The Season Pass Podcast #275- Knott's Calico Mine Ride RENEWED!

This week The Season Pass Podcast is at Knott’s Berry Farm once again...yup...The OFFICIAL Home Park of TSPP! Here’s the audio recorded on June 12th, 2014, for the re-opening of the newly refurbished Calico Mine Ride and Camp Snoopy! Doug Barnes, Robert Coker, Jeff Tucker (Knott’s Entertainment Supervisor), and Tom Zeliff (NoLimits and ThrillNetwork.com) share interviews with Raffi Kaprelyan (Knott’s General Manager), John Chiu (Knott’s Director of Food and Beverage), the show team behind Snoopy Unleashed ice skating spectacular, Eric Lynxwiler (Knott’s Graphic Designer/Co-Author of Knott’s Preserved), and many more, plus tons and tons and tons of Calico Mine Ride talk. Enjoy!

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Knott's News: One of the most reassuring things in the show (besides everything) is what Raffi Kaprelyan said:

"We've already got plans for the other stuff and hopefully if everything goes as it should go,  you know, hitting higher attendance, then....plans will set to form a play, as they've been planned out."

"The thing that works, you want to enhance it, you want to make it better, as it gets old. The things that don't work you want to take it out and replace it with something, just like we did with Perilous Plunge. There are other opportunities in the park along those lines. It's just a matter finding the right timing, finding the right product. So that we don't loose the continuity of what we've been doing."

What this says to me is that Knott's recognizes that they've raised the standards for the park, along with guest expectations, and that they're not afraid to be ambitious going forward (of which will only be halted should they not meet their numbers). This also shows that they're looking at taking down other attractions in the future to further enhance the park (I'm looking at a couple of coasters and a certain swing that I'd love to see go) .