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Kozmo joins Facebook

Kozmo has started up his very own Facebook account. If you'd like to be his friend and keep up with what's going on at Knoebels, click here:

Knoebels Official Facebook Fan Page

Do you consider yourself a big fan of Knoebels? If so, you'll want to join the Official Knoebels Facebook Fan Page;

Knoebels Facebook Fans

Flying Turns Update

The first car of the newly designed train arrived and we're testing as weather permits.

K5K Race Results

During the Covered Bridge Festival Knoebel Lumber sponsors a 5k race to benefit the Ralpho Township Library. Here are the results:

Golden Ticket Awards

Big news! Amusement Today has announced the annual Golden Ticket awards and Knoebels is a two time winner. We won the Golden Ticket for best food for the 11th year in a row and best carousel, which we've won ever time it's been awarded. ...Even better, Dick and Barbara Knoebel were named Publisher's Pick Persons of the Year! Knoebels was a finalist in 7 categories. Check http://www.amusementtoday.com/ to learn more.

Haunted Mansion Honored Again!

We just received this great news from our friends at DAFE:

The Darkride and Funhouse Enthusiasts (DAFE) take great pleasure in announcing that for the EIGHTH consecutive year the Haunted Mansion was selected as our member’s Favorite Traditional Darkride as well as being named the Number One ride on our list of Top Ten Favorite Darkrides of any type for the also for the eighth consecutive year.

As always, the Haunted Mansion was again selected by an overwhelming majority of the respondents as their top darkride in our 2009 Member Survey again receiving more votes than the next three darkrides (including two Disney rides) in the top ten list combined! Congratulations!

This year we also asked our members to name the darkride that was “most fun” to ride and the Haunted Mansion received the most votes. (It was a few votes shy of being named the “scariest” darkride as well!)

We will take great pleasure in presenting Knoebel’s with a plaque again this year.

If you'd like to know more about DAFE you can click here: Darkride and Funhouse Enthusiasts

Flying Turns

The million dollar question around Knoebels – “When is the Flying Turns going to open?”   The answer is the same today as it has been since the beginning of the project, “When it’s done.”

Well, when is it going to be done? We really can’t give a definitive answer other than, “As soon as possible.” We knew when we took this project on that there would be serious challenges along the way.

Did we think it would take this long?   No.

Are we shocked that it has taken this long?   No.

Unlike a traditional coaster, we didn’t have hundreds of working models to observe.

As we’ve worked through the project, we’ve learned more and more about the history of the Turns and the challenges this ride presented to those who ran and maintained them. We sure wish we could have known everything we now know at the beginning of the project. But even with all the research that had been done, we couldn’t know all that we do now because now, we’ve seen a train run in the trough. In fact, we’ve seen several variations of a train run in several variations of the trough.

That leads us to where are we now? We’re certainly further along than ever before. We’ve seen problems first hand and are addressing them. If you visit the park, you’ll see that portions or the trough have been re-profiled. The service track has been moved alongside the brake run and lift 3 is changed. We are eagerly awaiting final plans for a new train design to be followed as quickly as possible by production of that train.

Can this all be accomplished during the 2009 season? Everyone involved with the project certainly hopes so and at this point we believe it’s possible.

Watch this spot for further developments.

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