Kings Island to Have New Ride Names & New Parking Lot Sign for the 2008 Season, Kings Island Wants YOU for Their 2008 Entertainment Lineup & More

[Scooby_Doo 21]

I dont know to be honest with you.I would like to work at The Beast or something along those lines I want to work with rides.

Thank you for your comment.

[PKIVortex 3706]

Okay now it looks as if they had to rename Drop Zone. It's new name according to visitkingsisland.com is Drop Tower.

http://www.visitkingsisland.com/attraction...l.cfm?ai_id=160

[Browntggrr 6529]

And they are still brushing up the names. Check out the description:

At 315 feet tall, Drop Tower is the world’s tallest gyro drop. DROP ZONE spins riders on a 30-foot ring of 40 seats that encircles the Drop Tower to a height of more than 26 stories, and then drops guests in a 67 mph free-fall.

Kinda funny.

[Cormaster 39]

I KNEW this was going to happen! I said it last year that this year the Paramount movie names would come off all the rides. Going to take a little gettin used to but lets face it, rides were never meant to be named after movies to begin with.

[PKIVortex 3706]

Unless it's a Universal or a Disney Park.

[Vortex 632]

So whats Congo Falls going to be called? I just hope Kings Island brings back the old name Amazon Falls. If the ride is named Drop falls or Hawk Falls I think they need to fire the people that are thinking of the new names.

[Admiral Ackbar 25]

What kind of job you thinking about getting this summer Scooby? I don't know if they can do a scooby show, or if they'd have to get certain rights. They have an agreement through Sally dark rides to use Scooby on the haunted castle ride, but I bet they'd need some separate agreement to do a show of some sort.

Glad to see you back posting Scooby!

What about Scoob's rights? He may be a mutt but doesn't he have the right to appear in what ever theme park he wants to? Doesn't he have the right to choose to not be limited by petty corporate agreements? Doesn't he have the right to a Scooby Snack? Now I'm hungry...

[RingMaster 1550]

......talk about a lack of imagination/creativity. The least they could do is rename the ride ACROPHOBIA, based off the phobia involving a fear of heights.

Anyway, no matter what 'name' they give Drop Zone, people are still going to call it DROP ZONE.

[hauntguy 3]

I haven't read the entire thread but.... Didn't Ringmaster and myself say that "The Crypt" would be the best theme for TR:TR? GO US!!! YAY! -Hauntguy

[Gordon Bombay 3205]

Well, I have read the entire thread, and don't see where you said that.

[hauntguy 3]

No, not in this one thread... but here:

http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?...mp;#entry147212

and here...

http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?...mp;#entry127395

Seems like KI/CF do read these forums! -Hauntguy

PS: I'm not taking credit for the name change, just pointing out a coincidence!

[Thrill_Biscuit 17186]

I'd even settle for "Tomcat" (the F-14's official name) over "Flight Deck". "Drop Tower" sounds like an unlabeled RCT attraction (a similar observation is made by other posters). I just can't wait to walk up Footpath1 and take a nice picture of Lattice Tower1, provided Mechanic13 doesn't walk in front of my camera.

[PKIVortex 3706]

Since it looks like they did rename Drop Zone to Drop Tower, I would have preferred Gyro Drop.

[TheKlockster 30]

Drop Tower is one of the worst names out there. That would be like renaming The Beast to Wooden Roller Coaster.

[PKIVortex 3706]

Looks like CF has been playing too much RTC LOL

[RingMaster 1550]

Drop Tower is one of the worst names out there. That would be like renaming The Beast to Wooden Roller Coaster.

I would say that they could rename The Beast to The Woodie and Son of Beast to Son of Woodie.

....but that sounds wrong on so many accounts, so I'll just leave it at that.

[XGatorHead 8904 5129]

I don't know if they can do a scooby show, or if they'd have to get certain rights. They have an agreement through Sally dark rides to use Scooby on the haunted castle ride, but I bet they'd need some separate agreement to do a show of some sort.

But Scooby and Yogi were both in Endless Summer on Ice this past year...

And I love the RCT comments Thrill Biscuit!

[TH13TEEN 21]

Know one else has changed their drop zone name except us

[DiSab 1]

Well, since they already have the name, they ought to rename Drop Tower (ugh...) to Demon Drop. hint, hint, wink, wink to any CF execs reading through these forums.

[Alien Seed 13]

[Cory Butcher 28]

^Alien Seed, that is some classic photo shop, I kept looking to see what you might have done to it, then it clicked, haha! Nice job.

[Cormaster 39]

Yeah I think they could of done a better job with some of the new names. "flight deck" seems so stupid. LOL they could retheme it and call it "The Bat". but that would be too much work. They could still do a better job that that.

Problem is with TR:TR and Italian job is both of those rides were made with the movies in mind, so it makes me wonder how they are going to re-theme them. I still wonder why Face off and Drop Zone got re-named. They had no movie theming nor did they share the same logos with the movies, and their names made sense! And as for Drop Zone, does anyone really remember a crappy movie about Wesley snipes and parachutes?

Drop Tower is kind of generic but Flight Deck is the worst name by far. Why not just remove the whole "jet simulation" theme alltogether? They could just call it "iron dragon" or something, after all it was built by the same company, near the same layout

[Thrill_Biscuit 17186]

ROTF...

Excellent. Of course, they'd have to rename the area "Camp Mundane".

[KIBeast 1647]

Okay now it looks as if they had to rename Drop Zone. It's new name according to visitkingsisland.com is Drop Tower.

http://www.visitkingsisland.com/attraction...l.cfm?ai_id=160

Did they get that name from RCT? Drop Tower 1 is too scary for me!

[TheKlockster 30]

I get sick just thinking about 3D Cinema 14.

[JacksonPKI 2]

I love that logo, I would be very happy, if that was to be Flight Decks logo!

That does look like a cool logo, but i don't think the colors match. (unless....)

Nice Logo- But awful name for a coaster

Flight Deck is a halfway decent name for a ride,

As Stated somewhere in these forums,

"Most people don't even call them by their names." (or something along those lines.)

[Smitty 8]

I love that logo, I would be very happy, if that was to be Flight Decks logo!

That does look like a cool logo, but i don't think the colors match. (unless....)

Nice Logo- But awful name for a coaster

Flight Deck is a halfway decent name for a ride,

As Stated somewhere in these forums,

"Most people don't even call them by their names." (or something along those lines.)

You're kidding right? Flight Deck is a pretty bad name for the ride experience itself. Maybe the station... but not the ride itself.

[JacksonPKI 2]

I love that logo, I would be very happy, if that was to be Flight Decks logo!

That does look like a cool logo, but i don't think the colors match. (unless....)

Nice Logo- But awful name for a coaster

Flight Deck is a halfway decent name for a ride,

As Stated somewhere in these forums,

"Most people don't even call them by their names." (or something along those lines.)

You're kidding right? Flight Deck is a pretty bad name for the ride experience itself. Maybe the station... but not the ride itself.

No, considering that most people don't care for the name,..

[The Interpreter 82068]

MOST people haven't even heard of the name yet. And most never will.

[JacksonPKI 2]

That's what I've been saying!

I was with this one girl who never rode a looper before, and she pointed at The Vortex and said,

"Hey, you want to ride the loopy one?"

later, she said,

"You want to go one the yellow one next?"

I asked if she was talking about Face/Off, and she said,

"What's Face/Off?"