King Ding Dong

Why would they ever spend the money to do such a thing?

^ I really appreciate this and hope others do as well. Not as dig against the park as it seems to be an industry practice, but so we can plan accordingly for all our convoluted dietary needs.

It's great that there is another (sort of) picky kid friendly option in the park. Ryan likes grilled cheese as long as it isn't to fancy, not sure about the Mac and Cheese. If it isn't wheels I don't have much luck.

I suspect your problem is most on KIC with passes have platinum and not gold so it won't help us.

Fortunately we will never know if they would have taken advantage of a convienently placed 6'x8'x20' IED multiplier for the bargain sum of $15 if it had been available to them.

Wouldn't a IED be more effective placed in a big cube made out of thin sheet metal to create more shrapnel?

All this locker and cup talk has me pondering the design of a secure backpack that one could secure to any iron fence or post in the park with a bicycle cable and padlock.

^ True but I am not walking to the front gate much less the preferred lot for a beverage.

Activating, deactivating, alarms, shaming, individual bar codes. Expensive, time consuming, labor intensive, CF IT Dept. not up to the task of getting it right. (Terp can speak to that) KISS Keep it Simple Stupid. The Season Dinning Plan works (mostly). Just add the free refill option (just like FunPix is now) and let everyone fill up whatever they hell they want with their SP or Daily Wristband. Souviner cup, Nalgene bottle, paper cup, silicone cup, brassiere, manssiere, baseball cap whatever. Problem solved. Problem is decreased locker sales and no repeat purchases = less revenue = not going to happen. I am NOT saying in any way CF has or would ever do this but if they followed the 19th Rule of Aquisition they would hire people to steal cups.

^ Should we start a "What color is the cup going to be?" decoding thread. /s I think the best solution would be to sell the cups for slightly above cost and have the refill pass tied to your physical pass to decouple the value from the cup. If the cup gets stolen you are only out $5 or so. Of course this solution does not ehnahnce park revenue with locker rentals and $30 cups.

If I do stash my cup in the bushes or somewhere like that I take the lid off and stuff it in a cargo short pocket. Makes the cup less valuable. Another thing you can do is wrap it six or seven times around with duct tape, we do this with water bottles in scouts. Makes it easy to write your name on it, it looks kind of weird and undesirable, and you always have a supply of ever so handy duct tape! A scummy mcscumscum theif would likely go for an easier target like the half a dozen "take me, I'm free" cups I see sitting on top of the lockers frequently. I have only had one stolen once at a waterpark. Didn't get to bent out of shape about it, becuase buying an extra one every couple of seasons is a lot cheaper than hassling with lockers constantly.

"The new Orca Encounter will be based on killer whale behavior in the wild: what they eat, how they hunt, how they navigate" Ok, I have seen Discovery Channel shows on killer whale behavior in the wild. They eat things like baby seals and they hunt in packs, exhausting their prey and instigating a slow painful death. I doubt this is what the GP wants to take their 5 year old daughter on vacation to witness. Then again, mass murder is common in the first five minutes of popular Disney movies and the kids seem to eat it up, what do I know?

Seriously? One coaster makes a very, very minimal impact on my decision on the total package experience a park(s) offer me. CP could replace MS with a dancing dog or mouse show and it would not impact my decision to renew or not.

Nope, nope, nope. Oxycodone followed up by the first available surgical appointment. Edit: I suppose this could make for a good NC-17 Haunt attraction Let's just say when I had mine I experienced what the doctors called "referred pain". It felt like my left testicle was in a vice. When animals are in extreme pain they are very dangerous.

Boy Scout camping tonight instead. Woooooooooooo!!!!!! Maybe next weekend.

Interesting that bleach does not kill it and requires hydrogen peroxide. Did not know that. I don't think HP is commonly used in pools so that seems to explain why it became such a problem. My wife also told me it is an out door pool issue and not an indoor one, though I am not sure why.

I have not renewed yet, but here are my observations. All the pass photos were gone and the passes only showed a couple of visits. So I deleted and added back the passes. Now the photos showed up and the visit count for KI is up to six. Not sure how accurate that is but probably close as there were one or two SC only visits and I have not kept a mental note or notched my bedpost. So I suspect renewing your pass restarted the counter. CF IT at their finest.

I think there is an issue with "cleaning thread parties" without pay.

^ Most likely the stabilizer arm on the other side of the crane.

What is interesting the past few times I have been to CP, including last Friday, they have just waved everyone through when you hold up your platinum pass.

Was there a large difference in admission/season pass pricing structure when CF took over?

My predictions 1. More trees and shade 2. Better quality food. 3. Cheaper prices 4. Larger courtesy cups 5. Souviner cup holders installed on all coasters 6. RMC everywhere. 7. A giga in every park 8. Expanded on ride photos 9. Trams in parking lots 10. Courtesy sunscreen and beverages. 11. Appropriate music for each themed area 12. Restrooms in X Base Nah.

Or this guy

This looks totally up Ryan's alley. He loves archeology type stuff, now just trying to figure out how we find the time to make a family pass worth it and go a few times before the end of the year. Anyone 30 or under want to get adopted into my family, thinking about buying the Family Premium Membership.

Wouldn't that just drive everybody nuts if the whole off season the peninsula is crawling with RMC crews but no announcement about Frontier Town?