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  1. What I think Cedar Fair will build at Kings Island (in no particular order): - A RMC coaster in the RiverTown section; Cedar Fair will probably make this one as big or bigger than the one at Six Flags Great America (Goliath). - A Giga coaster that goes out towards the waterpark from RiverTown (being placed at the Log Flume sight). This makes more sense than the rumored Giga going out towards the park entrance (where's the space for that? exactly). - An indoor coaster similar to the one at Canada's Wonderland. I'm guessing the ride would go well at X Base or replace an existing building (like the Tomb Raider complex). - A watercoaster in the waterpark (these are commonplace now). What I personally wish they would build (also, in no order): - RMC conversion of The Racer (similar to the one at Magic Mountain) - A Dive-Drop from B&M at the front of the park (tear down Invertigo); the coaster could interact with a new park entrance. - An Intamin Steel Coaster that is like Maverick but bigger. - An Intamin Woodie like El Toro but add in the now-infamous Vertical Loop & call it Son of The Beast. The ride would be a huge hit!
  2. It's been 4 years since any major expansion to Boomerang Bay. Is it just me or is it time to add something new in the waterpark? Here's what I think should happen: they need to connect the pathways from the funnel slide to the older water slides further west (maybe build something in that space, maybe not). I'm not wanting any major changes, just a pathway that connects up the waterpark, so you don't run into dead ends.
  3. I agree, the area needs to have a better way of getting around back there. I'd put a pathway not only looping around SkyCoaster and Drop Tower, but that somehow connects up with X Base. The area would be big enough to be considered its own section, so I'd gradually build onto it. 1st year: Inverted Coaster (where Flight Deck was). 2nd year: Terrain Coaster (preferably wooden) in some of the space left behind by Son of Beast. 3rd year: A spinning ride (ALA: Tony Hawk's Spin). 4th year: An Inverted Launch Coaster. 5th year: Dark Ride (themed to dinosaurs). From there, I don't know b/c that would be too much dreaming.
  4. Flight Deck should be Rust: The Ride. Son of Beast should just be renamed One Crazy SOB. Drop Tower should be called The Tower of Screams. Invertigo should be called Whiplash. Delirium> Frisbee: Go Get It! Adventure Express> Drummer Syndrome. Racer> The Racers (it annoys me that it's singular). Flight of Fear> (Not gonna go there, because the station themeing is just too easy to make fun of). Firehawk> Breakdown (theme it around that movie with Russel Crowe or whoever LOL). Vortex> (can't think of anything for this one). Beast> Forest Tour: 5 Minutes of Terror.
  5. I've had dreams of different theme parks in 2 different ways: some in rollercoaster tycoon style and the other in real life. Everytime I have a "video game" dream, some coaster crashes or someone is drowned by "the floating hand." Pretty sick, I know. I guess that dream is showing me what it's like to be a guest at one of my RCT3 or RCT2 creations. As far as falling dreams go, I always wake up from "hitting the ground" in my dream. I usually start freakin' out thinking I'm falling in real life. I guess my body has some kind of weird seizures during those dreams. The only dreams I've ever been scared of are the ones where I'm falling face first. Funny, I usually wake up with my face facing the ground.
  6. When a person stops a car fast, the passengers fly forward. That's b/c the forces are still going, even after the car's stopped. When you speed over hills when you drive, your body isn't going as fast, so your stomach jumps. If you're going fast enough, your car's wheels are going to come off the ground for a bit. All these elements can be found on a coaster as well.
  7. Weird, I remember having dreams of giant swings when I was just a kiddie. In the dream, I would go maybe 100 feet up in the air. Did anyone ever have one of these dreams? Now I get to live that dream out.
  8. I've heard about that ride (Flying Eagles), is it like the one that's at Holiday World (next to Revolution)? If so, it's not stupid, more of a family ride, but still fun. I mostly enjoyed it at HW b/c this kid in front of my car was screaming profanities and trying to tell me a story the entire time. If it were me, I'd buy back the one at Carowinds and put it back where that 3-Point Shooter game is now (which gets annoying after awhile when they play "Everybody Dance Now" everytime you walk by). About the comments earlier on other rides: it makes little sense to me to have a ride that can be enjoyed just as well at a fair grounds or an indoor mall (ferris wheels excluded).
  9. I've worked in food service off/on for almost 7 years now and there is always someone eating in the back room or wiping their face and then handling the food. It's expected. That doesn't make it right. As for the customer service, I think Kings Island's is good, but Holiday World's is better. They'll give you extra condiments and stuff without being asked to do so. The prices and the food quality of some of the restaurants is what I don't like about the restaurants at KI. One thing that gets me is that they tend to get rid of the really good restaurants (chinese buffet in International Street) and keep 2nd rate ones (pizza station in the Festhaus).
  10. I like the idea of a Ferris Wheel in Coney Mall, but I've never ridden a Screamin' Swing ride. What's it like? Is it like the "SWAT" rides they have at various parks in the US (SF New England has one)? I knew that they were going to do something with all that space on the other side of the walkway from Vortex. I think they should put that Swings ride at X Base and keep the Ferris Wheel in Coney Mall, then put up either an enterprise or Inverter Ship next to the Ferris Wheel (or even skip the ferris wheel and put in a double or triple wheel).
  11. I already figured that happens. They were thinking that there was no track piece during part of the ride and that the trains would "jump" off the track onto the other side. Sorry I didn't specify enough before.
  12. I've ridden it maybe four times. Three times facing the ground first and one time facing skyward first. Every single time I rode facing the ground, I blacked out once I start on the return trip backwards. My friends have told me that I look really creepy with my eyes rolling back and stuff! The one time I didn't do that was at night and when I was facing backwards first. I think it was for those two reasons (no sun out and doing the more intense part (backwards) first) that really kept me from blacking out that one time. I haven't gone on it since `07, because I had a horrible headache afterwards and my friend that I rode with got sick and threw up after the ride. If I ever go on it again, I'm only going backwards first or I won't go on it, because my body's trying to tell me that it's not good for me to get on that thing. Face/Off is probably the most intense ride I've been on at Kings Island, hands down.
  13. Despite what people may think, the Voyage did have tiny pieces of wood flying off of it. Now that I think of it, it could have been from the nearby tree branches, which makes more sense then the ride itself. I don't think you can make a wooden coaster that can "top voyage" for awhile. If anything, they need to build up to par with the voyage, but I don't see them surpassing it anytime soon. This is supposed to be about Wilde Beest so why are there so many responses to the Voyage thing. It really wasn't that big of a deal.
  14. Cedar Point has a peanut character section. I don't think that the main railroad is stupid. I thought the one in the kiddie park was stupid only because it just goes around in a circle (it reminds me of the kind at city malls). I bet some kids like it though, so it shouldn't go. I did think that Scooby's Ghoster Coaster looked stupid, and it was torn down. I thought the Lazer Tag ride was stupid, and it was torn down. Should I continue? I'm not saying these rides aren't loved. I'm saying that when a ride isn't up to par with a stellar park, it should be replaced. Let's hypothetically say Kings Island was getting a compact inverted coaster or a boomerang. That would be stupid because those rides are best suited for smaller parks. Most (not all) of the rides KI has gotten rid of were outdated or not necessary for the park. Why would you go to a theme park to play Lazer Tag or go on a train that goes around in a circle? That's why those rides don't make since to me why they were ever at the park.
  15. The first year I went on it, the ride had very small pieces of wooden flying off the track at me. It wasn't that bad really, just one or two peices during the first drop and the 2nd one. I went on it 3x's and it happened each time. The largest piece was about the size of my index finger. I'd never seen anything like it before. I was scared mostly because I didn't think that was normal, not because I could have been hurt.
  16. Is it just me or does Holiday World have the best prices for food. I went to Kings Island two week before Holiday World this year. I spent $14 on one meal at KI. I ended up spending about $20 on all three meals at Holiday World. As far as rides are concerned, I think Holiday World is great because of the giant waterpark. It helps that they have one of the best collections of wooden coasters. They have a woodie for each group of people that come to theme parks: one for families (Raven), one for people just gettin' into coasters (Legend), and one for experienced, rollercoaster junkies (Voyage). They don't have a kiddie woodie, but who cares? They have Voyage!!!!!!! I can't get enough of that ride everytime I go there, I'll ride it at least 3x's a day trip there. Last thing: someone waiting in line last year said that the Voyage goes off the track in one of the tunnels. I just laughed hysterically and said that there is a drop in one of the tunnels that drops three times. I then announced to their friends that "jumps" on ride tracks haven't been around since the 20's and that they needed to get their facts straight. Two years before that, someone thought that Raven had a loop and that a girl fell out of the ride on it. I said that SOB was the only woodie that ever had a loop in modern times. She wouldn't believe me, she even pulled out the park map to show me a helix on the ride (thinking it was a loop). I laughed at her and told her that we were standing under that part of the ride, where it turns around out of the station and into the chain lift.
  17. I think Superman Ultimate Flight at Over Georgia deserves Landmark status as well.
  18. I highly doubt any ride at Kings Island will get the award except for maybe Flight of Fear and Vortex. Flight of Fear b/c it was innovative when it opened (and opened up the door to LIM's, LSM's, etc.); Vortex b/c if I'm correct, was the first mega-looper (that kept going with Great American Scream Machine and Viper at Great Adv. and Magic Mountain). Is it just me or does the first part of Vortex ride like it's wanting to be Magnum XL? Here's rides outside of KI that might get the honor of ACE Landmark. Screamin' Eagle at Six Flags St. Louis, Space Mountain at Disney, Batman and Raging Bull at Six Flags Great America, Superman at SF New England, Top Thrill Dragster and Millennium Force at Cedar Point, Shockwave and Texas Giant at SF Over Texas, as well as X2 and Colossus at SF Magic Mountain.
  19. I wish Missouri was included in the poll. I really love The Boss and Screamin' Eagle at Six Flags St. Louis
  20. Anything at Indiana Beach or Kentucky Kingdom was out of the poll first. I think the only three really outstanding woodies in the area are Voyage, Beast, and Son of Beast. SOB may have the title of only hyper-woodie, but Voyage seems to come pretty close. The first part of Voyage rides like a giant steel coaster. From the brake-run to the end of the ride, Voyage doesn't let up, making you feel that your life might never be the same after riding it. I rode it 5x's when I went this year. The fifth time, it was raining, so it went a little faster and the rain drops were stabbing me in the face, so I had to keep my eyes closed most of the time. In the photo after the ride, I was screaming with my arms in front of me blocking the rain. My brother looked dead next to me or in a state of shock. That's a story I'll never forget about Holiday World. The reason Beast is #2 is based solely on the fact it was the inspiration for the Voyage in my opinion (the long ride-time, the tunnels).
  21. 1. Diamondback [it's the first Hyper-Coaster (Steel) I've ever been on] 2. Beast [The first wooden coaster that scared me as a child] 3. Firehawk [You get to be like Superman for a couple minutes] 4. Flight of Fear [it's in the dark and the launch is fun] 5. Racer [it is fun to race the car next to you, but was better backwards] 6. Vortex [it was the first looping coaster I actually liked (I'd ridden one's before it)] 7. Son of Beast [it is an even meaner ride than it's father] 8. Invertigo [The ride makes me black out 90% of the time on the return trip backwards] 9. Flight Deck [The ride swings near trees, ride support beams, and SOB] 10. Backlot Stunt Coaster [The ride has some good themeing going on] 11. Adventure Express [This ride is the best themed Mine Coaster I've seen not associated with Disney] 12. Fairly Odd Coaster (I almost typed in Beastie LOL) 13. Rugrats Runaway Reptar [This ride goes maybe 25 MPH Max it seems] 14. Little Bill's Giggle Coaster [Haven't ridden this since I was 4]
  22. They already got new cars (w/ 24 per car instead of the original 36). How did the ride work in your dream, just wondering. That would be the neatest thing.
  23. I think that Fairly Odd Coaster will always be remembered as Beastie to me (it was my first coaster). Flight Deck is Top Gun to me most of the time. Last time I was at the park, I screamed "Let's go, Flight Deck - Jet Coaster" as the ride started to go up the lift hill. I think that it's OK if people call Drop Tower Drop Zone (the full name has both those words in it: Drop Tower: Scream ZONE). Lastly, I think Invertigo is a cool name (it'll give you vertigo and it's inverted), but I still ask my friends, "Do you wanna go 'Scream Your Face Off?'"
  24. I think B&M's are great (I love the Batman rides the most), but they should be more innovative at Kings Island (they usually are). I mean, they built many firsts and one-of-a-kinds in the past, so why should they stop. I think a floorless, vertical, or stand-up would be a nice fit for the park, but it would cost a lot of money (especially if its interacting with the natural landscape of Kings Island). I think that if Kings Island is going to get another B&M it should be a Stand-Up that would act as the sequel to the now defunct King Cobra. I could see that making a lot of people that loved the original happy.
  25. OK, I get the movie themes aren't going to work. I just think the theme that The Crypt has now isn't working as good. I think it's still good, but could be better. As for the ride itself, it seems it's not as intense as it used to be. The main reason I miss the original theme for Flight Deck is that it had a much, much cooler name. It doesn't seem that Flight Deck (the name) is very original (didn't they already have that written on the side of the station anyway). As for Face/Off, couldn't they just take out the "/" part. I'm not sure because I don't buy ride signs, but I don't think ride signs can cost millions of dollars, they're just signs. If they still have the old ride sign for Face/Off, they could refurbish it to have the two words separated. I heard the Nickelodeon themeing was going on Screamscape.com, and they seem to be right on most of the time. It's just doesn't make much sense to retheme a kiddie section a few years before it has to be changed again. Does anyone know if they still have a contract with Hanna-Barbara, or is that owned by Viacom too. I think it is, because Cartoon Network owns HB now and Viacom owns Cartoon Network. It's going to be hard to retheme every ride to The Peanuts characters (there's only so many times you can name a ride around Woodstock, Snoopy, and the others).
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