Carowinds Connection

Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79950

By Tosu97 - June 24th, 2015, 12:25 pm

- June 24th, 2015, 12:25 pm #79950

Just walked by again and it looks like repair/repaint. Sorry for the short lived false alarm.. haha

Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79951

By tarheel1231 - June 24th, 2015, 12:26 pm

- June 24th, 2015, 12:26 pm #79951

Could they be answering our wishes for a full-service restaurant? :shock:

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79952

By FamousAmos - June 24th, 2015, 12:28 pm

- June 24th, 2015, 12:28 pm #79952

I noticed that on Monday they were doing some exterior repair work to that building.

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79953

By RollerBee - June 24th, 2015, 12:51 pm

- June 24th, 2015, 12:51 pm #79953

Strange to start a facelift in the middle of summer.

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79956

By Bigcoasterguy - June 24th, 2015, 2:21 pm

- June 24th, 2015, 2:21 pm #79956

It's getting repainted, a nice Carolina blue I might add. (I just walked by)

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79958

By tarheel1231 - June 24th, 2015, 2:46 pm

- June 24th, 2015, 2:46 pm #79958

Can someone take pictures?

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79976

By redrunner97 - June 24th, 2015, 11:40 pm

- June 24th, 2015, 11:40 pm #79976

I hope it keeps the Wings name. It's the only Paramount Pictures title still directly in use at the park (and Wings was a landmark film; also the first ever recipient of the Academy Award). As a film enthusiast I find that very cool. If anything I'd like to see classic movie posters and Wright Brothers stuff added, for dual-theming to cinema and the Carolina's flight history.

Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79977

By RollerBee - June 25th, 2015, 12:23 am

- June 25th, 2015, 12:23 am #79977

Which begs the point how did this survive the De-Paramounting? Trademark/Copyright expired?
Would it be a reasonable guess that Paramount Pictures noticed and told them to "crease and desist"?

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79979

By coasterbruh - June 25th, 2015, 8:07 am

- June 25th, 2015, 8:07 am #79979

Wasn't it always called wings???

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #79981

By RollerBee - June 25th, 2015, 9:32 am

- June 25th, 2015, 9:32 am #79981

No, it opened as "Cafe Italiano" around 1981 and was known as "Billy Bob's" in 1989.

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #80026

By coasterbruh - June 26th, 2015, 12:30 pm

- June 26th, 2015, 12:30 pm #80026

Yall got 30 days to #SaveThunderRoad before its rolled over out of the fuc...fluming way...

But as a constellation prize the first 100 people everyday until the 26th of july get a free commemorative thunder road pin...has that been announced yet? :shh:

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Re: Carowinds announces the closure of Thunder Road on July #80028

By njf - June 26th, 2015, 4:19 pm

- June 26th, 2015, 4:19 pm #80028

coasterbruh wrote:Yall got 30 days to #SaveThunderRoad before its rolled over out of the fuc...fluming way...

But as a constellation prize the first 100 people everyday until the 26th of july get a free commemorative thunder road pin...has that been announced yet?

It's announced!