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Parking in a private business's parking lot without permission and going somewhere else is really no different than going in Kroger, selecting a nice roast and walking out the door without paying for it. Either action is wrong and can have serious consequences.

I'm going with the more effective strategy of not buying Fast Lane...ever.

Good! That saves me from doing one since we were together most of the time! Good one! Yes, I was quite literally in the dark... In the course of 2 hours on Friday and ERT through Close on Saturday, we made it through all the haunts at least once and a good amount of rides in (yes rotag, I rode Blue Streak, and it was running better than I've ever felt it before!). As always, the stand out haunts were Eerie Estate, Terror Island and CornStalkers (I scared the group in line in front of us at CornStalkers... all it took was shaking one of the cornstalks next to the queue. I'll let MF2000CMH tell you what happened in CornStalkers that made us laugh). I was a little disappointed with Happy Jack's this year... we got there right after it opened on Saturday so maybe they weren't in their groove yet. CarnEvil seemed to step it up a notch, or it could be that it was just better because they terrorized one specific person in our group after someone gave the clowns their name. And no, I wasn't the culprit, but I know who was! On Friday when we went through Terror Island, we were the last ones to enter. I guess we took too long because we were talking to one of the Screamsters when all of a sudden the lights go out. And I mean ALL the lights. It was so dark on the island that we got our cell phones out for light. Security came along shortly with flashlights and led us out... and that's when we saw Phantom Theater. StalkerChick was expecting him this time (after he got her good last year... I didn't tell her he was in there and then he started calling her by name ). So unfortunately he didn't get a good scare in with us, but it's always nice to see someone else from here hard at work doing what we love. Maniacal Mechanical Screamworks is a retheme of Fright Zone, but with the exception of new costumes and some steampunk props, not much seems to have changed. It was good before and is still good. Mr. Skull wasn't ready on Friday night, and when we stopped to watch him on Saturday, you could barely make out anything that he said. They need to adjust the effects on the microphone. Last year Mr. Skull was much better; we watched his crowd interaction for a long time, and he started referring to our group as his groupies. This year Mr. Giggles (at least that's what another Screamster told us was the name of the "garbage can guy") provided us with some great laughs with his scares. Blood on the Bayou was decent. No real scares in there for us though. There was a butcher in there, who I referred to as my Cajun butcher brethren, who was so intent on playing out a scene and not interacting with the guests. That would have been fine if he had served as a distraction and had a partner do the scare, but there was no partner and all he did was stay under his canopy and chop meat. It was great to spend time with good friends at a place we all like. Working Haunt takes away from being able to visit other haunted attractions in the area, so I love that CP opens their's a week before we do. Rides by day + haunts by night = FUN! Just heed this warning: the floor of CP's Dodgem is slick.

What about the part where half the people on this forum read the thread name and get all excited about a potential new TR, huh?

I highly doubt that IF Vortex was sinking, it would sink evenly across the board. Uneven sinking would lead to higher stresses on the track and the potential for shearing of the track. But what do I know, I only got an engineering degree from UC.

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I did Fastlane once and i loved it. I had the extra money, and i was at the park anyway due to me needing to do some stuff with H.R. for the Haunt. I would only do Fastlane if i have the extra money. The day i did it was the day the park was super packed. So it was worth it.

Waste your day?! Some of us prefer Backlot Stunt Coaster to most any other roller coaster at Kings Island amusement park! Can't say the same of Kings Dominion, though...

http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/news_archives/video-vault-sea-world-and-geauga-lake-from-the-air Now an aerial of Sea World and Geauga Lake from 1980

The joke here is too easy!

Remember its not the costume that scares the guest its the person behind the mask's creativity. I can scare people in normal clothes if I had to !

Um... wow... Just the thing to post about your employer. Insulting their costumes will insure that you'll work Haunt for a long, long time... [/sarcasm]