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I consider this page to be partially incomplete -- I have a bunch more information to add, but it's getting late and I'm getting tired. Specifically, the fact that Knott's is actually now two seperate companies may require that some disamb-ing is probably in order here.

Yes, I was once a "Knottzi". -- Feedle 08:36, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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I worked at Knott's Berry Farm for two years before the corporate entity Cedar Fair took over. It's a shame they cut wages and benefits after the acquisition. The Knott family provided profit-sharing and they really made you feel proud of working there thus resulting in lower employee turnover. Now the park has high turnover and the place looks like a dump. You just gotta love capitalism.

J. 172.196.217.120 21:25, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Channel 4 (UK) Channel Ident 2 corkscrew 3 Early Knotts 4 Independance Hall 5 WikiProject class rating 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Knott's Berry Farm logo.png 7 Calico Mine Ride as a Coaster?

[edit] Channel 4 (UK) Channel Ident

The ride Jaguar has been used in an ident for the UK TV station Channel 4. The ident in question can be seen here: http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26685&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=12.

Not sure if anyone wants to include this on the page, or how to reference it really. Dosxuk (talk) 18:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] corkscrew

The corkscrew at knott's was, to my knowledge, the first ever looping steel coaster. Could someone who knows a bit about it put at least some reference to that fact in, if not a complete article about the corkscrew. I would but my knowledge of the ride is minimal. wimbledon andy 14:22, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

As the name itself states, it was a "corkscrew" rollercoaster, and not a "looping" rollercoaster. It was the first steel rollercoaster that went inverted, but it did it with a corkscrew, not a looping movement. The first "looper" would be "Revolution" at Magic Mountain in 1976. Mushrom 15:03, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Early Knotts

Knotts began to lose its folksy charm in the 1970s, as each new attraction strayed from the Old West motif. Worse, the once-famous chicken dinners began to taste like your standard Swanson's TV dinner fare.

I recall a skinny Steve Martin who followed the vaudeville plays at the Bird Cage Theater. He played the banjo, cracked inane jokes, and sometimes fired a water pistol at kids in the audience. kingdom of the dinosaurs was a ride a knotts berry farmand closed in 2004 and as wikipedia says it was removed in 2007 and has shown no sign of a re-open

[edit] Independance Hall

Is Knott's replica of Independance Hall built at 100% scale? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill Cousert (talk • contribs) 15:19, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I believe it is, I looked it up on the site and here is the quoted text

"Independence Hall

Walter Knott's dream to to build the park's replica of Independence Hall came alive on July 4, 1966, complete with a 2,075-pound Liberty Bell, weighing only five pounds less than the original. The building is so exact, one can even see fingerprints in the bricks, just like in the original in Philadelphia. Independence Hall is located adjacent to the main park area."

So yes, it is a replica, but it was built at 3/4 scale.

Yours truly -Azzamination220

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 03:16, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Knott's Berry Farm logo.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Calico Mine Ride as a Coaster?

I see that Sixflags2008 added to the count of current "roller coasters" and listed the "Calico Mine Ride" as the missing current Roller Coaster. I don't think you can count that ride as a roller coaster since it is a powered train ride using many actual mine car trains... it is not a Roller Coaster. I believe that to be considered a "roller coaster" it is not to be a self powered train but a gravity and inertia driven train assisted by drives on the track to take it up some hills (such as the initial one) I'm not sure if this is something that should be discussed and clarified or just removed.

also... if you incrimented the count of coasters... should also the count of attractions be incrimented (unless the mine ride is already counted in the 40 attractions). OChistory (talk) 08:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)