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Shman

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  1. The park is not shut down to set up for FearFest....er, Halloween Haunt. The park is sold out to large companies for private parties. It is like this every year.
  2. I think this is a great thing to point out.....the fact that the show is being produced "in-house "by the Entertainment Department. In fact...most of everything being done this year, including all the new decorations, re-themes, and new haunts are actually being done by Kings Island's staff. Contrary to what the press release would have you believe.....Knott's Berry Farm actaully has very little to do with the changes to this year's event.....except of course for the name.
  3. They may have been training on their own for that long, but they were only at the park learning/rehearsing the show for about 2 1/2 weeks.
  4. The pictures look great....I wish I could get that good of quality in a dark indoor theater like that
  5. Awesome update guys!!! It's so cool that you all get to go in and see these things before anyone else gets to ;-) I think this show is going to be a smash hit with everyone!! Yes, but not on the level of this. The sheer price of the ice rink alone, then factor in the costumes for everyone (a new one for every section of the show), the set (again, a new one for every section of the show) and the fact that most of the cast are professional ice skaters...Im sure that costs a pretty penny. I dont know if id go quite that far.....remember in Kings Island history they use to have multi million dollar shows like "Escapades" and "Celebration" etc.
  6. Probably from the fact that there is only one train on the tracks
  7. Actually I think that it was stock video of X-Flight. If you look carefully I think you can see a spike of Steel Veneom(Superman) in the background. Also fun fact....Hypersonic is used in the commercial as well.
  8. I wonder how difficult it is going to be to get updates like this now that Maureen is gone.
  9. You're kidding me right.......most of the sets/props were used IN the movie, how does that do anything but credit the movie. The shrine, the monkeys, the ride statue, all of it was used for the filming of the movie.
  10. A few summers ago (2 maybe 3) they did sell calzones at the I-Street LaRosas
  11. WOW....that is a bold and awesome statement. Many people have said they wondered what would happen to KI since the buyout with CF, being that KI used to be at the top of the chain. It is great to see someone (especially after only their first visit) say that they think KI could be the best in this new chain.
  12. The show is on the International Street Bandstand
  13. Well I personally think that it was strange that the park was paying for this service to begin with. This route was not exclusive to the use of associates. Would Metro have had to drop its park & ride location at KI with the elimination of this route?
  14. It's not a guessing game at all.....as Guy 1115 confirmed, and I can back up, the tower will be changing color every operating night. Last night the tower was being testing and was indeed changing color. The lights are not new, they have been in place for a few years and used for events such as NOF, Winterfest and FF, as well as post season last year. And yeah....security doesnt work on the tower lights, why would they? You "friend" doesnt seem to know what he is talking about.
  15. I don't know if I would shake it so soon. I have yet to see SOB testing at all, which tells me that I can't imagine it being open anytime soon considering the re-certification the ride will have to go through.
  16. Sorry guys.....things have not changed. Im not sure what that guy is trying to pull.
  17. As released from KI on 4/4/007 Kings Island Donates Hundreds of Coats to Local Non-Profits Kings Island, Ohio – Just when it looked like Spring was finally here, the Ohio weather is at it again. Fortunately, the warmth of WinterFest continues as Kings Island donates more than 200 coats to Hamilton County’s Salvation Army and Warren County’s Franklin Area Community Services. The coats have a zip-out liner making them appropriate for all seasons. “Kings Island has received great support from its local community over the last 35 years, and we are happy to give back,” said Greg Scheid, Kings Island vice president and general manager. “We are so glad that these wonderfully warm WinterFest coats can be put to good use, especially as the weather fluctuates this week!” Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (NYSE: “FUN”) is a publicly traded partnership headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio. The Partnership, which owns and operates twelve amusement parks, five outdoor water parks, one indoor water park and six hotels, is one of the largest regional amusement park operators in the world. Its parks are located in Ohio, California, North Carolina, Virginia / District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, and Toronto, Ontario. Cedar Fair also owns and operates Star Trek: The Experience, an interactive adventure located in Las Vegas, and operates Gilroy Gardens in Gilroy, California under a management contract.
  18. So you go down a different pathway. It's not like the parade was some pop up thing, it happened at the same time everyday. Same thing happens at Disney World too.....parade time comes and you have pathways that are blocked off and unaccessable, if you want to go to a different place in the park you have to find a way around it, which is completly possible.
  19. Im glad they have finally released all this information, especially since it has been decided for awhile. Let me just say this.....wait until you see these shows! It's gonna be a great improvement. The return of a kids show to the Nick Theater, the return of the long-awaited ice show, the return of a major singing show to the bandstand and the showplace theaters. Its gonna be great this year.
  20. Sorry....I was just using this information as the basis of my post:
  21. Plus they completely re-did all of the sheet music scores for the performers, to make it a much better product. They even did some rewrites/tweeks to the music itself
  22. And this is the reason that the Knotts name is going to be attached to it. The 2 parks were built very similar together. The Cali. park carried a trademark on the name Great America from when it was Mariott's Great America. Until Paramount let the trademark run out, now Six Flags owns the trademark for thier park and Cedar Fair has to do something to get away from an infringement.......adding "Knott's" to the name is logical due to the reputation they already have in California.
  23. The first year of School Of Rock the show was produced by a company called "Heartbeat Productions" The second year the company "IO Productions" took the show over and redid all the show materials and produced it for the second run.
  24. This job fair isn't a new CF thing.......the park has had a job fair in March for awhile now, and the entertainment department always has it's second round of auditions around this time as well.
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