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lifetimecoaster

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  1. Well that works too. With good reception, I'm sure as the years go by, we may see them adding more parades throughout the day.
  2. Hopefully this will be something similar to the way that Disney does their parades. I like the fact that they do them a few times a day. You get to stop and catch it once, and then the next 2 or 3 times you can go and get on rides quick while others are watching.
  3. The thing that I think a lot of folks on here are forgetting is that we're enthusiasts. It's nothing for us to make 4 or 5 trips a year to our favorite theme park. 10 to 15 times a year isn't even unheard of, but for the general public, you sometimes go once a year, every couple of years. New rides typically will draw a bigger crowd, but how many of those people are the enthusiasts that would have been there to ride their favorite coaster, and how many are the general public coming to the park for a day with their family? Life's expensive now a days. Here in Indianapolis, house prices are soaring to new heights (anecdotally, my neighborhood crested 200k for houses like mine, that I paid 115k for 10 years ago). The days of family vacations are getting slimmer. Do I believe a giga coaster would draw crowds? Sure. I'm certain it would draw me, and most of the forum members.... but I try to go at least 1 time a year to KI among my other favorite theme parks around the country. On the flip side of that, however, I am 100% certain that I'll make a couple trips this summer with my family, because I know my kids will love the new KMAA the same way I loved them when I was their age. Basically what I'm getting at here, is that throwing new and better coasters brings people that like coasters, but putting in flat rides and family experiences brings families, and while I eat at least 2 meals a day when I'm in the park on one of my "daddy is going coastering" days, I buy 8 meals a day, souvenirs, game play, and about 50 drinks when I'm there with my whole family. The money comes from the family friendly things to build the giant earth shattering coasters that we all love. All of that being said, BRING IN THE GIGA FOR '20!!
  4. I've still got too many inches for my oldest to grow to get that excited yet.... but she's getting closer!!
  5. I've got a pop up camper with heat and a/c .... I'd be happy to drag it over to spend a weekend at KI!!
  6. I was going to ask if you were on Vortex crew again this year... that answers that question!! Congrats on a second year crewing your favorite ride!!
  7. I'm looking forward to trying to new restaurant, because beer... LOL
  8. This time of year is about when I start having the webcams open all day at work waiting to see something cool happening. Last year I sat and watched them put the trains on Diamondback!
  9. So it's safe to say that the future plans for the Firehawk station includes a fender for a Chevy pickup truck?
  10. It gets to be too much like real life. Tons of unused buildings everywhere, right next to where they're building brand new buildings. Or is that just in Indianapolis? LOL
  11. Sadly, I made 1 trip in 2018. It was a great one though, since my wife surprised me with the ticket as a father's day gift. Got to take a friend that had never been with me too, which was very epic to be able to show someone my home park that had never been. Hoping that in 2019, the kids grow a little taller so I can start taking my daughter on "those roller coasters that flip upside down". Here's hoping 2019 plays out to be a better year for me and my coaster addiction!!
  12. I have to ask... does anyone else genuinely hope they pull the plans from the old cue line buildings to build this one the same as the old ones?
  13. People keep talking about getting rid of the airbrush building, and it dawned on me.... Does anyone even do airbrushed t-shirts anymore? They used to be huge, but it seems to have died off.
  14. That area of the park seems forgotten for some reason. I noticed the last time that I was there that there just isn't a feel to that area any longer. I looked at it as possibly they're thinking of a complete revamp of the area, or that it truly is forgotten. I miss the German theme it once had, and it needs to have some form of continuity come back to it!
  15. ^Now that song would get me hyped up to ride some coasters.... but lets face it, the folks that have to work the ride would probably go a little nuts listening to the same song on loop every day!!
  16. Got ya... The Banshee one was confusing, but I could see the park giving a nod to history with changing Diamondback to King Chaos as a nod to King Cobra.
  17. I was just looking at Google, and saw something very interesting. I've taken a screen snip to post here of what I saw, but either the Google machine has something wrong, or names are changing on rides in the coming season....
  18. Cedar Fair is no stranger to the idea of just making the exact same marketing work for all of their brands. They've done it before, and this is probably my favorite video compilation put together to showcase just that!!
  19. After I made that comment I looked at the satellite views and it is doable for sure, but will require moving and removing a lot of maintenance stuff, service roads being one of those things.
  20. What's interesting is that they have pretty well "bricked" themselves into the space that they have. They have always built perimeter style, and have blocked off areas of their park where they would have to make major changes to expand into them.
  21. King Cobra. I got to experience that, and really wish it was still around for my kiddos to experience. It was such a unique experience in coasters!!
  22. With the direction everything is going in now, I would say that Kings Island by 2035 will be a bunch of chairs to sit in and look at your phone, coupled with a few areas where you can "ride" a roller coaster from the safety of a chair with a pair of VR goggles on. I kid I kid. That's far enough into the future that there are so many thing that could change rides as we know them. VR experiences while on rides so that you don't have the same experience on a coaster back to back? Man... the possibilities are pretty endless.
  23. I had seen that tweet last night, and laughed this morning at the TV news when they said that it was "confirmed that the ride was being dismantled and shipped to Kentucky Kingdom where it would be known as "Kentucky Flyer". Then the other half of my brain thought "did I read that wrong?"
  24. The basic idea of Firehawk/ X-Flight would have made sense in the Action Zone too.
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