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With the number of Season Passes sold by Kings Island, you can be sure that there are likely normal distributions on many fronts and I'd guess that many of us fall to some of the extremes of those distributions. For example: - # of Visits of Pass Holders: On one end is the family who buys a pass and never actually goes (it does happen), on the other end is the person who goes almost every day (y'all know who you are) - In Park Spending: On one end is the pack a lunch and never spend a dime group, on the other end is the eat in the park buy a souvenir and splurge for ice cream every trip family Based upon these distributions and the way the KI has discounted passes year after year, it seems that Kings Island believes that the average pass holder is going to visit often enough and spend enough in park to justify a low pass price. They do, however, have to charge enough to justify the value of the individual day ticket price as there is also money to be made on the admissions side from multiple sources: - Non pass holder visits make money (including parking and in park spending) - Group sales are important to KI (and they expect a discount versus a gate price) - Discounted tickets are a perceived value (which is necessary for a business)

"Cmdr. Riker, anything new at Kings Island these days?" "Midget wrestling with tazers on the ropes."

Tombstone absolutely sucked, no one was hiding or anything. 0 scares. I do think this is the most tame, year after year though. Holiday Horror had a nonstop line, no groups. Didn't think much of this one either, but it looked better than I thought. I think this is the best year Kings Island has seen in its history as far as Haunts go; they really put a lot of effort into the whole entire park, and brought in new mazes. They really put other CF parks and SF parks to shame! Oh, chainsaw guy, I was the guy taking pictures of you Saturday night.

Uh oh. Only one vote for Slaughter House so far. Sam's not too happy about that. I have the feeling he's going be taking that out on people tomorrow night.

In '07 Mrs. Gator & I just sat and watched the chainsaw guy at Worksite chase people for quite a while. I love chainsaws!

zephyr crew: want to hear a joke? what is brown and sticky? a stick