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  1. On 4/13/2021 at 4:26 PM, Shaggy said:

    Yeah, its pretty evident there was mis-information in that USA Today article.  I'm glad it got shared, because its a good example of how the press can misconstrue their reporting about parks.

    Bottom line, there's no factual information that any such thing ever occurred on The Beast.

    The Beast will beat you up, but it won’t kill you. 

  2. On 7/23/2017 at 6:58 PM, MDMC01 said:

    As for the most common songs I've heard, it's been "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Maneater". The other two songs, "Cars" and "Can't take my eyes off of you", have been very rare for me; I've heard them maybe once or twice each.

    I've ridden it once. The song was "Maneater" - didn't realize that changed too. The ride itself was too rough and too short for my liking. I'll hit it again I'm sure, but I was a bit disappointed the first time.

  3. 2 hours ago, Shaggy said:

    Wait... just to clarify... the Kings Mill Log Flume was moved from Cincinnati's Coney Island before Kings Island opened in 1972 - it was not moved within Kings Island.  (Not sure if that's what you thought.)  Within Kings Island, it has always existed in it's current location.  However, for the 2001 renovation, the flume trough (the metal gutter/gulley the boats float in) was completely replaced.  Originally, the ride was designed and built by Arrow Development, in 1968 for Coney... but by 2000 the ride had nearly worn through.  So the park contracted O.D. Hopkins to completely renovate the workings of the ride.  I also believe many of the flumes circulatory pumps were replaced as well.  

    So... it's the same ride... in the same place... but not really.

    BTW, the ride was *thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssss* close to being demolished.  In 1999, the park made the decision to rip it down prior to the 2000 season, but several people internally fought for it. It then sat empty for 1 year with a wall around it - causing many KI enthusiasts to freak out (including me!)  The year it re-opened (2001 - Now themed to Nickelodeon) the adjacent Kenton's Cove Keelboat Canal was demolished for the installation of Tomb Raider:The Ride.  Ultimately, what saved the flume's life was Tomb Raider - the park didn't want to lose both flumes.

    Thank you for the details. That makes a lot of sense. I didn't realize the metal thing was replaced - it seems the same! They did a great job there. Also, I might have been thinking primarily of Kenton's Cove because I remember it in a slightly different spot in the park.

     

    EDIT: I was primarily thinking of Kenton's Cove! The rotating platform...the gondola...the really tall drop at the end. Seeing photos brought it back. I'm not sure I even knew at the time that the other flume existed.

    I had remembered a water ride in the main park that had a rotating platform, but I had thought it was just the whitewater-rafting ride. Guess there were two. I remember that when I went there in 2001, something felt a little...off in that part of the park. Guess now I know why.

  4. 4 hours ago, PKIVortex said:

    They replaced the blue ice cream in 1992 when Phantom Theater opened. Since the Smurf ride was gone they stopped selling Smurf Berry ice cream. It was replaced by a pink rasberry ice cream and was sold at Dino's Delights. However guests weren't happy the blue was gone so they brought it back to do the popular demand and they have had it ever since.

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    Thank you! I was beginning to think maybe this was some other place I was thinking of.

  5. On 3/4/2017 at 1:45 PM, KatieF said:

    This was amazing to look through! I shared with my friends on Facebook too. I enjoyed the pictures from the Nickelodeon area and the promotion for Son of Beast! It made me really miss some of the former theming!

    You know what I don't miss? Waiting in line four hours to ride Son of Beast in 2000. :lol:

  6. On 5/15/2017 at 0:18 PM, Magenta Lizard said:

    Somebody had mentioned hearing Rocky Top on the train earlier this season, and now I have too! Although the music on tap during the ride is the same selections as before, they have some new songs playing while waiting in the station. 

    Actually, they have new ones moving too! Part of the "beef: it's what's for dinner" symphony, some banjo song I don't recognize, Surfin' Safari. Then Rocky Top, and on the way into the station a remix of the talking and ambient music from Mystic Timbers' queue line, ending with a reminder not to go in the shed :)

    Are you talking about the train to the waterpark? I haven't been on it this year. It just used to always play "Kokomo" and I'd sing along, regardless of other people's reactions. ;)

  7. 9 minutes ago, MDMC01 said:

    Is the amphitheater that you are referring to (that you can see from Drop Tower) Timberwolf or is this another one? I'm asking as if there is another amphitheater from back then that it not visible/accessible to guests at ground level, I'd like to try to spot it on my way up.

    I'm referring to Timberwolf. I wasn't aware of another. Timberwolf isn't visible from ground level, is it? I pretty much only remembered its existence when I saw it on the way up that blasted Drop Tower.

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  8. 35 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

    The "water balloon" attraction being referred to was the "Double Dare Slime Shot Challenge" that premiered with the new "Nickelodeon Splat City" in 1995.  The attraction - due to it's poor interest, and ridiculous operational requirements (someone constantly filling water balloons, constantly cleaning up remnants of popped balloons etc) it only lasted 2 seasons.

     

     

    Btw, you seem plenty knowledgeable about '90s KI...you should see my post about red soft-serve ice cream. I'm pretty sure I remember getting it in the mid-'90s...it was a dark red color and either cherry or raspberry in color. It briefly either supplemented or replaced blueberry. Unless I'm thinking of another park...who knows?

  9. 34 minutes ago, Shaggy said:

    The "water balloon" attraction being referred to was the "Double Dare Slime Shot Challenge" that premiered with the new "Nickelodeon Splat City" in 1995.  The attraction - due to it's poor interest, and ridiculous operational requirements (someone constantly filling water balloons, constantly cleaning up remnants of popped balloons etc) it only lasted 2 seasons.

     

     

    Thank you. I feel like I played it once either with or against my dad. Was it two-player or four-player? I remember thinking it wasn't all that cool, really.

  10. 2 hours ago, CoastersRZ said:

    Yes, that is the Kings Mills log flume as it was known then.  It was standing but not operating in 2000 before being renovated for the new Nickeloedon Central in 2001.  Today it is known as Race For Your Life Charlie Brown.  The ride originally opened at Cincinnati's Coney Island in 1968, and was located next to the Shooting Star.

    So aside from being moved, what specifically changed about the log ride? I was under the impression that Race For Your Life was a totally different ride until I rode it with my younger cousins and realized it was more or less the same track (and same track material) from the old one. I feel like maybe the drop isn't as far now?

  11. 2 hours ago, silver2005 said:

    With the way the kids area has been re-themed and re-routed, I imagine the path starting there to the water park has changed somewhat.  Before even the first glimpses of Nickelodeon came in during the late 90's, it was much more wooded back there in the area around the Picnic Grove.  

    One thing I hated that the park did when rebranding the water park to Soak City was getting rid of so many trees around the original section.  It used to be very, very green in the water park (in a good way ;) ).  I also miss that awesome stone Water Works sign by the lazy river.  

    silver2005, who has many fond memories of the original Water Works. B)

    I have something I want to confirm as well.  During the time where the area to the left of the entrance was known as Adventure Village, what was in the spot where the Action Zone water tower used to be (circa 1994-1998, between the time the animal area and trams were retired and the birth of Action Zone)?  I seem to think there used to be an in-ground amphitheater there.  

    I have many fond memories of the original Water Works too! They used to play Beach Boys songs and you could hear them from the Lazy River. :) 

     

    For what it's worth, I still enjoy KI's water park (I find it awkward to call it by its generic official name), but sometimes I miss what it was in the '90s...luckily The Beach has a similar feel to that and I have passes to both. *shrugs*

  12. 2 hours ago, silver2005 said:

    With the way the kids area has been re-themed and re-routed, I imagine the path starting there to the water park has changed somewhat.  Before even the first glimpses of Nickelodeon came in during the late 90's, it was much more wooded back there in the area around the Picnic Grove.  

    One thing I hated that the park did when rebranding the water park to Soak City was getting rid of so many trees around the original section.  It used to be very, very green in the water park (in a good way ;) ).  I also miss that awesome stone Water Works sign by the lazy river.  

    silver2005, who has many fond memories of the original Water Works. B)

    I have something I want to confirm as well.  During the time where the area to the left of the entrance was known as Adventure Village, what was in the spot where the Action Zone water tower used to be (circa 1994-1998, between the time the animal area and trams were retired and the birth of Action Zone)?  I seem to think there used to be an in-ground amphitheater there.  

    There still IS an in-ground amphitheater there, it just isn't used anymore. I saw it last year when I reluctantly rode Drop Tower. (Love drops, hate to be surprised by them.) @CoastersRZ, I thought Drop Zone was the original name of Drop Tower. What is EXtreme Skyflyer? Is that the bungee-jumping thing?

     

  13. 9 hours ago, IndyGuy4KI said:

    Welcome to KIC! Not remembering the path you are talking about. Hopefully you find someone who may know? 

    Thank you! Who knows? As little as I was, I may have imagined it.

  14. 10 hours ago, Stoan said:

    Yeah, they used to have them at All-About-Fun or something like that as well. It was a balloon catapult. On the far side of the splash maze, near the theater if I recall.

     

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    7 hours ago, TombraiderTy said:

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    You can make it out next to the food stand. I think it opened with the area (1995) and I would guess it was removed with the nearby Hanna-Barbera Land renovation in 1998.

    Awesome, guys, thanks to both of you! For some reason I forgot Hanna-Barbera Land and Nick Zone coexisted. 

  15. 2 minutes ago, silver2005 said:

    I don't recall such a thing. 

    Now there is the infamous Raspberry N' Chip at Graeter's though. ^_^

    Was UDF at KI before Graeter's?  It might have been one of their flavors. 

    Nah, this was soft-serve. I think I got it from one of the food booths in the Coney Mall area. This was before I realized that the blue stuff could be reliably found in the kids' area.

  16. Does anyone recall a participatory thing, maybe for extra cost, where you would stand behind something and lob water balloons at someone maybe 20-30 feet away, and they were doing the same thing? This would have been in the kids' area shortly after the name change from Hanna-Barbera Land to Nickelodeon whatever...maybe 1994 or '95.

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  17. Another random memory here, this one from the '90s. Sometime in the 1993-96 time frame, I think, I remember having a really hard time finding the blueberry ice cream I've always loved. Instead there was a red kind, either raspberry or cherry, that was good but not as good as the blueberry. Does anyone remember KI either replacing or supplementing its blueberry ice cream with a red flavor for a short time in the '90s?

  18. Longtime park guest, sometime reader of this site since 2012, member of this site since last year, first-time poster. 

    Let's get to it, shall we? I'm 33 years old and I believe I was three when I first went to KI, so that would be 1987. What was then Waterworks (great name btw) opened in 1989, so, while the waterpark was a staple of my preteen and teenage summers, I did visit at least once while the park was land-only. I seem to recall a walking path that was probably taken out as the waterpark was being built. It wound behind International Street, through and/or around what was then Hanna-Barbera Land, and came out close to the entrance. Does anyone else recall this, or have access to historic park maps that I could use to verify or disprove my memory? I was really little, so I could be wrong, but my memory is usually pretty accurate.

     

    This is my first random memory. I have several more. :)

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