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Since Cedar Fair purchased both Schlitterbahn New Braunfels and Galveston in 2019 we've seen the company focus on getting the parks up to their standards and making a lot of cosmetic and infrastructure improvements. Meaning, no new rides and attractions have really shown up under Cedar Fair ownership. At least until now, and while it is not the biggest
announcement it is certainly an interesting one and a step in the right direction in the new-attraction department.
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Schlitterbahn New Braunfels, the original park, has announced that a new kids area named Schatze's Storybrook Park will open in 2024. For those unaware (i.e. me until a moment ago), Schatze is Schlitterbahn's dog mascot. So that makes more sense now. The park says that the new area will let us see how "Texas’s favorite short-legged hound has reimagined everyone’s favorite
fairy tales into puppy-themed fairy “tails” gushing with splish-splash
fun." Essentially it looks like a total bulldozing and redo most of the kids area seen in the aerial above.
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The overall expansion area has small sections to it, here is Schatze's Paw'nd, which features Schatze's Bow Wow Blaster, the first ever water coaster designed for kids. There are also three small water slides "Three Little Pugs" - each slide is named Noodle, Comet and Curly. The section also has a small shallow "paw'nd" for toddlers to splash in.
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This section is named Fur-Bidden Forest, with the main feature being a water fun house that has a giant tipping bucket on the top of it. The area will feature "water-gushing mushrooms,
tree-shaped water slides, and areas to play, crawl, climb and get
soaked." The fairy tale theme continues here as "Prince Hopsalot from
Schatze’s retold story, The Paw Prints and the Frog, sits at the forest
edge."
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Finally we have Fairy Tale Trail, a very quiet and unassuming area for kids to relax and toddlers to play in small fountains and appropriately sized slides. Kids can "tiptoe through the trees in Little Red Riding Hound’s forest, make
a daring escape from Houndsel and Petzel’s dog treat house, feel like
royalty at Rapawnzel’s enchanted castle, and hop around water geysers at
Pawed Piper’s Pipes."
The development is interesting because when the Schlitterbahn parks started to build new attractions under Cedar Fair I expected large, soaring slides that would break records. Instead, we're getting a themed kids' area with a rather intricate backstory. I like it! I'm a fan of the chain of parks diving a bit deeper on experiences and theme, so I'm all for it!
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