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The first 2 Cedar Fair parks out of the gate with their announcements today, Knott’s Berry Farm and Canada’s Wonderland have both announced “Windseeker”. The two $5 million rides are pretty much exactly the same, both 301 feet tall, spinning its 32, 2-seat swing arms at 8 rotations per minute. They even share the same blue/gray/yellow pain scheme.
Windseeker will be the 68th ride at Canada’s Wonderland, it will be located next to the Vortex roller coaster near the park’s entrance.
Windseeker at Canada's Wonderland
At Knott’s Berry Farm, Windseeker will be located next to Xcellerator in the Boardwalk area of the park, it will be replacing their Sky Cabin ride which originally opened in 1976. Another note, this Windseeker will also sport the Knott’s “K” at its top, similar to the current Sky Cabin ride.
Windseeker at Knott's Berry Farm
So what do you think about the two Windseeker additions? Leave your comments and Park Thoughts below!
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Carowinds has just opened up the website and released details about this years SCarowinds Halloween Haunt event, officially dubbed “SCarowinds X”. The biggest announcement is the inclusion of a new maze, “Defex”, described as a “disassembly line” for defective toys, will be replacing “Final Summons” in the picnic pavilion next to Intimidator. As always we can probably also expect improvements to the returning attractions. So with the addition of Defex, Scarowinds has a really good line up of 11 different mazes and haunted houses for this years event.
- Defex
- Dead Inn
- Last Laff 3D
- Silver Screen SINema
- Slaughter House
- The Asylum
- Camp Killauee
- Feeding Frenzy
- The Cemetery
- The Playground
- Cornstalkers
The park has already began constructing the haunted houses, posting some pictures online of their progress. It looks like Defex might even have a 2nd level, which would be very interesting:
SCarowind's new haunted house "Defex" being constructed in one of the park's picnic pavilions.
Another interesting note, the park is marketing this year as “SCarowinds X”, claiming that this is their “10th year of fear” which is extremely odd seeing that last year was the “10th season of screams” (which was accurate, 2000-2009, making this the 11th season that has included SCarowinds). But anyway, this should be another great year for SCarowinds, hopefully even better than the last two years since their shouldn’t be any construction going on around the park during the event.
Scarowinds kicks off on September 17, for more information visit the official website at http://www.scarowinds.com/
What do you think of this year’s SCarowinds? Leave your comments and Park Thoughts below!
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After building two “challenge” attractions, SkyZip and Adventure Mountain over the last two years, Dollywood will be getting back into the thrill ride game in 2011 with “Barnstormer” an S&S Screamin Swing that gives riders the sensation of 1920′s stunt pilots. The $5.5 million ride will send its 2, 32 passenger swing arms 81 feet in the air with a maximum speed of 45 mph. From the looks of the concept art the ride should have a base similar to “The Giant Swing” at Dollywood’s sister park, Silver Dollar City, with perhaps a more “destroyed” barn theme.
Barnstormer will be the centerpiece of a new Barnyard themed area that will include a children’s play area featuring a bi-plane play area and a water play area themed to a pig pen. The new area will replace the Dreamland Forest treehouse near the Mountain Slidewinder.
Barnstormer, along with the new area should be a nice fit in the park, even at the loss of a great attraction like Dreamland Forest, which was definitely a personal favorite of mine as a child. But , if done well, which is obviously expected from Dollywood, the new area could be a great upgrade from the already 10 year old Dreamland Forest.
The new Baryard themed area featuring Barnstormer will replace the Dreamland Forest attraction. Photo © 1scream
What are your thoughts? Think Barnstormer fits at Dollywood? Leave your comments and Park Thoughts!
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