WORLDS OF FUN
& Oceans of Fun
Kansas City, MO
Cedar Fair L.P.
 Park News - (3/14/2025) Worlds of Fun made some announcements about their plans for 2025 on the website a few hours ago on the park’s blog page. This includes a number of upgrades for the park’s Africa area.
As we already mentioned, we know Mamab has turned bright green this season, but the Zulu ride (an Enterprise) will also be getting a new coat of paint and colors, featuring green, orange, redwood and yellow ride vehicles.
More shady sections are coming to the attractions with new shade structures being added to the expanded queue for Boomerang, as well as more shade over at Fury of the Nile. Powler, the park’s GCI wooden coaster has been confirmed as adding over 400 feet of Titan Track over the off-season. We don’t know where exactly, but typically parks apply it to high stress sections of the ride that are the roughest on the riders in an attempt to smooth out the experience and reduce wear and tear on this section of the ride. If you’ve been on Zambezi Zinger then you’ve already experienced Titan Track, as it was built into sections of the ride from the start. Speaking of Zambezi Zinger, construction has started on that ride to fully enclose the ride’s unique spiral lift hill.
Elsewhere in the park, look for more shade in the Spinning Dragons queue, a repainted Paradise Falls in the waterpark, the renovated Calypso Cafe, and all new frozen alcoholic beverages are coming at the new “21º and Colder” which has taken over the park’s former Subway location.
 (3/6/2025) Worlds of Fun has announced some rather sad news for the 2025 season… confirming that the park’s iconic Timber Wolf wooden coaster will officially be CLOSED for the entire 2025 season.
The timing is a little strange as the park spent three years re-engineering and completely re-building the entire finale ending to the coaster just prior to the COVID pandemic where things had gotten the most rough since it opened way back in 1989. So what’s going on now?
Well, the good news is that they did not say Timber Wolf is closing for good… just for 2025, so we can only assume some major rebuilding or re-tracking is going to be taking place here. Taking a look at the park’s own recent history, as well as the history of how Cedar Fair and Six Flags has dealt with their older wooden coasters may also provide some other clues.
For example the park opened Zambezi Zinger in 2023, which is mostly a traditional wooden coaster but also features sections of hybrid style “Titan Track” and GCI Infinity Flyer trains. So it is possible that Timber Wolf could be preparing for some track upgrades as well as new trains next year. Meanwhile Six Flags was known for giving a number of their older wooden coasters the “RMC” treatment, meaning a full conversion to RMC iBox style hybrid track system along with a complete redesign of the track layout and elements that typically also added inversions to the experience. Cedar Fair also did this do a few of their own wooden coasters, most notably to Twisted Timbers at Kings Dominion as well as the iconic Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point.
This isn’t to say that hybrid track may be the way path forward for Timber Wolf, as the chain has rebuild and re-tracked a number of their wooden coasters in the traditional way over the years as well, such as Hurler at Carowinds, Grizzly at Kings Dominion, and ThunderHawk at Dorney Park.
Of course, there are other possibilities we haven’t seen the chain pursue yet either, such as converting it to use RMC’s 208 ReTrak rail system, as is being done to Tremors at Silverwood in Idaho, or perhaps trying out Gravity Group’s new “Vertical Engineered Track” which was highly praised when it was opened on Oakwood’s Megafobia in 2023.
Stay tuned, I hope we’ll learn more about what Worlds of Fun has in store for Timber Wolf this summer!
(1/23/2025) Worlds of Fun has given everyone a peek at Mamba’s all new mean green color scheme. Check it out below!
(10/18/2024) Good news for Worlds of Fun, as the park has come to a tentative agreement with the labor union who represents the park’s maintenance team. While the final details are worked on for the new 3-year labor contract, the Union has agreed not to strike. According to the reports, the new contract is supposed to include a series of pay raises to come each year, more paid leave, life insurance, and more.
In other news from the park, it looks like something interesting is happening with Mamba, as the park has posted a photo showing off a new bright neon green section of track on the coaster, along with the quote, “Mamab is shedding its skin”.
So just new colors… or could there be something else involved in terms of the coasters brand or identity? I guess we’ll have to wait and see, as Cedar Fair is also busy repainting the coaster formerly known as Intimidator 305 at sister park, Kings Dominion in some striking new Orange & Black colors, with the promise of a new name there.
2025 - Nothing is known at this point in time...
???? - Project 2.0 / New Orient Express - Rumor/Delayed - (7/17/22) The rumor mill is going a bit crazy at Worlds of Fun these days, so take everything with a grain of salt right now. A reader reached out to Screamscape to try and explain things a bit better, including all those codenames that have been dropping. According to this source the plans for “Project 2.0” have been bumped back from 2023, so don’t expect to see it until at least 2024, possibly later, but they tell us the plan at the time was for “Project 2.0” to actually be some kind of updated Orient Express coaster.
(3/3/22) While it doesn’t appear that much is happening at Worlds of Fun for this season, we have been slowly hearing some quiet rumors suggesting that the park will be adding something of interest in 2023. The latest news from a new source backs up another rumor I had heard a few months ago, that the park’s next coaster project would be coming in 2023, and would be some kind of modern replacement for an old beloved coaster, thought to be either the Zambezi Zinger or Orient Express. According to our source, internally the project has been given the codename, “Project 2.0’.
This is also expected to be a major selling point for the park’s 50th Anniversary celebration taking place in 2023, where the park will be heavily marketed as the hometown park to the people of Kansas City. They say the plan is to also get the Hunt Family involved in some fashion, who were the original creators of the Worlds of Fun park.
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