Raffi Kaprelyan, vice president and General Manager of Knott’s Berry Farm said there are plans to keep the trend of revitalizing whole areas of the park going. “It’s great to see it evolve from what it was and gotten better as the years have gone on,” he said.
In this humble former Imagineer’s opinion, the redo of both the Calico Mine Train Ride and Camp Snoopy really turned out great, and I look forward to more out of Knott’s in 2015 and beyond.
I had the privilege of interviewing Bud Hurlbut for the 50th anniversary of the ride, and at the time, even at his age of 90 plus, he was working on plans to revitalize the ride, but it depended at that time on Knott’s funding it. Sadly, Bud died the next year and never got to move those plans forward.
Kaprelyan let a hint out that we could maybe look forward to a new dark ride attraction in the Boardwalk area in 2015.
Workers have been seen clearing out the building that once housed “Knott’s Beary Tales” and “Kingdom of the Dinosaurs.” According to sources that did not want to be identified, it is looking like it will, in all probability, be an interactive shooter attraction similar to “Buzz Lightyear” at Disneyland. But until it is announced, and contracts are finalized, Kaprelyan would not say.
He did say, however, that he has definite plans to revitalize other areas. “I want to keep refurbishing and revitalizing every are of the park. I’ve got some plans for Ghost Town,” he said.
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