Levi

i think a new coaster in the area is genuinely more realistic then a new stage show with the current state of VRTP. lets be real, the rides replacement most likely won’t be open until 2027/28, three to four years since WoO. i think it’s pretty clear the ride won’t be reopening, they might not be demolishing it right now but you can tell they’re prepping for it.

surely they wouldn’t start scrapping the ride and area if they didn’t have a plan on what’s coming next, so time for speculation to start. what i think is that they’ve closed the studio showcase because they’re going to knock down the whole building to make a much larger space for a new area replacement. they need more flat rides and a new inverting coaster, so why not knock both out at the same time. maybe a Mack Stryker (different enough from DC Rivals), with an S&S screamin swing, the area would be an expansion of the wild west section instead of a whole new theme.

i agree, another stand out coaster is what the park now needs, something like an Intamin Mega Coaster. after that it’s only little things here and there (Motorcoaster sticking out like a sore thumb for example), that they need to work out. as it is, the parks already much more bang for your buck compared to down the road.

i think they’re both great family rides, but overall they’re just okay. looking away from the theming, Kansas Twister is a fun little coaster, but i do wish it maybe ran a bit faster on the return trip and was a bit longer. FOTWW has a fun layout and the drop + first turn are decently intense for a family coaster, but it’s way too short and it’s a capacity nightmare. not being able to do up your own seatbelt, while the gates also don’t open until the station is completely empty, while it’s also only able to run one train makes every dispatch around 4 minutes, that’s only around 300 people an hour. so by the time you actually make it through the boiling hot queue line and experience the fun, but 30 second ride, you’re left with a sour taste in your mouth. for the hardware itself, FOTWW is my preferred option, but for how they are at the park, the experience of Kansas Twister is better imo, but they’re both just way too short. part of me thinks they should’ve gone for either a singular coaster like a big bear mountain / fire chaser express style of ride or a Vekoma STC & family boomerang combo.

@New display nameon my first visit i don’t remember there being a sliding door so they must’ve fixed that issue, its good to see them improving on an already near perfect product to speed operations up even more. i didn’t expect it to be such a people eater, it definitely has the best operations on the coast. i’m excited to see what else they do in the switchtrack room.

from what i’ve heard, the interior of the switchtrack room and indoor sections isn’t completed yet, but it was either open the ride on time or finish the last little bits of theming. the ride does seem to get pretty decent sized lines as well, but the opening crew are fantastic, most of the time the rides ready for dispatch before the second train is even hitting the break run.

i mean they’re okay but they’re all very short. Double Barrel is useless, Super Ripper is good for kids and Kaboom is pretty good but i find the valleys of the drops to be pretty rough and borderline painful. Tangerine Twist: boomerang slide Teal Twirler: bowl slide

thank you, i mustn't have actually copied the ray rush link🤣 it would be, but the names tend to make me think that’s what’s happening, i mean Aqua Blast in the Zoom Zone screams that. i’d say they’re all for different attractions though as they don’t really sound like “back up” names if the others don’t get approved.

more trademarks have been filed for wet n wild, including ‘Zoom Zone’ and ‘Teal Twirler.’ my guess is Zoom Zone will be a new area replacing Aqualoop, similar to action zone. by the sound of the names, i have a feeling one of the new slides will be a launched waterslide, something like Cheetah Chase or Ray Rush. let’s hope they’re better slides then the last tower they got.

my guess is they didn’t have any staff rostered on to work the night, i think the opening was a very last minute decision. the staff rostered to work for the last couple days were probably already rostered there for training, would explain why it wasn’t open.

from what i’ve heard, no staff previews were done before opening. so not only were execs riding on opening day, you could see normal staff from all departments riding as well.

i’m not sure if i’m remembering correctly, but wasn’t Wicked Witches station meant to have screens and show the Monkeys flying away as the train departed the station? i swear this was announced when the whole area was announced.

yeah i think Rivertown definitely has been executed a lot better then WoO. i think when you hype up a product so much like they have for 4 years, you need to deliver more then you promised, especially when you’re saving money using cookie cutter layouts. the fact they haven’t even covered the concrete tunnel on FOTWW with atleast some fog speaks volumes. however, i haven’t seen it in person, so i’ll reserve my final judgements until i see it for myself.

i’d assume the seatbelts are either just for children or so guests don’t hop out of the cars during the ride, which would make sense to have them there since there is a lot of water effects (with one section driving over the water.)

Jungle Rush opened for technical rehearsals and is now taking guests.