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We can make this the official Roll call thread. Copy and paste and add below the previous posted username. Username Pass preview Opening Day IndyGuy4KI Yes Yes

Anything out of the usual that you have heard about opening day? Totally agree though even if something goes wrong move on. It is not the end all be all of your day. Do not let your day get off track because of a small mishap. Recover and move on with your life!

Headed to Kings Island this weekend? Have a good day—if you choose to. Most days, whether it's a good one or not is up to us. Some things during your visit will be beyond the park's control, but how you respond to them will ultimately decide the kind of day you have.

It's almost time to raise the curtain....

Is it just me or did they also removed the left set of ques?

Having so many programmable LED show lights can be a challenge to keep functioning, especially ones that are kept outside and are in hard to reach or annoying places. In personal experience, it only takes one signal pin to get corroded or lose connection for a light to completely change color or get out of sync with show programming.

Here just to post about my excitement!! I still struggle to grasp the idea that they brought Phantom Theater back. It is something I never thought would happen! I can't think of any theme park ride given a second life like this. I always thought it was dead and gone. I fly up there from Orlando on Friday, at the park on Saturday. Just, wow. I will be buying a lot of the merch!! My mind just wont give it a rest haha

I was hoping for a hat! As we won't be there until the end of May... fingers crossed they don't sell out! 🤞

I think the park is still working on getting the lights around the fountain in working order. There's been one light tower and a tree uplight consistently lit up while the rest sit dark since the beginning of April. When they were testing the fountain show the front left jet wasn't cooperating either. The lights on the Eiffel Tower also looked like they were having some troubles a couple of nights ago, but they seem to be fine now.

Are we to expect some of the fountain lights out all season? These two set have been out every time the lights have been on. Do we also think the one set of led color lights on Grain and Grill swiss building got fixed from last season, or will just be turned off this season?

Carnivale still mentions fireworks as part of the night finale. I say if they aren't going to do much park ran shows outside of Carnivale, then this would be a good time to do a Bands in Residence program to try and at least fill some of the empty spots for entertainment.

Illusionist Brad Ross confirmed he will be in the KI Theater at the beginning of the season! Here’s to hoping it doesn’t stay dark the rest of the season 🤞 https://www.instagram.com/p/DXE4I0nDXNz/?img_index=2&igsh=YTFwd252MHJjbWo4

They haven't posted any more shows to the entertainment page yet, but I really hope we're still going to have nightly fireworks. Some of the choices we've seen from the park and corporate this year are really odd to me — especially when it comes to information release dates compared to other parks like Carowinds or Cedar Point.

It looks like we're also getting a look at the "trade secret" wait time sign (as it was referred to by the City of Mason) 😂 Aside from that I like this look for the ride. The signs haven't been installed yet, but it looks like the mounting points are still there. Thank goodness the teeth were removed from the entrance. The windows above it look like they could use some decoration, though. It also looks like they replaced the lanterns that used to be on the front of the facade. Those might be the base for the lanterns so maybe they'll come back? I haven't been able to see any lights on the facade from the webcams but I hope it has some fun lighting. As for the merch stand I'm a little intrigued by the wording. It looks like it says "MERCH" and "ICE, COLD SODA" with either a fancy "and" or something else in between them. Personally, I think it's an odd choice to include the comma between ice and cold. They also chose to leave "Opening Nightmare" off of the merch stand's sign, so I hope they'll also sell some original PT merchandise in addition to the PT:ON merchandise. Some Phantom Theater Encore merch would also be nice!

Are fireworks confirmed yet for 10pm closes?

I'm sure it'll be turned into a bar before too long.

Maybe it's just me because I'm obviously biased, but I think it will be open for a majority of the summer. After this season it will be removed or open maybe three weekends.

Lets take bets on how often the new merch cart will be open this season. I'm going with around 50% and that's being generous lol

Couldn’t agree more with you or love that reference! Ha.

Thank the maker!

Thankfully the park added ERT....

And the fence is gone.

I think we will see the “comedy and tragedy” mask of no legs Larry basing off this photo (He looks happy, right?)

I really like the design the used for the hoodies. I feel like that should've been the initial promo art (unless they sell posters maybe??) Even if it's not for opening weekend, I really hope we get some weird merch stuff.