Singing Mushrooms (1975 to 1995, 2014 to Present)
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How dare you desecrate a sacred child’s nightmare fuel zone by calling them a bunch of dicks around an ass.
A video was posted of the Singing Mushrooms entirely brand-new song list made specifically for the 50th anniversary. The frog's new voice may take some getting used to, but this was a wonderful much-needed update, and it makes me so happy that KD took the time and effort to keep them around much longer.
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I'm not super familiar with the mushrooms' prior ouevre, so I don't know where the bar is set here.
But opening with one of Fats Waller's catchiest piano tunes -- which is saying a LOT given that it's Fats Waller -- is peak old-school cool. I love everything about that.
But opening with one of Fats Waller's catchiest piano tunes -- which is saying a LOT given that it's Fats Waller -- is peak old-school cool. I love everything about that.
Has anyone noticed a special "50th anniversary" overlay?!?
I just noticed it on today's visit, and am certain it was not part of the current set heard so far.
I was caught off guard by it when they started it, so I didn't get the whole thing on video or as good as quality I could capture tonight.
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I just noticed it on today's visit, and am certain it was not part of the current set heard so far.
I was caught off guard by it when they started it, so I didn't get the whole thing on video or as good as quality I could capture tonight.
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Looks like more songs have been added to their setlist (and a line changed in one existing song) specifically for the 50th anniversary. Very cool!
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That first one sung to the William Tell overture is from The Flintstones so it's a nice homage to the park's early Hanna-Barbera days.
The shrooms are better than ever at KD this year. The rhyme of "Virginia" and "win ya" gets me every time.
"I love mushroom". The rhyme gets me"60 percent of the time, it works every time".
Thats not good. I know this so my last visit a few weeks ago. Several of the motions of different mushrooms were not working. One of them didn’t even have its mouth moving. I am afraid this is how they disappeared the first time. Neglect
Once again... I miss Cedar Fair.
When SF and CF were separate companies, I believe SF pushed CF to do better (and they did do better). Now that both are one huge chain, they don't really have that "brother" they are competing with. These parks are becoming the only game in town and once again are cutting corners and bleeding money. Typical SF.
To SFEC: Please, please, please, love your parks, staff sufficiently and love your guests! It will go a long way.
Maybe that's the case for other parks, but BGW is just an hour away and has exerted a constant influence on KD's decisions for basically its entire existence. KD is the one park that really can't afford to rest on its laurels or it could permanently lose passholders to BGW. I really don't think SFA and Six Flags in general were ever much of a factor compared to BGW.
this is why six flags & cedar fair shouldn't had merged in the first place (six flags would rather be bought by Warner bros discovery instead while cedar fair still be cedar fair)
While I have zero faith in Six Flags’ ability or willingness to give the park the maintenance attention it needs, important context for this board is that the Singing Mushrooms have had persistent issues since they were added in 2014. The animatronics have had all sorts of mechanical problems, messed up movements, broken mustaches, missing eyelids, etc. over the years. Sometimes it’s taken a few weeks to get fixed. The real test will be how long it takes for this to get fixed (assuming it does).