40th Anniversary Celebration & Park Revitalization
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If someone who is at a computer could embed the picture below, it will be nice. The shirt they posted looks soo good.
Looks like another change in Culinary. Then again, this may be more of a visual refresh than new food, but I'm excited about this nonetheless.
Hopefully they'll try to improve the pizza recipe along with this upgrade. That would make me even more happier.
Well, that's 2 food places and a gift shop on International Street to get some attention for next year.
The park usually had just cheese and pepperoni pizza. I noticed last year they also had sausage. Be nice if they offered some veggie toppings as well. Maybe at least onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. I don't know if we will see anything fancy for 2014. I'd love to see a barbeque chicken pizza or a white pizza of some type.
The most improvement with the pizza over the last couple years is the crust. They used to have "cardboard" crusts; now they use a hand tossed dough. I just wish they would work on their sauce reciepe. I think it is a little too bland, needs a little "kick". They might want to look at changing their cheese supplier as well. Don't get me wrong, the pizza is not bad, just needs some tweeking.
My future wish is for the park bring back a version of the old "Mediterranean Chef" restaurant. I would love some Greek/Lebanese food: Gryos, Kabobs, Greek salads, stuffed grape leaves, etc.
The park usually had just cheese and pepperoni pizza. I noticed last year they also had sausage. Be nice if they offered some veggie toppings as well. Maybe at least onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. I don't know if we will see anything fancy for 2014. I'd love to see a barbeque chicken pizza or a white pizza of some type.
The most improvement with the pizza over the last couple years is the crust. They used to have "cardboard" crusts; now they use a hand tossed dough. I just wish they would work on their sauce reciepe. I think it is a little too bland, needs a little "kick". They might want to look at changing their cheese supplier as well. Don't get me wrong, the pizza is not bad, just needs some tweeking.
My future wish is for the park bring back a version of the old "Mediterranean Chef" restaurant. I would love some Greek/Lebanese food: Gryos, Kabobs, Greek salads, stuffed grape leaves, etc.
Kings Dominion's Facebook said:
I wonder how exactly this is going to be achieved...
Also it's nice to see the Volcano receiving some much needed love!
Photo from Kings Dominion's Facebook
Work has already begun it seems!
I am too, Pretzel. I am a bit confused, though. Are they building a new structure next to the gift shop? I can't fathom why a new structure would be needed there, but it most certainly looks like something new is being built. This will be very interesting.
I'm hoping tomorrow or the day after they'll give us the official scoop on what's going on with Anaconda. Either way, I hope they're saving the best for last!
I'm hoping tomorrow or the day after they'll give us the official scoop on what's going on with Anaconda. Either way, I hope they're saving the best for last!
The new structure looks like it's a secondary entrance to the queue, which would do absolutely nothing as far as wait times.
It looks like they're building steps that will lead into Expedition Gear. Which makes me even more confused... :S
I have one question.
Has anyone experienced a ride attraction whose capacity and wait times were improved by reconfiguring the entrance/exit queue lines?
I realize there can be a bottleneck at the bottom of the ramp in the load station area; but I have never seen the park send out half empty trains due to a lack of riders because of that. Unless there are those who are determined to get the first or last row on the train, most people shuffle through to find the shortest row queue to wait in.
I have a thought on what might happen in the reconfiguration of the ride. This would work whether the park stays with 2 trains or adds a new third train back to the ride. Let me know if this makes sense/is plausible.
Lets say the park converts the current unload section and the current load section in the station to both being a load/unload area. Two trains wait in the station area to be unloaded then loaded. Train in the first area is dispatched and the 2nd train stays in its area or advances forward to the 1st bay awaiting its turn. When the 1st train clears the 1st block on the final brake run, the 2nd train is dispatched from either the 2nd load/unload bay and passes through the 1st load/unload bay to be launched or has already advanced to the 1st load/unload bay and then dispatched from there.
If the park added a 3rd train back to the ride, it would still work. Example, train 1 is in load/unload bay 1; train 2 is in load/unload bay 2; the 3rd train is on the transfer table hold/brake area. Both trains 1 and 2 are loaded. Train one is dispatched and launched. Train 1 comes back and enters the final brake run. I believe there are two blocks on the final brake run; (before the turnaround to the transfer table hold/brake area). If that is the case, then as soon as train 1 clears the 1st block, it stops on the 2nd block.
Meanwhile, train 2 is cleared to be dispatched from bay 2 and advances through bay 1 to be launched. Right behind train 2 is train 3 advancing to load/unload bay 1. Train 3 stops there to be unloaded then loaded. Train 1 starts advancing as soon as train 3 clears the transfer table hold/brake area. It then advances to load/unload bay 2 be unloaded then loaded with the next group of people.
I think this could be the way the park resolves the capacity issue without a costly dual loading station. If KD would invest in buying a 3rd train and adding it back to the ride, the park could see capacity improvement of 35%-40% (or, 25%-30% with just the 2 existing trains). [Volcano did run 3 trains for a period of time. I heard the park either used the 3rd train for spare parts or the park replaced the original 3 trains with new ones; but only bought 2 new replacement trains].
Three train operations would depend on the final brake run having 2 blocks to stop 2 trains on it before the turnaround back to the station. I thought the 2 train operation used electromagnetic brakes until the train slowed down enough for the mechanical brakes to bring it to a complete stop and then release the train to advance to the turnaround. I thought the train continued straight for about one and a half train lengths before hitting the turnaround towards the transfer table brake/hold area.
With all that being said, I wonder if that means the entrance and exit side of the station area will be reversed. What was the loading area will become the exit and the exit becomes the entrance side. Course, there are major infrastructure changes that would have to happen to the front load bay (1) on the entrance side and changes on the 2nd load bay on the exit side. Mainly, creating space to enter and wait for your row in bay 1 and room to get to the exit ramp in bay 2.
My head is starting to spin. I'll leave it at this. :shocked:
Has anyone experienced a ride attraction whose capacity and wait times were improved by reconfiguring the entrance/exit queue lines?
I realize there can be a bottleneck at the bottom of the ramp in the load station area; but I have never seen the park send out half empty trains due to a lack of riders because of that. Unless there are those who are determined to get the first or last row on the train, most people shuffle through to find the shortest row queue to wait in.
I have a thought on what might happen in the reconfiguration of the ride. This would work whether the park stays with 2 trains or adds a new third train back to the ride. Let me know if this makes sense/is plausible.
Lets say the park converts the current unload section and the current load section in the station to both being a load/unload area. Two trains wait in the station area to be unloaded then loaded. Train in the first area is dispatched and the 2nd train stays in its area or advances forward to the 1st bay awaiting its turn. When the 1st train clears the 1st block on the final brake run, the 2nd train is dispatched from either the 2nd load/unload bay and passes through the 1st load/unload bay to be launched or has already advanced to the 1st load/unload bay and then dispatched from there.
If the park added a 3rd train back to the ride, it would still work. Example, train 1 is in load/unload bay 1; train 2 is in load/unload bay 2; the 3rd train is on the transfer table hold/brake area. Both trains 1 and 2 are loaded. Train one is dispatched and launched. Train 1 comes back and enters the final brake run. I believe there are two blocks on the final brake run; (before the turnaround to the transfer table hold/brake area). If that is the case, then as soon as train 1 clears the 1st block, it stops on the 2nd block.
Meanwhile, train 2 is cleared to be dispatched from bay 2 and advances through bay 1 to be launched. Right behind train 2 is train 3 advancing to load/unload bay 1. Train 3 stops there to be unloaded then loaded. Train 1 starts advancing as soon as train 3 clears the transfer table hold/brake area. It then advances to load/unload bay 2 be unloaded then loaded with the next group of people.
I think this could be the way the park resolves the capacity issue without a costly dual loading station. If KD would invest in buying a 3rd train and adding it back to the ride, the park could see capacity improvement of 35%-40% (or, 25%-30% with just the 2 existing trains). [Volcano did run 3 trains for a period of time. I heard the park either used the 3rd train for spare parts or the park replaced the original 3 trains with new ones; but only bought 2 new replacement trains].
Three train operations would depend on the final brake run having 2 blocks to stop 2 trains on it before the turnaround back to the station. I thought the 2 train operation used electromagnetic brakes until the train slowed down enough for the mechanical brakes to bring it to a complete stop and then release the train to advance to the turnaround. I thought the train continued straight for about one and a half train lengths before hitting the turnaround towards the transfer table brake/hold area.
With all that being said, I wonder if that means the entrance and exit side of the station area will be reversed. What was the loading area will become the exit and the exit becomes the entrance side. Course, there are major infrastructure changes that would have to happen to the front load bay (1) on the entrance side and changes on the 2nd load bay on the exit side. Mainly, creating space to enter and wait for your row in bay 1 and room to get to the exit ramp in bay 2.
My head is starting to spin. I'll leave it at this. :shocked:
I just hope this means more theming to Volcano. When I rode it in July the que was so boring other than the fire I made up my own storyplot. "A Professor was incharge of excavating the volcano for gems and jewls. He decided it would be too hard to walk in to the volcano so, he decided to build a suspend mine train with a emergency track to get you out of there as fast as possible. Each Minecart can hold up to 16 brave explorers to look for gems and jewls.Good luck and don't blast out like a roller coaster!" (Sorry for off topic!) though I hope this will help the capacity for what ever there doing.
Don't be! While it's pretty unlikely that Cedar Fair would ever do it (they may have gotten better about theming, but they tend to stop after props and decorations to set the mood), I agree that some sort of preshow or something along those lines would help keep people happy while they wait.Jr.HOSfan said:
Kings Dominion's Facebook said:
A fresh paint job for the Anaconda! During the off-season, we’ll be sprucing up the look of the Anaconda roller coaster by repainting the entire ride. The lake below the ride is already drained and work is underway to have the ride ready for the 2014 operating season. And the colors? Well, the ride columns will be green, the supports for the track red and the train’s running rails yellow.
Well the colors will be the same, but it will at least be looking fresh!