This is just the Scooby Doo dark ride minus Scooby Doo. Just don’t expect anything truly new in spite of what the marketing materials tell you. And with a fresh coat of paint, the entire area looks great. There’s no point messing with a successful formula. King’s Island’s kid’s area is highly regarded and has been winning awards for years. But other than cosmetic changes, the attractions are the same.ĭon’t get me wrong. The ride vehicles on the Blue’s Scadoo have changed from cartoon dogs to Red Baron bi-planes. Statues and card board cutouts that had featured Jimmy Neutron and the Fairly Odd Parents have been replaced by Charlie Brown and Woodstock. They’ve all got a fresh coat of paint and Snoopy-themed names. In fact, all of the rides (except Boo Blasters) are more or less identical to years past. Aside from new paint jobs, there are very few changes in the park this year. But the use of the word “new” is at best misleading.
It was the last remainder of the Hanna Barbara properties that I enjoyed when I was a kid.Īfter opening the spectacular Diamondback last year, King’s Island is basing this year’s marketing around the “new” Planet Snoopy area the “new” Boo Blasters dark ride. Also, from my own point of view, I was a little sad to finally see Scooby Doo completely removed from the park. But she barely knows the Peanuts characters. My oldest daughter loves Spongebob and Dora, etc. I understand the thinking, but I was still sad to see the Nick characters go. From their point of view, why maintain two separate licenses when you can have the same one at both parks?
They have owned the Peanuts license for years at Cedar Point. I have to think this is a cost-cutting move on the part of the park’s new owners, Cedar Fair. This year, King’s Island has rethemed their kid’s zone from the popular Nickelodeon Universe to the timeless (but infinitely less relevant) Planet Snoopy featuring the characters from the Peanuts comic strip. (The youngest stayed with grandma and we brought along an older niece who had never been to King’s Island before.) Neither of the girls is very adventurous, so a trip to King’s Island for us pretty much begins and ends in the kid’s zone. Our oldest daughter is five and the youngest is one. After a very rainy May, we finally got around to using our 2010 season passes to King’s Island for the first time. I hope everyone had a pleasant Memorial Day weekend.
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