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None scare me, either, but they are a lot of fun. ToT was one of the best, I really enjoyed it. I think Tombstone Terrortory was much better when it was based on the headless horseman, but that's just my humble opinion. The first year my oldest went to Halloween Haunt (then, FearFest) we did Headless Hollow, and it was a very chilly night. The fog was so thick back on the WWC paths that you literally could not see your hand in front of your face. Awesome. A quick rundown on my take of the mazes: (I won't try to rate the scare factor because to me they all have zero scare factor, lol) CarnEvil: Love the blacklight effects, and clowns can be creepy as he||. Club Blood: Despite the scantily-clad girls, an extremely annoying maze. Probably because I was never into the "club scene." Cornstalkers: This once-a-scarezone has had several locations, with Tower Gardens its home for the past few years. The many tombstones allow for plenty of hiding places for scarers. (Side note: my best experience in this one was the 19-20 year old boy who was dressed like a thug screaming at everything and hiding behind his girlfriend, lol) Cut Throat Cove: I love pirates, so this is one I enjoy each year. One of the least "scary" in my opinion. Holiday Horror: I LOVED the small scarezone this started as in Coney Maul, the full maze is kinda fun, with the Easter bunny being my favorite part. Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror: Brand new, will probably be the first one I hit this year to see how they utilized the Crypt's former home. Massacre Manor: Meh. Mysteria: The closest thing to my all-time favorite maze, the long-gone Hysteria. I love the strobes, chain link, plastic sheeting, and fog. Love the feeling of a mental institution taken over by the patients... Slaughter House: Gore is not scary. But if you love gore, you'll love this. Tombstone Terrortory: See above. One of the more fun mazes, though. Urgent Scare: it was a decent enough maze, nothing to scream home about. And finally, Wolf Pack: I liked the various wolves, and using the SoB station made it kinda fun. Yeah, so that's my take. Agree or disagree, we all have our opinions, lol. My advice? Just go, and HAVE FUN! Oh, and try to have at least one person who gets scared easily. Tell some of the people in costume the easily-scared person's name and the haunt members will freak them out by calling them by name, lol.

A few loose bolts on any structure/ machine sounds dramatic, but is not that unusual due to the constant vibration. SoB had SEVERE vibration that not only caused loose bolts, but numerous issues, including contributing to the support failure that resulted in guest injuries.It should be understood- loose bolts will not cause a structure to sway. They are engineered to sway. If there was no "give" in a structure, it would fall down like a house of cards. Even the Empire State building "gives" about 1.5 inches. The antenna on top of the CN Tower will sway 3.5'.

I think these awards have about the same level of credibility as a Soviet election.

Best kennel at an amusement park: The Pet Care at Kings Island. I give it 5 paws and a ruff, ruff!

The cost to park doesn't matter to me as I have a Platinium Pass. However I would like to see some of the money used to pay for parking reinvested int he parking lots themselfs. I know KI's could sure use alot of work.

Certainly not Stitch back in 2003!

Who is paying most for ads? Truly. "GOLD"en Ticket, indeed. Pay the gold, get the ticket. It's a business.

Surprisingly, I don't want one. It would ruin the fun of going to Kings Island!

If I could take one ride, it would have to be Dodgems. I love those things, and you could have fun with all sorts of neighbors and what not. Plus, who doesn't want to be "that guy with bumper cars in his backyard?"

We have our announcement, the slaying of the Son, well this is FUN. I wonder how long shall it stay?

None. The price to maintain it would be a pain in the butt. I'll let Kings Island pay for them while I use my platinum pass.

They did this year I know bro! They forgot to paint the fences alongside the path on the way to Soak City!

Flying Eagles!

^ Except Magnum is better than them... Just teasin' (though I do think so, but that's just a matter of opinion.) It's disappointing that something as big a deal as the Golden Tickets is just a competition to see who can purchase the most advertising space. It'd be nice if a system as balanced as Mitch Hawker's poll got the attention the Golden Tickets gets, but that's life.

^Kings Island has never made a mistake...ever...

I'm sorry but I thought The Crypt sucked at least the last couple of seasons it operated it did. When The Crypt had the intense program it was awesome.

Boy, who would've thought this topic would start so much argument.

Is this a problem? I enjoyed The Crypt, so I would like to have it back. What's wrong with that? How can you like The Crypt better than the original Tomb Raider?

For Millie to get number one, and Diamondback to get number 10 (a ranking that NEITHER deserve by a long shot), and I305 to not even be IN the top 10 is absolute proof beyond shadow of a doubt these awards are skewed at best. As if that wasnt clear enough evidence.... Wild Eagle best new amusement park attraction for 2012? REALLY?? The only two I agree with, are Holiday World getting Cleanest park, and El Toro blasting Voyage for best Wooden Coaster. That ride hasnt deserved number 1 status for at least 2 years, and its retracking this year doesnt redeem it to that status in my opinion. Now, for as someone as Pro Holiday World as I am to say that, says something. Terpy said it best in the previous few days when discussing something related to the GT Awards when he mentioned the amount of advertising dollars spent in Amusement Today magazine. To look at this list, and say the amount of money a company spends in that rag DOESNT mean anything, would be nothing less than foolish. What baffles me is that, with CF being the conglomerate that SPENDS said money, they didnt "persuade" the GT Committee to place I305 in the Number 1 category as opposed to Millie.

Not exactly I was thinking Blood Drums was going to be, if that is the same show they bring to KI.

We'll in my opinion, The Beast should be number 1....

I just did that on Friday. I went to Cedar Point without checking the calendar, assuming it closed at midnight. It closed at ten. Who woulda thought they would bother opening for 4 hours. I still got to ride everything multiple times due to less than 2000 people there, so oh we'll.

Why in the world would you not take TR:TR? I mean it does say PKI rides right? Trololololol

It was a beautiful Service, and it was no surprise to me to see the parking lot, and the church, overflowing with people who's lives Keith touched at some point or another. I will re-iterate what I said to a few of us who spent time together afterwards to be support for one another, when I say that: A)41 is WAY too young to die. B)As nice, and humble a Man Keith was, He was likely looking down upon the full church during the Service and said "Wow, I truly didnt know I had that many Friends and people who I meant so much to".

I always pictured Terpy as this:

I love how Don worded this on Fb.

Bwahahahahahaha! That is too funny, great joke, great joke. They did this year, but their greatest achievement was in 2004. Anyways a live feed of The Beast coaster's first drop.

Wow, El Toro actually won best wood coaster. That one's a shocker- after Voyage won last year (and based on the rides I took on it in 2011, it did not seem like it was still a #1 coaster anymore) I was expecting the same this year...wonder if the fact Holiday World was hosting last year had anything to do with that...probably did...also, Raven returns to being a Top-10 wooden coaster at #8...it seems to flip-flop for some reason in these rankings. Also, Wildebeest beat out Mammoth for best waterpark ride...in fact Mammoth did not even make Top 5! Hmm...bigger may not be better after all. And they also lost friendliest park to Dollywood...did Holiday World not buy as many AT ads this year or something!?!? Also spotted: Almost all of the Top 10 steel coasters are super-smooth hyper/giga coasters with large, gentle curves and airtime hills and no inversions. If I was New Texas Giant, I'd feel very alone on this list...the fact it's even on there says to me that this is probably a great ride. Magnum XL-200 should also be grateful it's on there, as from what I've heard (and felt from other Arrow rides), it's not super-smooth...and ditto on Maverick & I305 getting dissed. Never ridden either of them, but from POVs and No-Limits recreations, as well as online rating sites, these probably should be at least Top 10 coasters...and they aren't. Just a few things I spotted. Most of the other stuff is more of the same...

Percussion in a steel house. I'd hate to WORK in there. The noise levels could be frightening!

Even if the name was waaaay too close to Tower of Terror for comfort.

If I could choose one ride to own at Kings Island it would be The Beast. Definitly.

They wouldn't stand for long. Harmonic vibrations and such.

I would love to tour Kings Island during the offseason, hopefully when they'd have a lotof projects going on.

Fact: This is not Terpy, either (at least I think so): Hey, 2,500 posts. Confetti! Everybody daaaaance!

It's actually 2006, because you can see Surf Dog. Wow I feel like a nerd!

A gem from the KD page: Not bad, but the first comment?

Seniors get Social Security & discounts EVERYWHERE. I get coasters!

Also remember the difference between debate and arguments. This is a forum, and disagreements are part of what makes the forums fun. It's personal attacks and competition that turn debates into something that no one wants to read. Especially when it just turns into a match to get in the last post, because it just never stops. There's nothing wrong with voicing your opinion, and there's not even anything wrong with publicly disagreeing with someone. It's attacking someone because they disagree with you, and this is going on often enough to be a problem. Again, I'm not calling out any particular person.

KIC has truly made a wonderful rebound lately, I can actually come on here and expect some good conversation with great people about a place that I love, and not have to deal with spam and awful members and fighting. Kudos to Ryan, Dane and Robbie for really cleaning this place up. I'd say KIC is back to 90% of it's original glory. I'm not giving that 10% back until we get our events back!

I think we can all agree that this comes down to a respect issue. What do I mean? Well, let me explain it to those new members: If you want respect, you GIVE respect. TTD Maverick, every single one of your post that I have seen, you have bashed members who have years of experience not only on the board, but in the amusement industry. I don't know if your parent/guardians ever told you this, but SHOW RESPECT TO YOUR ELDERS! Its really frusturating to hear you come in and bash one of the most respected members on this board when you have been here for 15 days, and have a grand total of 77 posts. Let me ask you this: Out of those 77 posts, how many have actually contributed to a conversation? What should you get out of this rant TTD Maverick? Well, since I know that you don't like riddles, I will spell it out to you: Show proper respect on these boards. Contribute to the conversation instead of trying to cause problems. Its getting really annoying. Oh, and for the rest of the new members, I wish to tell you something: Those who dont know tell, and those who know don't tell. So if someone says something cryptic, you might want to think about it. You know, use that thing between your ears. Tom, who knows hes stealing Terpys tagline, but is getting tired of the disrespect shown by some people.

The Interpreter is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a paradox wearing a pair of Docs while riding a coaster near you!

And the definition of irony is....

But, Terpy usually adds to the topic at hand with his jokes and seemingly meaningless posts, but the seemingly meaningless posts usually add something if you look deep enough. When he does joke, he makes up for it with other usful posts (not that we use him or anything... ).

Please no. KIC has lost a lot recently, but please do not threaten KIC's sense of humor. That's one of the few things this site has managed to keep and excel in, a fun, joking friendly community. There are numerous sites I will not post on because they are to strict, to serious, not any fun. And about Terpy, I would know he takes some getting used to. If you do not know him like most of us on this board do, it would indeed seem like he is a invaluable spammer. But, he is the most insightful, intelligent, and wise member on KICentral. And he has a tendency to not say what he means straightforwardly. Sometimes on a good day he will even put it in humorous form. And when he sounds like his is making an attack on someone, take it from me, he is not.

Best part of that whole Paramount fiasco is when they emailed me, of all people, asking what they can do to make their site popular like KIC. I told them you can put all the marketing budget in the world behind it and it'll still just be an official site with forums, which would never fly. That's like a band running their own fan club. My honest opinion? One year from now the forums on that site will be gone. Not necessarily due to a lack of popularity, but since the site is run by Cedar Fair, it's going to have a hell of a lot more credibility behind it when some 15 year old kid posts that he heard from an inside source that whatever ride is down for the season. Oh, I can hear the media calls rolling in.......

I originally found KIC when trying to discover where B&M fabricated track in Cincinnati. After I found out, I joined and enjoyed being a member when Diamondback was being built. I try to be a serious and insightful poster. I really hope people will think and not make pointless comments, becuase it ruins our reputation. I'm excited to stay a loyal member for a long time. -Liz

We can only do so much as sit here and complain. We need to help out too.

I completely agree with the original post here. When I joined in 2007 KIC was a fantastic site. Even when I was being a "bad boy" in mid 2008 KICentral was a very well run, successful site. But it seems over the last year or so the site has slowly demised. Half of the posters here seem to half no clue what they're talking about, and arguments and flame wars have been sparking up like wildfire. There's been a ton of spam, and the mods seem to be sitting by and not doing much at all while all of this goes on. I also must point out that the information on this site (Such as the attractions page) has information from years ago, that hasn't been updated. I used to love this site, but recently it seems as though it's dying. I want to see the site survive, there's still a chance to save it, but something has to be done.

actually dalefan, CF officials/employees do read the Geagua Lake Today site... and their subsequent forums. There was a guy named "Dave" who posted pictures of the park demolition, who didn't work direclty for CF, but for the contractor- who, as best I can tell, was released from his employment and the pictures on the site removed. unfortunately for this site, the days of Twitter, FaceBook, etc... and the relentless blogging of individuals leaves many to think that people care about EVERY opinion they have on any topic. I have someone on my facebook network that posted 5 times about laying his kitchen floor, and that he hopes he has enough time to finish it. I DON'T CARE... seems a simple solution to the time would be to STOP POSTING. so, if there is a thread about Firehawk... well I must have an opinion so why not post. and unfortunately for the Moderators there are more people and more threads to moderate than they have time to read after. There are a few newbies on here that have over 1000 posts in their first 6 months. I've been on here four years and I don't have 700 (i think).... i can't see my numbers. Granted, if I see someone is getting spirited I will be the first to try and push a button or come up with an obviously preposterous "factoid." Most will see right through it and "get" it- and I do it in good nature. This is still a great site. for the most part moderated pretty well (I about got "moderated" for a political avatar.... before (and I can't think of his name... Ronny maybe)- realized it was a Dwight Schrute mock up). The site is very respectable in that childish comments are tough to cut out, but it always seems that the heated debate topics are kept to a minimum. Go to the cincinnati.com or any news outlet "comment" threads from their stories. This site is Pulitzer-caliber compared to some of the dolts that post on those sites.

Thats what i think they'll do. Just like Behemoth did except i don't think Behemoth started and construction til June or July. Well probably see track on site in July, and if this thing will be as big as they say it probably won't be done til This time next year. And then it should be testing in April, unless it opens along with the park... then it'll be testing in March.