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In my experience, teens today, on average, are actually better behaved and socially concious than the ones from my own childhood and teenage years (and the first decade of this century). I've been pleasantly surprised, often. The unfortunate thing with people in general is that the rude and ill behaved draw so much more attention than the far greater number who aren't like that.

I know this thread is about pet peeves but please pardon me from deviating to say something positive. I know a lot of of pet peeves have been about disrespectful youth. I have to say that while I have experienced this, I must say that I feel most young people are basically good. I would like to share an experience I had at the park a couple of months ago. Near the front entrance of the park I tripped and fell. ( I won't go into it but it was my fault folks.) There was a minute or so when I was in such pain that I could not move. Then, four young people whom I would say were about 17 checked on me to see if I was ok. One of them said that he would not leave unless they saw that I could get up ok. After I was feeling better, I started to get up and one of them helped me by pulling me by my hand. Luckily, I did not have to go to the doctor-just some bruising. I wish I could have found out those young people's names so I could get in touch with their parents to thank them for raising such decent, kind human beings. Another good example of the goodness of our youth is the awesome staff of KI-need I say more?

bring back the parking trams and a lot of people would be happy

The beatings will continue until morale improves

Needed.....while it may be an inconvenience for you, it's actually needed because people will freak out that their restraints aren't going to lock and then they'll report false information somewhere and guess what, it could end up on the news, resulting in us talking about how false news reports are a pet peeve. Also, they have to say downbar if they've unlocked the restraints so the other ride ops know to recheck them.

LaRosa`s Balloon Glow at Coney Island will be this Thursday. Sunlite Pool will be open until 9:30, and the rides will stay open until 11pm. The main highlight is of course the glowing hot air balloons on the Coney Mall. They go up at 8pm and glow until 10pm, when Rozzi`s Famous Fireworks launches a pyrotechnic display over the banks of Lake Como that will delight young and old. Be sure to check out Wipeout, Coney`s new ride this season. The park also recently added some historical pictures in two places in the park. Some of them are located right by the restrooms on the side of the administration building. Included in these items is a copy of the check that Walt Disney sent to Coney back in the 1950s for the consultation work that Coney provided when he was developing Disneyland. The other historical pictures are located over by the arcade, near the Skeeball games and Swing a Round ride. Definitely worth checking out if you are down there. I will be working all day that day, so if you see me, make sure to say hi.

Biggest Pet Peeve: People who DO NOT use DEODORANT/ANTIPERSPIRANTS!! I can only hold my breath for so long in line

Starting a new thread because others ruined the first. Keep your issues out of this thread it is for posting wait times and general updates on rides so those planning what rides to hit next or if they should visit the park. So lets try this again.

Quick list of all I did today: Diamondback (100th ride) Beast The Bat Banshee Ice Cream Won a basketball (forgive me) Won a giant hampster at bank a ball Put my hampster in the car Played the 3 point shootout (3 points meh) Friend won front of the line passes for all four of us Rode Banshee Headed home I left at about 4. Overall the trip was great and it wasn't too crowded. I've never done a trip report before so sorry if I'm doing it wrong.

It's not uncommon at all for the park to be crowded and Banshee to be a 10-20 minute wait. The crews do a great job getting the trains dispatched!

I only wish trademark lawyers found it so humorous. "...and it will continue." --Mr. Dane

^ That calendar has so many problems that I can't even begin to count them. For one, Fridays and Sundays are not equivalent to Saturdays; they are more equivalent to weekdays. For another, Fridays during Haunt are significantly less crowded than Saturdays, and Sundays in the fall are almost dead, not "moderate crowds". And weekdays in August don't start being dead until the middle of the month. Wow. I feel sorry for anyone who treats that as gospel.

Those arrows were there well before 2 Ride Tuesdays.

I've never been on a Boomerang, but i have been on an Inverted Boomerang. That being said, my least favorite Vekoma Inverted Boomerang, (If that counts), is Invertigo, here at Kings Island. Invertigo is also the only inverted boomerang i have been on, making it also my favorite Inverted Boomerang.

Beast at 10 am Beast at 11 am Beast at 1 pm Beast at 2 pm Beast at 3 pm Beast at 4 pm Beast at 6 pm Beast at 7 pm Beast at 8 pm Beast at 10 pm (the hours missing are for meals and snacks because of my diabetes)

Wow it's been a while since I made a trip report! I visited the park on a day a few weeks ago but never wrote about it. Two notable things from that day: I rode Banshee at night, in the dark for the first time (then second, third... 5th or 6th time!) also earlier that day I got my bag soaked in pop because someone's souvenir cup spilled in the Delirium bin. But TODAY, July 1st, 2014, I visited the park again, this time with my beloved bf, rather than him dropping me off then heading to work. (: I didn't take many pictures today, which I regret, I should have taken one of us. We had a pretty awesome day, despite being chased out of the park around 8 by a looming storm. We had many firsts today! We haven't been to the park on a "date" since opening day, and we only rode Banshee that day. Since then we've visited the park together accompanied by a friend of mine. We got to do a lot of things for the first time this season, He got his first rides of the season for Vortex, Invertigo, Racer, WindSeeker, Zephyr, and others I can't recall. We got our firsts together for Drop Tower and the Eiffel Tower. (: Also today I got a high score for Tsugaru on the DDR machine in the big arcade in coney mall. I was surprised, I thought I did kind of badly, but I guess not =p I love entering a high score! Altogether: these are the rides I can remember we did: Diamondback, The Beast, Vortex, WindSeeker, Zephyr, The Racer, Drop Tower, Invertigo, Delirium, Boo Blasters on Boo Hill, and the Eiffel Tower. As I was making that list I remembered Boo Blasters! Ryan had never ridden it before, and the last time I did it, it was Scooby Doo themed. It was the first thing we did, while headed to Diamondback, we were talking about it, and I mentioned it's air conditioned, and didn't need to say anything more! lol. It was an interesting ride, it was a lot more exciting than I remember it being before. Does anyone know what the highest score you can get is? (: sorry the pictures are so huge!!

First water rafting ride to have an inversion Too soon?

I enjoy Banshee not having storage bins. Shorts with zipper pockets will never let you down. I also have a pair of pants with zipper pockets for April/early May and October.

Y'all can keep up with the 66 day deal, I'll wait for announcement day. Great great marketing strategy however, but I'm not one for the random tricks and whatnot lol, got tired of that quite early last year re: a few rides.

I went to Kings Island for the first time Monday, and had a great time! Banshee was awesome! Is it weird that the line was only about 10 minutes for a new ride? The line also moved quick.

So if I pull into the parking lot at 10 AM, 11 AM and promise the parking attendant "I'll only be here for like, a half hour," I can pretty much get free preferred parking?

@KingsIslandPR on Twitter: "On this date 33 years ago in 1981, Carl Eichelman took his 2000th ride on The Beast." (The tweet mentioned above can be found here.)

Nope, not weird at all. It is one of my favorite things about it. About the only time I've seen the line long is when they first let the general public in, it's usually a flood straight from the ropes to Banshee.

That's why it was only 10 minutes. What is usually maybe a 30 to 45 minute wait, is a 10 to 15 minute wait on Banshee, that's the beauty of the ride!

No you are!! Sadly this season so far it's Scoobys that actually I've seen that had the worst wrecks..two BRZ's messed up pretty bad. One hit tire wall with the rear end when the car broke free, another hit a cone & slid, hit the front fender/tire busted the tie rods clean off..Beautiful cars, easy and endless tuning options, and quite sexy. However, one needs to learn what happens with a well balanced RWD car that you slap a turbo on brand new of the showroom floor. Right now alot of kids with not much driving/racing experience are getting em and modding the hell out of em. Which granted people my age and younger are the target market. Still though, some of these 18 y/o kids I see with em and fishtail through the gears..need to learn how to properly drive with that much power on a light balanced car. Still not the worst amateur racing accident I've ever seen, one guy with a BEATIFUL 240sx literally hit a concrete footer holding a light pole, bent the frame..Felt so bad for the guy.

Real cars, real drivers, real stunts.. Crazy scary stuff.. Cars are like missiles, see it every week or so if I go AutoX...car hits the rubber tire barrier, doesn't always stay on the ground

Doesn't Band-Aid run a commercial that says Band-Aid brand band aids....

Video is online, I kinda like the uncertainty, screw it lets just go do it, doing it because I can mentality.. Do I think they should have spent more R&D, oh yeah..but still this thing has such a beautiful pucker factor I rarely see in rides coming out anymore, this might be a ride that genuinely is terrifying, which I love the fact that it is. http://www.travelchannel.com/video/xtreme-waterparks

Hey guys. Made a quick stop at Coney Island in Brooklyn this week, so I wanted to share my experience briefly! First of all, Coney Island is a neighborhood famous for its amusement parks and beaches, which are all located on a few square blocks together along the Atlantic Ocean. The amusement parks mostly blend together, but there are a few different operators. The most famous and historic was called Astroland for many, many years, but stumbled in 2009 and closed. In 2010, Zamperla (a coaster / ride manufacturer) won a bid to operate the old Astroland for 10 years, and has been stuffing the park with its own rides ever since. So most of the rides at Coney Island are part of "Luna Park" (that's Zamperla's park, formerly Astroland, and formerly Luna Park again before that in Geauga Lake style), but there are other operators and attractions strewn about too. All are free to enter and walk around. Luna Park's rides take credits purchased and loaded onto a refillable Luna Card. Those credits can be used on coasters, food, and games. The other amusements take tickets purchased at little kiosks. Here's a map just showing Luna Park's rides, with the grayed out plots representing other blocks managed by different companies or independent attractions. (Click here for big, interactive version) In this map, the beach / ocean is at the bottom with Brooklyn at the top. What's so cool about Luna Park is the history. Not much of it can still be seen (except the world's first Nathan's Famous hot dogs... Is this were "Coney dog" comes from? I mean, probably, right?) but this was a magnificent era back in the 1920s. Like, the kind of place Gatsby would've gone. That last image is from 1905 and shows the park's famous Electric Tower. For those of you who have been around long enough to remember my Tokyo Disney Resort photo trip report (shameless plug, hoping someone comments on it and bumps it), it will look a little familiar... Luna Park was the inspiration for Tokyo DisneySea's INCREDIBLE version of Toy Story Midway Mania, which is located in the park's 1920s-New-York-City themed land. Obviously the park today is not what you'd call "regal" or anything. It's basically a collection of flat rides, carnie vendors, chain link fence, and New Yorkers all jumbled together. The coasters have big flashing signs that really are purely to draw you in and convince you to ride them, because this is a pay-per-ride park where weak performers don't make enough money to justify their operation. Remaining from the old days (1927, in fact) is the Cyclone coaster (POV video), designed by Vernon Keenan and built by Harry C. Baker (means nothing to me, but maybe it will to someone here!). I was speechless at how smooth and wonderful this incredible coaster is. Ultra-padded seats on plywood trains, manual brakes. It's got it all. The Cyclone was 9 Credits, or $9.00. I took pictures, but who's got the time to upload them when they're just mediocre? I'll use some RCDB photos instead, all with copyrights and source URLs. Ask if you can't find the source. (Check out the girl in the front... ahah!) The rest of the park's coasters are Zamperla models. Thunderbolt was the new addition just this year. 125 feet, vertical lift and drop, three inversions. It's a pretty simple out-and-back layout, but with a few neat features. The coolest part to me was a relatively simple move: the "turnaround" part of the coaster is like, 3/4 of a corkscrew that turns into a slanted helix. Check it out in the POV video. It does knock you around but... it's Zamperla. Speaking of which... Soarin' Eagle is a Zamperla Volare, aka one of their notoriously uncomfortable flying coasters. Honestly, I didn't think it was bad. It was definitely a favorite among Luna Park's rides. Is it janky looking? Yes. Is its loading procedure odd and uncomfortable? Does it jerk you around? Sure. But it was fun. It's odd to have to climb a ladder into a moving train car and feel stretchy seat belts lower across your back. Given the option of slowly climbing a lift hill face-down like B&M's or the quick spiral lift, I'd take the latter. To be fair, a recent TPR trip report of Luna Park says this Volare is much smoother than most. It's the only one I've ever been on, so I can't say. But it wasn't bad. By the way, it's relocated from Elitch Gardens where it was simply called The Flying Coaster. (POV video) The park also has a spinning wild mouse called The Tickler and a Circus Coaster for the kids (along with many flat rides), but the only other coaster I rode was Steeplechase, a Zampera Motocoaster (and my second after Knott's Pony Express). There was something so great about this ride, and it was definitely the surprise of the park for me. Pony Express is alright I guess, but if you think Backlot Stunt Coaster is disappointingly short and anticlimactic, try Pony Express -- oh, that's right, some of you can't because glasses. Sorry! Honestly, Steeplechase probably isn't much longer (aaaannnnddd RCDB shows it's 100 feet shorter, actually) but it's a nice, classic experience. The ride looks like an old white coaster, and it's lit so well at night, and it just feels great. The first launch is surprisingly intense and wraps around to the top of the coaster. From there, it's a bit like Volcano (which is probably the weirdest comparison ever made between coasters but what I mean is) because it's smooth, quick, and steady, sort of slaloming and twisting in a very predictable and rhythmic way. See the awesome launch? The coaster looks beautiful and it's just so classic and wonderful. I enjoyed it tremendously. A great throwback to the rides of yesteryear, and a thrilling family ride. It's actually a flywheel launch, too, which is sort of cool to see it on a small scale. (POV video... Compare it to Pony Express' POV video. Pony Express just lacks action. It's a coaster for the sake of being a coaster. Steeplechase has personality and looks beautiful. It feels like a complete ride, even if it's 100 feet shorter.) I guess thematically Steeplechase may be a little to early for Coney Mall, but who really cares? I'd have this ride installed there immediately if I were behind the decision-making at Kings Island. It has a gimmick, family statistics, and a wonderful classic look that fits the Kentucky Derby style. It would look beautiful lit up at night along Coney Mall. Wow. So if you're in the New York area and have an afternoon to kill, four train lines dead end at Coney Island. It's about a 30 minute subway ride from Manhattan, so $2.50. For $40, you get 46 credits which is enough to ride all the major coasters and then some. It's not the reverent and beautiful and historic place it once was. It's a local spot with that Jersey Shore attitude and it's heavily patrolled by security come nightfall... But altogether, it's a nice aside and a cool place to visit with some great coasters. The town owes Zampera quite a debt for taking over and straightening the park out. Also, I should mention. Though it's not part of Luna Park (and thus you need to buy tickets separately from Deno's Wonder Wheel Park), the historic Wonder Wheel at Coney Island is a beaut. The ride with its sliding gondolas served as inspiration for Disney California Adventure's Fun Wheel, which sits on Paradise Bay instead of the Atlantic Ocean. Deno's also has a few haunted house dark rides ($6 each) which looked pretty historic, so if you're a dark ride person, you could have a blast.

Please guys, this isn't a 8 ball thread, this isn't a future trip planning thread. Current wait times for rides at Kings Island only.

I seem to have misplaced my magic 8 ball..sorry

I'm a teen as well. I remember when bad language and carelessness wasn't so much of a problem because I never heard it or noticed it. Now, it happens way too much. (in my opinion)

I'm a teen also but I hate when teens are careless, on opening day I was standing in line for Diamondback and a teen just through a water bottle in the landscaping.

It seems like everyone liked SOB, Backwards Racer, TRTR and King Cobra. I wish I was big enough to ride them when they were at the park.

1. Beast - I know, people think it's not as great as advertised because it's not a giga or hyper coaster or whatever. It was the first large rollercoaster I ever rode, and I just love the ruthless aggression it has at the beginning and the end. 2. Diamondback - Just had my first ride on this ride this year and will say I absolutely love it, what an awesome ride. 3. Banshee - Excellent ride, nice smooth ride and fast load times. Oh, and it goes upside down, a lot. 4. King Cobra - My first ever ride to go upside down on, and of course the source of my avatar. Delirium is a great ride, but I wish King Cobra was still there. 5. Vortex - The first time I rode this, did not feel good at all after getting off of it and had to go home (probably didn't help I just ate pizza beforehand). A few years later I tried it again, and now it's one of my favorites. 6. Son of Beast - I remember the build up to this ride being built. I thought the ride was really rough, but I was also a teenager during it's heyday so that never bothered me. 7. Racer - Oh how I miss the backwards Racer. I didn't get to ride the backwards Racer until I got older and my cousin got me to ride it, my mom refused to ride on the backwards side. 8. Flight of Fear - One of the best queue lines in the business, it's been over 5 years since I rode it for various reasons, but none of those reasons have anything to do with the joyfulness of riding the ride. Being so dark and so disorienting it's an extremely fun ride. 9. Adventure Express - I know, not the most extreme ride at Kings Island, but there is a lot of sentimental joy I get out of this ride. The queue line used to have a spiel about no explosives being allowed on the ride and my dad used to always crack jokes about that which I still remember to this day. And then I remember going to Kings Island on Senior Night in high school and constantly riding this with one of my best friends. And who doesn't get excited about seeing the high council at the end of the ride with the most anti-climatic ending ever? 10. Tomb Raider - Only flat I included on this list, for good reason. The ride did not feel like a classic flat ride and the theme that with the ride was just amazing. i remember riding this ride after Paramount left and they were in that awkward transition from Paramount to Cedar Fair and the ride lost all of it's theme and it just took all the enjoyment out of the ride.

**Moved to Trip Reports Cool TR! I was at the park today too. It definitely felt more busy than it was. The ride lines weren't bad at all.

I looked it up and it seems like this statue has traveled the world, sometimes with little decorations, sometimes without. I wonder if it's all #Jonathan? I went to KI today and as I left I made sure to say goodbye, considering I probably won't see him again ...

More like the boring water ride envelope if you ask me.

1) The Beast 2) Banshee 3) Flight of Fear 4) Firehawk 5) Diamondback 6) Invertigo 7) Backlot Stunt Coaster 8) Vortex 9) The Bat 10) The Racer I wish KI had better flats

I just came across the fact that "Dumpster" was a registered trademark yesterday. I remember thinking, "I wonder if Terpy knows that." Apparently he does.

Don't forget those who emit odiferous gases. Even worse are those who purposely do so for their own bizarre amusement. Really?

^Buzz bars, no head rests, no seat dividers, comfy seats and skid brakes... those were the days!

I have determined that the reputation surrounding Beast being a great coaster comes from those who were able to enjoy it back in the 70's. Not because the ride has drastically changed over the years, but because it was so different compared to most coasters back then. Beast may not enthrall today's enthusiasts because they have no choice but to compare Beast to today's coasters that have a HUGE technical advantage; but as a six year old back in 1979 there is nothing, and there will never be anything, like it.

^ and from hearing peoples' conversations in line on Saturday, many of the people in that park do not realize it's not the same drop ride.

Which is why it's confusing KK put a drop ride in after theirs did such a thing

Teenage boys who flip off the ride cameras. Just rode behind one on Diamondback who didn't know where the cams were so just rode with his middle fingers up the whole time. Wow. You're such a rebel. Nobody else has EVER thought to do that before. Yawn.

I have way more fun "just hanging out" rather than riding particular rides or whatever. Some of my best memories are, and always will be, spending time with friends and family at KI. Those are irreplaceable. To me, Kings Island isn't just a park or a place... it's like home. I've dedicated most of my adult life to that place and I don't say that with regret. I have a degree in marketing, but I can tell you that I learned far more from the park than I did any text book. That worked, what didn't? Why did they do that? Why did that program expand, or why didn't it come back? To me, that sort of thing is far more interesting than what new ride is coming the following year. Checking the promotions page on KI's web site is as exciting to me as actually visiting. I am fortunate to call home to a park where they see the value in adding more and more reasons to visit constantly. I really don't care to see The Avengers in July, but I'm excited to see how it's promoted and ultimately how it pans out.

^Lol, stand up.

I'm glad to hear you liked Paramount Parks. Terp, who just HAD to (and did, at several levels).

I do not know what ever happened to him. He was a Covington, KY resident, and was responsible for the redesigning of the Land of Oz. According to the "Cincinnati`s Coney Island" book by Charles J. Jacques, Jr., Gary Wachs discovered him decorating a window for Pogue`s department store. He was also responsible for the design of the Haunted House that opened in 1968, and the 1969 restoration of the Grand Carousel. I do not know where he went (or if he transferred to Kings Island) when it opened in 1972. One interesting fact, although not directly related to Mr. Harsley, is that Darrel Daniels designed many of the buildings at Coney in the 1960s. He designed several of the original buildings at Kings Island as well. He went to my alma mater, UC and studied architecture there.