Not Quite Kings Island

[Shman]

I was following an update from Screascape regardig Six Flags over Texas and their Holiday event from this year when I came across some interesting pictures.

MiG Crew Online

Now I was just shocked when I saw the set in the background to their new christmas show. Take a close look at the pictures and you will see what I mean.....that is the set from Santa's Toy Factory!! There have been some minor changes made, but it is clearly the same set. I would be interested to know if this is the one from KI of Carowinds. I thought I heard that IO Productions bought back the set from the show after Kings Island canned Winterfest, but I don't know if they sold it to Six Flags of if they were brought in to do a "new" show for their park.

[RollerNut]

Not sure what KI's looked like, but here is a photo of Carowinds'

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/224532...f84fb6b.jpg?v=0

[CoastersRZ]

Kings Island`s was very similar to that set. Not sure what the fate was of that set at Kings Island. I know that Santa`s Toy Factory at Kings Island was a wonderful production! I ended up seeing it three times on my four visits to Winterfest. Its a shame that Cedar Fair chose not to fine tune Winterfest. Had it operated how it did at the end of the early 90`s, it could have provided some additional revenue for Cedar Fair in the slow December months.

But, the final weekend the park was open in 2005 was slightly awkward, as all the Haunt (FearFest at the time) stuff was up, and most of the Christmas decorations were also up as well. After visiting Dollywood last week for the first time ever, and experiencing Smoky Mountain Christmas, these December park events can be quite wonderful and attract people to the parks. These events are not all about the coasters and rides, but rather the holiday atmosphere. The amount of lights that Dollywood has is simply amazing!