[offtopic]^ Your prediction isn't reality. With all due respect, Carowinds is more popular now than ever before. The market is catching up with it's potential and fast. Fury's hype isn't gone either, add that to the overwhelming amount of new stuff being added in 2016 (a flat, a dark-game-ride, and basically an entire water park) and you've got a winner on your hands. It's not even speculation, this is a fact -especially in this particular market.
Regardless, I'm more troubled by your insinuation that the removal of Thunder Road was somehow malicious on the part of Cedar Fair. Thunder Road is a regional classic, and was arguably the most iconic roller coaster at Carowinds, but it didn't deserve being rebuilt from the ground up, lift hill and all. If it didn't go this year, it's hard to imagine it would have stayed around long.
The fact that Cedar Fair did rebuild so much of it doesn't mean they scrapped plans in favor of Carolina Harbor, it means they tried EVERYTHING to keep it in the park. We should be thanking them for not removing it almost decade ago when they realized there were significant problems that likely would end with Thunder Road being removed. Cedar Fair kept it around as long as possible until it got in the way -and there's nothing wrong with how they handled things when it did get in the way, either. Hell, Cedar Fair even spent all that money temporarily fixing Thunder Road knowing good and well that it was going to have to be torn down sooner or later anyway. We should be extremely happy they chose to put Carowinds fans and locals first over a ride that was costing more than it was returning.[/offtopic]
Anyway. I'm very excited for whatever this ends up being called (I'll reiterate
Meteorite again
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). Hopefully this is just a preview of things to come. Cedar Fair's commitment to Carowinds is clearer than ever. And it makes me think back to that conference call where they said they were going to transform Carowinds into "our big park". Part of me thought they just forgot to put a caveat in there somewhere; like "our big park... of the South" or "our big park... except for Cedar Point" etc. But honestly the last three years have been so unbelievably amazing, I can't wait to see what the future holds. I expect every inch of Carowinds will be transformed before all is said and done and the park might genuinely be able to stand alongside Cedar Point. Until then, I'll just keep being thankful for how good Cedar Fair has been to us. Can't wait for 2016!!
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