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    2024 Operating Calendar is Posted.

    in Kings Island

    Posted

    2 hours ago, beastfan11 said:

    Hahahaha. The guy’s pulling excuses directly from some posters/posts on this site. Hilarious. 

    John Matarese is a silly and would never have anything to "report" if it wasn't for...

    1) This website
    2) Apple releasing new iPhones (he does the SAME story every year)
    3) His target demographic falling for his scare tactics constantly.

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    Six Flags and Cedar Fair Merge

    in Kings Island Central Newsroom

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    14 minutes ago, SonofBaconator said:

    Here’s my theory for what’s going to happen in the Mid Atlantic market. The chain is going to liquidate Six Flags America and shift their focus onto Kings Dominion which will become a test park. You will start to see WB IPs emerge such as Looney Tunes and possible DC. If they see significant positive feedback from guests, that’ll give them the green light to move ahead with other parks. That’s just my thought process

    Kings Dominion: “Finally, Batman Knight Flight will be where it was always intended!”

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    Winterfest 2023 Discussion

    in Kings Island

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    18 hours ago, IndyGuy4KI said:

    You rode together? Who's idea was that? 

    Honestly, I think that was truly how it was presented. There was a bit of a long line and it just made more sense to ride with a buddy, or a "bud-ay" as @ZosoBeast would say. 

    Still, that wasn't even the worst ride at their weird holiday event from Hell. That award goes to the paddle boats in the lazy river. Just ask @CoastersRZ. A better name for the attraction would be: "cold, confusing, and frustrating ride through an abandoned waterpark." 

    EDIT: Just remembered, I think @XGatorHead 8904 has a terrifying story about those paddle boats. 

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    Winterfest 2023 Discussion

    in Kings Island

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    1 minute ago, TOPGUN1993 said:

    2010

    YES! Hahaha, that was the most terrifying thing I’d ever done in an amusement park. Fairly certain those two slides in your video came from Surf Cincinnati. In 2006, they let @Dane and I take our pick of sleds (out of a pile where we had to decide “which one is less broken”)—and then they let us ride together. 

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    Winterfest 2023 Discussion

    in Kings Island

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    2 hours ago, beastfan11 said:


    At a certain water park across the street, you were able to do just that. And if I remember correctly, said slides were relics from Surf Cincinnati. This was a long time ago. 

    @BoddaH1994 would know better than me, but I’m pretty sure only one former Surf Cincinnati slide got used and that was circa 2006 for their weird and definitely questionable “toboggan” attraction that Boddah, @Dane, and I wrecked on. I don’t think they ever brought that back. The “tubing” they had in later years was just a giant dirt pile in the parking lot and the slides sitting in pieces out there were from… Columbus’ old zoo waterpark thing?

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    Don Helbig

    in Kings Island

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    Sounds like someone just put out an old tombstone/decoration where the coloring on the name had deteriorated. I don't think there's a whole conspiracy afoot here. 

    Probably some seasonal employee grabbed it from the storage area, threw it on a truck, set it out with a bunch of others, and then went about their day.

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    Season Pass 2024 Price Increase

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    1 hour ago, BoddaH1994 said:

    I don’t know what would be worse: buying a Six Flags pass by accident, or having to admit that you have LaRonde pass. 

    You're not wrong - didn't even realize it was a Six Flags pass until I took it to KI and they wouldn't let me in.

    Weirdly, though, I somehow got a bunch of pass perks at the front gate every time they tried to scan it. 

    Things KI doesn’t do but should

    in Kings Island

    Posted · Edited by Gordon Bombay
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    47 minutes ago, flightoffear1996 said:

    I would love see a Virtual Queuing and getting rid of fast passes. 

    Honestly surprised that this has never been implemented given all the other customer-service focused improvements in a post-Kinzel era. When Fast Lane was implemented, it was very clearly a quick way to make profit. The overhead was low (wristbands) and the revenue had to be off the charts, but then the park continued to vastly "oversell."

    You'd see rides like Flight of Fear with a regular, slow-moving line and a slightly less long, but still slow moving "Fast Lane" line. Given the experience at other parks and the name having the word fast in it, I couldn't believe that they were letting that happen. Hell, even on Firehawk back in the day (RIP), they'd do one station for Fast Lane one for regular guests with both lines being awful. "Fast Lane" was like 45 minutes for that ride. And the park just kept selling passes all day.

    The debut of Fast Lane was typical of that immediate post-Kinzel era: profit placed way over guest experience (or, rather, certain park VPs of "Kingzee's Ayyland" trying to make themselves look good). Given the strides CF has made in recent years, I'm surprised to see the "system" still exists and hasn't been upgraded to something more modern/guest friendly/advantageous (with the other benefit being that guests with a virtual queue are out of line spending money). Could even make it app based... but then they'd have to figure out an app. 

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