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Park News - (7/29/10) Construction markings are appearing all over Knott’s now. And I mean… all over the park. I’ve got to wonder just what they are working on that may be so big it could take up such a large area. Check out some pictures at Westcoaster, along with some coverage of Haunt construction.
    (7/16/10) Undercover Police opened fire on two suspects who are suspected of breaking into cars at the Knott’s Berry Farm parking lots of late before getting into a high speed chase and eventually arresting them.
    (7/14/10) Westcoaster drops into Knott’s this week and shows off Xcelerator’s new paint job, the Sky Cabin which has been closed all summer and the Jennie K train engine from Cedar Point which has been shipped off to Knott’s for a rehab for the next year. The big question however is the sudden appearance of survey point markers (nails) all over the park. Apparently the range of these things encloses a fairly large area too… which could mean that something very very nice is on the way. Stay tuned!
    (6/28/10) In honor of the departed Jack Falfas (from Cedar Fair… he’s not dead) the latest Westcoaster update takes a quick tour of Knott’s and points out several Jack references and Easter eggs still in the park… before they are removed. This starts on the bottom of page 5. My favorite is still the big mural of Jack (pink shirt and all) on the wave swinger, where Kinzel is also memorialized. Though Kinzel looks more like some kind of Zombie Mattador than anything else… creepy. 
    (6/16/10) Westcoaster has posted new pics from Knott’s this week.
    (5/21/10) Guests coming to Knott’s Soak City this summer will be greeted with an odd new experience before being allowed to ride Pacific Spin, the park’s giant Tornado slide. Your entire group will be asked to step onto a giant scale to weigh you in before you ride. While it won’t display the actual weight, it will rate your group into three colors. Red means your group’s overall weight is over 700 lbs and is too heavy. Yellow means your group is between 400-700 lbs and is clear to go down on the 4 passenger clover-leaf tubes. Green means under 400 lbs which means you can ride on a 2 passenger tube instead.
    Why all the fuss? Seems there was an incident last August where a woman fell out in mid-slide, and complained about hurting herself. (Why? It’s a waterslide after all… you should be fully prepared to make the run with or without the tube if you ask me.) Unfortunately Cal-OSHA got involved and deemed that their party was too heavy to have ridden together as the cause of the accident. Cal-OSHA had warned Knott’s about this before and has decided to take the matter out of the lifeguards hands by requiring the pre-ride weigh in. This same scale system has also been installed at the Pacific Spin rides at the San Diego and Palm Springs parks as well.
    (5/7/10) Westcoaster drops into Knott’s Berry Farm today to take a look at the Pony Express rehab, Xcelerator back in action and all the lights going up for the new Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular.
    (4/27/10) The big news today is that Knott’s Berry Farm reopened Xcelerator sometime on Monday around 5pm or so. According to the LA Times article the DOSH report put some of the blame on Intamin and Knott’s. Intamin for “identified shortcomings in the manufacturer’s instructions regarding the inspection and maintenance of the cable” which made it unclear if the launch cable needed to be inspected monthly or every six months. Knott’s was blamed for being 19 days late on their 6 month inspection at the time of the accident. According to the OC Register, Knott’s will now perform montly “magnetic inductive” inspections of the cable.
    (4/23/10) The OC Register has confirmed my earlier reports that a state inspector was indeed checking out Knott’s Xcelerator.
    (4/22/10) Screamscape sources tell us that the state had an inspector out at Knott’s on Wednesday to check out Xcelerator. I haven’t heard anything about how the inspection went, but apparently if it was good, the ride could be open as early as this weekend or next. Keep in mind this was only an “if”, as any number of issues could have come up to delay Xcelerator from getting the green light. For now I’d just assume that it wont open this weekend, so if it does, it will be a surprise. Even if they get the green light, Knott’s is likely to start running through their own long series of test runs and retraining for the crew members before they are able to reopen it anyway.
    Meanwhile, Westcoaster has an update from Knott’s to share today… including a peek at the return of the Catawampus.
    (4/21/10) Lots of rumors in today from Knott’s people claiming that the park may be hoping to get approval to reopen Xcelerator sooner than later. In fact, according to two messages sent in, they are hopeful that it could reopen this weekend. I’m assuming their just waiting for the state to sign off on the ride once again. Anyone know more?
    (4/8/10) Footage from the Knott’s day of the West Coast Bash event have been posted by Westcoaster and Theme Park Review. The event included an ultra rare walk-through tour of the park’s Calico Mine Ride and the Railroad Round-House and some detailed close-up pictures of the uber rare Bacon Chocolate Funnel Cake.
    (3/26/10) One of the special treats from last weekends West Coast Bash event at the park was the one time introduction of Bacon/Chocolate Topped Funnel Cakes. Due to the popular media attention the park got about this, they’ve actuall confirmed on Twitter than the will bring them back for the public this weekend to see how they react to the odd sounding dessert item.

Knott’s Scary Farm 2010 - (7/17/10) The LA Times has a small writeup about Knott’s Scary Farm’s offerings this  year as well as mentioning this year’s Scare Zones.
    (6/28/10) Good news Haunt fans! Knott’s has been leaking the details for all 13 of this year’s Haunts on their Twitter. Here is the breakdown according to Knott’s!
    Sleepy Hollow Mountain - Log Ride - New for 2010. Journey down a furious flume to escape the Headless Horseman!
    Fallout Shelter - Reflection Lake - Descend into the earth for an encounter with mutants and horrors unseen for decades.
    Virus Z - Fiesta Plaza - The infected undead have overrun the town. There. Is. No. Escape.
    Lockdown - The nightmare prison returns to incarcerate your fears for 2010.
    Cornstalkers - Stage Coach Trail - The corn will grow again; the evil will return.
    Terror of London - Mystery Lodge - the award winning masterpiece returns for year 2. A must scream!
    Dia De Los Muertos - Bumper Cars - The South of the Border Horror returns for more.
    Uncle Bobo's Big Top of the Bizarre - Xcelerator - The Clowns return for more mayhem.
    Slaughterhouse - Back for another helping of murderous menu madness!
    Labyrinth - Balloon Race - Lose yourself again in the twisting passages.
    Black Widow's Cavern - Mine Ride - Spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders, spiders.
    The Doll Factory - Wilderness Dance Hall - Another year of Playtime.
    And #13 - Club Blood - Drink once more the crimson.
So unless I’m mistaken, there are three new haunts this season… Sleepy Hollow Mountain, Virus Z and Fallout Shelter. Bobo, Terror of London, Muertos and Lockdown were all new for 2009 as well so if you haven’t been in awhile, this should be a great year. The three haunts from last year that have been retired are: Alien Annihilation, Pyromaniax and Quarantine.
    (3/31/10) As mentioned over the weekend, Knott’s Berry Farm is already hard and work making plans for this year’s Halloween Haunt. You can find some concept artwork showing off some of the Steampunk Vampire characters you may find in the Necropolis scare zone this fall over at the LA Times.
    (3/24/10) Knott’s Berry Farm has already revealed two new Haunt concepts for 2010 on Twitter. A new scare zone in Camp Snoopy to be called Necropolis and a new post apocalyptic themed maze called Fallout Shelter, which will replace the venerable Alien Annihilation.
    (2/3/10) Haunt fans, Knott’s has confirmed that The Gauntlet scare zone has been retired. According to the Twitter, taking it’s place in 2010 will be a new scare zone with a Victorian Steampunk Vampire theme. Ooooh…. Sounds good to me.

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2010 - Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular - (6/4/10) Westcoaster takes a look at Knott’s in today’s update, poking around at all the work taking place for the new Starlight Spectacular and more.
    (3/6/10) The LA Times has posted a few new details about the new Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular after-dark display opening at Knott’s on May 29th.
    (2/10/10) Knott’s sent out a link to this graphic on their Twitter labeled as a rendering from the new Peanuts’ Twilight Spectacular light show coming to Camp Snoopy this summer..