The California Missions have returned to Knotts!

The California Missions have returned to @knotts! #Knotts pic.twitter.com/Y5Po8Lxkxs

— Brad Jashinsky (@BradJashinsky) November 30, 2016

How skaters rehearse for the Christmas ice show at Knott's Berry Farm

The count starts, “5, 6, 7, 8…” from assistant director Tara La Ferriere as she leads the ice skaters during rehearsal for “Merry Christmas, Snoopy!” at Knott’s Berry Farm.

There were 10 skaters on the ice inside the Charles M. Schulz Theater practicing their routines under her watchful eye, skating in rhythmic circles to her count, doing jumps, spins and more while they honed their routine a few days before the show premiered last weekend.

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Knott’s Merry Farm is Bigger and Better Than Ever

If there are any theme park enthusiasts who dislike holiday celebrations, life must be tough this time of year.

Knott’s Berry Farm, long the king of Halloween with it’s “Knott’s Scary Farm” Halloween Haunt, turns right around and transforms quickly into “Knott’s Merry Farm”. While natural snow almost never falls in Buena Park, it falls in Ghost Town, during “Snow and Glow in Ghost Town” on Ghost Town Main Street and Schoolhouse Road.

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Make American-built roller coasters great again!

“When we go to a company, we really just say: 'longest, tallest fastest, or something that no one has ever done,'” says Rob Decker with Cedar Fair Entertainment, which owns and operates 11 amusement parks in North America.

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Knott's News: "Yeah, don't prioritize making it fun or memorable, just makes sure it gives us a tagline that tricks people into thinking its a new experience."

Knott's Berry Farm Mannequin Challenge

The Calico Saloon Christmas Show will leave you... speechless #MerryFarm #MannequinChallenge 🎄💃🎵 pic.twitter.com/aPWUC29qMs

— Knott's Berry Farm (@knotts) November 22, 2016

Soak City Update! Lots of dirt

Walls are down at the new extend parking lot near Soak City

Boardwalk BBQ Update! Lots of dirt

Knott's construction update boardwalk 11/16/16

Sol Spin preparation

Boardwalk BBQ demolition

Knott’s Merry Farm Promises Joyful and Festive 2017 Holiday Season

Christmas is practically here! At least if you’re a theme park fan. Recently Knott’s announced their plans for the 2017 holiday season. If you’ve never been before it’s something every holiday lover must experience. Expect food, deserts, shows, carolers, snow, Santa and so, much more! It’s a wonderful event. This year with the recent additions made to Ghost Town we can expect a brand new stage show as well as a brand new Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. Here’s a look at everything fans can expect for 2017.

Starting November 19, Knott’s Berry Farm celebrates the merriest of seasons as it wondrously transforms into Knott’s Merry Farm with thousands of twinkling lights and cheerful holiday décor throughout the park. Spend the most wonderful time of the year at Knott’s Merry Farm relishing the Christmas season with thrilling attractions, festive new live entertainment, a Christmas crafts fair, delectable holiday food, cheerful carolers performing seasonal classics and nightly snow falling on the lively streets of Calico.

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Knott's Merry Farm: November 19 - January 8

Knott’s Berry Farm Announces Full 2017 Additions

Knott’s is the park that doesn’t seem to stop growing. Every year, the whole resort seems to get a new major addition and this year is definintly no exception. Last year Knott’s revamped the iconic Ghost Rider roller coaster and celebrated Ghost Town’s 75th Anniversary. This year, the biggest additions will not be in the park itself but across the street at Soak City where the aging water park will receive it’s first major expansion in almost a decade. That’s not to say the theme park won’t see anything new, they have lots planned through the year! Let’s take a look at some of the upcoming new additions and festivities that the park has planned.

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Cedar Fair reports $175 million quarterly profit, record revenues

Cedar Fair said today it set a new revenue record on its way to a $175 million profit in the year’s third quarter. The company also announced a 4 percent increase in its quarterly dividend.

The company, which operates Cedar Point and a string of amusement and water parks across the country, said third quarter revenues were up about 1 percent to $650 million. The $175 million profit translates to $3.10 a share. In 2015, Cedar Fair earned $164 million or $2.92 a share.

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Coming in 2017: New Thrill Ride, Knott's Soak City Expansion, Ghost Town Alive!, and Extended Boysenberry Festival

There’s farm fresh fun for everyone coming to Knott’s Berry Farm in 2017 with a brand new thrill ride, an extended Knott’s Boysenberry Festival, the exciting return of Ghost Town Alive! next summer, and the expansion of Knott’s Soak City Waterpark.

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Knott's Berry Farm puts an awful lot of thought into all those celebrities that it skewers at Halloween Haunt

So what happens tonight after the last Hanging is held at Knott's Scary Farm? Well, the entertainment team at America's First Theme Park gets a well-deserved night of rest. But after that, these talented folks plunge right into compiling a constantly changing list of celebrity scandals, political faux pas, memorable movie moments and quirky pop culture phenomena which next year's Hanging can then be built around.

"Since we have to have a treatment of this show ready by the first week of May -- so that the people who handle Haunt then know what to budget for the Hanging -- we have to start that list very early on," explained Ken Parks, the Vice President of Entertainment at Knott's Berry Farm. "We're always on the look-out for that hit TV series or that piece of headline news that everyone's watching or that everybody knows about which can then serve as our parody center-pole. That comic thread which runs through the entire show."

"And some years, that event or news item that we can then build an entertaining Hanging around emerges very early on. And other years, it doesn't happen 'til much further on," Ken continued. "But by the first week of June, we have to have something down on paper because we need to start casting that year's show by July. And then - come August - the script for that year's Hanging has to already be in pretty good shape because, since rehearsals begin the day after Labor Day, we need to be in the studio recording the tracks for that show ASAP."

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