The oft-delayed makeover of Montezooma’s Revenge at Knott’s Berry Farm has been postponed again as the timeline for updating the historic flywheel launch coaster with a new randomized launch sequence stretches to more than three years.
Knott’s will relaunch the Montezooma’s Revenge coaster as the reimagined Montezooma: The Forbidden Fortress in 2025.
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Work resumed this week on the ride that has sat partially disassembled since 2022.
The Montezooma makeover has been marked by fits and starts right from the beginning.
Knott’s Berry Farm closed Montezoom’s Revenge in January 2022 with little notice or fanfare only to be forced to reopen the ride the next day so fans could get one more ride on the classic coaster. At the time, the remade ride was expected to return in 2023.
The updated Monty was supposed to be the centerpiece of the refreshed Fiesta Village, but the Knott’s themed land returned in May 2023 without the star of the show. Construction delays were blamed for the ride remaining unready for the reopening of Fiesta Village. During the festivities, a construction wall stood at the entrance to the Montezooma coaster that was missing large segments of track including the signature loop.
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By late 2023, Knott’s parent company Cedar Fair was looking over proposals from five ride manufacturers for ways to restart the Montezooma’s Revenge project, according to Screamscape.
Fans grew worried in February when Knott’s released an updated mobile app that removed any trace of Montezooma’s Revenge from the park map. Hopes grew grim when eagle-eyed coaster enthusiasts noticed mention of a “terminated project” at Knott’s buried deep in Cedar Fair’s year-end financial report.
The latest news of another delay rather than Monty’s demise brought some relief to fans of the historic…
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