CoasterBuzz Podcast #149 posted

FYI: Red Barron Snoopy is in the Great Pumpkin, which many people's favorite holiday special.

Also Snoopy is not to be found in KI, I believe they cant sell Peanuts merchandise there under their current licensing agreement. There is however, a whole lot more Scooby stuff lately then there has been in the past.

Finally, while Sponge Bob and Dora are still showing, every other character in that land no longer has a TV show currently airing on Nick.

Great Podcast as usual guys.

Couple notes as you know I have to comment on certain parts :)

BBW is a 42" not 48" ride.

Also you can see the village area of BBW during concerts as its the old Drachen Fire area which is adjacent to it. Its not a totally clear shot, but its visible.

Knott's has always given 10% discounts on food and merchandise for annual passholders. However, this year a lot of the places, like Johnny Rockets, are giving 20% off to AP's. I assumed all Cedar Fair parks did the same.

At CP we get a few discounts, one that Ive used quite heavily recently is the buy a coasters burger, get fries free.

On sunday we can get a 10% discount on Toft Ice Cream Sundaes too.

Touchdown said:
Finally, while Sponge Bob and Dora are still showing, every other character in that land no longer has a TV show currently airing on Nick.

Not really true - Rugrats, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, OddParents all air during the weekend.

Many of the others are no longer airing on Nickelodeon proper, but most are seen on their other stations (Nicktoons, Noggin, etc.) and the really kiddie stuff is mostly being moved to Noggin for it's change to Nick Jr. this fall.

Gonch:

Since you are in the loop for cartoons, where can one watch Looney Tunes in this day and age?

As far as I know - nowhere on TV except for special occasions (I think Cartoon Network ran some for a marathon of sorts this past New Year's Day), but they're often edited to the point of annoyance.

DVD is the best bet anymore. I try to get my kids to watch them and they do sometimes, but man, I still know most of them word for word. Classic humor done extraordinarily well. Should be required viewing for life in general. :)

I don't know about CF at large, but at CP, the perks are all ultra-specific and I've never had the right opportunity to use most of them. If I can get a dollar off ice cream during a full moon if it's on Wednesday and it's also Canada Day, and only at Round-Up between 4 and 5 p.m., odds are I'll never use it.

KBF only gives food discounts if you eat at a traditional sit down restaurant. I have thought for a while that KBF should give 25% off of food and merchandise like SFMM does and also that KBF should give out value books mainly for the free and discounted tickets. A Flash Pass system at KBF would also be great. I have not got much use out of the SF food and merchandise coupons but I have used the ticket offers and I use the 25% food discount on every trip.

I wasn't aware of any in-park discounts with my CF pass. They must be doing a good job of keeping it on a need to know basis.

At KBF the discount info was listed in a small paragraph on the flyer they hand out when you buy or renew your pass. If I would not have read it closely I never would have known. It is not advertised in the park and the clerks never ask you if you have a season pass when you buy something.

Oh, and just for the record:

Flashbeagle

Ahh yes.. The 80s Snoopy rocks! That was taken off the Boomerang network, a spin off of the Cartoon Network (which I vagely remember mentioning in a prior thread)..

Best network ever.. You have a better chance of catching the old great cartoons there. Ive even caught LT on there as well, but as Gonch spoke of, they are clearly edited.

Six Flags also does the souveneir cup 12.99; free-refills-that-day/.99 the rest of the season thing too. Same for popcorn/cotton candy buckets (8.99/.99).

^How do they determine if you bought the cup that day or earlier in the season?

Wristband, I believe.

Carbon 14 dating on the saliva around the rim of the cup.

FYI, the Loony Tunes dvd sets are absolutely THE way to go if you want to see classic WB toons at their very best. Now if only we could get some uncut classic Tex Avery stuff on dvd. Le sigh.

/enddorkgasm

And as much as I do love the Peanuts (Snoopy = best cartoon dog ever), I have to agree that the Nick franchise is a much more popular draw for the kids. Heck, I'm an Avatar geek and I went into the kids area at KI just to check out that ride.Well, that and to gape like a dork and wonder why we never had stuff that cool when I was a kid.

Unfortunately I got turned on to the "most offensive video" website which features dubbed over Charlie Brown episodes. Now anytime a holiday Charlie Brown show comes out or I see any Peanuts character in the park my mind reverts to those train wreck videos and makes it difficult to enjoy without a sarcastic smile.

I wont even dare include a link. You are smart people.. If you dont know about it and have morbid curiosity, Google the quotes. I guarantee you will never watch a normal charlie brown episode again. Darn my coworkers...