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  • Development Gag: The Frontier Canada area at Canada's Wonderland was originally going to open with the park in 1981 as a counter to the accusations of a Trojan Horse for American culture being at a Canadian park during Canada's Wonderland's planning. This idea was later revived in 2019, almost 30 years later.
  • Milestone Celebration:
    • Knott's Berry Farm celebrated their 100th birthday in 2021 with the opening of Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair, and nightly parties. Ok, technically it was their 101st, but still. Cedar Point also celebrated a milestone anniversary in 2021, that being their 150th, but again, it's technically their 151st.
    • Kings Island unveiled Son of Beast at a party celebrating the 20th anniversary of the original Beast. See below for how that went.
    • The Planet Snoopy areas at the former Paramount-owned parks made their debut in 2010. That year was also the 60th anniversary of the Peanuts franchise.
  • Meaningful Release Date: Fury 325 soft opened on March 25, 2015 (3/25/15).
  • Production Throwback:
    • Not only was the Knott's Bear-y Tales revival in the same building as the original, but in the queue you can hear for movie night, the bears will be watching Voyage to the Iron Reef which shares the name of the attraction that immediately preceded Return here.
    • The queue for the Banshee at Kings Island passes by a cemetery with a grave for Son of Beast, the ride that used to be in Banshee's space.
    • Many of these in the queue for Orion, also Kings Island.
    • Various locations in Fontier Town at Cedar Point have Wanted posters, with Blackjack's poster describing that "a mean streak lies underneath" his personality. This is a direct reference to Mean Streak, the coaster that Steel Vengeance replaced.
  • Trademark: The Knott's Berry Farm name and logos are co-owned with Smucker's who owns the rights to put them on packaged food products (as of 2008, buying the brand from previous owner ConAgra), the Knott family having put the two sides of the business up for sale separately in the '90s.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • In 1996, Cedar Point built a Bolliger & Mabillard stand-up coaster called Mantis. Mantis was originally supposed to be called Banshee, after the mythical wailing ghost in Irish folklore. In the days following the initial announcement, however, there was some negative reaction from the public regarding the fact that the Banshee is a female spirit that warns of an impending family death. Thus the ride name was changed to Mantis. The original Banshee ride logo would instead end up being used on Steel Force, a hypercoaster at Dorney Park, while the Banshee name itself would be used on an inverted coaster that was built at Kings Island in 2014. Ironically, in 2015, Mantis was converted into a floorless coaster and renamed Rougarou, which itself is a creature in French folklore that draws comparisons to the mythical werewolf.
    • Maverick at Cedar Point is the park's Intamin blitz coaster. It originally had three inversions: two twisted horseshoe rolls in the first half, and then a heartline roll in the second half. The ride's opening in May 2007 had to be delayed two weeks because the track in the heartline roll element put excessive stress on the trains, which also might have caused discomfort to passengers due to high g-forces. Cedar Point thus had to quickly delay the opening by a few weeks so it could be replaced with a simple s-bend. By a stroke of luck, Intamin had manufactured alternative track pieces for this segment on the off-chance that the roll needed replacement.
    • At one point in time, Maverick was originally proposed to be a B&M floorless coaster.
    • The Bat at Kings Island was originally going to have a different name from the Top Gun name it opened with in 1993. The name change happened midway through construction in October 1992 when Paramount bought Kings Island and its sister parks.
    • Paramount Parks was the original purchaser of the three Vekoma Flying Dutchmans, which were to be Stealth at California's Great America, plus modified variants at Kings Island and Kings Dominionnote . Due to numerous problems with Stealth, Paramount abandoned the Kings Island and Kings Dominion coasters. Six Flags bought those instead, and respectively installed them at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure / Geauga Lake as X-Flight, and Six Flags America as Batwing, respectively. Ironically, the Flying Dutchman meant for Kings Island eventually did make it there in 2007 as Firehawk, after the Cedar Fair purchase.
    • Canada's Wonderland wanted to build a B&M invert where Behemoth stands today. These plans were canceled due to a contract B&M had with Cedar Point after Raptor opened in 1994, in which no park with a 200-mile radius of Sandusky, Ohio could build the same model (CW just barely counted at 198 miles). They would instead build Flight Deck, a Vekoma SLC.

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