Commissioning an artist to make concepts just to satiate impatient thoosies is a bad use of their budget. Most people in real life don’t care that much about the retheme
Project 2025/305: Pantherian (Intimidator 305 Retheme)
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My comparision is in this: I'm more disappointed that they wanted to show it off in the state it's in. The first time people saw Reptilitan/Arachnidia it was done/almost done. The first time people see Panterian it looks like they just started and there's no vision as to what it's going to look like.
Like I said, I have faith because KD has earned it that it will end up looking much better. To state again: I'm just disappointed they showed it to people looking the way it does because it doesn't look good in it's current state IMO.
1 - Apologies as I ninja edited on you.
2 - Buzz for things start with thoosies. Get excitement rolling with what it's going to look like and they will start telling friends.
This is silly. It was a construction tour. By definition, they are showing things that aren’t done and that will look different on opening day. I don’t understand the discontent here.
Plans change. Imagine if they showed artwork of the launch building for Rapterra to the General Public and then radio silence on active construction. Next thing we know, it's March 28th; everyone is going crazy when there no building. Personally, I don't see how progress photos hurt when the final outcome will be the same. People love seeing progress. That's why this board was foaming at the mouth every time new track was installed overnight. It builds excitement when KD post new photos on their blog. No one gave a shit about Arachnida or to a lesser extend, Reptilian as these were smaller rides. The ACE event was mainly to highlight Jungle-X updates. Patherian is still one of cornerstones of the park and matter to a lot of people and was announced ahead of time leading to excitement for the retheme.
So I can't share my disappointment in showing it in it's current state and have a differing opinion from people saying how great it looks?
You are absolutely allowed to share your opinion. We are also allowed to call your expectations arbitrary and unrealistic.
Huh? What expectations? That I'm disappointed that they showed it off in it's current state? That I wished they let people have eyes on it when its more completed? What's unrealistic about that.
Im just happy the coaster got repainted lmao All the extra is a bonus.
The park didn't share these photos. No one is forcing you to look at them. If you want you could just Not look at them and wait until March 28th to see it with your own eyes. That way people who do want to see the current progress can. And for the record, I'm not saying it looks amazing how it is. And if this is the final look, I will be disappointed. But the park isn't even open for another month.
Thoosies when parks don't engage with them: 
Thoosies when parks do engage with them:
In all seriousness, as I've said, I am concerned about how it is shaping up. They hopefully have a lot more work planned. Since they still have a month though, I'm withholding judgement.
What I really can't fathom is being disappointed that images exist showing the work in progress though. I sincerely hope that is a very fringe position that parks can ignore because, uh, I think a whole lot of us want to see in-progress projects...
Thoosies when parks do engage with them:
In all seriousness, as I've said, I am concerned about how it is shaping up. They hopefully have a lot more work planned. Since they still have a month though, I'm withholding judgement.
What I really can't fathom is being disappointed that images exist showing the work in progress though. I sincerely hope that is a very fringe position that parks can ignore because, uh, I think a whole lot of us want to see in-progress projects...
I'm curious as to why when I made my original statement you agreed with me and now it seems you don't. Because my stance hasn't changed.Thoosies when parks don't engage with them:
Thoosies when parks do engage with them:
I edited my post with more complete thoughts.
This is what I ardently disagree with though:
As thoosies, one would hope that we have the understanding required to firewall our opinions of unfinished projects from finished ones. The area could be painted hot pink and covered in Hello Kitty-themed graffiti right now, but as long as it looks good for opening day, so what? Sure, it would give me pause that the construction site looked so kawaii, but I wouldn't be disappointed that I saw it—I'd just say "well, they certainly have a shit ton of work to do, but I'll let 'em cook."
This is what I ardently disagree with though:
As thoosies, one would hope that we have the understanding required to firewall our opinions of unfinished projects from finished ones. The area could be painted hot pink and covered in Hello Kitty-themed graffiti right now, but as long as it looks good for opening day, so what? Sure, it would give me pause that the construction site looked so kawaii, but I wouldn't be disappointed that I saw it—I'd just say "well, they certainly have a shit ton of work to do, but I'll let 'em cook."
I think I understand the disconnect here.
My disappointment isn't that that it's unfinished, and like I said I agree that I'm withholding judgement. My disappointment is seemingly that they showed off what has been done without there being a concept of what's coming or explanation that it's early in the redesign. (I mean I know we can tell it is - I just guess I disagree that this would be something they should be showing).
To the bolded - I see a difference in pictures existing from construction in the way that we've seen BBW2 vs being invited in to see and existing attraction being redone without there being a good concept presented. And - I may be wrong on that. Maybe @guy305 or @horsesboy or anyone else that was there can shed some light on what was said about the redesign of the area.
Nothing was shared about any of the ongoing projects in Jungle X from what I heard. It wasn't really a tour. It was standing in front of Pantherian for a few minutes, then standing in Rapterra's queue for a few minutes. By definition, it wasn't a true "tour" because there were no guides providing any useful information. It was just standing around and taking pictures.
To be clear, I REALLY hope KD continues its trend of providing quality offseason content and BTS tours. I appreciate the effort from the park to give thoosies as much of an inside look as they could (I mean, they even cycled Rapterra a few times for us)! I understand they're extremely short-staffed because of the decisions corporate has made, but unfortunately, the event was a pretty underwhelming experience.
Do y'all think they'll have Pantherian merch on opening day?
If so, my credit card bouta be gone within 5 minutes of entering, lol
If so, my credit card bouta be gone within 5 minutes of entering, lol
They probably deeply can’t wait to make money off merch for their 305 foot tall roller coaster again….
Okay y'all, about to start a war here… How is this ride pronounced? I've heard multiple people in multiple YouTube videos call it PantherEON, but I've always called it panthEErEAN because I put it into a text to speech program, and it came out as that. I really hope I'm not pronouncing it wrong, lol.
I've heard YouTubers say PantherEON too, but I've also always pronounced it how you have as panthEErEAN because I feel like that's how it looks to be pronounced.
^Correct, the name ends in "ian", not "ion"; don't overthink it.
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