Lately Carowinds has been teasing on their Facebook Page for a new announcement 15 days from now. Apparently regarding 2011, they've posted their clues as Profile Pictures, all of these clues fitting into the puzzle.

Tuesday:

Carowinds Amusement Park is making a special announcement in 17 days. Each day our profile picture will be another clue. Use all the pieces to solve the puzzle!

Wednesday:

Today:

I'm not good at puzzles, let's have someone else figure this one out!

Does this mean three years in a row they get a new ride? Come on Kings Island, we need a new ride!

A nuclear explosion will power the new ride?

It doesn't say that it is 2011. It could be a new haunt.

At Coaster Stock they said to keep your expectations low.

The first pic is a burning wick.

I'm guessing a nighttime show like Starlight Spectacular.

Himmm I was at Carowinds Yesterday I saw no clues around the park My guess is they are getting a Starlight show.

It wouldn't surprise me that the other ex-PP get starlight experiences next year.

It is a animated light show

That third picture is the gate by afterburner I believe...

So we have something with a burning wick, with electronics, and near Afterburner so far...

I would say Starlight like everyone else, and if you look at the gate, the blue things look like stars.

Here's the fourth clue! Facebook Page

These look like loudspeakers which would also go with the Starlight Spectacular idea!

Unless they got the trains back from Jungle Jim's and making a new safari ride. Those speakers will be used to make animal noises so all the stuffed animals seem real

Carowinds had its own monorail, which was removed by Paramount Parks...

Today, Carowinds also announced new nightly fireworks show, called Illuminations, to light up the night!

The nighttime entertainment offering are highlighted by the extension of Carowinds’ operating hours till 10pm from June 27 – August 7.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=483272143598&set=a.125492718598.106289.91085023598

http://www.carowinds.com/public/park/shows/index.cfm?id=204

It’s the 12 Days of Carowinds! Each day we will update the site with something new and exciting we’re looking forward to in 2011!

From the facebook link above.

It will be interesting to see if the other 11 things are as exciting.

Today, Carowinds also announced new nightly fireworks show, called Illuminations, to light up the night!

The nighttime entertainment offering are highlighted by the extension of Carowinds’ operating hours till 10pm from June 27 – August 7.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=483272143598&set=a.125492718598.106289.91085023598

http://www.carowinds.com/public/park/shows/index.cfm?id=204

For whatever it's worth, the official website now calls the fireworks show "Nights of Fire." Perhaps someone got wind of the fact that "Nights of Fire" is a name that was used by the Paramount Parks (and thus, likely in Cedar Fair's catalogue), while "Illuminations" is a show that is put by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts...

How that one slipped by them, I'll never know. Granted, they probably focused on the root word illuminate while Disney saw the genius of the nations part. But I imagine it was the laughable comments on the facebook image linked above that tipped them off.

...or a letter from Disney's attorneys...

Terp...wonder how that could happen...

It's the 12 Days of Carowinds! Each day we will update the site with something new and exciting we're looking forward to in 2011!

From the facebook link above.

It will be interesting to see if the other 11 things are as exciting.

Makes it sound like something big is going to happen on Christmas.