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[mg]

Since it was released by someone else - can confirm now that the HH restrooms have been completely redone for this season

Did they keep urinals that go all the way to the floor? My kid loves those.

They did not.

[History Buff]

Since it was released by someone else - can confirm now that the HH restrooms have been completely redone for this season

Did they keep urinals that go all the way to the floor? My kid loves those.

They did not.

Bringing back the old-fashioned group troughs, are they?

[mg]

The Fireman's Landing play place now has a single entrance where you can go to either the ball play place or the other play place. The old entrance into the ball play place is closed off the area outside of it is now covered stroller parking.




The Plaza area was being paved on opening day. You can see that they have taken the wall down and now there is just a short fence in preparation of the walkway being open.



The Flanders' Dry Goods shop is now a name jewelry and permanent jewelry shop.



Fire in the Hole now has a photo kiosk far to the left of the Photo Booth.


New entrance to the Plaza from Grand Expo.

[Lampie]

The Fireman's Landing play place now has a single entrance where you can go to either the ball play place or the other play place. The old entrance into the ball play place is closed off the area outside of it is now covered stroller parking.

Did they fix the floor in the ball area? Or add more balls? At the end of last season it was pretty rough in there.

[shavethewhales]

Thanks for the photos mg!

That improvement to fireman's landing is great. Love that they continue to improve and adapt things like this.

I wonder if the plaza will be open year round once it is done? Mostly just because it makes a nice short cut between FITH and the expo area. Between this and the apparent new connection between PK and Wildfire they are making a ton of progress on connecting the park better (and thereby adding more capacity for growth...)

[Swoosh]

You won't have to look very hard to see work being done.  I'm already bracing myself for the complaints that will be incoming.  It's pretty drastic

Honestly, as long as most of the scenery and themeing remains, i dont mind the tree clearing. I'm more excited to see construction progress. Hopefully by summertime track shows up and we'll have a decent idea of the manufacturer.
Still betting on a B&M hyper/giga!

Now that the park is open I can confirm that most of scenery and characters are gone.  The old unused flumes of Jim Owen's float trip are also gone. 

[shavethewhales]

They were in pretty rough shape, but I hope there is a plan to bring them back in some way. I miss all the signage and funny scenes. I even miss the big entrance signs for both Wildfire and Powderkeg. That area needed some attention after 20+ years of just sitting and slowly losing things. I'm sure they have a plan for it all.

[mg]

Wildfire and Outlaw Run now offer videos along with the ride photo.
The videos are $5 each and are not included with the photo card.

The video is 16x9... I do wish that they offered a 9x16 version that was specificity formatted for social.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BJTeVcri1/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[KBCraig]

Wildfire and Outlaw Run now offer videos along with the ride photo.
The videos are $5 each and are not included with the photo card.

The video is 16x9... I do wish that they offered a 9x16 version that was specificity formatted for social.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BJTeVcri1/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Vertical video is evil.

[shavethewhales]

Interesting. I seem to recall way back in the day they tried the video thing for a couple of seasons, but it was an older technology. I think it was long enough ago that they actually gave you a CD with the video on it?

The vertical video thing sounds like a great way to both generate some free publicity and monetize people's social media addictions. Plus its another tool to stop people from taking their phones out on rides.