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Don't come so that I have the park to myself.

Do you not realize people can handle temperatures that you might not be able to? I wear shorts in the snow sometimes. It doesn't mean I don't have common sense.

There is no tin. It's not a shack. It meets all codes. You'd be surprised how much it cost. And it was built with a life expectancy of decades. See also The Bat station.

I don't think any of the sentences in that paragraph have anything to do with the sentences surrounding them, and I can't make heads or tails of a single one individually. There is nothing omitted. The quotes above are all of your sentences, copied exactly, in order. I am absolutely clueless.

I feel the same way about my car tires.One went flat once. I am never getting in a car again.

I made it a couple of days without Kings Island PR saying this post contains inaccurate information.

^We'll just have to hope for another day like this next year. I promise I'll try more!

^ For what it's worth, I'll likely be wearing shorts at the park tomorrow if the forecast stays as-is. I'd rather risk being a bit chilly than risk something flying out of an unsecured pant pocket. Some people need more to stay warm than others. I tend to be somewhat tolerant of both temperature extremes.

Do: ride the last train of the year on Adventure Express Don't: ride the last train of the year on Son of Beast

Welcome to KIC. We are a collection of individuals sharing a park. May I also suggest you read a few threads and try the search feature, too?

Not to mention that no one knows or can know at this point if or how many lawsuits may be filed for incidents/injuries/economic loss attributed to these rides and occurring prior to now. Browntggrr has it exactly, more so than whatever is causing these rides to shut down, it is the multi-hour rescues that are a serious, unacceptable problem for the parks, riders, and the manufacturer. Such waits are not just publicity nightmares, they are unacceptable in many, many ways; including safety, customer experiences, and now even from a litigation exposure standpoint. Typically, litigation is not filed until just prior to the expiration of statutes of limitation. If and when that happens, there will be more publicity. Especially in California, I'd not assume none of the riders will be litigating. Terp, who is not engaged in the private practice of law in Georgia, California, Ohio, any other United State nor in Canada. There is no legal advice pertaining to any specific situation or client contained herein. Consult a competent attorney in your jurisdiction if you have or think you may have a legal problem.

I don't speak freaky-deaky-Dutch, okay?

So, walking in my old footsteps of my last day rituals, I had a idea of making a thread for people looking for the best last day. Do- Take advantage of last minute sales of merchandise Do a last ride of your favorite ride at Kings Island Do have a great time Dont- Not take advantage of some of the great deals Not do a last ride Not have a great time

If there really is common sense more people would have it.

I am in the process of trying to acquire the video from him. Like I said I am just telling you what I heard, don't shoot the messenger. He has also informed me a ladder was the means of evacuation from the train, only from the train, not down from the ride.

The one I've always noticed is the one directly underneath the first corkscrew--if you look "up" while going through it, you'll see the footer.

ok

I know you guys want WindSeeker removed, but I like the WindSeeker. It's one of the few rides my dad can still ride. Please Cedar Fair, don't remove these rides!!

I'm the one in the blue YMCA shirt and was prepared with a raincoat and extra sweatshirt that night. Thanks for letting me be in the picture even though I wasn't really a KIC member yet! I had a great night, glad to meet you all. Thanks for helping encourage ohiocolts to try new and frightful things. Too bad he wasn't up for going in every maze. Nobody was there and we could have easily gone through everything!

Besides, a reason to not go on that ride again? Make whatever choices you need to make, but that's like hearing about a rollback and deciding to never ride Maverick again. Pony Express? That's a different story.

We do? What specifically about the inversion caused the problems? Terpy, ever curious.

^He wasn't shooting a POV, he started to film whenever they climbed down. But yes it always seems like it happens when someone has a camera in their hands.

El Toro uses the old Viper station. Still....

Now i know you guys said that Don said that he wants SOB to look like it never existed, but what if they kept just the station? This way the new roller coaster can go into it and they save some money on removing steel. I'm sure whatever they plan on building they can alter the new ride in that station. I'm still hoping a ride like Maverick goes in SOB spot. Maybe the world's longest of it's type.

My opinion. Maybe they are adding litterally a park expansion. New area? Expansion again to Action"Less" Zone? Or maybe Oktoberfest gets an expansion finally. There is plenty of room for that. ----- I'm heading there in the morning and I'm bringing my camera. A very nice camera. So i'll be getting lots of pictures, Of SoB.

Maybe there will be some limited edition numbered Son of Beast footings available soon...I can't even imagine the shipping cost. (I'm already dreading to see what the shipping cost on the wood is going to be.)

Ed Alonzo, star of the "Ed Alonzo Pyscho Circus of Magic & Mayhem" show this past summer at Kings Island, will be appearing as a guest judge on the Magic Castle special edition of "Cup Cake Wars" Sunday, October 28 at 8:00pm on the Food Network.

Wasnt he on a show about kids who moved from Indiana to California, then they went to college? He was like a magic waiter or something right?

Maybe you should google "Ed Alonzo" he has a pretty impressive résumé..

Why? It has kicker wheels at the top. Top Thrill Dragster does not.

Vekoma's Giant Inverted Boomerangs had a habit of valleying in the cobra roll, and had huge scaffolds and staircases added pretty quickly once that started happening. BEFORE: AFTER: REALLY AFTER: Definitely not insinuating that Flight of Fear really did valley there. Just sayin'. Plus, the original poster is going by what his friend said. Even many of us here might be baffled by the layout of Flight of Fear, so it's much more likely that the ride was stopped on the midcourse brakes (more than it normally is, I mean) and people were unloaded from there. As you can see, the MCBR is about at the same height as the cobra roll, so a guest surveying the room in darkness would be confused.

Good luck getting it to work.

Don did say today on Fox19 that Ed would be back next year.

So you don't like it when people post something you perceive as rude or crass, but then you state your dissatisfaction by being *cough* rude or *cough* crass?

Don is like please!! I just want to forget it was ever here!!

That would be myself.I never even heard of it before I Googled it. 'Rat Race' has now peaked my interest. Any good?

May I remind everyone that if WindSeeker is fixed, the chances of being stuck for three hours is very slim. The chances of being on the gondola, as well, is even slimmer.

If you sat up there three hours during the latest Knott's incident, you'd still have had about 40 more minutes to wait. Imagine all the things going through your mind at three hours, as you wouldn't know for sure how much longer it may be...ten minutes? Three more hours? All while nervously hoping for a safe rescue, perhaps sitting embarrassed in a puddle or worse, having children on the ground perhaps, missed a ride home from the park or a wedding or even a funeral...all manner of things. Imagine the pacts with the Almighty. Lord, if I get down from here safely, I'll....

TR I got your joke, and my point was just my personal thoughts on it, not connected to yours. I do applaud your effort at getting every SOB talking point into one post (had you done that over at the SOB page, it might be 40 pages shorter). Dwight, Im with you. 3 hours makes me rethink about climbing into the ride. If Vortex breaks down, or The Beast, you get climb down a set of stairs (which is super frightening for me anyways), but it would be done and over. 3 hours waiting for someone to use a hand crank... yeah not cool

Disclaimer: i am usually 99% tongue-in-cheek on this site and very rarely take a serious counter-point to someone's view- and I don't mean to make an issue of this but wanted to take a moment to chime in on this. If a ride such as WS were to stall out at 300'... there has to be a quicker way to bring them down to earth. Personally I have been on the ride 3-4 times this year- enjoy the ride (no my favorite, but a decent ride). My digestive system is such that if I were "trapped" in a situation and not able to get out for 3 hours... there'd be problems. I've had these problems most of my 39 year life and have learned to manage them- 3 hours is outside my manageable time frame. So, as to say, people who may have issue with the length of time getting down aren't sissies as stated. I know that you're probably not looking at it from this perspective- but this issue, while probably doesn't affect the overall "safety" of the ride, it will affect my decision making process when determining "if" I will ride again. Hopefully their "investigation" goes into contingency plans of how to bring the gondola down quicker- or I may have possibly taken my last ride on WS. Just thoughts from the balcony.

I should probably also clarify that I didn't mean to make fun of people's fears/complaints about the WindSeeker breakdowns. I was just playing at translating all the SoB topics of conversation from the last three years to being about WindSeeker. I love coasters, but being at any significant height for an extended amount of time (e.g. most observation or Drop Towers) makes me fairly nervous, to the place where my hands sweat pretty severely and I have to hold onto something or stay as close to the center of the observation deck as possible. I would not enjoy being stuck at the top of WindSeeker for any amount of time, and I definitely agree with the sentiment that it shouldn't take hours and hours to get people off the ride when it breaks down. With the minimalist seats and restraints, that would be terrifying, at least for me--there's nowhere to lean that would make me feel any more comfortable about being stuck 301 feet in the air with my feet dangling freely.

Im not sure about anyone else but if I got stuck on WindSeeker for 3 hours, Im not sure I could ever ride another ride. I am not a huge fan of heights. I ride rides to help control and conquer my fear. Standing on the Eiffel Tower at KI makes my hands sweat and when the tower shakes I get super nervous. I usually dont like talking while in line for a new coaster and thought I was going to die when I rode Griffin at Busch Gardens, my wife made me ride the front seat, but the hanging scares me to death. If I would ever get the nerve to ride WindSeeker (and I probably never will) and it got stuck for 3 hours, I would probably pass out, vomit, or even worse. I go to the parks to help conquer fears and to enjoy the thrill of saying "I rode that." I dont plan on a ride breaking down, and if a ride breaks down time after time after time... then well the park must do something to assure me that I will not be stuck up there. If I got stuck on WindSeeker, I would demand my money back for my ticket/pass and would probably avoid theme parks for years... Im not kidding, when things like this break, and if Im on it, Im sure I would/will be freaking out.

^ But I can see WindSeeker's seats on Google Maps! Clearly, KI just refuses to make a decision about the ride! Seriously, all those people complaining about how long it took to get the people down are sissies. They clearly just rode it on a bad day. I got stuck on WindSeeker once for like three hours. It was awesome. Best flat ride I've ever been on. (Hopefully that's everything?) EDIT: A clarification after reconsidering The Interpreter's post a page or two ago: I'm kidding.

How many times have it been said that seasonal employees, especially ride ops, are not in the decision making process nor are they informed of plans such as it is being rumored here. Something like this would only be made at the very top of Cedar Fair and the park's GM/VP and through consultations with the ride manufacturer. Future plans, rides being torn down and future expansion are only made by top management and all seasonal employees and full time employees that are not in the upper levels of the chain's management team are not part of the decision making plans. Unless you hear of any plans like this or other plans are only released by the park's public relation department, it is not true.

^That could mean one of two things: 1. MotherofOcolts wasn't used or 2. I have no idea what you're talking about

Yes, yes I am. I'm also a Whovian, and, believe it or not, a Muppet fan as well (Surprising, I know).

I'd say about 1 in 2,937...since that's how many coasters RCDB has listed on their page.

Racer 116 - Coasting For Kids 2010 That day it was great, the next day... I was paying for it. -__- So I spose 100 is alright, just not 116! Ba dum dum Tssssssttttt