Should you’re tempted to shave a couple of minutes off your extraordinarily lengthy anticipate a curler coaster by chopping in line this summer time, Knott’s Berry Farm has a warning: Respect the queue or run the danger of getting booted from the park.
Knott’s Berry Farm is encouraging company throughout the 57-acre theme park to report line jumpers by texting a message to the park’s safety group. It might sound like an grownup model of “tattling,” however it’s the newest effort by the park to clamp down on company who lower in line or maintain spots for big teams — extending for everybody else what can generally be agony-inducing waits for the park’s hottest rides.
Line chopping is just not an issue simply at Knott’s Berry Farm. Disneyland, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Common Studios Hollywood additionally forbid chopping in entrance of different company in a queue and threaten to expel violators from their parks. However these identical theme parks have additionally adopted moneymaking applications to permit company who pay a further payment to skip a lot of the wait on the most well-liked rides. At Disneyland, this system is known as Genie +; at Six Flags Magic Mountain, it’s known as the Flash Move; at Knott’s Berry Farm, it’s known as Quick Lane; and at Common Studios Hollywood, it’s known as Categorical Move.
The Buena Park theme park, which started as a roadside berry stand and chicken-dinner restaurant within the Nineteen Twenties, is dwelling to Camp Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, Knott’s Scary Farm throughout Halloween and a bunch of thrill rides — which regularly characteristic prolonged waits. Knott’s Berry Farm didn’t instantly return a request for remark Wednesday.
Parkgoers have lamented for years about line jumpers, complaining on-line that individuals who lower not often meet with penalties.
The pilot program is being examined on the GhostRider curler coaster, in response to the Orange County Register, which first reported on the difficulty. GhostRider — one of many park’s hottest coasters — is the longest, tallest and quickest picket coaster on the West Coast, however the line to trip it’s something however speedy throughout peak hours.
Indicators posted close to the coaster observe that company can report line-jumping violations by texting particulars to park safety.
“Line leaping or holding spots in line is NOT permitted,” the signal reads. “Your total get together should be collectively when getting into the road.”
However what in case you want a toilet break whereas in line? “Should you should depart the road,” the signal reads, “please inform an affiliate of your intent to return to your group.”
Prohibitions on line chopping aren’t new. The park’s code of conduct coverage has forbidden line leaping, together with leaving and reentering the road or holding spots for others, for years. Repeat rule breakers danger being escorted from the park, in response to the coverage.
Within the phrases of Charlie Brown: “Good grief.”
