TheOriginalTiki
Well-Known Member
Okay, here's my updated thoughts on the two parks I'm working on. Discovery Kingdom we definitely need a lot of work to finalize exactly what we want to do as there's a lot of options. I actually think a good approach would be to not do any E ticket attractions and instead spread the budget out to plus the rest of the park...specifically, give V2 a retheme to The Flash since it's literally a RED launched coaster in the park's DC area, and also give White Water Safari a dinosaur overlay. In addition I think it'd be cool to give the DC area a bit more of an immersive theme because as it stands now it's literally just the coasters the connect the theme with a few themed shops like a funhouse for the Joker, the Daily Planet for Superman etc.
For the two rides, I think we need to nail down locations between the SLC, the ski stadium, and Tava's Jungleland. Frankly I think Jungleland presents a couple problems as the location is rather boxed in compared to the other two and it's in the middle of the main animal area so we really can't do anything but a dark ride. I'm in total agreement that I don't want to do a typical Disney IP dark ride, I just thought Lion King was the most appropriate between the IPs that got thrown out. As of now I'd say we can do a proper coaster to replace the SLC and a Looney Tunes dark ride to replace the ski stadium along with expanding the Looney Tunes Seaport theme to Whistlestop Express. Another note is that the soon to be defunct Walrus exhibit leads right up to the entrance to the ski stadium so that could very easily be made to be our the dark ride's queue. Another idea for Looney Tunes would be to do a Big Thunder Mountain style Roadrunner coaster. Roadrunner Express is a popular coaster theme for Six Flags but the chain never attempts to put any amount of real theme into it. Discovery Kingdom even has a Roadrunner Express that could easily be rethemed as it's nothing more than a simple kiddie coaster.
Magic Mountain I think were right on the money...New entrance coaster to replace Scream, new Superman reskin of Samurai Summit to compliment a redone Superman stratacoaster. All sounds fine. My only issue is I maybe wouldn't bother moving Scream to the current front entrance. Frankly Scream has been the least popular coaster in the park for over a decade. It's even less popular than Viper which at least has an iconic look to it. Plus, Scream is basically a mirror image of the much better Medusa floorless coaster located just a few hours away at Discovery Kingdom, so it's always been painfully irrelevant to me as a SFDK local. I think a better move would be to expand the Baja Ridge theme into the current front entrance area, as well as give Full Throttle a proper queue it deserves. As it stands now FT has the worst queue in the park, it's literally just a giant series of switchbacks under a tent.
For the two rides, I think we need to nail down locations between the SLC, the ski stadium, and Tava's Jungleland. Frankly I think Jungleland presents a couple problems as the location is rather boxed in compared to the other two and it's in the middle of the main animal area so we really can't do anything but a dark ride. I'm in total agreement that I don't want to do a typical Disney IP dark ride, I just thought Lion King was the most appropriate between the IPs that got thrown out. As of now I'd say we can do a proper coaster to replace the SLC and a Looney Tunes dark ride to replace the ski stadium along with expanding the Looney Tunes Seaport theme to Whistlestop Express. Another note is that the soon to be defunct Walrus exhibit leads right up to the entrance to the ski stadium so that could very easily be made to be our the dark ride's queue. Another idea for Looney Tunes would be to do a Big Thunder Mountain style Roadrunner coaster. Roadrunner Express is a popular coaster theme for Six Flags but the chain never attempts to put any amount of real theme into it. Discovery Kingdom even has a Roadrunner Express that could easily be rethemed as it's nothing more than a simple kiddie coaster.
Magic Mountain I think were right on the money...New entrance coaster to replace Scream, new Superman reskin of Samurai Summit to compliment a redone Superman stratacoaster. All sounds fine. My only issue is I maybe wouldn't bother moving Scream to the current front entrance. Frankly Scream has been the least popular coaster in the park for over a decade. It's even less popular than Viper which at least has an iconic look to it. Plus, Scream is basically a mirror image of the much better Medusa floorless coaster located just a few hours away at Discovery Kingdom, so it's always been painfully irrelevant to me as a SFDK local. I think a better move would be to expand the Baja Ridge theme into the current front entrance area, as well as give Full Throttle a proper queue it deserves. As it stands now FT has the worst queue in the park, it's literally just a giant series of switchbacks under a tent.
