Park Thoughts » Carowinds http://parkthoughts.com An Amusement Industry Blog giving opinions and reviews along with updates, news and rumors from Amusement Parks, Theme Parks, and Water Parks from around the world. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:54:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A look at the new Planet Snoopy at Carowinds http://parkthoughts.com/2010/03/30/planet-snoopy-carowinds-photos/ http://parkthoughts.com/2010/03/30/planet-snoopy-carowinds-photos/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:42:50 +0000 Ethan http://parkthoughts.com/?p=4443

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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]]> http://parkthoughts.com/2010/03/30/planet-snoopy-carowinds-photos/feed/ 4 Intimidator completes first lap http://parkthoughts.com/2010/02/04/intimidator-completes-first-lap/ http://parkthoughts.com/2010/02/04/intimidator-completes-first-lap/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:18:00 +0000 Ethan http://parkthoughts.com/?p=3841

Around 4:15 PM EST today Intimidator got the green flag and took its first test run with the train flying through the ride’s mile long track. While neither of the ride’s 2 trim brakes appeared to be on and the mid course ...

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Planet Snoopy has been announced as the replacement for all of the Nickelodeon Central and Hannah Barbara’s Kidzville areas in the former Paramount Parks.  These new Snoopy-fied areas are all currently in the construction phase ...

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]]> http://parkthoughts.com/2010/01/16/planet-snoopy-websites/feed/ 1 Changes all around at Carowinds http://parkthoughts.com/2010/01/14/changes-all-around-at-carowinds/ http://parkthoughts.com/2010/01/14/changes-all-around-at-carowinds/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:56:06 +0000 Ethan http://parkthoughts.com/?p=3612

Yes, we just covered Carowinds two days ago, but they’re probably the busiest park in the world right now, construction work of some kind is taking place in almost every corner of park. Intimidator is closing in on completion, the ...

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]]> http://parkthoughts.com/2010/01/14/changes-all-around-at-carowinds/feed/ 1 Some Intimidating Milestones http://parkthoughts.com/2010/01/12/some-intimidating-milestones/ http://parkthoughts.com/2010/01/12/some-intimidating-milestones/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:28:58 +0000 Ethan http://parkthoughts.com/?p=3569 The last week has seen very significant milestones for both Intimidator at Carowinds and Intimidator 305 at Kings Dominion and the rides are getting closer and closer to opening.

First off, the first of 3 trains arrived at Carowinds yesterday and has been ...

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After what was probably the shortest construction of a coaster of this magnitude, Intimidator, Carowinds’ 13th roller coaster, was finished today around 2:00. Lucky for the Charlotte area, barely missing the huge snowstorms that has hit the east coast over the last week, ...

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