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@mikefehnel on Twitter : "Good morning from the top of #Fury325" Photo : Michael Fehnel / Carowinds GM via Twitter

The Fast Lane line up has been announced and available for purchase for the 2015 season. Fast Lane Plus rides for 2015 are the following: The Beast, Banshee, Flight of Fear, and Firehawk. Fast Lane rides are: Diamondback, Delirium, Drop Tower, Invertigo, The Racer, Vortex, WindSeeker, Backlot Stunt Coaster, Zepher, Monster, Adventure Express, Scrambler, Shake Rattle and Roll, Congo Falls, Viking Fury, Eiffel Tower, Dodgem, Boo Blasters on Boo Hill, Surf Dog, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, Flying Ace Aerial Chase. Fast Lane is as low as $45 and Fast Lane Plus is as low as $60. I figured The Beast would go back to Plus after how popular the Fast Lane Que was last season. Also with Flight of Fear being added back to Plus makes me wonder if the problems have been worked out and the ride will be back to using the last car on the train this year.

I just hope fluids don't shoot out of the riders at those same points!

Full story and 15 min video! Watch all the way through to see the new food options! http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/rising/wilsons-world/Going-Up-325-Feet-with-Wilson-to-Check-Out-Carowinds-Newest-Ride-295734651.html

@mikefehnel on Twitter : "I officially have a new favorite roller coaster!!! Just amazing! What a ride!" Photos : Michael Fehnel / Carowinds GM via Twitter

Fury 325 gave its first rides not to long ago (as of this post). From Carowinds' Facebook- ‪#‎Fury325‬ just gave its very first ride. Rave reviews and sore throats ensued. Link

^ All about that perceived value to the customer. The more rides included, the better it looks.

You're definitly going to feel noticeable airtime on the last three hills of this thing I just watched water shoot out of the dummies on all three spots.

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/awesome_0.jpg This a great POV picture of a random rollercoaster that I found.

Do you believe in love at first sight?? Well I didn't until I went to Kings Island for the very time... We are 38 days away from Opening Day!! Just a little over a month to go! Here's another Then and Now gif I made. https://vimeo.com/121776217

Whew! Glad they got Congo Falls on there, wouldn't want to wait in that atrocious line! /sarcasm

Flight of Fear definitely needed to be Fast Lane Plus anyway. I remember in 2013 the Fast Lane line for Flight of Fear was terribly long all the time....and that was before all the spontaneous combustion started. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It IS in China, so it might be called Random Rollercoaster. http://rcdb.com/9647.htm

I still remember riding Adventure Express during its opening season. Even before that season started, my dad got a brochure in the mail with some concept art for the ride (remember, this was long before the Internet, Facebook, and marketing as we know it today) and I thought it looked like the coolest ride ever! I still remember the concept art - it showed people in the train cars, going through a tunnel, and there was lava underneath the track lighting up the tunnel. I was about 10 years old and to me that was about the neatest thing ever! The first ride on AE was amazing and I couldn't wait to get back to the park to ride it again. I ended up going with some friends from school another weekend that season and it was a rainy Saturday and the crowds were low that day. Once the rain cleared up, we basically marathoned AE the rest of the day. It was great! I'm now 34 years old and married, but AE is still one of my favorite rides at the park. In fact, my wife and I make a point to ride it at least once every time we visit the park. On some visits, we'll take my niece, who just turned 12, and she loves AE as well. We'll all ride it together - sometimes multiple times in one visit - and have a great time! I'd like to see a little love put into Adventure Express because it's a great ride and I really don't see it going anywhere soon. Hopefully it sticks around for many more years to come!

Quick necrobump here. Once I gather the necessary funds, I will be sending the reel off for digitization. That is, after I figure out how to get it out of the projector after accidentally inserting the film backwards... And what have we here?...

I am thinking about doing this event. It sounds really interesting.

I'm glad they're not. It's a low capacity ride, it could make the regular line really long.

This is awesome! So cool to see the park from that time.

I like height, length, speed, and theming. Mainly theming because that's what really gives you that feeling that's it's more than just a roller coaster.

And an elephant is distinguished from an orca, sea lion or even dog how exactly? What about the singers at an amusement park, some of whom do six shows a day, six days a week, all summer long, sometimes for peanuts? Aren't these comparisons ones of degree and not of kind? Or not too kind? Terp, who likes to ask questions.

....What's up, Doc? Elmer Terp, who can think of SIX other FUN questions, just off the top of his head!

Thank you! The future (and the past) looks bright!

Kings Island has done a great job in regards to ride length, whether in ride time, (probably how most gauge ride "length"), or actual track length. I would say they are well above average. When I go to other parks I often think, "That's it?"

Posted about this a couple days ago in the general off-topic thread, but I thought I'd stick it up here as well. Last week I found this Super 8 film reel for a few dollars at an antique store in Newport. I'm watching it so far, and among the rides attractions visible are: Racer Giant Slide Skyride Unidentified ride involving boats with sails(?) Multiple early Hanna-Barbera Land rides ...and more I'll try to capture it and post it here once I'm done. Quite an exciting find for me.

Rumours are rumours, until I hear the FrankFort tell us anything new, it's a rumourou. German cities, have to love them.

In before the debate over the morality of Fast Lane.

Cedar Point apparently announced at the Winter Chill-Out event that platinum passholders will be able to purchase Fast Lane Plus at the Fast Lane price. I don't expect a similar discount at Kings Island, as season passholders comprise a much larger share of total attendance. As JubJester noted, Fast Lane doesn't work very well when too many people have it.

^And the park will really like taking your money!

At the end of the season when it was your last chance to use Fast Lane (which you got from renewing - for free) all the regular lines of rides were basically the same as the Fast Lane line (size). Back on the topic at hand... I really like the rides that are on the Fast Lane Plus lineup.

^ There are several members from the Columbus area, myself included. I'd be open to a carpool if others' schedules would match.

Registered and ready for some ERT!!!!

I would be incredibly sad if AE was ever taken out. It is my last memory of my friend Jess. It was summer 2002 and I heard her yell my name as we set off out of the station. We get back into the station and wait for her and her friend. The 4 of us hang out and have fun for a few hours. We talk about seeing each other during the fall of the school year. I dont remember if we did or not, Im sure we did. Next thing I know this is in the paper http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/11/06/loc_fatal06.html and I am attending her funeral. But I still remember AE the last time we hung out. I would be incredibly sad when that ride reaches its end.

Yeah, I remember reading that here a few months ago. Here's to hoping more then three bumper cars will run this year (well, I guess I'll take the current three if that means that the park is open this year.)

Actually Lake Eire Eagles was part of Fast Lane at Cedar Point last year.

I haven't heard of Fury 324. What is that and where can I find it?

I think it's hard to pick just one, it really depends on what you are going for with a coaster. If I am on a mine train rollercoaster, I am not expecting negative G's or large heights, but I do expect turns and theming. If I'm on a old wooden coaster I don't expect theming or special effects but I do expect speed and length.

^ I like how that name has become ubiquitous here, but absolutely nowhere else. At least on the public Internet as crawled by Google.

Of the listed, I've visited all but the first two alphabetically ordered (both forwards and in reverse lettering). Somehow, despite not having the most favorite Cedar Fair version of: wood coaster, steel coaster or flat ride,, Kings Island is still my vote.

I've skipped straight from the first page to here, so I'm not sure what page we are on. However, I am imagining the Seven Dwarves appearing on the sides of a certain lift hill, ridiculously joyful grins on their little cartoon faces, growling "now you will pay"...

I've grown up around Kings Island and it does indeed hold immense sentimental value to me, but I have to give my vote for favorite to the only other Cedar Fair park I have been to, Cedar Point. Even though I've only been there once, I think the primary reason I have to pick it is due to how much I enjoyed some attractions that I had known very little to nothing about before my trip. Blue Streak, Gemini, and Cedar Downs come to mind as prime examples of that point.

Indeed. And I understand that. The beauty of Banshee is not to be matched, and with that being said, I don't think I could have asked for a better addition at Kings Island than Banshee, quite frankly, I'll probably never stop applauding the park for this HUGE 2014 addition. My point was simply how awesome it would be to see / ride a B&M Giga Coaster similar to Fury 325 at Kings Island sometime in the future. Especially after watching Fury 325 testing. Anyway..... I don't know about you guys but I can't wait to go ride Fury 325! I guess, as put by Carowinds itself, you could say I have FuryFever!

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TTD is not that short. It's INCREDIBLY fast. See also Leap-The-Dips. Not fast at all. Yet perhaps the most fun I've had on any coaster. Everything is relative.

This is my feeling as well. Theming is what puts great rides over the top and can turn a mediocre or stock ride into something great. All the elements are important but theming on any ride or a park in general is what gives it that special feel. EVen small amounts of theming can be a big effect as we see with Banshee. The queue and station have some theming to them but nothing over the top but even that little bit enhances the ride greatly. And jsut look at Universal and Disney. They are major worldwide destinations seeing millions upon millions of people each year but they don't have anything huge or record breaking but people flock to them for teh experience they get with all of the theming.

Pricing is subject to change without prior notice so one cannot definitively state whether or not the pricing will remain the same by the time you purchase a dining plan. Indeed, prices have already gone up since passes first went on sale last fall. I don't know what the KI plan was (probably $75-$80, now $96) but Platinum was $99 and is now $120, for an increase of 21.21%. Edit: It looks like KI's plan was $81 before the price increase, for an increase of 18.52%.

I have a couple questions I hope someone can answer. Is the current online price for the dining plan the same price that it would be if I were to purchase it in the park at guest services? Also, what was the price of the dining plan during the fall season pass sale?

Kings Dominion. It's the Paramount-era theming I like without the "we haven't painted/fixed/looked at the theming since we bought Paramount Parks" feeling that Carowinds had when I went last. I've been to six Cedar Fair parks: Kings Island, Cedar Point, Kings Dominion, Carowinds, Worlds of Fun, and Michigan's Adventure.

Much in the same way my opinion about a coaster can be swayed greatly by how long I have to wait in line, the closeness of Kings Island to where I live (about a half hour drive) makes it a shoo-in for my favorite park. There was a long time when Cedar Point was my favorite, but it's hard to justify the long drive and paying for lodging any more when I have such a great park so much closer. I also like that while there's a lot of coasters now at KI, it's still a pretty manageable size overall, and at a brisk walk, I can get from nearly any location to any other (of the dry side anyway) within about five minutes. With the addition of Cirque Imagine to round out a day at KI, I have very little desire to make a much longer trip anywhere else. I haven't yet made it to any of the other Cedar Fair parks, and don't have any immediate desire to do so.

Kings Island. /thread

Ive been to Cedar Point and Canadas Wonderland. Canadas Wonderland is an absolutely amazing and beautiful park, I havent been there in a while, but I used to love it. Cedar Point is an alright park too with a couple of my favorite rides such as the Gemini and the Corkscrew. Though these are both great parks, the park that is which my favorite is definitely Kings Island, every year my parents have taken me, and I ask them every year to take me there for my birthday. My parents grew up with Kings Island in the past, as with my brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins, so I guess Kings Island is like a family tradition, and when I have kids in the future, I will carry on that tradition.