Very true. The canoe and sign aren't up yet. I don't think the clock is coming back. That store has been done for months.The clock is missing at the store. The Entrance Marquee on the stage coach bridge is not installed. The rocking canoe is still missing from its new location. Very unfinished product.
There are Six Flags parks out there that regularly run as many trains as are available out there. Cedar Fair parks too (Kings Island, Cedar Point, etc).Hence the reason Knotts runs one car on Ghost Rider.
I noticed during one of the twoish trips I've had to Knott's where Xcelerator has actually been open that it takes much, much longer for them to load each train than it does for the train on the course to come back around. I imagine in the case of that ride there's a negligible difference in capacity when they run one train vs. two.There might be something mechanically wrong to keep one car running but I see Xcellerator also has one car running. It feels like a Magic Mountain move because this wasn't always the case. Over at Camp Snoopy the new coaster has loading problems. It might be the staff still figuring it out but they do a lot standing around waiting for some unknown thing between each run. Even the guy at the board looks like he is just sitting there or talking to other people.
I've noticed less people doing the food festival things. The special food is pretty much all year long now and I think people are over it.
I think the food has just become a normal weekend operating thing at Knotts that most people just treat it as another place to eat. Disney folks are a little more crazy about such things.I noticed during one of the twoish trips I've had to Knott's where Xcelerator has actually been open that it takes much, much longer for them to load each train than it does for the train on the course to come back around. I imagine in the case of that ride there's a negligible difference in capacity when they run one train vs. two.
The new coaster could well be either new ride hiccups or typical bad Knott's ops. Hard to say.
Hard to say on the food festival front without the experience on my part. I still tend to enjoy them when I come across them because my closest park is two hours away (the closest park that does anything resembling a food festival is four hours away), so for me it's novel. I could see it being annoying for some that are close by, but then it seems like there must be a following of people snatching up these offerings if they keep coming back, so who can say. Gotta keep people coming back, and a food festival, so far, seems like a can't lose way to do that. People have complained about F&W at WDW (and at DCA too) for about a decade and yet it seems to get bigger every year even so.
The Camp Snoopy store clock is more charming than 90% of DCA.Knott's Camp Snoopy has opened the Camp Swing. There is a new game booth and the store clock has returned.
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