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Oh yes I'll say the ride should improve with timberliners, HW does have a top notch water park to.

Oh and another thing I forgot to list, we also ride Revolution. That feels like your inside of a washing machine!

Yeah that is there hole plan is to let people lose track of time, I wanted to sit in the front car but, that hole park of the station was fulled up tight. Had no idea who was waiting for what seat. We did ride the Legend in the front seat, and it was still rough. Raven was much better.

I remember watching a video were Will talked about why they put in clocks, is so there's no confusion about what time zone the park is in. And so to let people know what time it is. lol And they have two trams, one for the Raven lot, and a second one for the Legend lot. And when I worked at KI, my manager told me that the one reason for I-Street having those island put in, is so the people would be closer to the stores, were before there was a side walk next to the windows.

Oh and another thing I forgot, back in 2008 the park add lot's of clocks around the park. You don't see that in other parks.

Yeah Liberty Launch may look small but it does pack a punch! it feels very like Power Tower being launch up, but Liberty also gives a quick burst when your at the top to force you back down, that gives you the big air time! Oh and the Legend the thing I don't like about that is some of the turn's have little to no banking, so if really forces you to the side, it leaves me sore. The best and smoothest seat on the three coasters is the front car, middle and back your asking to be get roughed up. When the Voyage was brand new you could ride it in the back seat, and that was some major air time!

Thanks, I only seen it in the Festhouse, they were charge 50 cents for that. I'm talking about the little small plastic thing's.

Thanks, well in the morning riding in the 3rd car it was a bit smoother(Voyage). There's still lots of air time but its really rough, in the first high speed sections.

I didn't go there last year, so this trip I was very excited. Drive from just north of Cincinnati to Holiday Worlds parking lot was two hour 45 mins, and 185.5 miles. Got to the park just at 9am CST, Saturday heard it was very busy that day, also turn out to be very busy Sunday. Main parking lot was mostly fulled, along with the legend lot. when we got into the park and got a locker at the front, the room as I remembered it before had rows and rows of lockers, now they had just two. The first few hours the main park was really busy up on till the water park opened, we rode the Raven first then Legend, then Liberty launch, and the Voyage before heading to the water park. At this point it was around 1pm and the water park was packed! It was shoulder to shoulder in the wave pool, and most of If not all the slides had lines. We got into the Bahari wave pool and at first the water was a bit chilly but when you body got used to it you felt fine, the high temp was going to be 95 and it felt like that. By mid day most of the water felt like bath water, really warm. We rode Pilgrims Plunge only a 30 min wait, the lift going up is really quick. It was a good ride, we sat in the back, seems like the front gets wet more. While at the water park we rode there new water coaster Wildebeest, I'm not joking the we waited and hour 30 mins, it felt like we were never going to get to the load station, the ride it self was amazing nice and long, with open air section and dark tunnels. I read the max weight was 800 pounds, I saw a raft go up the lift and it looked like it over that limit lol. By that time my legs and feet were getting sore, we headed back to the wave pool. Oh and this wave pool the Bahari wave pool makes wave's, not like most others that make ripples. I'm 6'1" and at the 5 1/2' mark with the waves coming I have to jump for my head to clear the top of them. One of the big thing's I saw was as we were getting waffle cones, I go over to get napkins and there's six or eight large square containers full of condiments, from BBQ to Sweet Honey, while Kings Island charges 50 cents for them, HW is giving them away, and they are giving away bottle water at $1.59, Kings Island and others $3.00. You also get a free cookie with a combo meal. And as everyone knows free parking, free entree to the water park, free soft drinks(Pepsi), free sunscreen( only in the water park I've seen) And just about everyone smokes in the areas there supposed to. Before we left the water park we got on Bakuli, Bahari River, and Jungle Racer. After the water parked closed we head over to Liberty launch, it has more air time than Power Tower. Then a last round of coasters, the Voyage was first. Don't know what to say that was just painful and rough! can't say any part of the ride was smooth. We left the park after riding the legend, way to rough and we were seating up towards the front. I really can't see how Voyage can stay at the top, with how rough it is. Today I still have a headache hang over. Ride count, Raven, I Legend, II Voyage, II Liberty Launch, II Turkey Whirl, I Gobbler Getaway, I ----- WildeBeest, I Jungle Racer, I Bakuli, I Bahari River, II Thanks for ready.

I only like seating in the middle of the car on Beast, over a wheel it's really rough.

Last Friday, I watched all four showings of "Way Too Much TV." Sunday I saw it twice. Weird? Yep. Do I care what anyone thinks? Nope. Its a great show, the cast is wonderful, and it speaks to me on several levels! And if it plays next year, I'll see it 100 times. Point is, lots of us do things that others might find strange. I'm a functioning productive member of society. Gary is too. Leave all of us alone! :-) All no I'm not saying or calling anyone strange for riding a coaster over and over, most laps(in a row) I've done was eight on Millennium Force. I don't consider Diamondback to be smooth, only the front seat is smooth. It gives me a headache after two rides in a row, I've even been on Top Thrill Dragster five in a row with no headache.

I can't see how any one can ride that over and over, two rides in a row gives me a headache!

I worked Winterfest, and on most of the days there were very light crowds. Most night's we had to leave by closing time. The 2005 Winterfest looked nothing like the ones in the 80's.

Son of Beast was renovated over the '06/'07 off-season, and opened back to the public (*i think*) the fourth of july weekend '07. That sounds about right.

I think the only thing that can safe SOB is new all metal track.

I've seen skunk's, and deer.

I would not mind seeing Vortex being removed, way to tough for me!

This year I heard Mantis got a test seat to.

I can remember back when the park had can Coke, not bottle and it was 2.00 dollars, at the time I though that was high. Clearly this year seeing 3.75 for bottle, I had seen nothing yet. And I think that is really bad how they charge 10 to 15 dollars for parking, and the lot is in bad shape. In some area's you can't even see the parking lines.

Another great thread about a coaster that is not open.

No problem Here's the rest that I ran though photoshop.

I don't think us "younger" members on here can probably imagine how popular some of the early rides were. According to visitkingsisland.com, the KMLF's biggest year was 1973 with 2,267,188 rides given, or 414,357 more than Diamondback did last year! I also can't imagine a year (1982) where over 1.5 million people rode Viking Fury. I really don't think anyone can complain about any lines at KI in 2010. Yeah those numbers back then for KMLF and Viking Fury are just amazing, just goes to prove when ride is newer the line for it will be long.

Hope you don't mind standbyme, I put one of your pictures into photoshop and just added Auto Levels. As you can see the pictures doesn't not have the yellow haze over it.

I second that, Racer looks much better in Red, White, and Blue. Not all white.