Thanks to myklhicks for posting. Here was my picture.

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They must really be doing something either spectacular and Don isn't peeping in on purpose

Or nothing is happening and they just decided to remove everything

Some thoughts.

They wouldn't do all of that work just to do it.

That is a lot of work that has be done for nothing more than cleanup.

Why clean/refurbish an area guests haven't seen or had access to in years?

When you paint a room, you remove all of the furniture and cover the hard stuff to move. Getting ready for paint?

Could they be installing a new general public line and FastLane underneath?

I think you might be working yourselves up for a big let down. It is most likely a Fastlane because of the overflow crowds they are expecting for Banshee. A Fastlane could easily go down a the staircase in the picture, turn towards lift hill, go under the lift hill to the existing stairs, ending at the front of the rollercoaster train.

Fastlane for flightdeck...jokes on all of you

Walk-on all year so far

I will say I'm ganna miss that ride...that turn over the station and then where it used to almost slam into SOB...ugh miss those days already

The silence by the KI staff is interesting...are they cleaning up the dirty eyesore for next season, or, are they cleaning up the dirty eyesore for good?

Yes.

Terp, who just HAD to.

Fastlane for flightdeck...jokes on all of you

I don't think the joke would be on anyone. Having another roller coaster to add on to the list of "Fast Lane" attractions makes the product seem even more valuable.

In reference to the line below it...

Not to mention that Flight Deck will be much, much busier once Banshee opens, just as Flight of Fear is much, much busier since Firehawk opened. Proximity is destiny.

Perhaps the queue had become unstable from years of not being used.

Maybe there was enough scrap metal underneath there that justified cleaning it out and using the money for repairs elsewhere, new haunt props for next year? The possibilities are broad as they are long!

Not to mention that Flight Deck will be much, much busier once Banshee opens, just as Flight of Fear is much, much busier since Firehawk opened. Proximity is destiny.

Dang, being able to walk up to FD and getting multiple rides without having to get out is the best thing about it. If it start having 30-45 min waits I'll pass

It could be possible that the park is taking the aircraft carrier theming out of the ride and are renaming it to the name it was originally going to be named under KECO, Thunder Road (Or Thunder Run, I can't remember).

^^

The day may come when you wish you had waited to ride Flight Deck.

XLR-8.

Big Bad Wolf.

Rolling Thunder.

And so they all go.

And the Taft name was going to be Swoop.

talk about final regrets..... how about me, refusing to ride Shooting Star, Haunted House and Lost River on my last visit to Coney Island. (i was just seven) ..just beacuse I was a dumb kid....lesson learned.

I didn't ride the Safari when I visited in '92…I rode it once when I was 2 in 1975. Still kick myself for that one.

Unrelated, but not really (about the retheming of Action Zone):

I'm not sure if they remove Deliriums logo yearly like Flight Deck. But the supports that hold the disk on Delirium to the "pendulum" used to have the Delirium tornado logo, but the logos are now gone.

Like I said, I'm not sure if they do this yearly or not.

Ignore that last post, after researching it for a few I believe that that logo has been removed since Cedar Fair renamed the rides. Here's a picture of the logo I was talking about though, just in case I was unclear on what I was taking about.

I think they just got faded so badly by the sun they were removed!

I will be making two trips to the park this weekend so hopefully I will have some more pictures for you guys to compare to the ones that were earlier posted. I for one believe what someone said earlier in that they would not have done all this work for nothing, something is going to happen here.

I'll be going Saturday and Sunday, making this the most I've gone in one season. 16 times. Which I think is fairly decent since I live two hours away and am 21 and pay for these trips myself.

But anyway, I'll snap some photos as well.

Something IS going to happen. Whether it's a new theme or not is still in question. I think there is a good chance of it though. A new theme (The Bat) would fit perfectly beside Banshee. I do guarantee we will see a new paint job at least. The current state of Flight Deck is an eyesore next to the fresh look of Banshee.

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Honestly I think we will see a complete restructuring of Flight Deck/ OLD SOB queuing area to accommodate for over flow for Banshee. Maybe even a relocated restroom to open up that area.

Honestly I think we will see a complete restructuring of Flight Deck/ OLD SOB queuing area to accommodate for over flow for Banshee. Maybe even a relocated restroom to open up that area.

I don't see how that area would be used for Banshee queuing at all? The queue for Banshee is not going to be anywhere close to that area. In the ride renderings I am pretty sure the restrooms were still there. I think all queuing will happen inside the ride like GK.

In this rendering of the station area you really can't tell where any queue will be, unless under the load station, which I doubt. But the the restrooms are still there.

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Queue will be here:

Something IS going to happen. Whether it's a new theme or not is still in question. I think there is a good chance of it though. A new theme (The Bat) would fit perfectly beside Banshee. I do guarantee we will see a new paint job at least. The current state of Flight Deck is an eyesore next to the fresh look of Banshee.

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Something has/is happening. They are removing the lower queue of the Flight Deck station and the old theme items. While this could look like there are various possibilities....remember when they removed the divider in The Racer station and on the ramp...the park didn't make a huge deal about it.

So what do we think the chances are we'll see "The Bat" overlay?

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Some updates from today.