgot the *in the park

I suspect the date already happened. Seems to be the new thing.

He is looking for schells

Taking advantage of stuff just laying around to make a cool interactive feature.

I am reminded of a quote that Jason McClure (former GM of CP and now Senior VP in SIX) has said and I have used it on the forum frequently as to why something may or may not be said from Corporate: "It is important to remember that Cedar Fair is a publicly traded company and that affects the type and timing of our communication." That simple statement says it all. There are countless of real world, everyday examples demonstrating this same technique in other businesses and industries. At the end of the day, they are not under any obligation to tell us the whole truth and thus they control the narrative and how it is presented (unless of course someone leaks it out earlier). The fact of the matter is someone in the know will not officially come out and say something against the narrative the park is telling...unless they don't care about potentially losing their job LOL.

This will help them achieve their goal of being "comfortably crowded"

I think he just posted it as it shows on the webpage:

Didn't they tout some line to the investors about the merger would result in like $200M in savings by consolidating/eliminating positions, etc. Well, there were not enough positions/consolidations to eliminate to come close to $200M in savings, so they have to find it in other ways. Either cut capital expenditures or reduce operational expenditures....

So is announcing ride closures AFTER the season is over the new SIX norm?

8" lol I found the Turkey Ball to be a ton of shredded turkey and not enough stuffing.

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