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Reviews of Phantom Theater: Opening Nightmare

Windseeker ride malfunction strands Knott's visitors

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What an absolute clusterf*ck these rides have been. I'll be surprised if they last more than five years.

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    • Captain Nemo
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      Maybe we should look into the rides we buy better. Buying a new ride? Just say - Show me the ridefax

    • Browntggrr
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      "How strange! I'm getting rained on, and there are no clouds to be seen..." - Knott's Maintenance Staff

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      More than three hours to get the riders off the ride. Quite frankly, these stops are happening far too frequently, the evacuations are taking far too long. This is simply not acceptable. Were I

    I wouldn't. Why waste all the money they laid down for several parks in the chain just to rip them out? They tried and tried and tried with our Giant Top Spin, Giant Frisbee, and other attractions. It has to be a huge failure for it to leave the park after a few years (a la The Bat).

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    Someone (Screamscape?) claimed that Knott's didn't reopen theirs yet because they were focused on the construction of their new rides, maybe CP was in the same boat?

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    Cedar Point's eventually did open for opening day. However, it was faced with numerous closures due to......wait for it........wind. There were a few times it wouldn't come to it's homing spot. It often rose a few feet before getting back to its homing spot. Very interesting. One note about the evacuation vehicle, it is located behind the former Oceana stadium (where All-Wheels Extreme is now located).

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    Opening Day was rough for a lot of the rides. Dragster ran for proably twenty minutes totall all day. Maverick didn't open untill around noon. Rough day.

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    Years ago, parks had dry run days and opening days went far more smoothly. Nowadays, not so much.

    Hard to argue with today's way, when the public comes out for nearly all opening days in droves.

    I can only imagine what KI's 2014 opening day will be like...

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    Opening Day was rough for a lot of the rides. Dragster ran for proably twenty minutes totall all day. Maverick didn't open untill around noon. Rough day.

    To echo this, Opening Day was a nightmare on rides being open. I don't know how many times I saw WindSeeker with people on it one cycle, then several empty. By the time I left 7:30-8 ish, everything was shut down.

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