...Think of it as a white elephant Christmas in which the California theme parks get regifted presents in 2010 as parent company Cedar Fair bestows the big prizes on Virginia's Kings Dominion (a $25-million coaster), North Carolina's Carowinds (a $23-million coaster) and Ohio's Cedar Point (a $10.5-million water ride).

The rewrapping theme continues in 2010, as Great America will convert the Kidzville and Nickelodeon Central kiddie lands into Planet Snoopy, with the existing children's areas repopulated with "Peanuts" characters and re-themed rides.

Meanwhile, Great America's oft-delayed wooden coaster, announced in 2007 with great fanfare and much anticipation, remains in bureaucratic limbo.

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/...-great-am-5682/

See the picture there of the Screamin' Swing some would rather see go to Kings Island (which would be a capacity nightmare at most any price)

They have one of those at Dorney. We were there before the park dropped the rope. There swing was on the gate side of the rope and was open. We were all ready to head over when I noticed that it was an extra fair ride. I was like WTF, Sky Hawk at CP is not an extra fair and looks to be the same exact ride with higher capacity.

When was the last time they got a "New" Ride?

FireFall, from Huss, was added in 2008:

http://www.pgathrills.com/attractions/category.cfm?ac_id=2

It was new to them, but came from Geauga Lake.

Orbit, a Schwarzkopf Enterprise, reopened in 2007, but was not new.

Survivor, the Ride, a Zamperla Disko, opened in 2006. It had lots and lots of problems at first. Oddly, it has kept the Survivor name!

http://www.pgathrills.com/attractions/category.cfm?ac_id=5

So, 2006...

pgathrills.com? Why, Terpy! It's cagreatamerica.com!

I did get a kick out of this image, though:

And, this...

SpongeBob SquarePants™ 3D

Take the plunge with SpongeBob and his Bikini Bottom pals into a 3-D action-adventure at the Paramount Action FX Theater.

See, Cedar Fair has not updated (at least not very well) any of the former CBS/Paramount Parks websites. Not a bit like Cedar Point's or even Dorney's....

FireFall, from Huss, was added in 2008:

http://www.pgathrills.com/attractions/category.cfm?ac_id=2

It was new to them, but came from Geauga Lake.

Orbit, a Schwarzkopf Enterprise, reopened in 2007, but was not new.

Survivor, the Ride, a Zamperla Disko, opened in 2006. It had lots and lots of problems at first. Oddly, it has kept the Survivor name!

http://www.pgathrills.com/attractions/category.cfm?ac_id=5

So, 2006...

So the LA Times does have a point, but they have gotten something new to the park over the last few years.

See, Cedar Fair has not updated (at least not very well) any of the former CBS/Paramount Parks websites. Not a bit like Cedar Point's or even Dorney's....

I do hope they work on updating the old Paramount website templates in this off season. Not going to hold my breathe.

They really need to update the sites. There's more wrong images, wrong descriptions, switched images, Paramount references, misspellings, etc. than I can count.

And they don't have an excuse. Its been over three years since the acquisition. It should have been updated over the 2006-2007 offseason IMO. I mean they gave Cedar Point a complete redo that replaced a fully functional site. No excuse at all...

.....Other then they have bigger fish to fry, other things to worry about, and other places to spend their nickels then overhauling 5 sites that esentially work fine.

.....Other then they have bigger fish to fry, other things to worry about, and other places to spend their nickels then overhauling 5 sites that esentially work fine.

Jackson, I would almost swear that Terpy was logged in as you when this post was made!

I do agree, but I would think they would want their websites to be accurate and all standard. It seems they have their website guys spending all their time on RWN. How often do people visit their site and forums?

Edit: Fixed RRN to RWN.

People use the RWN site?

Yea, the RWN site, which I thought was one of the biggest letdowns and rip-offs in coaster site history,

Or the Halloween Haunt site, which I thought was quite Impressive.

.....Other then they have bigger fish to fry, other things to worry about, and other places to spend their nickels then overhauling 5 sites that esentially work fine.

Theyve had 3 years. It takes a few days to make a template and a few more to fill in content.