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I had a chance to talk to the Google guy, and he told me it takes 4-6 months. Should be any time now.

Hey, at least they didn't name it Fukushima...

I gotta ask: who voted & what were the qualifications to be selected to vote?

I mean I would have enjoyed Wave-Pool 2. But you know, that's just me....

Thanks again for all this pics Paul... Feeling odd for using first names of people I've never met As for wait times, I remember 3-4 hrs being the standard for Magnum and now I get bummed if it's over 20 Edit to add: ^ I love that pic

the old paramount story area would be perfect

So true it did prevent the Northern Kentucky park to be built at the I75 I 71 split south of Florence. Kings Island won out, and should for any account be the major player witht the other 2 major (MAJOR) players being cedar to the north and dollywood to the south. Time will tell about the Nashville park but it looks themed, from the rides, to a great plan so far. Nashville seems to be in the news all the time now.

I believe it was said on here before that people who had paid for 1 day tickets got a free starlight ticket from KI...

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I've always been amazed at how a flip flop can manage to make it thru the entire ride, only to escape at the end turn.

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... Especially at Cedar Point, as the old one was somehow pirated away.

Thank you so much for putting this together Ty! Given my long association with the park both as a guest and employee, I'm a sucker for park history. I'm lucky enough to have been around this event from the beginning, only missing out on two years of it ('05 & '06). Those early years of FearFest were fun. There was a very small crew of us (me and 2 others) that were responsible for going through the mazes before they opened to the public to clean up any loose articles that might be in them and to vaccuum them out. I'll always remember going through The Sewer and Pirate Jack's during the day of Opening Day to pick up loose nails/screws that the construction crews had left behind, and marvelling that we were actually doing a haunted event. I had always loved haunted houses and to actually combine that in a place I loved was sheer joy for me. We very quickly learned the best way to route people out the old season pass gate. And then there was one night, I believe it was the 2nd or 3rd Saturday that first year, I had taken the night off to go to my friend's bachelor party. At about 3:30am, I got a message on my pager from some coworkers (no, I will not confirm my exact location where I was when I got it... we'll just leave it at "bachelor party" ) that they were still there counting money, and that they had had numerous people from the admin office out selling tickets from aprons it was that busy. The next day we got word that NO ONE from that point on was allowed to be off during a FearFest night (so I subsequently missed my friends' wedding a few weeks later). I'll also always remember being on the cleaning crew the following years too, especially walking through Trail of Terror in the daylight it's first year and running into the "spiderwebs" hanging from the trees. I saw that it was fishing line, but didn't tell the other person about it. She walked through and started freaking out, thinking she was actually walking through spiderwebs. And then there was the time where I was vaccuuming Curse of the Crypt in the Coney games building. I knew nothing at the time about pressure pads (pads that, when stepped on, start something in motion). I was walking through trying to find an outlet for the vaccuum, and all of a sudden a mummy popped out at me. I jumped and quickly learned that those little bumps on the floor were there for a reason. From Day 1 of FearFest I was yearning to work in one of the houses. I always loved scaring people... just ask Mrs. Gator about the year the first Scream movie came out and how I got her when she was home alone, and the older neighborhood kids my neighbor and I used to gang up on during Halloween. But for those first 5 years I was "stuck" at the front gate because of the position I then held at the park. But then my whole world changed October 28th, 2004, and in 2008 after a little debate with myself I decided to make a return to the park for Haunt. I was lucky enough to be The Bouncer at Club Blood that year, and I had sooo much fun. In 2009 I made the switch to Slaughter House, where you can find Sam the Butcher now. I can say without a doubt that working Haunt is the most fun job I've ever had. Yes, it's physically exhausting, can take a toll on your voice and I wake up with my body aching the next day, but it is so worth all of that.