[OakenBucket]

Would love for Carowinds to make a deal with Mack. And over the next 5 yrs bring first a Dudley Du right style flume. Then a launch coaster like Blue fire. My kids are 16 and 18 now but the park needs a good family ride.

[Tawny71]

My issue was not with the GP saying "THE Fury three hundred and twenty five". It was with the person Carowinds chose to use to market the ride using it. If Carowinds is using a person to get info out about the ride, then it just makes sense that they would want him to use the name they intended for it, no? Anyway, it should be a non-issue now. It sounds like ThrillCasterChris is a good guy and he's working on saying it without the THE and with the 3-2-5.

But back to the topic on hand...I'd really love to see a water coaster as part of the water park expansion, but I'm worried we're just going to get a carbon copy of what KD is getting this year. And for the year after, I pray for the extinction of the dinosaurs, an expansion of Planet Snoopy, and more flats all around the park.

[coasterbruh]

I think we should anticipate a ride like the wonder mountain. After this years better version of the leviathan, I wonder if thrillzone will see more thrilling additions in the form of flats? With only the scream weaver and the drop tower and the hurler over there, it could a flat or two. Maybe they can get another flat from the canada wonderland.

[goldsteh]

I would love to see flat rides. Biggest need for the park. After that a flume ride would come to mind and then down the road some type of launched coaster. Maybe a Mack family coaster.

[Tawny71]

I would love to see a flume ride, but it's not been that long since Carowinds had one, right? Why did they take out the old one? I'm sure this has all been discussed before, but I don't remember the reasoning behind removing it, and that happened before I was here.

[tarheel1231]

I would love to see a flume ride, but it's not been that long since Carowinds had one, right? Why did they take out the old one? I'm sure this has all been discussed before, but I don't remember the reasoning behind removing it, and that happened before I was here.

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[RollerBee]

We have been over this before....
Both "The Afterburn" and "Afterburn" used in a sentence are proper English whether it is officially in the ride name or not. As far as shorten ride names, remember BORG.....

[arby]

I would love to see a flume ride, but it's not been that long since Carowinds had one, right? Why did they take out the old one? I'm sure this has all been discussed before, but I don't remember the reasoning behind removing it, and that happened before I was here.

They took it out to make way for Intimidator. I hear from those who worked there at the time, it was a maintenance nightmare. I love log flumes and enjoyed riding it. However, it was run down and had very little theming. I hope they bring back a log flume sometime.

And over the next 5 yrs bring first a Dudley Du right style flume.

That would be awesome. I'd also be happy with something similar to Splash Mountain which is also great.

and the Carolina Boardwalk (perhaps a good location for Blackbeard's Revenge?

I love that name and idea! I'm just hoping it's nothing like Saddam's Revenge that I got in Iraq (our name for dysentery).

I've never been on a water coaster so I'd love to have one come here. When we went to Holiday World, the water park was closed. I bet that would bring in an even bigger spike in attendance than Fury.

I suspect they have some good surprises up their sleeve since they mentioned that all the front plaza work and parking lot expansion was planned in such a way to handle 3+ million visitors a year.

[Tawny71]

Hmmmmm...old, rickety, non-themed log flume or Intimidator.... I think they made the right decision there!!!

For the future, if we had to choose between a water coaster and a flume, I think a water coaster would definitely bring in more guests.

[MarkD]

...I suspect they have some good surprises up their sleeve since they mentioned that all the front plaza work and parking lot expansion was planned in such a way to handle 3+ million visitors a year.

I did a little calculating and WOW.

Carowinds is open 146 days in 2015
Carowinds wants 3,000,000 guests
That equals 20,548 guest per day.

I have been a long time advocate for a new style flume or a water coaster. The water coaster would probably bring in more guests but at the same time our old flume, old and busted or not, was packed every time I went. The water coaster would most likely have to be incorporated into the water park where as a flume ride could go anywhere. Hey, let's just get both and call it a day.

[Wormy]

Jarvis probably forgets he put this together. Never forget..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stw2gpxa9bU

[coasterbruh]

Hmmmmm...old, rickety, non-themed log flume or Intimidator.... I think they made the right decision there!!!

For the future, if we had to choose between a water coaster and a flume, I think a water coaster would definitely bring in more guests.

and its THE water coaster...

I think flumes work better when its something to actually see. Carowinds flume was fun but not that scenic aside from the part before the first drop. I think I can deal with the park not adding a flume.

[arby]

I forgot how many trees and how much water there was out front. The charm I mentioned in another post is becoming more apparent.

The water coaster would most likely have to be incorporated into the water park where as a flume ride could go anywhere. Hey, let's just get both and call it a day

I'm all for that. Sounds like a win win to me.

Carowinds is open 146 days in 2015
Carowinds wants 3,000,000 guests
That equals 20,548 guest per day.

Yeah, I still don't get why Dollywood is open 10 months out of the year in the mountains yet Carowinds is only open 7 1/2 months out of the year. Maintenance yells FOUL, yet the rides seem better maintained at Dollywood than at Carowinds.

[tarheel1231]

^Probably because Dollywood is Dollywood. You take away the rides from Dollywood and it's still a great park. You take away the rides from Carowinds and you don't have much. I think that might change over the next few years though.

[RollerBee]

A normal Saturday for Carowinds attendance wise is 18,000. The highest I ever seen posted was 26,000 and that Closing Weekend 2005. Records were broken and the park at capacity which is higher than 26,000. I can't remember what it was but Hurler's line was out of the extended que and starting to wrap around Jukebox. At 500-700 riders per hour, we were moving as fast as we could.