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I've never been to KD and was thinking of going while passing through the area - then I checked the website and a bunch of attractions are listed as not open. It's April now - anyone know what's going on as this seems a little crazy?

  • Delirium
  • Drop Tower
  • Eiffel Tower
  • Grand Prix Raceway
  • Grizzly
  • Intimidator
  • Shenandoah Lumber Company
  • White Water Canyon
  • Windseeker
 
I will start and say I have no actual idea of why these attractions are closed, but here are my theories
I've never been to KD and was thinking of going while passing through the area - then I checked the website and a bunch of attractions are listed as not open. It's April now - anyone know what's going on as this seems a little crazy?

  • Delirium - was open for the majority of the winter months and is now undergoing annual maintenance.
  • Drop Tower - they have been waiting on apart from Intamin since before Halloween Haunt
  • Eiffel Tower - the elevators require lots of maintenance and parts are always in short supply. I'll blame the supply chain on this one.
  • Grand Prix Raceway - gas prices too high? Seriously though, I'm not sure.
  • Grizzly - major track work with redesigning/ reprofiling a good portion of the ride
  • Intimidator - Historically, this ride always opens up with the park in late March, early April. Given what we know that this is an Intamin and Drop Tower is still waiting on parts. And we can see that Falcon's Fury (Intamin) at BGT is also struggling. I'll blame Intamin's supply chain for this closure.
  • Shenandoah Lumber Company- it's a water ride. While KD typically will attempt to open this with the park in years past. If staffing is an issue. It's much easier to keep this attraction down until Memorial weekend or open a few weekends before daily ops.
  • White Water Canyon- same thing with this one, but it's also an Intamin. So there's that.
  • WindSeeker- I'll change my theory on Delirium since this ride is down and was not open in the wintertime. Since Delirium and WindSeeker are both Mondial's and both are still down. I imagine they're still waiting parts from Mondial. So again, my theory is supply chain.
Sorry to be repetitive, but the closures tend to be highlighted to two specific manufacturers leaving me with my guess of supply chain issues.
 
My understanding is that they are not all closed for the sane reason. The water rides are closed dobto staffing and the 50/50 odds on weather not being nice enough for them to be a big pull. Obviously that went the other way this week but KD decided to prioritize rides that were less weather rrestricted as the priority for maintenance staffing and traing can't really fault them that call as it could have easily gone the other way.

The pay to play rides are all currently closed my understanding is that was a choice to prioritize staffing across the park instead of staffing rather low draw stuff.

Delirium winter is annals maintenance.

Windseaker is pending completion of training which was paused for spring break. This is also why the rescue baskets are currently attached to it

Drop tower and 305 awaiting parts.

Eiffle Tower maintenance and staffing.
 
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