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Cedar Fair Ent. Company 2017 Plans
Topic Started: August 27 2016, 08:55 PM (396 Views)
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Amusement and Theme Parks

Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio) - No Addition announced Removal - Mean Streak (The Ride will close late 2016 to make way for something new)

Canada's Wonderland (Vaughan, Ontario) Muskoka Plunge (a Four six-story speed slides) Soaring Timbers (a Mondial Inferno)

Carowinds (Charlotte, North Carolina) - Carolina Country Fair The park will add a new food venue as well as retheme the Cobra to Flying Cobras with an airshow theme. The area will be headlined by 4 Classic flats (Do-Si-Do [Huss Troika], Rock 'N' Roller [Mack Music Express], Zephyr [Zierer Wave Swinger], and Electro-Spin [Mondial Top Scan]) winterfest The park will launch a Holiday lights and Christmas festival starting fall of 2017

Kings Dominion (Richmond, Virginia) - Camp Snoopy Expansion (The park will again expand their family area with Three new Zamperla kiddie rides: Kite Eating Tree [Jumpin' Star Tower], Sally’s Sea Plane [Crazy Bus], Peanuts 500 [Speedway])

Dorney Park (Allentown, Pennsylvania) - 2 new rides (Kaleidoscope [Huss Tri Star] and Dodgems) The park will also add a new show: Cirque Imagine, A new 2,000 guest capacity Catering pavilion: Parkside Pavilion, And Wildwater Kingdom will add more cabanas and a new food stand: Sunset Beach Bar)

Valleyfair (Shakopee, Minnesota) - North Star (The park plans to add a 230ft tall Starflier)

Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, Missouri) - 2 new flats (Falcon’s Flight [Huss Condor] and Mustang Runner [Huss Tri Star]) winterfest The park will launch a Holiday lights and Christmas festival starting fall of 2017

Michigan's Adventure (Muskegon, Michigan) - Half Pint Paradise (A new kids area featuring 7 new slides and, A ship and sea life, Geysers, and a tipping bucket) The park will also Improve visibility and flow between the new kids area and the beach party area as well as create a new Entrance to Funnel of Fear.

Knott's Berry Farm (Buena Park, California) - No Addition announced

Kings Island (Cincinnati, Ohio) - Mystic Timbers (The park will add a 109 ft tall, 3265 ft long Wood coaster designed and built by GCI)


Great America (Santa Clara, California) - Patriot (The park will introduce a new experience when they convert Vortex to a floorless coaster) Removals - Vortex trains (The park will retire their Stand up trains and retire the vortex name)

Managed Amusement Parks
Gilroy Gardens (Gilroy, California) - No Addition announced

Water Parks
Oceans of Fun (Kansas City, Missouri) - No Addition announced
Cedar Point Shores Water Park (Sandusky, Ohio) Formally Soak City - With a new name comes an 18 acres expansion that will bring in more food options and 3 new attractions: Point Plummet ( Four, six-story-tall, 400ft long aqua-drop body slide Featuring flat loops and s-curves) Starboard Surge & Portside Plunge (Two, five-story tube slides) Lakeslide Landing (a family splashground and 12 kid-sized water slides
Knott's Soak City (Buena Park, California) - Shore Break (A seven stories tall Tower featuring six different thrilling water slide experiences: Four, 60-foot tall Aqua-Launch with flat loops and S-curves and two dueling tube slides) The Wedge slide tower will take the location of the current and will be an open air family raft ride. Removals - Pacific Spin (The park will remove its Tornado slide to make room for it's 2017 plans)
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Wildwater Kingdom (Cleveland, Ohio) - Park Closing (Ceder Fair has announced the closing of Wildwater Kingdom. It's last day of operation will be Monday, September 5)

Resorts
Cedar Point Resort (Sandusky, Ohio) - Cedar Point's Express Hotel (Breakers Express will get a new name and a renovation that will add 69 rooms) Opening 2018 - Hotel Breakers Expansion (Freshly rehabbed the Hotel will get a new Tower that will add 158 rooms)
Edited by mrceagle, October 5 2016, 05:24 PM.
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It would be nice to see them add 4 coasters next year. Especially since they focused so heavily on flats this year.
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This is a really good guess/recreation of what RMC hurler will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzeZMsxoMck
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I could live with that. definitely a step up from were it is now. though that hat trick like maneuver in the middle of the ride looks a bit aggressive.
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Hat trick like maneuver? Do you mean the part starting at 1:47? It does a little, but sure looks alot better than that part on Wicked Cyclone where the train jerks a bit before the final inversion.
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Ya, Your heading into it with momentum going right and it suddenly cuts left there just seems to be a lot of hard lats on the layout.
Edited by SROS Master, May 8 2017, 01:02 PM.
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I see.

Heres a picture of a new resturant being built over at Boomerang Screamscape just posted.
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There are also rumors that Knotts new coaster may end up becoming the worlds first Raptor RMC coaster.
Edited by SROS Master, May 8 2017, 01:02 PM.
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Any word on what the restaurant will be? looks a bit dinner like.
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No idea. Ill post about it as soon as I find out.

Before the next Cedar Fair park news, here is an awesome video tour of one of Cedar Fairs greatest amusment park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M2QlvXBa3Q

The guy from Screamscape made an interesting theory about Knotts Boomerangs fate. Lets take a look at this quote:

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After eliminating the current parks with Boomerangs or Inverted Boomerangs from the list, there are only four parks left as options:
Cedar Point - Which will never happen...
Kings Dominion - Highly unlikely as they are already working on a 2018 coaster project.
Valleyfair - While possible, they seem to be focused on other projects at the moment.
This leaves Michigan's Adventure as the most likely home to the Knott's Boomerang, assuming Cedar Fair want to keep it at all, instead of just selling it or using it for spare parts for the rest.


Hmmm, an inexpensive easily marketable coaster that could profit the park. ;)

Lets also take a good look at this quote:
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the park's maintenance team is already well versed in Arrow/Vekoma coaster systems as they already have a Vekoma SLC, an Arrow Corkscrew and an Arrow Mad Mouse.
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May 22 2017, 11:29 AM
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After eliminating the current parks with Boomerangs or Inverted Boomerangs from the list, there are only four parks left as options:
Cedar Point - Which will never happen...
Kings Dominion - Highly unlikely as they are already working on a 2018 coaster project.
Valleyfair - While possible, they seem to be focused on other projects at the moment.
This leaves Michigan's Adventure as the most likely home to the Knott's Boomerang, assuming Cedar Fair want to keep it at all, instead of just selling it or using it for spare parts for the rest.


Lets also take a good look at this quote:
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the park's maintenance team is already well versed in Arrow/Vekoma coaster systems as they already have a Vekoma SLC, an Arrow Corkscrew and an Arrow Mad Mouse.
I could see the coaster doing well there attendance won't overshadow the rides lower capacity and its small size can easily work into the park.

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Hmmm, an inexpensive easily marketable coaster that could profit the park. ;)

how insightful, were might you have come across such an intelligently thoughtful idea? :P
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Just a hunch. :D


Man, this an RMC Mean Streak are gonna blow Six Flags RMCs right out of the water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27GtyVvPf3w
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What a shame.

http://www.swnewsmedia.com/shakopee_valley_news/news/valleyfair-s-adult-night-turns-into-fight-night/article_40f7f7b1-e493-5258-9f35-d268fc72d24a.html
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That's just sad. When I visited SFGAdv 3 fights broke out over 2 days. I have also seen a few fights at SFNE. Just ends up ruining the day for other people.
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Time to post this awesome Kings Island tour from this awesome guy whos home park use to be Canadas Wonderland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJx4jhewCpY
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Check this out. http://smartpermit.santaclaraca.gov/tm_bin/tmw_cmd.pl?tmw_cmd=StatusViewCase&shl_caseno=PLN2017-12662
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Interesting. Great America only have 8 coasters and 2 of them are very small kiddie coasters. They really only have one middle of the road family coaster. it will be interesting to see what it ends up being.
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May 8 2017, 10:38 PM
Any word on what the restaurant will be? looks a bit dinner like.
I think I found the answer.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Thge_nN2Ck
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Any word on what the restaurant will be? looks a bit dinner like.
I think I found the answer.

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Interesting. Looking at the building BBQ is not what first comes to mind.
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Well well well. Looks like this video made it to Screamscape!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx-RcwsTMqw
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Uh oh!

http://kstp.com/news/power-tower-lawsuit-valleyfair-ride-operator-erik-bedaux-sues-sands-worldwide/4547989/
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Interesting. Really don't know what to think of this. Seems a bit off. Why are they riding the car up when you can scale the ride by ladder.
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I get why Mean Streak is taking so long but I'm surprised progress on Hurler is dragging on like it is.
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The latest rumor is that the new attraction for Knotts will be something similar to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR9tKRt5BkM
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I think I could live with that. Looks like an amazing coaster.
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Always exciting to see fresh wood on a coaster.
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Spoiler alert:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/305459764715061259/345619778637004801/image.png
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You know it's going to be very hard to ever ride a GCI coaster, if they keep converting them to steel coasters. Also doesn't help that there are a lot more Gravity Group coasters being built them GCI.
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I have to admit to a major brain fart on this one. I saw the name and jumped to conclusions. This isn't a conversion it's a new coaster. I can;t complain about a new coaster but I will admit I wish it was topper track not Iron horse track. sure the hybrid is a fun marketing ploy but we need more wood coasters in the world.
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Well thankfully that’s one reason why Knotts decided to retrack their wood coaster instead of RMCing it.

Unfortunately, the wood coaster is no longer as marketable as it once was. Lets at least be grateful there are still a few wood coasters being built now.
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I think wood coasters are plenty marketable. Look at Fun spot both there wood coasters are doing very well. Even BGW finally added a wood coaster.
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Well Fun Spot is a small park, so of course those coasters are doing very well. Same goes with Yankee Cannonball.

I’m saying there not as marketable as they were back in the 80s and 90s. Mostly thanks to the steel coasters, and now the RMC coasters.
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Wow! Somethings telling me this might be better than Wicked Cyclone.

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And now, the POV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqs_voKyFEo
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Possibly. time to move way form 2017 and into 2018.
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