Screamscape: PKD FOF Not Reopening?

Seems pretty late in the off-season to START thinking about a retheme. Oh well, we'll see what comes of it. *Shrug*

--Greg
"You seem healthy. So much for voodoo."

I would call it the Black Hole! I'd shut off all the lights. It will open tomorrow!

P.S. The lines would still be out the door. Who does not like a dark coaster?

pkidelirium said:
Avalanche has been removed from the PKD site too!
WTF is this?!

Looks like they got their hands on some of the same stuff SF executives have been smoking :)

coasterguts said:
If Paramount removes this coaster, it will rank right up there with the stupidest idea ever conceived and willn't be to far behind, if not tie, the SF No Reentry Policy

You aren't forgetting about what Paramount did to Stealth right? It can happen, but my biggest guess would be a retheming.

I have't forgot about what Paramount did with Stealth. However, aren't the circumstances for removing the Stealth and moving it to another park the same as PKD removing FOF? Probably not. FOF is still a popular and one of the better attractions at PKD. A retheme is needed, I'll agree. Removing it would just be a plain old bad decision.

I need to quit posting so early in the morning. My grammer is attrocious. *** Edited 1/25/2006 6:12:53 PM UTC by coasterguts***

A day at the park is what you make it!

Neuski said:
RideMan said:
Remember, this is the same company that jerked the Flying Scooter out of Kings Island last year and replaced it with GRASS.
You mean shipping containers. :(

No, I mean grass. The shipping containers (and the really-quite-decent coaster behind them) is sitting on the land previously occupied by not one, but two antique car rides. The land previouosly occupied by the Flying Scooter, the absolute best ride in that park, is now occupied by nothing more interesting than grass. Well, they did have a cornhole game set up there during the halloween weekends, I guess...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

coasterguts said:
I have't forgot about what Paramount did with Stealth. However, aren the circumstances for removing the Stealth and moving it to another park the same as PKD removing FOF? Probably not. FOF is still a popular and one of the better attractions at PKD. A retheme is needed, I'll agree. Removing it would just be a plain old bad decision.

For a park like PGA that hadn't received a major new coaster in years (and still hasn't!), Stealth was a HUGE hit with the GP. Easily the most popular coaster in the park in it's time, being a local I always heard everyone talking and raving about it, yet it was removed after only 3 seasons anyways. And that was after they had already removed another major coaster the year before. I'm aware of their lame excuses for doing so, none of which made any sense except to cut corners. Paramount's been ripping rides out of PGA for years now, looks like the rest of the chain may possibly be getting the same treatment of bad decisions that we've been experiencing for over a decade now.

Yeah, but how does the dispatch time for that GRASS compare to the Eagles? :) (Does GRASS stand for "Great Rides Are Sent South"?)

Does Paramount ever release the results of the surveys?

Yes and no-Paramount keeps & stores the popular concepts for later use sometimes they redesign the concept so it will fit in certain space of land & so it can be ridden by most of the family.

If you need to know the whole process read this

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050520/LIFE/505200361/1086 *** Edited 1/25/2006 8:02:41 PM UTC by MysteryIncs1#Fan***

When at Kings Island Ride The Beast.

I agree with Rideman- Paramount seems to be the new king of mindless decisions. Why remove a popular ride like FoF when the park has many other coasters that are more or less worthless. Shockwave, Anaconda, Hypersonic- take your pick.

Of course, maybe it's going somewhere else, just for the sake of diversification of assets or something.

Dave, my point was they took the most beautiful section of the park and replaced it with a decent coaster that has trashy themeing.

It's supposed to look like Los Angeles. Trashy is accurate. ;)

I think its a pretty classy and fun ride that could have totally gone somewhere else in the park. I would have removed Congo Falls or Days of Thunder and done something to incorporate it into Action Zone and continue to spread out crowds in the area. Speaking of things not reopening at Paramount Parks, it sounds like the last car of the SOB trains may have seen their last operating days at PKI...

+Danny

+Danny...

Only the last car? Not the whole @#$! train?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Rob Ascough said:
I agree with Rideman- Paramount seems to be the new king of mindless decisions.

Seems to me that there has been a business premise for every ride relocation to me.

Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog

And it seems to me that there were better decisions that could have been made instead.

I checked RCDB.com and it still has FOF listed. I don't think that PKD would get remove either Avalachane or FOF. Alough I don't think the company has any direction or plans for the Paramount parks. Outside of PKI I'm not sure they know what they are doing? I am still confused as to why you would ship a coaster from CAL to NC. So if they do decide to remove FOF or Avalachane I won't be shocked.

There is no such thing as a terrible Coaster just ones that haven't been taken care of

So what are you saying? Are you surprised or not? ;)

I went to the PKD site and downloaded the current park map. FOF is still on that map. Of course, that may be because they have not had time to remove it yet.