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The official POV is out on YouTube: What an incredible looking ride! Congrats Canadians!

AlpenFury is set to open tomorrow, Saturday, July 12th, 2025! After months of construction, delays, waiting, commissioning, theming installation, and even more waiting, the day has finally come. This brand new Premier launch coaster takes riders through the new Alpenfest; launches them down into, through, and up out the top of Wonder Mountain; all the way down the left (south) side of International Street; and then back into Alpenfest for a thrilling experience that is set to be the best in the park. The theming for the station and area are awesome, and I cannot wait to see them in person some day. Congratulations to Canada's Wonderland on their newest roller coaster, and best of luck to everyone as it begins its public operating life!

55% uptime doesn't sound great, but then again it is much better than the alternative!

Didn't Cedar Point also only offer free parking for Platinum/Prestige passholders? It's a good incentive for parks where most passholders only visit 1-3 times per year. Parks like Kings Island would probably suffer from this policy since a lot of locals tend to get the Gold Pass and would be miffed if they had to pay more to park each time. Though, now that I think about it, maybe that could lead to faster parking lot repairs (and hopefully a good parking lot redesign with new trams)? All those guests could probably help to fund solar panel shade structures and new bioswale planters to reduce the urban heat island effect currently generated by all that asphalt.

The funnel fries and chimichanga looked really good! I'm tempted to split one amongst my group on my next visit. If not, it'll at least be something for me to try to make at home

Y'know, I think I might prefer these small signs over putting a car on a midway. You can tell they were made to be unobtrusive and easily changed out/disassembled. Kings Island has always had sponsors, as has Disney, and so have many other regional parks. The transition from the merger has allowed a ton of people to recognize a slight change and then run wild with comments. I also wanted to hop on the positivity train and mention that I've had a great time at Kings Island this season because of all the associates I've encountered. My food and drinks have been good. I really enjoyed the new Pep + Chee sandwich (I have got to find out how much pepperoni is on that thing). The shows, while having shorter runs, remain high quality. The rides are still nicely consistent. Most of my complaints are for Six Flags' corporate teams. Budget cuts affect everyone and I think there are better ways to go about doing them, but the echo chambers often repeat the loudest and harshest voices. The associates deserve much more than they're getting, and I hope the park and Six Flags are able to stabilize and improve the overall situation rather quickly.

When I was at the park from the 3rd-6th...it experienced very little downtime...once was a transfer of a train on and a failed launch.

Nobody from the park has ever said anything to us about the Tower Topics podcast, except they enjoy it and learned things they didn’t know. As for retiring the Tower Topics X, it simply wasn’t proving enough value for the podcast. We have chosen to put all of the channel’s social media efforts into the Tower Topics Facebook Group. That has been providing us with far more value. We did have good engagement with the content we published on X, better than many of the posts the park makes on X. It just wasn’t proving enough value for us. A lot of what we’d post on X can still be found on my personal X. Ryan and I are not going to be shills for the park. We’re going to keep doing the podcast the same way. Genuine and authentic with honest and frank discussion about Kings Island.

Ive been to both Wonderland and Knotts under Cedar Fair ownership, parking was included with platinum pass.

Free parking is included at Wonderland with the all parks upgrade

Speaking of Funnel Cake, the M&M funnel fries from Jukebox Diner is very good!

Funnel Cake Friday - BOGO from 5 to 8pm.

Oh I remember...I even remember when they had actual cars parked around the park advertising ....just pointing out we are slowing seeing the return...

Resistence???? They ARE speaking their minds. Guess you only want to hear what they have to say when you agree with it. As far as twitter goes, I've never had a twitter account nor will I. I could care less what happens on twitter. The only thing worse than being a shill for the the park is being the anti-shill for the park. Why must everything be one extreme or the other? I've listened to every episode and was getting tired of the constant negativity. Go up around where Geauga Lake was and ask them if they miss having a park, no matter how poorly run. Consistantly amazes me the "entitlement" of some people. Not only do they expect and amusement park nearby, but it must have the biggest coasters, best drinks, coldest ice, manageable crowds, cheap merchandise and friendly employees to cater to THEIR needs reguardless of anyone else on the planet. Most of the time when I have gone (I've been over 20 times) things have been fine. I have noticed an uptick in not only more trash cans (they don't even have branding on them) but haven't noticed any overflowing since it was brought up on the podcast. As for the ice I can't tell you how many times I've went and seen a mountain of ice under the dispenser where people have gotten "too much" and then dumped some out wasting ice. Sometimes you can't even get a cup under there. That along with people who come through the exits to refill really messes up the count of how many cups have been sold so they can't even go by how many drinks have been sold to get a guess when to refill the machines. Every year they have to learn from scratch. In my opinion, with 4 drink stations you shouldn't have to have 1 full time employee manning the ice at one location because of the lack of common sense and following the rules of others who waste ice and circumvent lines. Bottom line: There are about 8.2 billion people on the planet (it was 3.7 billion in 1970!) About 1.5-2.5 billion people live within a two hour drive an amusement park. In my opinion, having a park to shill or non-shill about is a privledge, not a right. One that I'm very greatful for and consider myself to be part of the 20-30% of the population to be within a 2 hour drive of an amusement park. It's a shame that some people can't be happy with what they have before missing what they no longer have. As far as the podcast goes, I'll keep listening no matter what. I find it entertaining and whereas I may not always agree with the views I'm open minded enough to allow them their opinion and the way in which to express it rather than labeling them. The podscape is a much better with their show than it was without it. Keep up the work gentlemen, some of us out here appreciate it and won't look a gift horse in the mouth. Just my 2 cents.

Im guessing you don't remember when there were car advertisments all over the park in the early CF days? I believe also in late Paramount/early CF there were "ride fact" signs sponsored by Marathon Gas. So ads in the park is not new.

Does anyone have a link to the thrill seeker bundle? I'm a season passholder but taking my daughter and a friend on Mon. I saw it under daily tickets when I checked a couple of weeks ago but don't see it now, or forgot where to look. I thought it was available to buy throughout July?

I gotta know how much KI or SF is making off of all this. I hope it's at least a few million for the entire chain

The new family thrill attraction will be some Snicker themed dark ride. Imagine the ride cars

Yeah, I don't think it was based on a response from the park. I agree with Don that while it's important to bring up the issues, it can become tiring just talking about the negatives. While important to hold the park accountable, it's also important to recognize everyone at the park level is trying to deliver the best park experiences they can with the resources given. Especially teenagers being paid $14/hr. I think being a theme park enthusiast, it can suck the fun out of the hobby focusing on trying to find the negatives. Especially doing it with a podcast, and as Don said, he's grown up with KI his entire life and I'm sure it's hard seeing and continuing to talk about issues people bring up. Not that they won't ever highlight issues, but that I think they want a break from it being the primary focus of most episodes.

I haven't listened yet, so I don't know their official explanation for deleting the X account. Part of me wonders if they just didn't get good engagement on it and the fact that X is so toxic as is, and it's kind of a cesspool no one wants to support. The Facebook group is still there, but I don't know if that posts less confrontational stuff than the X account (I'm not on X). Can they be kicked out of the park for sharing bad views? Honestly, seems weird. If so, couldn't KI theoretically ban any of us for saying something, if they figured out who we are? They're not park employees (any longer) and they're paying guests. They might get frozen out of exclusive news, etc., but I don't think upper management can really confront someone for saying they had a bad experience. I think it's more likely that the podcast was started as a way to talk about Kings Island -- a park that, whatever the good or bad, they have a lot of love for. That means being honest when it falls short of expectations, but I wouldn't tune in to see them talk bad about it every week -- I want them to celebrate what's good in the park as well. If they enjoyed the 4th of July fireworks (which appears to be the subject of the latest podcast episode), then I'd expect they'd rave about that and there might not be a reason to talk about the other experiences.

I’ve noticed something concerning regarding Tower Topics, in today’s episode you could tell something bad, like really bad happened. Let’s break down the facts: Don and Ryan were the face of the resistance. Telling us how it is, and not afraid to speak their minds. The Tower Topics X was deleted, no more tweets, all gone, poof. Today’s episode, was very apologetic, let’s focus on the good, what? What happened to the Don and Ryan from last week? This show was previously like being on a life boat (the podcast) watching the titanic sink (Kings Island). What is going on? Sounds like to me they were confronted by upper management about their behavior, and if they keep this up they my be banned from the park. They deleted the X burning the paper trail, losing thousands of historical tweets. Sounds like damage control to me… Has Tower Topics entered it’s shill era? Sounds like it to me.

Thank you! That’s an awesome resource

They are multiplying across the park LOL

TT2 Uptime Calendar | RFDB This great resource for viewing the uptime of the ride. Looks like its hovering around 55% uptime.

So, is TT2 routinely running at this point? I know it had some issues in early June and was down for a few days, but haven’t seen much about it since. I looked at the CP website and there’s no indication that it’s *not* currently running.