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Frank' N Coaster on top of the Burger King in Niagara Falls... Only coaster I rode in 2020 It was slim pickings up here, my options were 3 hours to Niagara or 6 hours to La Ronde...

Easy to be when your competition is scrambler, monster, zephr, and WindSeeker.

^Delirium is such an underrated ride at the park, it's honestly the best flat there!

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2021/february/terrie-zajo-named-general-manager-of-kings-island-camp-cedar She worked with many previously at Kings Island and Great Wolf.

I wonder if Herschend has an ultimate goal of putting Holiday World in the family? It fits their image, is a great park and could be in a vulnerable position as a result of Covid. I have no idea the financial position of either company, but I think what we saw with Kentucky Kingdom shows just how precarious the situation is for our beloved parks.

Mason City Schools with their student immunization requirements (not yet including COVID-19, obviously) says hello.. Schools can require immunization, and employers can as well. It's not a HIPAA concern. http://www.masonohioschools.com/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=14076116 Nope. By the time seasonals start work, mayyybbbeeee they'll be eligible to receive the vaccine. The company would realistically need to secure the tens of thousands of doses needed across all parks if it wanted to ensure employees had access, which I wouldn't expect to be possible before summer. There's a reason the company only "strongly encourages" employees to get vaccinated.

Hopefully I can get one. I definitely want one if I’m going to be around thousands of people every day.

A wise business decision. And those who don’t get vaccinated, don’t be surprised if you get reduced hours of work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is very little information on any of Bruce Bushman's concept art, but every news story or blog post I can find suggest it was for a never-built Hanna-Barbera park... not for Kings Island. I'd imagine that some of the ideas dreamed-up for this Hanna-Barbera Land made their way into Kings Island several years later, but (based off everything I can find and that I've read) it was not made for Kings Island. And, again, saying that the Moby Dick ride was "proposed for Kings Island" or that the concept art was for "a boat attraction in the spot of land that eventually became the site of Enchanted Voyage" - unless you have additional information you're not sharing - is misleading at best. For what it's worth, the first instance of the concept art I can find online was an April 2007 blog post. There isn't much information attached to the images there, but it notes that they were recently auctioned on eBay by Howard Lowery Gallery. And for posterity's sake (and because the page with the images linked earlier has a habit of publishing misleading articles, not to mention Facebook itself compresses the images), here are all of Bruce Bushman's Hanna-Barbera Land concepts:

Is there away enforce source citing a little more? I get excited when these threads are made because I think I'm gonna learn something new but then it just links back to Coaster Nation. This is pretty much the forum equivalent of click-baiting. Additionally, it seems like its just a user trying to find ways to promote their own content across different media platforms.

As I understand... The "Moby Dick" ride was just a concept idea that never went farther than these drawings. Bushman started the concept work for Kings Island around early 1969 - and he based a lot of his concept work off of HB properties at the time. He was also doing concept work for other potential "Hanna Barbera" stand-alone parks as well. FYI, I believe Bushman was hired by Taft - not Coney Island persay - so his work *might* have started well before the Coney merger. "Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor" was a very short lived cartoon made by HB in 1967. It was not popular at all. I don't know of any other "work" done using this theme other than these drawings. I do seem to recall the original EV having a "nod" to Moby on the side of building - a large "flat" of the character that went along with all the others on the building. There was a lot of other HB stuff that never left the drawing board. Ironically, at the time, Scooby Doo was a new fledgling property for HB - so it was used semi-sparingly in the theming (other than things like the coaster name and Shaggy and Scooby figures in EV.) Ironically, it became HB's most noteworthy title and that's apparent in the number of rides that eventually got added to the area and themed to SD. FYI - when Paramount "re-did" Hanna Barbera Land, the new entry sign to the area was meant as a "nod" to the early Bushman concept. I believe a Hanna-Barbera park was eventually opened by KECO in Texas in the early 1980's. It did not use the Bushman concepts, and only lasted around 4 or 5 seasons. It used a lot of the same "elements" that were included in the KI 1982 HB Land remodel as well as the themed area at Canada's Wonderland. Frankly, out of all the parks that I visited that had a HB themed area (I went to KI, KD, Carowinds and Wonderland) - Wonderland probably made the best use of the overall HB theme and I felt it was closer to what Bushman had in mind. But remember - Bushman was used to conceptualizing Disney attractions - and used to having deep pockets and vast resources to dive into. Wheras Coney and Taft, were not as "unlimited" when it came to budgetary constraints.