It's why I said earlier that the first few years under Cedar Fair are going to be weird. Many of the actions that are going to happen in the next few months are based off of decisions not based off of sentimentality but based on costs and prior experiences. It's going to be a minute before everything settles and actual, concrete plans can be put into action. This isn't the first time Great Adventure has been in a slump, it won't be the second time, either.
I'm also going to add, in the face of the sentimentality of people trying to defend Kingda Ka here, that even before COVID Kingda Ka did not justify its costs of operations based on its total ridership and its uptime. Its impact on guests coming to the park is heavily overstated considering while I worked there it was barely scraping into the top 10 in overall ridership for Great Adventure, some years even losing to rides like Green Lantern, Dark Knight Coaster, ***Congo Rapids***, and ***__LOG FLUME__***.
Maybe if TT2 wasn't such a shitshow we wouldn't be having this discussion or at least a more positive and hopeful discussion, I don't know. But TT2 was a shitshow, still is a shitshow, and will probably continue to be a shitshow based on what I've been hearing.
