Charlie Brown's Kite Flyer will be a children's Wave Swinger ride, with 16 two-passenger swings that rise up to 18 feet off the ground. Watch for Charlie Brown in the kite-eating tree at the top.
Linus Launcher places 24 riders on "blankets," lying down for a spinner ride that rises up to 10 feet in the air.
Pig Pen's Mud Buggies is another kiddie spinner, where "six four-seater ATVs will spin, bounce, and bump up to 24 guests at a time, while Pig Pen looks on from his center perch."
To make way for the new rides, Knott's is removing the Snoopy Bounce, Charlie Brown’s Speedway, and the Log Peeler. The three rides will go in those old attractions' places — Kite Flyer in the Snoopy Bounce spot, Linus replacing the Speedway, and Pig Pen taking the Log Peeler spot. Knott's said that it will reopen the newly refurbished land in "early summer."
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Funny.
So many fixes. Not enough time.
She said she had heard that the rides closer to the Beach Blvd border of Camp Snoopy would possiblt be removed--the Joe Cool skateboard ride, the kiddie roller coaster, the Camp bus ride, and Lucy's Tugboat. I couldn't imagine what might be coming to replace those rides, but that seemed like a more ambitious plan to redo a larger section of the area.
I'm not that excited about any of the announced rides, but like I mentioned earlier, I am hopeful that they will spend enough money to beautify the area and plus up the theming, which once had a more "high Sierra Nevada" feel, with rope bridges and mountain streams, and less concrete walkways and carnival games.
That said, I'd love to see Knott's embrace more "active play" concepts in Camp Snoopy, too, and rely less on the kid-sized carny rides.
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Are these rides new or did a local supermarket decide to stop using them?