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And in doing so, please respect boundaries of the park. The mention of this on social media has folks going down and entering restricted areas to try to get better pics.

So Carowinds could put the offer on the pass instead of providing a code someone would share with the whole world....

In a cost cutting measure, they watered the drinks down so much not even the bees want them

What is it with people smoking in the choke point between Sol Spin and Enrique's? They light up in the most congested area of the park. I have seen it several times over the past few weeks.

Come on now. There is a whole Prestige pass holder contingent that would love to pay even more for less

Exactly. Love the people that have to share "hacks" that then ruin it for everyone else. And especially on FB where the park now has your name and depending on the hack, could do something about it to you. There was a member here once bragging about a hack and the park invalidated his pass so that they could talk to him the next time he tried to enter the park. I have seen families take an entire pizza home. I have seen people go into Skyline and order 3-ways and hand the employee gallon ziploc bags to put the spaghetti in one bag, chili in another bag, and the cheese in another so that it travels better. Granted the park can't really do anything about this other than not provide to go containers (and they shouldn't be touching guests containers either), but it certainly isn't the intent of the program. The intent is to keep you in the park later to maybe buy a t-shirt, or hat or candy or fudge or pretzel. Come on people LOL.

My understanding is it was a Pass Perk sent directly to select individuals. Some must have felt the need to be first one to share it and be Mr. Popular and get more social media likes instead of realizing this was a perk FOR THEM ONLY. And crap like this is why Pass Perks has been around for several years and nobody has really seen anything of value associated with it. They try to offer something to someone and that person then feels the need to broadcast it and in the process gets it shut down and the whole program put on hold because they weren't smart enough to realize it was a specialized perk intended just for them.... Who knows how much this "mistake" or error of judgement of a guest now costs CF (although CF shares in the blame for not having a better system in place)? They should make the code unique to the person so they can track down who is sharing it and ban them LOL... All kidding aside, they need to figure out a way to just apply it directly to that persons pass without them needing a code to redeem and that will prevent the ability for someone to post the code for all to go to town on it until their system freezes up because thousands were redeemed. Just like when Prestige Pass became available, instead of sending a code that was then shared, have it be one of the pass options available for the select few they intended to offer it to. Here is a clue - if it isn't available on their website or posted to twitter, it is probably not intended for everyone to have access to it, so don't post it LOL.

^But the drones prevent WindSeeker and Shake, Rattle, & Roll from operating until close. Granted those aren't as popular as other rides that have to close for the event, but it does reduce available capacity on busy days.

Would a parking lot tram count as a double attraction of the train LOL

The return of a 2nd Skyline

Maybe they try to blend/match the two rides? According to this it was painted yellow the year after TTD was built.

A 300+ foot tall giga

Isn't it ironic that our VIP lounge is staffed by merchandise associates, yet they have the ability to sell NOTHING in the lounge LOL...

Yeah it could be anything from a simple repaint, to a testing of the paint color, to a retheme. But going from orange on Iron Dragon to a grey seems like a drastic change to keep it as Iron Dragon? The current color scheme seems more appropriate for a Dragon LOL. I am thinking it will be a minor retheme just to try to tie whatever they are doing together, but who knows LOL.

I am talking about Iron Dragon LOL. Why were its lower supports painted Grey? A retheme of Iron Dragon as well?

Also interesting is the lower portion of some Iron Dragon supports are now painted the same color Grey. Could we see a repaint/retheme of it as well?

What will it take to prevent guests from pulling on the restraints with all their weight LOL. PSA - the restraints will come down on their own. My understanding is most of the downtime is related to guests pulling on the restraints and tripping faults. So while we see the ride down a lot, it appears to be more guest initiated as opposed to ride initiated because folks are used to pulling down their own restraints.

^The snack places aren't.

It can be a slipperly slope though. And we know they are in favor of upcharge. Ice will be the next upcharge

Enrique is the new food offering winner this year. Usually a line in evening. G&G not so much.

Diamondback consistently is rated higher than Orion in many coaster rankings that are not enthusiast driven. Almost everyone I talk to, whether they are an enthusiast or not, like Diamondback better than Orion. Diamondback line is typically longer than Orion, although some of that can be attributed to the bins versus no bins. Fact of the matter is we got Orion as CF essentially paid for a design that couldn't be built at the intended park, so they did the minimum they could to make it a "giga" and could put in another park as it was a hyper intended for CGA. KI just happened to be the logical place for such a coaster. Had that original design been able to be constructed at CGA, perhaps our giga that would have came a few years later would have been more what people were expecting...

I think for the money or cheaper, we could have had a giga that favors speed over the hills and floater air we have on Orion AND Diamondback. Orion as a speed demon without all the high hills would have been a better option to separate itself from Diamondback and not be referred to as DB2.0 as many guests call it lol As a result of two coasters providing the same floater air, many compare Diamondback and Orion as roughly the same experience. At Carowinds, you don't hear many say that Fury is the same experience as their hyper Intimidator 2.0 lol.

How do they burn hot dogs that are steamed lol

Sorry for double post, but they installed some electrical outlets this morning.

Wonder if any of the juveniles arrested were under 15 or if they had a chaperone in park or opted for the rent-a-chaperone .....