We’re back with some more theme park news, but before we dive in, I’ve got a confession
to make.
I was wrong.
Last week, I said that the new P'Sghetti Bowl Children's Coaster, being developed by Skyline
Attractions, would be utilising RMC’s raptor track.
Skyline Attractions left a comment on the video clarifying that it …”will feature
a unique, weld-free design that we will be fabricating in-house.”
They hope that “This will allow [them] to reduce costs, increase quality control, and
offer a better, smoother ride experience”.
So there you go - now it’s even more exciting of a debut!
Speaking of exciting, have I got news for you.
Imagine a world where you can actually ride the extremely highly regarded ‘Rise of the
Resistance’ attraction at Walt Disney World.
Are you imagining it?
How great would it be if you didn’t have to book a virtual slot at a stupidly early
time in the morning to secure your place - super great!
Well, Disney has confirmed that the standby queue line for Rise of the Resistance at Disney’s
Hollywood Studios will be used starting on September 23rd.
That means - no more boarding passes!
Now we just have to hope the standby queue time is actually manageable, not a solid 4
hours every day.
Let’s talk about new rides now.
Family Park, Austria’s biggest theme parks, is building something new.
They haven’t confirmed anything yet, but construction photos show a log flume type
ride.
Some theme park nerds have done some digging and have come to the conclusion that the new
attraction will be a Chiapas style log-flume ride from Intamin.
For those who don’t know, Chiapas at Phantasialand is Intamin’s concept for the new generation
of the flume ride.
It features tall, steep drops, and even airtime hills!
A user on the CoasterFriends.de forum found that the ride being built at Family Park is
identical to the example model shown on Intamin’s Flume ride brochure.
It’s great to finally see more of these next gen log flumes being built around the
world - even if the log flumes are uncomfortable because of the stupidly designed restraint.
Continuing on the topic of rides, Ride Engineers Switzerland have recently showcased a brand
new flat ride on their YouTube channel, known as the Wave Twist L. In my mind, the best
way to describe this ride is: imagine you take the trains of an Intamin surf coaster,
put them on a disk’o coaster, and then add a right hand turn in the middle.
That’s exactly it.
The ride navigates an L shaped half pipe layout, while the train slowly spins, and the seats
slowly spin.
So, I’d perhaps give this a miss if you don’t like spinning.
In other news, years ago we heard that Evergrande, one of China’s largest property developers,
were planning on building 15 ‘Children’s World’ theme parks across China.
At the time they said these attractions would be located in second-tier cities across China,
with a combined expected draw of 15 million visits per year.
Sadly, this isn’t looking very good right now.
The company’s shares have plummeted in value, putting them in a difficult position financially.
Because of this, it’s likely that their theme park venture will be affected.
Evergrande has planned to open one theme park every year from 2022 - but whether this happens,
we’ll see.
A new theme park that will open its doors in 2022, March of 2022 to be specific, is
Sesame Place San Diego.
The park isn’t actually ‘brand-new’ though.
The attraction will replace the former SeaWorld’s Aquatica water park, with many of the attractions
being rethemed to suit the new Sesame Place brand.
New rides will also be added to the park, including the roller coaster, Super Grover’s
Box Car Derby.
Now for some weird news.
Carowinds recently published a new bag policy which they will enforce during their Scarowinds
halloween event.
The policy means that guests will not be able to bring bags of any kind into the park for
the duration of their visit - what?
What makes it worse is that, according to the fineprint, once guests leave Scarowinds
reentry is not permitted.
So apparently you can’t even go to your car to get something part way through the
day.
It’s a bizarre move from Carowinds, one that I’m sure will restrict many from visiting
the event.
You might get less theme park vloggers now though, so that’s a bonus I guess.
And finally, the worst news of all.
In an unsurprising letdown, Kennywood theme park has confirmed that their iconic roller
coaster, Phantom’s Revenge, will be repainted purple for the 2021 season.
A few weeks ago they held a poll, asking the public to decide whether they’d like to
see the ride become petrifying purple or terrifying teal.
I urged you all to vote for the teal colour, also known as Coaster Bot blue.
But I’ve been let down.
How could you all do this to me.
We’ve missed out on a great opportunity here.
Purple, why would you even want a ride to be purple.
Only bad rides are purple, just look at Iron Gwazi, it hasn’t even opened yet.
What an absolute disgrace, I just can’t believe it.