^ If they change anything I would hope they would go with animatronics. Nothing too scary for kids but it would be nice to see the Baldknobbers move like the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Don’t count on Baldknobbers. I’d expect a theme more like Blazing Fury where they focus on firefighters putting out fires around town. No explanation on how they started
I expect that the Baldknobbers are done for. Not because they require too much explanation, because even 50 years ago they were highly local lore, and much of the park's theming explained the story of Marmaros and the Baldknobbers for those "foreign" visitors from places as remote as Springfield and Arkansas.
No, I expect they'll be gone because people no longer want explanations, and don't have the patience for it.
People today become outraged by seeing
capirotes worn by Spanish penitents. They don't have time to learn that the
auto-da-fé was what you oughtn't to do, but do anyway.