Knott's Berry Farm

[queenmetroid]

Eh, it’s been delayed for years. What’s another couple of days or weeks at this point?

 

[Freak]

It's official. During the time it has taken to renovate Montezooma, Universal has successfully closed two shows, tore them down, built, tested, and opened a brand new roller coaster from the ground-up....and Monty is still not open. Mind you, the thought of a major coaster coming to USH was not even a rumor nor even considered a remote possibility at the time!

Thought I would rub it in Knott's face for Universal beating Monty on being open. What a joke this whole debacle has been.

 

[Jake S]

Hearing the media day is being rescheduled for next month… so, uh, soon?

 

[BriefCasey]

Since there's no Soak City thread, plopping here:


This looks nice, but finding out it's replacing Shore Break almost killed my excitement, and now I really wish it wasn't replacing it. It's gonna make Great Wolf Lodge over here as the only SoCal water park with trapdoor slides to my knowledge, and that place only has one as opposed to Soak City's four. Even so, they recently got rid of their flowrider last time I was there, which is a huge bummer.

 

[Freak]

I haven’t been to Soak City since I was 7. Might have to change that next year.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I hope they also do a refresh, because Six Flags HH refresh was really nice the park has never looked better

 

[JaySalahi]

This looks nice, but finding out it's replacing Shore Break almost killed my excitement, and now I really wish it wasn't replacing it. It's gonna make Great Wolf Lodge over here as the only SoCal water park with trapdoor slides to my knowledge, and that place only has one as opposed to Soak City's four. Even so, they recently got rid of their flowrider last time I was there, which is a huge bummer.

I felt the same at first and they do need to expand & not take away stuff, but this is actually definitely a net postive for the park.

I was there on 4th of July and the park was the busiest water park ive ever seen in my life, it was insane. Not a single open chair or place to sit really. The family raft ride wait was an hour (like always) and the other 2 tube towers were both 45min waits. Yet all the body slide were walk ons.

Shore Break was dead, they only had 2 of the 4 drop slides working and yet the line was never more than 4-6 people. The other two raft slides there, are honestly lame and they only allow 1 person at a time, yet lines were only 10-15min max all day.

Adding two more big 4 person family raft slides will def help with capacity over all. Its also nice that they look good and have the modern color and fun looking desgins inside the slides.

So an upgrade in quality and capacity but still not more quantity.

 

[Southerncoasterer]

So what leaves first? Jaguar or Xcelerator?

 

[Jake S]

So what leaves first? Jaguar or Xcelerator?

Jaguar, feel very confident about that.

 

[Freak]

So what leaves first? Jaguar or Xcelerator?

I’m sure Xcellerator will be the next coaster to get the axe after Jaguar. I’ll really miss it once it bites the dust. I do think Jaguar will be next so they can let Fiesta Village rest for a long while. I do hope after Jaguar they’ll prioritize putting something in Mystery Lodge (Ahem Vekoma Madhouse) because SOMETHING needs to go in there.

I want to see S&S do the eventual Xcellerator replacement. They probably won’t knowing how unreliable they are, but what made Xcellerator great was the launch. Something like Xcellerator and Maxx Force out together would be great.

 

[BriefCasey]

I feel like I'm out of the loop; What's fueling the belief that a coaster is on the chopping block once Montezooma is done?