A few days ago, we showed you California’s Great America’s newly rethemed Planet Snoopy, but another opened last weekend as well, at Carowinds. Since this isn’t the big addition for Carowinds with Intimidator, the park’s new B&M hyper coaster, also debuting this year, Planet Snoopy has kind of fallen into its shadows, literally. The first thing you notice when standing in Planet Snoopy is the huge, 232 foot tall mega coaster that now surrounds you, it really provides a nice backdrop for the beautiful children’s area.
Like at California’s Great America, every ride was renamed and rethemed from the former Nickelodeon characters, with most getting a fresh coat of paint. The whole area looks and feels brand new, with no true additions to the area, truly an amazing accomplishment by Cedar Fair and the park.
Now for some photos:
The new paint job for Flying Ace Aerial Chase really livens up the area.
All of the rides feature great Peanuts inspired details, this one on Snoopy vs. Red Baron.
The new look for “Woodstock Gliders” is widely preferred over the previous Danny Phantom theme.
Intimidator towering over a newly repainted “Lucy’s Crabbie Cabbie”
And we’ll end this update with a panorama of one side of Planet Snoopy (Click to enlarge):
What do you think of Planet Snoopy at Carowinds? Prefer it over the Nickelodeon themeing? Leave your comments and Park Thoughts!
LEGOLAND Windsor has dismantled Jungle Coaster, the park’s wild mouse coaster this past off season. The coaster was plagued with problems, mainly due to complaints from neighbors. Opened in 2004, the Mack custom Wild Mouse was one of the park’s hree coasters. Unfortunately, in recent years, the park was received so many complaints from the locals that the park had to take action. In an attempt to reduce noise, the park added doors as well as a roof completely enclosing the cars, similar to a golf cart. This new addition only caused more problems, increasing loading times, making wait times much longer, and also reducing the thrill factor. Also a problem with the new car design was it reduced the train to having just 2 adults, so families with larger kids were not allowed to ride together. And as a family park, these new requirements were not appealing to park visitors. So as a result, in the pass few months, piece by piece the coaster has been completely taken down and removed from the parks. After riding a mirror image of the coaster in LEGOLAND California and it was certainly enjoyable. Too bad just to many complaints came in. All I can say now, is let the rumors begin about this ride being moved to LEGOLAND Florida…..
Time to wrap up some of the recent news.