PKIVortex

I miss King Cobra.

Kings Island has a Parent Swap policy. Stop by Guest Realtions and they will give you all the information on the policy.

Flight of Fear does not have Over the Shoulder Restraints. It has a lap bar, like IJST does.

Yeah and notice in the discripiton of Fairy Odd Coaster, that it still has the discripition of Beastie.

Thank you for saying that. It's getting annyoing everyone thinking, that these rides are going to look horrible, just because that these rides can also be used in fairs.

The Son of Beast isn't a bad ride. It just needs some TLC. Yes it's bumpy but it's a wooden coaster over 200 feet tall. I have rode in the very front seat and the very back seat and it's not too bad. I have made the mistake in riding in 2-1, the car was jackhammering so bad that I could barely walk when I got out. If you sit in a non-wheel seat it's not bad. The general public however do not enjoy the SOB though. Notice how even on a busy day, SOB doesn't have a terrible long line. I'm looking forward to riding SOB this season, and to find out if they did any improvements on it though.

I understand perfectly fine. Roughly 1050 people per hour. Vortex could pull 1500 pph, if every train is out by the bell, and they are no empty seats. When I worked Vortex in 2001, on good hours we could get been 1000 and 1200 per hour.

Meijer is advertising buy 3 get 1 free for Gold Passes.

Who's to say that all that stuff wouldn't have happened if Paramount didn't take over. King Cobra was getting old and had maintance issuses almost everyday during the last season it operated. As far as KCKC it was a flop, we even called it flop as one of it's slang names. As far as Vortex being on PKI Kill list, well they are no offical statement about Vortex. It's been a rumor for years.

When I got my job at PKI, I just went to HR and applied, and got interviewd and hired on the spot. That was back in 1999!

Yes indeed that was him. I think he's doing the announcer too in that. She does sound like him.

No he's being sarcastic.

Is this HB Film in 3d? Action Theater at PKI only has 1 theater set up to run 3d flims. So my guess is if indeed it's 3-d unless they convert the other theater to run 3d films then SP3D will be gone.

Wow who would have known. I actually thought he was an old man.

Are they going to get all of the work done in just over 2 month's? It seems as if they have alot of work to complete before April 14th. But of course if you think about it they have even less then then April 14th to get this completed by. We shall see. But it's looking good though. Good job PKI for keeping us updated. Now if only they would update the new for 2006 page on pki.com.

Yeah I was also wondering about that. I bet the tickets are invailid now, if they were bought during last year's season. On the question and answers part of the item on ebay, it says something to this effect. Ticket is good for anyday during the season that ticket it bought. If ticket is bought after the season is over, ticket would be good for any day during the next season. So from that I would gather that the ticket is no longer good, and he even said that if the tickets were rejected at the gate that he would give the buyer a full refund. Yeah I wouldn't want to buy these tickets, good thing I have a season pass.

Yeah but the pic is very old. I would assume it was from Off Season 2003 - 2004.

I for one was upset when the Paramount took over came about almost 14 years ago. And if you remember Paramount had to learn to get where they are today with the parks. For the first few season's the park wasn't as clean and they were other issues too. For me just as I was getting used to the way Paramount was running things now some new changes may be upcoming. On another note i'm not sure if the park would change names right away. I'm sure the new owners would have some kind of a rights agreement for awhile to still call it Paramount's Kings Island. Unless they don't want to buy the rights but then they would have to change everything, sorta like what Cedar Fair did with Six Flags Ohio. I guess we will just have to all sit back and see what card is going to be thrown out next.

I for one don't understand this myself. But if you remember when the parks were bought out by Paramount in 1992 Viacom had nothing to do with Paramount at the time. Wasn't Viacom thinking about selling too before the Viacom spilt? I think what will happen is the parks will just have new owners but nothing will really change. It will probably be still known as Paramount Parks, just with a different company running the actual parks. But only time will tell what is going to happen next.

Wow way to go PKIC. I also enjoy this site much more then the other PKI fan sites.

It has to make you wonder. It has been removed off of PKD's site. So I guess only time will tell.

Yea Drachen Fire Also don't forget, Drachen Fire was actually designed to be bulit by another company other then Arrow. Probably B&M. If you look at the elements of DF they look more like they should be B&M elements and not Arrow. I think that is where alot of those problems came from.

It's been rumored like many times before, that 2006 will be the last year for Vortex I hope it's not true. But if it is hopefully they will replace it with a nice big looper.

They have it for sale in almost every shop at PKI.

You have 2 tats at 14? I thought you had be 18 to have a tat? Your still a kid.