Actually the have a 6 year lease with an option to extend 5 years. This suggests to me that they are likely planning a 5 year run and a year to vacate the property.
Railblazer plus the Jungle X treatment would cure a lot of ill will amongst KD’s customer base. It may not be what the enthusiast crowd wants, but it solves a lot of problems with that empty plot and keeping up with the Jones down the road.
But that does not mean that they wont start strip mining the park this coming off season to get a jump on things. People wont miss one coaster a few flats.
Railblazer is legit a top 20 coaster in the US. Idk why enthusiasts wouldn’t want that.
The people that are comparing this to Geauga Lake are really irritating me because they clearly have no understanding of whats going on with CGA, what happened with GL, or both. Unless CGA built 6 coasters last year that I don't know about it's nowhere near a GL situation
Yes, from what I've read, this is correct. Probably just depends on how soon Amazon needs a new warehouse in the area.
While true I think it would be a repeat of one of Volcano's biggest frustrations: The long queue times. The ride just doesn't have the capacity to suit KD, especially if they keep rebounding the way they have and BGW keeps plummeting. I think Railblazer makes a lot more sense to move to Dorney Park or maybe even one of the midwest parks.
I honestly think people are being too quick to kill this park. I mean, I don't doubt it's closing but I honestly think that CF is going to continue to operate it as an in-tact park for at least a few years before anything starts to change. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see an addition of something small either.
Maaaannn I completely agree with you on moving that bit of water park to the other side of racer. First time I went to soak city, we found it pretty funny that there’s like 90% more water park almost hidden away. Putting the slingshot and go-karts (especially the noisy go-karts) out of the main view of the park would help un-cheapen the atmosphere a bit, particularly old Virginia like you said. Anyways I think Railblazer’s scenic off-roading theme could be pretty transferable to almost all themed areas of KD.
Sorry - in the situation that each coaster is being fully moved, I see Patriot's most likely destination being Worlds of Fun; in the situation that Patriot isn't being moved nor sold to a park outside of Cedar Fair, I think it will have been a waste of a floorless conversion (trains, ride platform vanishing floors, control panel) if those upgrades aren't shipped elsewhere within the chain (Vortex being the only remaining stand-up that hasn't received the floorless conversion).
Rougarou is a worse version of Mantis and Firebird is a WAY worse version of Apocalypse..... Following that, if Vortex is already the headbanger of a stand-up then it would almost certainly assure bad things, IMHO.
Ayyyy then let it die.
