After what many people thought were extremely far off, crazy rumors pointing to the removal of Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom’s star coaster, Chang, it seems as if its actually real. Local news station WLKY has reported that removal of the B&M Stand-Up coaster will begin Monday.  In return for losing their flagship attraction, the park gets a water park expansion… yes, you read right, a water park expansion. Unfortunately it seems as if we  may have another Geauga Lake story on our hands.

The news source says that Chang will be moved to another park, which I assume means it isn’t being sold, but instead being moved within the Six Flags chain.

If I was in charge of making the decision of where to move this ride, It would definitely be headed to Six Flags America, a park that hasn’t seen a new coaster in a very long time, not to mention the park’s are pretty close together, which allows for much cheaper shipping costs, and in Six Flags financial position, they need to save money where ever they can.

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  • Spencer

    Wow.

    You cannot be serious.

  • Worm

    Uh…. Wow.

  • http://youtube.com/egypt2112 Jeremie

    Im surprised they didn’t do it earlier.

  • ZR7

    Surprised they didn’t do it earlier??? Why???

    This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of – tearing down a ride that operates from the season opener until closing in the fall, to build another water themed thing that only operates for 3 months during the whole season. Chang was the only good thing that SFKK had going for it now – T2 feels like it’s falling apart, they’ve had Mile High Falls and Twisted Twins “SBNO” for at least 2 years, they lost the Superman Tower of Power because somebody screwed up and didn’t do their maintenance checks thoroughly…..shall I go on???

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Egypt2112 Jeremie

    ^Thats about it. If you wanted to continue, you can’t.

    The water park brings in more money then the theme park. They would be better in investing in a water park expansion then keeping this stand up coaster.

  • Matt Willis

    I have been waiting for my kids to get tall enough to ride Chang and now they are taking it away. I thought they should have replaced Mile High Falls and Twisted Twins with a coaster instead of removing the best coaster they have….Kingdom has lost 4 season passes…I guess I will be visiting Kings Island more than once a year now. SFKK really screwed up…No wonder they have filed bankrupty…

  • Jamie, Louisville

    My nephew works at Kentucky Kingdom and he said by 2012, they will be a Water Park Only. They will be moving all thrill rides out. Which is good, because Kentucky Kingdom is a crap hole.