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Photo #31 - Antique Cars 1973

Photo #30 - Pre Runaway Reptar - Nick Splat City

Here are the 'tiques on September 5, 2004 (rode them that day too)

Sorry but I had to laugh, no offense. Thank you.

Oh how I miss the antique cars! It was a beautiful part of the park! It is a shame that this carefully tended garden of 20 years was replaced with a junkyard looking monstrosity of a ride

Whoa whoa whoa... Vekoma? You want Vekoma to design the new rides?

You fanboys complain about the supposed long walk to Flightdeck yet you walk around a big ass amusement park all day?

Kings Island was like a bad dog when they took out the cars, we all found ourselves saying, "NO, BAD. WE DON'T DO THAT"

Hey I'd take an Expedition Everest from Vekoma

The WindSeekers were prototypes. And they built like 3 of them all at once... Please don't tell me I was the only one that saw this coming...

SoB gone...DoT gone...AZ water tower...gone. AZ rumors, Oktoberfest rumors, WindSeeker(s) speculation, diversions, planes...what a great off-season "season" this has developed into!

Those trains may make Voyage's flying turns even more thrilling.

Please don't bump old topics like these for one sentence replies.

I love how on the website it says "you'd never know by looking at it, but Woodstock Gliders is over 70 years old!" I want to say "you'd never know by looking at it, but that ride belongs to Kings Island!"

Photo #29 - The Bat - Station - Notice how the transfer track was on the front of the station thus a train never had to go backwards to be taken on or off the circuit. The station and drive box still exist today as Vortex.

Looks like Don was telling the truth when he answered Woodstock Gliders @ Carowinds to be his favorite Cedar Fair owned ride outside of Kings Island.

Its amazing how much the trees filled in over a period of twenty years! I still miss the peacefulness of all those trees in the center of the park. Of course the biggest travesty is that we also lost our Flying Eagles ride the season that Backlot opened.

Any other coaster manufacturer can have theming around their rides if the park wants it. Vekoma, ha..No thanks.

Next on Engineering Blunders........

It is looking better for Hart each day, and I wish him the best at reopening the park. Although, I really am not going to believe it until I see people walking into the front gates and enjoying the park.

This was kind of a fun ride! I especially loved the giant Reptar statue out in front of the coaster. That's something I wouldn've liked to have gotten a hold of when they took it down. I would've totally put it in my back yard and turned it into some kind of fountain lol!

Yes. It's been explained here numerous times. After one of the ride's many revisions, a park marketing person at Kings Island, who often posts here, Mr. Don Helbig, posted in these forums that The Crypt had been very popular the year before, and that, contrary to perceptions, it was almost always open, as it had far less downtown. Several weeks later, a very similar post appeared, also by the park, also citing The Crypt's reduced downtown.

How can you say the Crypt's cycle with its marry-go-round program was like TRTR?! Crypt didn't hold you upside-down, or do a top spin. And it was much slower.

You should be in the park at night. After closing. With only a very few employees. Eerie is right. Cedar Point? That's Erie.

Tomb Raider: The Ride in it's final years was The Crypt, but with more downtown, slightly better theming, and..no music. But to each his own!

I had a dream once, after watching "Johnny Dangerously," that BLSC was themed 1930's Chicago, with Capone-era cars (including the police cars), and the ride ops decked out in pin stripes and Fedoras. ...too much?

Some POV footage can be seen in this video:

How cool would be be to be able to rummage through the areas where they have all the old stuff hidden away?

Three goals in 1995. Ended the game with five goals and one assist. I had 11 goals the entire season that year.

How can you say the Crypt's cycle with its marry-go-round program was like TRTR?! Crypt didn't hold you upside-down, or do a top spin. And it was much slower. I agree with Nemo, GYK. The Crypt featured 2 flips in it's later years and the ride was slower than molasses. TR:TR featured 4 flips and held riders upside-down. Now post TR:TR early Crypt, 9 flips in the intense cycle for a year, TR:TR didn't hold a candle to that cycle.

His ride was still standing and operating when he joined, so it was not by choice for him. If you want to get technical, Son of Beast was SBNO when he joined. It reopened for the first time after the 2006 accident five days later.

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I've been in both Cedar Point and Kings Island well after closing time. I've never found them spooky. I thought it was kind of nice.

I love how on the website it says "you'd never know by looking at it, but Woodstock Gliders is over 70 years old!" I want to say "you'd never know by looking at it, but that ride belongs to Kings Island!" I would gladly trade BLSC (formerly Italian Job:SC) to Carowinds in exchange for the Flying Eagles to make a return flight to KI. BLSC's current theming is a shell of it's former self, which was rather questionable to begin with imo. I mean rusted shipment crates, and concrete/gravel really? I can stay home in Dayton and still get that experience. Also if the money is going to be spent on keeping the pyrotechnics operating, I feel it should have more of a stage to be observed and admired, rather than being atleast partially concealed. It's been stated that Action Zone seemed the more appropriate location for this attraction, and I would have to agree. NOW years later, and it appears the much wiser decision would have been to leave the area untouched with the Antique Cars and Flying Eagles Maybe BLSC can be rethemed and billed as a new attraction for Carowinds? After seeing the original film of "Italian Job", I'd like the theming from the Michael Caine movie. Hollywood is so overdone and lazy. And Terp, one of the highlights of my visit to KI is going through the kid's section, and seeing the dad's with their kids on the rides. It starts the park for me, takes me back to my dad and I on "Scooby Doo." I didn't know Don was 'winsome'.

I chose the metonymy because: The truck's high-beams were on, so I couldn't see the driver. "It" sounds better than "he or she". You're right; it's spookier, fitting this specific thread better. (see also Christine) I suspect that the employee inside was having a great time watching my reactions.

I suspect its driver blew the horn. If IT did, that IS spooky. Terp, who can be quite the literalist

Hmm... Quick Photoshop I did using various ideas from this thread. This is not an official document. I know, it's hard to believe. The brown coaster would be a GG woodie, the blue coaster a big blue B&M. The path to X-Base might be awkward, in location and in terrain.

At Cedar Point after closing, a pickup truck followed me up the midway. Several times, after pulling as near to me as it could, it blew its horn to startle me. (I was not in the truck's way, and my confused gestures back were ignored.) This is what I get for being parked in the Soak City lot after staying past 11:00pm for ERT to end. (This was the first time they offered the weekly ERT, so not many people knew about it. The park was absolutely dead.)

Coming from someone who half believes in ghosts but fully believes there is something out there, I have never been the least creeped out by the Island at night. I guess for some reason it's only dark for about an hour your in the park anyways and I am usually with friends who are talking and chatting away so I have never really got the chance to notice.

I heard about The Beast at night being scary at night. I can only image walking out in the woods at night to get to WWC. I got to do it now.

Ride WWC or The Beast at night and get ready for an eerie, yet exciting, ride.

Not a problem, I knew this would be newsworthy to KIC members.

^We love it when we find out names....

Maybe we will all show up for opening day and there will be a Flying Eagles ride as a surprise. Edit: I spell like I talk.

Another possible hint or accidental hint could be that KI's webcams have been down for about a week or more and that they deleted the comment section of their FB page.........All of that could mean nothing, But it could also mean something......

Anyone else feel like we're going to show up at the park in April and something besides Thunder Alley and Son of Beast will be missing? That's all the more sense I can make of this diversion stuff.

Samuel of course.

Love old threads...highlights for me:

Since you gave a detailed answer, I feel better to give more detail. I've had season passes from 1982 to 1997. I only stopped buying the pass when I moved further away than fifteen miles. I went about twice a week, after six. It was a second home. I wasn't happy with the Paramount gig, but that's life. They still had rides, and many of my friends and relatives worked for the park. At the end of the season, when many kids went back to college, my mother and I would work rides on the weekends. I loved it. I do love Kings Island, I'm not a gripe. Before Friday Night's Haunt, my husband and I had discussed getting season passes. After Friday night, we're not sure we want that. Fights broke out in the Diamondback line, physical shoving. A few more fights occurred on the midway, but at least we could walk away from that. The lines for mazes were long for the short time you go through. The first maze we went through, was the prison maze, because the line was shorter. I soon found out why. Naught but strobe and smoke and dour young ladies. It got irritating to the point where I just asked, "Where's the exit?" the same as I would as any attendant in the park for directions. All I got was sullen glares. Fine. Thanks. Part of me just wanted to shove against the cheap Masonite and push my way to the outside. It made me not want to go to the other mazes, if that's the attitude that prevails. In 2008, the fog in the Massacre Mansion went for broke, and no one could see anything at all. I was first in line, waving in front of me, and telling the people behind me that I could not see. A scaracter broke character, got out of his chair, came into my vision, and with a flashlight, told me to follow him out. It was a great gesture, and appreciated. (He was in the Toxic Zone, a blue trashman, earlier. He must've been double timing.) I did go through two more 2010 mazes, and sadly, they all seemed set up the same way. Lots of blood, lots of spare body parts, but no real scare. People are scared by more things than gallons of red and latex. Why are all the mazes looking alike? Cornstalkers is unique, but it's one little alley. All that land that KI owns, and they represent a cornfield with one little alley of boxes on asphalt? I realize that being scared and scaring people is like playing ping pong. If I scream, the monsters work harder to scare, people around me get scared and it's a big party. I got the feeling Friday night that I was the only one working the scare zones, and I was the customer. As I said, there were NO Scaracters on the midway. After the initial meet and greet, they all disappeared. The poor kid dressed in a sheet was standing alone, walking a little aimlessly, but he was a nice kid. We saw some Clockwork Orange sliders running amok and actually working, but that was all. The ride operators are always fun, no complaint about any rides at all. I rode them all. The downfall of this event in a mere three years is saddening. Are they trying to get rid of it? Also, Should it be a different paying event and not on the Season Pass? Perhaps then it wouldn't be so crowded, and the customers would be aware of what they are paying for. Good Scares. It wasn't a good crowd on Friday, and I wondered if they had to pay separate admission, would they appreciate the work more? Had other Haunted Trails, like "Land of Illusion" in Middletown swiped the talent? In 2008, there were some real workers, and 2009, even though there were less monsters, they worked hard. Do they need Special Effects artists? designers? Creativity in any form at all?

I couldn't agree more. While there were those putting forth an effort, we saw more than a few scare actors stride on by. Some had a creepy walk, others were clearly on their way to somewhere else. Just got back from KI. We were approached by one scaracter, a pleasant guy, and took his picture. The others seemed as if they were on their way to lunch. After a few dismal mazes, I gave up. It wasn't frightening, it wasn't much fun. The prison maze was a Juvenile Delinquent Center for Surly Young Girls. Been going three years, First year was an absolute blast, last year was a little weak, but the workers tried, this year was just walking through a foggy park.