Steel Vengeance

RCMAC said:

It all remains to be seen.
But think about queues of late, especially at other parks. Mystic Timbers’ queue is interesting and pleasant. There are trees, winding paths, graphics, spit rail, and stuff like that. There’s plenty of room for stuff like that at CP and it would certainly break the monotony of acres of switchback queues. And all of that can be accomplished without complying with a storyline or installing expensive themeing that will just be subject to a lot of complaints down the road anyway.

That's true, but KI's management has seemed to go for a more themed style. CP has never been about theming. KI was during the Paramount years, and when CF debranded the park many guests missed that, so CF seems to be bringing that back to KI a bit.

KI during the paramount years could have easily just been named Paramount’s Tom Cruise Land.
The contractually obligated rebranding wasn’t a bad thing, some of the names could’ve been better thought out or more imaginative.

But the theming at KI is center to its structure. CP doesn’t have a solid base of theme other than amusement park, which works just fine for me.

Except Steel Vengeance is in Frontier Town and if that isn’t a structured theme area then I don’t know what is.
There’s no reason why CP wouldn’t take a cue from other successes and make it look and be as comfortable as possible. With that rock structure in front I wouldn’t be surprised if they aren’t going for an attractive entrance like Ghost Rider and they’d be foolish not to make the queue interesting too.
But we’ll see.

All we know thus far is the sign will have a rocky background.

right.

I think after most people who ride SV won't care about the theming. Hoping to see one or two tunnels!

I mean, the better part of the last half is basically in a giant wooden tunnel.

I just hope there's a splash pool right before the brake run... since they forgot that on Valravn.

A splash pool? You mean where the kids splash in a little pool and can wait while their parents ride? That'd be a good thing!

^^Nah the one for the queue would be to rinse off all the sweaty, deodorantless super nerds.

or it would be for cooling off everyone.

^^ I've never gotten where the enthusiast trend of mocking the community by exaggerating stereotypes came from...

You don’t notice it when you’ve been there all day, but show up around 4 on a hot summer day and get into a queue line and it sure does smell.

^Are you talking about enthusiast events? Because if you're in a crowded queue at 4PM, I imagine that smell mostly consists of GP who have forgotten to put on deodorant.

^Are we sure this only applies to the GP?

I don't think it applies to the employees. In addition to guests and employees, which group are you referring to?

The logic usually used against enthusiasts is that we make a very small amount of the park guests and thus aren't very important from a business standpoint.

Using the same logic, even if enthusiasts had a somewhat higher than average rate of smelling bad, if enthusiasts are such a small portion of the people in a queue, chances are that person you're smelling in a queue is not a "super nerd" enthusiast.

It would be paradoxical and somewhat hypocritical to suggest enthusiasts are so uncommon when their business importance is so in question, yet pin the blame on them for BO that occurs in crowded queues.

BO? I hate to admit it, but I kind of don't know what you guys are talking about. I went to CP a lot last year, and I couldn't smell too much in terms of BO. Either my sense of smell doesn't work properly(some smells I can pick up but not others) or I have allergies(These affect mostly my eyes, so I'll need a crowbar and an eyewash station).

I haven’t experienced that either. And I’m one to be able to smell it when around.

Pete said:

I don't think it applies to the employees. In addition to guests and employees, which group are you referring to?

Many on here like to refer to themselves as not being part of the GP.