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Based on relaxing, I choose IS. Just enjoying a drink with some Fountain ERT & seeing others have a great day really allows me to forget about everything outside those turnstiles for a while.

Agree. Mr. Six wouldve been a much more exciting and effective character to appeal people.. heck.. I would volunteer to be Mr.Six! I need a reason to dance around again :p i think fun-sultant isnt the most interesting thing.. BUT that doesnt matter too much to me since Im going to the parks already anyways. ----------- I didnt see a specific thread for this.. but Queen City Coaster (there's no more stunting, Ive declared :p) ... having no sound, no visuals, and no fire is... as the kids say... kinda lame, dawg.   If they dont want the original look, and somehow loved spending money they dont need to (which I know sometimes can happen).. id love for the walls to make it seem like you're inside the great american ballpark (without the great american brand)... and the fire... can come out of the smoke stack that the fireworks come from..   That or we arrive in skyline and the tunnel has the real skyline kitchen's smells pumped into the tunnel XD   Or- or none of that.. thats fine too.. I guess.

Shout out to M&M’s and Sharefax Credit Union for their support.

My big observation is that due to the parks consolidating and being under the same company umbrella for nearly 20 years now ( which typing that feels so weird knowing that much time has passed already ), this eliminated the need to really compete the way the parks did prior to the CF buyout. Before the buyout you had Cedar Point being under CF and Kings Island under Paramount with Geauga Lake turning into a Six park for a brief period. Having three powerhouse chains in one state really made for healthy competition and forced the chains/parks to really push and innovate more. Granted yes, these earlier innovations and technologies have not all stood the test of time, but the point is, things were different because there was a true fight for the consumer dollar and therefore that created an atmosphere of who could build the biggest, baddest or most unique attraction.  Since KI and CP have been sibling for nearly two decades now and GL being demo'ed, that really changed the need to do any of those things as fiercely. Not to mention the industry as a whole has taken a different approach to how they build/invest.  I can't lie and say that I don't miss certain aspects about KI and the amusement industry as a whole from my early coaster riding days. It was a much different world at large when I was a teenager and going to parks definitely had a different feel to them than they do now.  It can be both that KI has matured in some aspects in a positive light and also be missed as a park who innovated and broke records outside of themselves. Two things can be true at the same time.