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el_super

el_super

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Phroobar said:
That has nothing to do with it. The current season doesn't need it because kids are in school. Knotts does perfectly well without the rowdy teenagers. It was packed during Christmas and Halloween times. Teenagers are NOT their lifeblood.
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Then why drop the policy? They could just keep it in place all year long and it wouldn't be hurting anyone. Right?

What it does is prevent teenagers from attending alone, and they're hoping that now that teenagers can go unsupervised, they will be more inclined to by annual passes.
 
Phroobar

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el_super said:
Then why drop the policy? They could just keep it in place all year long and it wouldn't be hurting anyone. Right?

What it does is prevent teenagers from attending alone, and they're hoping that now that teenagers can go unsupervised, they will be more inclined to by annual passes.
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Knott's just finished another year of record breaking attendance. There is no need to keep it all year. They only need to bring it back when needed.
 
el_super

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Phroobar said:
Knott's just finished another year of record breaking attendance. There is no need to keep it all year. They only need to bring it back when needed.
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Which is when exactly? Is there some predictable way of knowing when teenagers will be rowdy or will it just be in reaction to the next security incident that occurs?
 
Phroobar

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Peanuts Celebration is in full swing now. There is a new Snoopy's Legendary Rooftop Concert and the food festival is back.

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Rich T

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Phroobar said:
Peanuts Celebration is in full swing now. There is a new Snoopy's Legendary Rooftop Concert and the food festival is back.

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Peanuts is such a strange theme for a park land. I love the classic comic strip and the best of the TV specials. I think Charles Schulz was a genius. But, park-wise… The entire Peanuts world, after all, is mainly about the daily coping of the most depressed, unlucky, stressed-out boy on the planet… and all the other neighborhood kids who mostly treat him like garbage. 😄
 
Phroobar

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Rich T said:
Peanuts is such a strange theme for a park land. I love the classic comic strip and the best of the TV specials. I think Charles Schulz was a genius. But, park-wise… The entire Peanuts world, after all, is mainly about the daily coping of the most depressed, unlucky, stressed-out boy on the planet… and all the other neighborhood kids who mostly treat him like garbage. 😄
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I think it is more about Snoopy now than Charlie Brown. Schultz was asked who the main character was and he said it turned into Snoopy. The strip should have been named Snoopy but the newspaper won out call it Peanuts because little kids were called Peanuts back then. When Snoopy showed up, everything changed.
 
Rich T

Rich T

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Phroobar said:
I think it is more about Snoopy now than Charlie Brown. Schultz was asked who the main character was and he said it turned into Snoopy. The strip should have been named Snoopy but the newspaper won out call it Peanuts because little kids were called Peanuts back then. When Snoopy showed up, everything changed.
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Schulz originally wanted to call the strip Charlie Brown, and, though Snoopy was Charlie’s dog since almost Day One, he didn’t evolve into “final form” until much later. Seeing the public’s response to Snoopy, Schulz devoted more time to the dog’s antics as the strip progressed. Other characters that got a lot of time were newer arrivals Peppermint Patty and Marcie, as they provided a new avenue of comic situations.

The parks and merch are wise to focus on Snoopy and Woodstock. But, when you look at the whole picture—the comic, the TV specials and the movies—Charlie Brown ‘s struggles remain what the IP is “about.” Snoopy is the comic relief and CB’s polar opposite.

But it always cracks me up to see a park or Ice Show bring out Charlie Brown as a meet n’ greet type character. Just once, I love to see, in a park, Lucy and Violet and Frieda dancing around Charlie Brown while singing the “Failure Face” song. 😃
 
PiratesMansion

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Rich T said:
Peanuts is such a strange theme for a park land. I love the classic comic strip and the best of the TV specials. I think Charles Schulz was a genius. But, park-wise… The entire Peanuts world, after all, is mainly about the daily coping of the most depressed, unlucky, stressed-out boy on the planet… and all the other neighborhood kids who mostly treat him like garbage. 😄
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And honestly, Knott's is the only park where I feel like the Peanuts theme really works! In other parks, it's just sort of "why is this here?" at this point.
Phroobar said:
I think it is more about Snoopy now than Charlie Brown. Schultz was asked who the main character was and he said it turned into Snoopy. The strip should have been named Snoopy but the newspaper won out call it Peanuts because little kids were called Peanuts back then. When Snoopy showed up, everything changed.
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Snoopy was there from day one, but originally he was just a normal dog. It took several years before he started thinking, acting, and even looking the way we think of him today.

Definitely he's the part of the strip that has endured the most, as even Charlie Brown has started to recede from cultural memory at this point. Probably because there's always a market for cute animal characters more than anything else.
 
Rich T

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PiratesMansion said:
And honestly, Knott's is the only park where I feel like the Peanuts theme really works! In other parks, it's just sort of "why is this here?" at this point.

Snoopy was there from day one, but originally he was just a normal dog. It took several years before he started thinking, acting, and even looking the way we think of him today.

Definitely he's the part of the strip that has endured the most, as even Charlie Brown has started to recede from cultural memory at this point. Probably because there's always a market for cute animal characters more than anything else.
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Snoopy’s more marketable, but Charlie Brown is the whole point of the comic strip. This is what made Peanuts unique; it presented a lot of truths about the everyday anxieties and peer cruelty of childhood, and did it with gentle, life-affirming humor. The world’s most beloved Christmas special (ok, a 3-way tie) is not called “Snoopy’s Christmas.”

It’s like Peter Pan. Tinker bell’s more marketable, but she’s not what the story’s about.

For my generation… we had three unofficial teachers:

1) Dr. Seuss (Look at things from different angles)
2) Charles Schulz (Life’s not always fair and that’s ok)
3) Mad Magazine (Advertisers lie a lot)

And Walt Disney, pre-home video, was more like a magical, unpredictable, once-a-week storyteller.😃
 
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Phroobar

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Passholders that visit by Feb 26, will receive a $15 loyalty reward credit. Use the credit between 3/10 and 4/16 during the Boysenberry Festival. I know I'm buying some Boysenberry BBQ sauce. I'm almost out.
 

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