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Yeah, I truly do not give a ****. Sorry, mate. Try someone else.

Spring Break is getting a high-speed kickoff in Texas. SeaWorld San Antonio has officially opened Barracuda Strike, a new roller coaster that blends family-friendly accessibility with the kind of soaring thrills usually reserved for bigger, more intense rides. https://themeparksbydon.com/seaworld-san-antonio-barracuda-strike-inverted-family-coaster/

What ai are you using for this it is very impressive. Did it make it a full 3d rendering where you can spin around and see the back or is it just this stationary image?

The next round of parks sold might have that park that becomes something else.

Wonder which park(s) becomes an AI data center as the land is more valuable for that than an amusement park....

Not really loving the name. Happy to see the park get some attention, though.

A new era is on the way for one of the Midwest’s best-known amusement parks. Six Flags St. Louis will be renamed Mid-America by Enchanted Parks, signaling a major shift in identity as the park moves into its next chapter under future operator Enchanted Parks. https://themeparksbydon.com/mid-america-by-enchanted-parks-st-louis/

There ya go! I knew you had it in you. Will it be an entertainment venue as well, like the Red Garter at CP, with the women who have paint on their face and flowers in their hair? ( To loosely quote lora ingalls).

Did you ask it to create a saloon for giants?

That's a bold strategy of building support and demand for future stories by condescendingly misusing the language of mental healthcare and calling us geeks and virgins, Cotton. Let's see how this one plays out. Quick detail for the room: Raise your hand if you've ever been told, unsolicited, by KI's security team that you would "end up in some sort of trouble" by the end of your visit when you otherwise weren't being disruptive. Surely with the number of people here and the high frequency with which we triggered geeks and virgins visit the park, it would've happened to someone else here...?

Used AI to come up with a Beast Canyon Saloon concept:

I made another hotel concept with AI for that plot that is a little more realistic imo. This actually was mocked up before the water park hotel shared above

I disagree with the notion of putting a water ride in The Vortex plot. KI already has 3 different water rides in the dry park with WWC nearby in Rivertown. I know for around 15 years or so WWC and Kenton's Cove coexisted, but KI doesn't need another water ride in the dry park. I truly believe The Vortex plot deserves a grand and photogenic coaster. I believe the ideal ride for The Vortex plot is a Ghostrider model from Vekoma. Its minimum height requirement is 48 inches which makes it very accommodating. It would also give KI a modern launch coaster. The layout can be customized to fit the uneven terrain of the plot that can easily include moments of airtime and inversions. If done well, it could be the stand out steel coaster of KI. Considering the recent track record of Vekoma projects here in the US, a Vekoma Ghostrider seems like a slam dunk in the making.

I love how the entire ride blueprints were allowed to be public record, but this isn’t. The fact that this needs a ride wait time sign scares me though, I wonder if they’ll sell single-use Fast Lane for it.

Spot on!

Guessing New Braunfels will retain the name as it is being invested in by Six Flags and Galveston is a different “market.”

Doubt it will be that much of a bump. Those who are in the Midwest who would visit any other park than their home park most likely already had the Platinum Pass or Prestige Pass. Trends on visiting parks in the Midwest likely are not going to change much at all just because a regional pass is now available (after the whole MVP sale).

Permits were filed for “KI Dark Ride” and “Ride Wait Sign” in January. I did a records request and they were denied as:

I think a standard hotel like what Carowinds has with Springhill Suites would probably work better. I would imagine it being a more affordable option compared to GWL, and I don't think an indoor waterpark is really necessary when Soak City is a short walk from where that concept is. Although, the downside of that would be that you wouldn't be able to do the waterpark during bad weather. I do think there is going to be a slight attendance bump with the new Midwest Gold Passes. Cedar Point explicitly markets that you can go to Kings Island with a Cedar Point gold pass, so the Sandusky/Cleveland market will have more of an incentive to travel south to Kings Island.

I've never heard that, was it around 2021 or so if you're able to say. I can see them doing it now, with them wanting to put more focus on their most profitable parks.

I mean, I wouldn't be opposed to a return of Kenton's Cove Keelboat Canal in that area. It could be incorporated into Rivertown in some way.

There was a time pre-merger when a hotel was in the future plans.

Will Schlitterbahn ( either Six Flags or Enchanted) have to rebrand? Or do you think the name will stay on both properties? I've never been, but it seems to me that the Schlitterbahn name could be valuable. They paid around 270 million for both of them if I remember correctly and it was in 2019. That's approximately $332 million today. Either the retained water park is worth a whole lot of money or the company way overpaid for two water parks.

I truly believe KI already has a HUGE hit on their hands. This has as much, if not more, buzz than virtually all new attractions in the past twenty years. If this succeeds, as I think it will, I expect it will set the trajectory for all future installs at KI.

My gut is that an onsite hotel at the southern side of the property and the existing GWL on the northern side would do just fine together (especially when talking about a property of only 200 rooms or so)—particularly in the Summer. Many, many, MANY years ago during a summer in college I worked at Red Roof Inn’s central reservations center at their HQ near Columbus. At that point, Cincinnati was one of RRI’s busiest markets especially in the summer. I would personally take dozens of calls (the center got about 10K calls a day at that point) for people going to KI and wanting to book a room nearby—and I was just one of a few hundred reservation agents. The caller’s goal was always to be “close to Kings Island” and at that time RRI’s closest property was Blue Ash (which was still 10 miles away)—it was almost always booked, then would expand out to Norwood, Sharonville, etc. (if I recall, at that time there were maybe five RRIs in the Cincy market?). Most weekends in the summer, the whole cincy market was sold out. (Once, I was even able to book “Columbus-South” in Grove City for someone going to Kings Island and desperate to find something—I got a sales bonus that day 😀) I’m sure the local market has a lot more rooms in it now than it did then (again—this was many, many, MANY years ago 😀) but I’m guessing the booking activity is still robust enough to support something like this.