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@BoddaH1994, I do not know you personally, but coming from someone who is a casual fan of Kings Island and rollercoasters, all of your posts as of late seem to have one purpose: to go at the park and constantly say negative things about their PR or operations. ON this site, we often voice our frustrations to certain users who always come to the parks aide (even when times they shouldnt), I see no difference with what you are doing here. I see your posts as forcing a narrative on the people on this website to try to prove a point. That being said, you have every right to voice your own opinions, but at some point, it does come off as beating a dead horse. I do not know what your end goals are here. It seems that you are much more upset about this than anyone else (including Don). I mean no ill will towards you at all, I just wanted to voice how your posts over the past few months have brought quite the negative outlook on the park.

I think you’re being a little extreme here. We all miss Don Helbig, and it is sad that he is gone. However, why would the Kings Island employees setting up the gravestones intentionally do something like this? And why are you creating the narrative that Kings Island hates its fans? It’s not “them” against us. You kind of sound like Alex Jones saying that.

This article, from a couple of weeks back, really hits hard and explains much of the turmoil at Disney. It is worth noting Cedar Fair announced Matt Ouimet's departure from the FUN Board five days prior to the CNBC story breaking. A departure I predicted, at the time, may be related to management issues brewing at the Magic Kingdom. While this article is a rather long read, clocking in at about 12,000 words, it has more plot twists, excitement, and villains than most recent "block buster" Disney film releases. Read. Think Ouimet. Tragic, or magic? https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/disney-succession-mess-iger-chapek.html

So I guess the question is, what happens to it after a certain someone at KI reads this thread? Will it be touched up out of respect? Will it be removed? Will nothing change?

I actually like this a lot! If I get the free time I might do up some renderings

It will. Voyage has everything you want in a woodie.

Yeah that's my prediction too unfortunately. I'm not a waterpark person so SC additions might as well be a nothing year for me. I mean at least the water park fans are happy. I'd much prefer to see a new gen vekoma or new dark ride (either boo blaster re-do or crypt building) in 2025.

You have to remember that the Golden Tickets are voted on by people who typically have very extreme biases. I know/know of several who have very very strong tendencies to vote a certain wooden coaster off of one night a year instead of the whole year in aggregate. If you can look at me dead in the eyes and say that Guardians is a superior coaster to Diamondback, which I rank well above Orion by the way, you have to be daft. Point is that I personally see these awards as a glorified ACE poll that is skewed as not everyone is going to make it out to every park. I take every poll with a grain of salt, everyone has their own views, but when you have The Beast at 6 and Ghostrider at 9 I question if Knotts were to do a coaster event if their rankings would rise.