Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster Overhaul

[themagician]

Exciting news, they’ve updated the font and has an ! in the rides name within the maintenance listing

[downunder]

That's big news, get that to Screamscape pronto. Obviously, they took inspiration from the intriguing exclamation point in the name of the Knott's coaster Jaguar!

"Planned" is a good get out clause, I'm not banking on 2025, happy to be surprised. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

14 minutes ago, downunder said:

"Planned" is a good get out clause

They've used that exact phrase since at least February 2023 on the MW website and backed up by this very thread in the same month here:

 

[New display name]

28 minutes ago, downunder said:

"Planned" is a good get out clause, I'm not banking on 2025, happy to be surprised. 

Considering the ride is currently being tested, my money is it will open.

[Speedy]

On 15/08/2025 at 4:42 PM, Ogre said:

Good news!

Ok, maybe just maybe my September-October Reopening date may be true.

Edited Wednesday at 10:50 PM by Speedy

[Brad2912]

13 hours ago, Speedy said:

Ok, maybe just maybe my September-October Reopening date may be true.

If it was opening September school holidays they would already be promoting it to get the intestate bookings flooding in. 
 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Brad2912

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Not necessarily. This isn't a refurb. this is an entirely new ride. There's no guarantees it commences testing and they have problems. I'd suggest until Mack hands over to the park they're staying quiet. Once it's handed over, they'll start shouting it loudly - and in the meantime it can have a few weeks of technical rehearsals prior to an official opening to train staff without setting guest expectations too high.

At least I hope that's what they do and not have a grand opening on boxing day with minimal staff trained and a line going back to WWF...

[themagician]

36 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

At least I hope that's what they do and not have a grand opening on boxing day with minimal staff trained and a line going back to WWF...

Agreed! When this reopens it needs to have maximum operators to pump through the queue because the park will be getting very busy when it does reopen. And if the park was smart, they will give a reopening date at least one month beforehand because they should realise that people will travel to ride this again and they’ll shoot themselves in the foot if they take the Wizard of Oz approach.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

42 minutes ago, themagician said:

they’ll shoot themselves in the foot if they take the Wizard of Oz approach.

I think what you meant to say is that they’ll shoot themselves in the foot if they take the Village Roadshow approach