Monday, August 16, 2010

Knott's Berry Farm Update

From Screamscape:

2011 - New Attraction - Rumor - (8/16/10) Does Knott’s have something very large in store for the 2011 season? The magic 8-Ball says that all signs currently point to “Yes”. According to a posting at Westcoaster, during the Q2 conference call Cedar Fair confirmed that they would spent between $80-90 million on Capital Expansion for the 2011 season. So far, all we’ve seen announced has been very small fry in terms of dollars spent. $9 million on Planet Snoopy in Valleyfair, $8 million on Planet Snoopy at Dorney and $5 million on it at Worlds of Fun. That represents $22 million so far, and I doubt the rumored Starlight attraction for Carowinds will cost more than $2-3 million. Save up another $5 to $10 million for the rumored StratoSoar at Cedar Point, and we’re still looking at somewhere between $45-55 million unaccounted for so far for the 2011 season.
Who’s left? Michigan’s Adventure is rumored to get a small waterpark expansion, don’t expect much from Kings Dominion after just adding ‘Timmy 305. Canada is rumored for a possible new coaster, but no solid signs yet. California’s Great America always seems to get the shaft when it comes to CapEx and it’s been confirmed form sources that they will not get the delayed GCI woodie for 2011 either. This kind of leaves Kings Island and Knott’s as the big unknowns for 2011, and likely to receive the lions share of the remaining budget.
However, Kings Island did just add Diamondback in 2009… and the last major coaster Knott’s received was Silver Bullet in 2004. Clearly The Farm is not only the most In Need for something major in 2011, but they’ve got a ton of competition to deal with over the next couple of years from rides like Little Mermaid, Cars Land, Transformers and whatever Six Flags Magic Mountain has up their sleeve. Add in all those crazy survey markers spotted all over the park and I think The Farm is preparing for something.
Like they say, “Something wicked this way comes…”


This could be for 2011. I'm not sure what this is but I have something to say to Knott's... PLEASE get a B&M hyper for 2011/2012...

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