Where is all this concrete slabbing at at Cedar Fair parks?
Have any of you walked around CF parks and noticed the care taken in flowers, shrubs and trees?
If you've been to knotts, or dorney (and I know you've been to dorney) it's pretty noticeable. ALthough Dorney does have slightly better landscaping than knotts... but if you go to Knotts... all of it is cement, cement, cement. Every new addition means just more sement.
Lets look at Silver Bullet. Used to have a beautiful lake that had a boat ride go around, a water show in the middle, and a train go around the outside. Well once the new ride came in, the water show was sure to go (and no one cared simply because it was not that interesting.) But the train was still suppose to have its original path, and the boat was suppose to have its original path, and the lake was suppose to have its original boundaries.... instead...... they cemented up half the lake. Now the boat has a 20 second ride around this small ass island, and the train now has its journey cut in half by taking the path that the boat was originally suppose to go. In response to this, there is now five more feet of concrete extending out towards the helix of silver bullet, not even 1/4 of the lake is there any more, and there is just cement everywhere. On top of that, there used to be grass seperating the path along the silver bullet helix path and the stage coach, now its all cement, even though it looks like a place that should have grass. Grass grass grass.
Along with that.... Knotts ripped out a quality ghost town attraction to make way for a prototype S&S swing shot, they just added double the cement, and that area basically lost half of the atmosphere it once had there, the cement is still there with the replacement of the prototype S&S screaming swing. And also, knotts used to have Wind Jammer, which really pulled the whole board walk look together with the ponds underneath the ride, and the boat, and everything. When they ripped that out, they put in Xcelerator which now has a huge slab of concrete running along the entire length of it. So its cement, cement, cement EVERYWHERE for knotts, at least, and you should expect the same for future parks, to.o