After lots of Teasing, Carowinds finally announced their addition for 2011: Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular. Featuring more than half a million LED lights, this new nighttime festival will extend from Country Fair to Planet Snoopy. The latest technology will be soon brought into the park for this sensory spectacular. To allow as many people as possible to enjoy Snoopy’ Starlight Spectacular, the park plan’s on expanding hours to 10 pm from June 27th, to August 7th 2011. Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular will illuminate on these nights. The addition is reminiscient of what has been added the past two years at several Cedar Fair parks such as Cedar Point, Worlds of Fun, and Knott’s Berry Farm. In fact, this particular Carowinds version will share the exact same name as Knott’s recently added version. I got a chance to experience the show at Knott’s and the overall area was just plain fun. The music was retro but with some funk, and the lighting was most certainly impressive with all sorts of lights, 3D objects, and characters that made it a real treat for guests of all ages. You can check out a full review of Knott’s Berry Farm’s version of Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular here. Expect this to be a popular addition to Carowinds for the 2011 season.
Snoopy's Starlight Spectacular at Knott's Berry Farm
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!
A few days ago, we showed you California’s Great America’s newly rethemed Planet Snoopy, but another opened last weekend as well, at Carowinds. Since this isn’t the big addition for Carowinds with Intimidator, the park’s new B&M hyper coaster, also debuting this year, Planet Snoopy has kind of fallen into its shadows, literally. The first thing you notice when standing in Planet Snoopy is the huge, 232 foot tall mega coaster that now surrounds you, it really provides a nice backdrop for the beautiful children’s area.
Like at California’s Great America, every ride was renamed and rethemed from the former Nickelodeon characters, with most getting a fresh coat of paint. The whole area looks and feels brand new, with no true additions to the area, truly an amazing accomplishment by Cedar Fair and the park.
Now for some photos:
The new paint job for Flying Ace Aerial Chase really livens up the area.
All of the rides feature great Peanuts inspired details, this one on Snoopy vs. Red Baron.
The new look for “Woodstock Gliders” is widely preferred over the previous Danny Phantom theme.
Intimidator towering over a newly repainted “Lucy’s Crabbie Cabbie”
And we’ll end this update with a panorama of one side of Planet Snoopy (Click to enlarge):
What do you think of Planet Snoopy at Carowinds? Prefer it over the Nickelodeon themeing? Leave your comments and Park Thoughts!
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After lots of Teasing, Carowinds finally announced their addition for 2011: Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular. Featuring more than half a million LED lights, this new nighttime festival will extend from Country Fair to Planet Snoopy. The latest technology will be soon brought into the park for this sensory spectacular. To allow as many people as possible to enjoy Snoopy’ Starlight Spectacular, the park plan’s on expanding hours to 10 pm from June 27th, to August 7th 2011. Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular will illuminate on these nights. The addition is reminiscient of what has been added the past two years at several Cedar Fair parks such as Cedar Point, Worlds of Fun, and Knott’s Berry Farm. In fact, this particular Carowinds version will share the exact same name as Knott’s recently added version. I got a chance to experience the show at Knott’s and the overall area was just plain fun. The music was retro but with some funk, and the lighting was most certainly impressive with all sorts of lights, 3D objects, and characters that made it a real treat for guests of all ages. You can check out a full review of Knott’s Berry Farm’s version of Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular here. Expect this to be a popular addition to Carowinds for the 2011 season.
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