News Project 2027: Coral Craze & Kelp Kraze (ProSlide Family FlyingSAUCER & HIVE)
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Good for them but man, Montezooma not getting any kind of callout for is wild.
New waterslides for 2027?
SIX FLAGS INTRODUCES FLEXIBLE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM AT SIX ADDITIONAL PARKS, REDEFINING HOW GUESTS EXPERIENCE MULTI-PARK FUN YEAR ROUND
"Knott's Berry Farm & Knott's Soak City—With a bounty of events and live entertainment like the iconic Boysenberry Festival, Ghost Town Alive! and Knott's Summer Nights, the amusement park will debut the new Crafty's Kitchen chicken restaurant and the highly anticipated MonteZOOMa: The Forbidden Fortress coaster in 2026. At Soak City, guests are enjoying renovations and beautification efforts throughout the water park this season. An exciting announcement is anticipated for 2027."
SIX FLAGS INTRODUCES FLEXIBLE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM AT SIX ADDITIONAL PARKS, REDEFINING HOW GUESTS EXPERIENCE MULTI-PARK FUN YEAR ROUND
"Knott's Berry Farm & Knott's Soak City—With a bounty of events and live entertainment like the iconic Boysenberry Festival, Ghost Town Alive! and Knott's Summer Nights, the amusement park will debut the new Crafty's Kitchen chicken restaurant and the highly anticipated MonteZOOMa: The Forbidden Fortress coaster in 2026. At Soak City, guests are enjoying renovations and beautification efforts throughout the water park this season. An exciting announcement is anticipated for 2027."
Official webpage with more here:
www.sixflags.com
Always love to see more of these giant family raft rides built. Two of them—both of quick are super visually interesting—seems like a big win for Knott's!
New in 2027 | Family Flying Saucer | Knott's Berry Farm
Experience the excitement of Coral Craze and Kelp Kraze, two thrilling new water slide attractions debuting in Southern California in 2027!
www.sixflags.com
Always love to see more of these giant family raft rides built. Two of them—both of quick are super visually interesting—seems like a big win for Knott's!
Honestly a fantastic addition to Knott's Soak City if...and only if...they don't come at the cost of replacing something else. The animation almost makes it look like they're replacing the park's drop capsule slides, but I'm hoping they just plunked them down somewhere to create a visual and aren't actually building them there as losing four body slides and two tube slides for these would be a pretty poor trade.
Edit: Just saw it confirmed elsewhere that these are replacing Shore Break. Kind of disappointing that they're choosing to tear out their newest slides for this.
Edit: Just saw it confirmed elsewhere that these are replacing Shore Break. Kind of disappointing that they're choosing to tear out their newest slides for this.
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Yeah, really don't get the motive here. Why Shore Break and not any of the older slides?
I’m curious if it’s a capacity concern on the current (and new) drop slides. They can be a pain to operate unless there’s one guard per slide, plus’s they can’t load another person until the lifeguard at the bottom of the slide opens it up once it’s clear. By replacing it with two family raft slides , they can load multiple guests at a time and get more throughput out of it with only 2 life guards at the tower, 2 in the bottom pool for both slides.
Hasn't Six Flags been removing even pretty new drop slides lately at other water parks? Feels like the Larson Loop situation where Six Flags bought a bunch of something, realized they hated it, and are now dumping them. Obviously the situation at Knott's is a little different since it's a legacy Cedar Fair property, but it does feel like Six Flags sorta has it out for drop slides...?
This feels like a distinct Knott's decision. The waterpark's last big capital was in 2017, where they added Shore Break and the other raft slide replacing their Tornado. The latter meanwhile was built in 2007. So they've essentially been swapping out rides each decade.
There were ways to add in these raft slides WITHOUT removing a newer set of slides, so yeah this was definitely a choice to get rid of that tower. Which is odd because said cloned tower performs better at the other parks and Six Flags has a great ongoing relationship with WhiteWater West.
Curious as to whether we see Shore Break pop up at another Six Flags property, I'm sure there's a handful with flat space that would take it. Don't think we saw the Tornado resurface elsewhere though.
There were ways to add in these raft slides WITHOUT removing a newer set of slides, so yeah this was definitely a choice to get rid of that tower. Which is odd because said cloned tower performs better at the other parks and Six Flags has a great ongoing relationship with WhiteWater West.
Curious as to whether we see Shore Break pop up at another Six Flags property, I'm sure there's a handful with flat space that would take it. Don't think we saw the Tornado resurface elsewhere though.
Not likely, but I hope they ship it to SFNE lol. They lost both their drop slides (the shitty complex from SplashTacular) and their prototype ProSlide water coaster with nothing replacing either. Their water park desperately needs the added capacity.
There is the matter of trucking a slide tower cross country (one of the smaller factors why no inventory from SFA is known to have gone out west) but you're right, this would be perfect for SFNE. Fingers crossed this is the case.
So after talking with someone who works at the park, the decision makes a little more sense. Apparently Shore Break requires six lifeguards for all slides to be open, yet the four body slides and two tube slides together only accommodate around 400 guests per hour. By comparison, the new attraction is anticipated to be capable of handling triple that number with only four lifeguards at the attraction. The waterpark is also landlocked by surrounding streets and other features on the property, meaning it was either replace Shore Break or replace Malibu Run and Old Man Falls (which does over 600 guests per hour with five lifeguards, and are better slides imo).
Okay but then there’s the matter of what the fuck are you doing Knott’s because you just SCRAPPED a barely ten year old slide tower outright.
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Look this is an incredibly tone deaf move from Six Flags, who are apparently willing enough to sink money into acquiring redesigning ArieForce but has also been carelessly disposing a lot of decent existing secondhand hardware already in their hands. Do you know who just binned multiple major slides recently? SFNE. Guess who’s not likely to see funding soon for more expensive new replacements now? SFNE.
Did Knott’s identify some huge issues with the hardware that required binning it? Whitewater West is a longtime partner of Six Flags and these were attractions were successful at their other parks. It feels less like these attractions were problematic and more like Six Flags isn’t giving af rn.
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Look this is an incredibly tone deaf move from Six Flags, who are apparently willing enough to sink money into acquiring redesigning ArieForce but has also been carelessly disposing a lot of decent existing secondhand hardware already in their hands. Do you know who just binned multiple major slides recently? SFNE. Guess who’s not likely to see funding soon for more expensive new replacements now? SFNE.
Did Knott’s identify some huge issues with the hardware that required binning it? Whitewater West is a longtime partner of Six Flags and these were attractions were successful at their other parks. It feels less like these attractions were problematic and more like Six Flags isn’t giving af rn.
drop pod slides ussually have a lower lifespan due to the fact that when you land onto the slide after dropping. thats why accident like this one happened due to it being a higher stress point for the tube
That’s not a proven statistic. This was also a freak accident that happened on one slide made by a very different company who used a different material for that transparent piece. And even so that’s only a single digit number of fibreglass pieces affected. Maybe costs a four digit sum to replace.
Are water slides really something that is frequently relocated? Fiberglass is much less elastic than steel, so I could see the simple act of dismantling an attraction necessitating refabrication of slide segments, which essentially negates the savings of installing something used.
If you take a note of the prior post to yours, specifically this verbiage:
While removing the tower itself doesn’t make a huge amount of sense to me (I personally thing modifying it would’ve made more sense), if the placement of the new slides necessitates it, so be it. But ultimately the decision comes down to: budget, space, and operational needs. By replacing the staff intensive and low capacity 4 drop pod slides with a new, low staff and high capacity, slide tower, it makes a LOT of sense. Lower staffing costs + higher throughput = less time in lines = happier guests on pathways to spend more money. Essentially, the park will stand to gain more money by doing this because they’ll actually be saving money in the long term.