Christopher Mallis wrote:It’s simple. Like mentioned before rides like RRR were mostly built decades ago, and reach their lifetime. This is when the park either makes a decision to do a big maintenance overhaul of the ride to restore it or they scrap it and put something else there. They don’t say “well we have the waterpark so we don’t need this ride”. While yes they do have the waterpark, it’s completely different from RRR. Personally I don’t think the park cares about people walking around with wet clothes and clearly people don’t either if they’ll wait in line for it. That’s not the problem. The problem is simply maintenance.
phareous wrote: I don't think the problem is maintenance...it is an extremely simple ride.
Christopher Mallis wrote:It’s simple. Like mentioned before rides like RRR were mostly built decades ago, and reach their lifetime. This is when the park either makes a decision to do a big maintenance overhaul of the ride to restore it or they scrap it and put something else there. They don’t say “well we have the waterpark so we don’t need this ride”. While yes they do have the waterpark, it’s completely different from RRR. Personally I don’t think the park cares about people walking around with wet clothes and clearly people don’t either if they’ll wait in line for it. That’s not the problem. The problem is simply maintenance.
Cavan wrote:... yeah it's a simple ride. It's basically a water slide, all you need is pumps to bring water up aaand that's it. It's being removed because 1) stupid low capacity 2) water park exists 3) stupid low capacity 4) wheres the woodsy ground-up rmc supposed to go?
Edwardo wrote:Rapids rides are not ‘extremely simple rides’. Parks don’t get rid of rides because they don’t ‘have enough staff’, they can hire a couple extra people and staff the ride. Parks get rid of rides when the maintenance becomes to expensive in relation to ridership. Even popular rides can get too expensive to maintain.
If it were a case of “we need more employees”, they’d hire more employees. Not spend way more money to eventually demolish a ride.
BelowThePeak wrote:coasterbruh wrote:Dang, ya'll are brutal lately lol.
Even though the park has a water park doesn't mean they shouldn't have water attractions. Water parks aren't everyone's thing and no one should be restricted to just having the water park as an option. Water park attractions and water rides are not the same. One is designed for you to be half naked to experience and one requires you to be fully clothed. I know we live in a new era where everyone HAS to have their phone or some device on them so they feel less incline to get get soaked on a ride but that's a personal problem. It's a theme park, UNPLUG!
But my personal opinion is these parks aren't ripping these rides out just for the heck of it, a lot of these rides are older than us and in some cases, our parents. Nothing works for ever nor are they designed to. The park folks are in the business of making more and spending less and if it cost more to run a ride than to tear it down and replace it with something that will one, boost attendance (because that's the bottom line with parks) and generate revenue in the parks, then so long old water ride.
We would be crazy to think the park doesn't have a water ride/attraction in the pipeline .
Glitch99 wrote:if constructing a new water ride, it should be associated with the water park.
Glitch99 wrote:Is it just me, or does Carowinds have far more discounts promoted this year? $19.99 bring a friend, every weekday. $29.99 parking and admission on Thursdays. Etc, etc.
Grobble wrote:Glitch99 wrote:Is it just me, or does Carowinds have far more discounts promoted this year? $19.99 bring a friend, every weekday. $29.99 parking and admission on Thursdays. Etc, etc.
All Cedar Fair parks have these similar discounts for years, they just don't hype them like Six Flags which sends out a constant newsletters promoting them. You have to actually look for the deals for Cedar Fair on the website or follow their social media. Also, there are no free days which are extra hyped by SF and are known days to avoid, unless your using the deal b/c it's going to be a zoo.
KI, KD,CGA have BoF 19.99 all the time. WOF, VF, like Carowinds have it on weekdays and increase it to 36 to 40 on weekends. CP and MIA have 29.99, all the time KB $48.
Extraneous Note: Cedar Point( is not doing auto renewal for passes for 2020. Did Carowinds send out a similar email? I would assume no auto renewal would be an across the chain policy.
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