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This is the way. I assume they’ve learned a lot from Walt Disney Imagineering. They should be experts at this point with family coasters. Smart move on CF for picking them to build this next family coaster.

Vekoma has been doing business in the US for a while now. They’ve had a pretty strong relationship with Disney. It’s just now that Vekoma is willing to take on the low hanging fruit jobs again.

Just renewed mine, did everything the same except going with the premium drink plan.. I added the all park since I was already a platinum pass member. I don’t plan on switching cards next season so I’ll keep using my platinum card. Who knows maybe it’s worth money now lol.

“People gotta drink!” -DK

I just go to Kings Island, hand them my credit card and let them charge what they think is fair.

Intamin too has been having a sort of a renaissance. We might never see another Intamin installation again at a CF park, but it’s nice to see them popping up at other parks within the states, such as Disney, Busch Gardens, Universal.. Intamin gets a bad rep for all the accidents, but with further reading a fair amount of those incidents was out of their control. Not saying they haven’t been responsible with some design flaws. (Flight Commander) They’re biggest issue is with the reliability and maintenance, however from what I’ve heard they’ve been more conservative as of late.

Same can be said about spending money on IP’s. Does CF really see returns on money spent for the Peanuts IP? Or would families with kids still visit the park. Dollywood doesn’t have any IP for their kids area, and they’ve claimed best kids area for years now.

Animatronics and Cedar Fair maintenance don’t coincide, unfortunately.

After all the boos they got from the Orion announcement with people going as far as calling it the Kmart giga. That no wonder they are sticking with just a 5am social media post.

We have the attendance to pull it off. Im not sure what the numbers are but maybe the Hotels at CP play apart of their Thursday night haunt. Those hotels are the real cash cows.

I’m curious if the peanuts stage stays and gets repurposed as a food truck / food court much like what Carowinds did with their FX Theatre.

I hope we’re getting new Coca-Cola flavors. In all seriousness, I just hope whatever we are getting opens on time.

I agree, if attendance is up again next season, the Comms Dept has got to go. We don’t need longer lines.

That’s just the staging area for the water they plan on bringing back for The Beast.

I was thinking the Pipeline area would make the most sense for a Water Coaster. The land is relatively flat, already cleared and the majority of it is in dead space that is only accessible by maintenance because of the wave pools.

This area:

A ground up RMC would be nice. Completely steel with white painted supports. If they make it part of the Coney Mall section of the park. Shooting Star would be a perfect name for it. Which plays homage to the Coney Island classic.

I really like the idea of Cedar Fair switching to NFC system that works with magic bands, smart watches or smartphones like Disney. -No more waiting in line to get a wrist band for all day drink, dining, fast passes. This works two fold as no more hold ups at the registers at food concessions for wrist bands to be redeemed. -Be able to scan your band or watch your band at the station before getting into a row and the band being linked to your pass and like park visits can track what you have ridden, and keep count how many times. -No more hold ups at the gate for parking for people who struggle to have their bar code scanned. -No more hold ups at the registers for scanners not working from the sun, or simply just not working at all. -Collector bands people can buy, peanuts themed bands, bands themed of our favorite rides / coasters. -Computer Kiosks placed around the park, to purchase add ons, eliminating the need to walk back to the front gate. Also replacing workers which saves on salaries. I’m sure they’re are more creative ideas that can be brought up that can benefit from switching to an NFC system like Disney.

Disney has those too, but it would be nice if my phone and or Watch didn’t have to fight the sun on who is brighter, and I could just simply tap either to redeem my add ons via NFC.

Well what about early closures like WindSeeker and rides in Planet Snoopy? Is a half truth a half lie too? Speaking of WindSeeker, what an oxymoron name for a ride that doesn’t actually like wind.

I would think some things that would alarm guest would be kept under wrap. Like a broken cart axle, or cracked cart frame wouldn’t be disclosed to the public. Anything that would make the ride seem unsafe wouldn’t be disclosed at all. I’d imagine the same would’ve been done for Fury325 if it had been caught by the park first.

I wish Cedar Fair being cashless adopted something similar to Magic Bands at Disney. Sunblock provided in Soak City like HW or at the minimum provided inside the VIP lounge. Water fountains in the queue line like BG. Haunt Thursdays like CP. More behind the scenes tours that can be booked like BG.

CP has mobile ordering?? I didn’t know that. KI must be doing their marketing too.

This is an interesting way to do it. At Disney there is a separate counter to walk up to, to receive your mobile order. I’m curious to how this can work on a busy day, especially if people don’t arrive on time, and they run out of food lockers. I guess at that point they will no longer take mobile orders till lockers free up?

I don’t think having one train in operation is something the park is trying to do in order to save money. I’m guessing this is mainly a maintenance issue, especially on a busy days. However, I will say some coasters benefit having less trains in operation on slower days. Empty seats means the ride Ops themselves have to push down the lap bars and buckle the seatbelts, only to have to undo them when the train returns to the station. This although doesn’t seem like it would take a lot of time, once you factor in multiple empty seats it begins to add up and starts to create stacking of trains.