Enchanted Forest Fanatic

On 5/16/2022 at 7:50 AM, GAcoaster said:

I HATE the ads on the rides, but if it comes down to ads on the ride or lose the ride because they don't have the money to maintain it, I'll take the ads! With Runaway Mine Train especially it's an old ride and has required some major work over the past few years. I can live with the wrap if it means it's safe from removal for another year. 

The idea that it's a choice between ads on rides or removing them is a little ridiculous. I would rather they raise admission prices and not shove advertisements in my face all day. That's the whole point of a theme park; to get away from that for a day, to forget about the outside world and be transported to a fantasy world. No one's fantasy is being bombarded by advertisements. 

The trains just have the name of the healthcare company on them. Anyone not riding the coaster would not see any signs on the stairs. All they would see is how inappropriate the cars are for a train in Frontier Adventures.

The thought may be nice, but do you think anyone riding that coaster has any idea whose handprints they are? They would have been better off using one of the abandoned buildings to make an exhibit where they could actually present the information in a better way, without destroying the theme of the ride.

On 5/8/2022 at 11:37 AM, 29yrswithaGApass said:

I would call it far from disgusting that the park is using the coaster to help raise awareness for cancer. They do not benefit or profit from having the coaster promote a worthy cause except for demonstrating a commendable amount of goodwill.

I fail to see how painting the cars white with multicolored hands on it raises awareness for cancer. If they want to raise awareness there are much better ways to do so. That is not the way or the place to do it.

The simulator building needs to go. it's a huge ugly eyesore, a giant gray warehouse in the middle of the park.

the paintball building needs to go and Dream Street reopened. they don't need to force people into the games area anymore. there are plenty of draws in that area.

Whether the buildings "look" abandoned or not, they are. And most of them do "look" abandoned. You can add the arena to the list, which is actually boarded up. Even some of the stupid billboards they have around the park are empty. Those REALLY need to go. 

And I can't believe they painted the Runaway Train cars white with multicolored handprints on them as a rolling billboard. That's disgusting!

17 hours ago, 29yrswithaGApass said:

Agreed.  They always seem to shortchange their maintenance budget big time.  
 

Which buildings are “abandoned”?   Other than backstage terror trail structures I can’t think of any buildings that look abandoned even when closed.  

Here are a few

It doesn't matter who is managing the park it seems there is never any attempt to take care of it. I went to the park 2 weeks ago for the first time this season and it is literally crumbling. Best of the West is rotting, simply from neglect. Yum Yum Cafe is rotting, simply from neglect. The paint on Nitro is peeling off and the metal underneath is rusting. The cars on the Big Wheel are all peeling and some are missing. There are abandoned buildings all over the park and a junkyard right in the middle of the park only partially hidden by a fence. It's the first month the park was open for the season and it looks like it's been abandoned for years.

Visited Lightnin' Loops (aka Diamondback) at Frontier City today.