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For me, September weekends at KI are magical. The days are warm and the evenings tepid. The cool air in your face makes a night ride on The Beast just that more exhilarating. At closing time, your walk home in the dusk along the little Europe of International Street and past the synchronized displays of the Royal Fountains reminds you that KI is not just a destination for thill seekers, but more about the cumulation of individual experiences you enjoy during your day at the park.

Goodnews, Halloween Haunt makes an already awesome KI even better. Hopefully, KI security and local law enforcement can control thugs who choose to misbehave.

This is really exciting! I am excited to see what a GCI ground-up hybrid coaster looks like with the new trains. They look better than RMC trains in my opinion. It is even more exciting that this new rollercoaster is going to a Cedar Fair park. It gives me hope that Kings Island will see a new ground-up hybrid coaster someday. With Worlds of Fun having both an out and back GCI in Prowler and a new Titan Track Hybrid, I don’t see why Kings Island couldn’t also get a hybrid coaster with Mystic Timbers already in their lineup.

i agree

It’s the kid body slide complex. It’s like Lakeside Landing at Cedar Point.

Has anyone seen the slide complex open this year?

Why not go all out and make it a true Virginia Reel?

Clair Hain Jr. of GCI confirmed the purchase of two Infinity Flyer trains and Titan Track for a ride opening in Spring 2023. Dan Peak of Skyline Attractions is listed as the engineer on the permits for Project 50.

Bring back hot blooded.

Surprised there isn't a thread up about 3 Doors Down/Skillet. I didn't go to the concert yesterday (3DD) as I was working, but the last hour of the day (9-10) or so I was on the tower platform and I got a good look and it looked like it was a pretty good crowd at Timberwolf. Not too surprising as 3 Doors Down is likely the most well known band on the lineup along with Skillet. Idk how the concert went overall and how tonight is going so far. From all the things I saw and heard yesterday it looks like the issues that plagued the first concert have pretty much been resolved. For those who went or are there tonight, how is the concert going? Hopefully, we see these again next year and maybe the return of Spirit Song (as I like the whole 3 days of a full lineup of Christian bands). Maybe have a Kids Night with some well known artists who are big around young kids/preteens (ie JoJo Siwa and/or various Nickelodeon/YouTube/TikTok stars).

Wonderful description! As Barry Williams says...."Kings Island is YOU!" I've come to appreciate that concept this season.

I would love to see them redesign the entrance and exit in and out of the park. I feel like I am playing real life Frogger entering the park and avoid not getting ran into by people crossing over from the exit. Wish they would either switch the exit to the guest relations side with a short fence directing people out into the parking area or have two exits out of the park on the perimeters. Keep the current one by International Restaurant and the other by Guest Relations with a small fence to guide people away from the center where the metal detectors are where people coming into the park are. Would need to work around the ticket booths and season pass somehow but sure they could find a way that works better.

When I was there on a week day it wasn’t playing. Maybe they had problems that day.

in all fairness, haunt needs to disappear for a while until crowds can conduct themselves better during this time. that's one of the many reasons why i left.

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2022/july/kings-island-blog-reaches-milestone-1000-blogs-published Congrats to Don and his team. He clearly oversees the finest blog in the industry!

Congratulations to Don and KI! They are always fun to read! On to 2,000!

https://www.thenortherner.com/arts-and-life/2022/07/22/kings-island-dancer-embraces-her-passion/ Never forget all the hard work these talented people put into the amazing live shows!

not to mention they would call off the experimental thursday due to weather then fridays would be worse and NOT call off those days... ...fun times ant the FUN & ONLY... ...come on, get happy...

Gonna be real tired on mondays.

I'm 6ft and 265lb and I can ride everything. The FOF and DropTower can be tight but my son-in-law who is 5'9" and 300lb was able to fit into FOF . . but it was a very tight fit. My biggest issue are the orange bars on The Beast and Racer. I have no problem getting the two clicks but those orange bars are painful. I wish just one car in those two rides could have the old cross bar restraint for larger riders only.

There are also a few coasters that have rows that allow for a little more room. I know Banshee at least does (believe it is row 4, can ask an attendant) as we have utilized that when going with a friend before.

I wasn't there for the actual show but was there earlier in the day around noon and they were testing and trying to stress the system. I didn't notice any cut outs so I'm assuming they remedied the problem. I haven't heard anything negative about the sound so hopefully that and the other issues were remedied. Of course the more people they have the more they will have to push the system (bodies absorb sound). I'm guessing 3 Doors Down or Daryl Hall may be the only two that get close to selling out and will test the system a bit more.

Didn’t the other parks in the chain get rid of theirs because of some water problem or something? If that is true, maybe KI is having the same problem.