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I believe that Buckeye Brad hit the nail on the head. That is the now defunct Diamond Falls at sister park Kings Dominion.

Well, to be honest, the "Coney Has it" song has been around since about 2005 or 2006 (shortly after the Scream Machine was introduced in 2005). So the jingle has been around for a while. And in case anyone is wondering what we are talking about, check out this abbreviated version (which does not list things like "We`ve got the Scream Machine and the bumper cars, the Pipeline plunge, there`s so much to see and do, yeah, yeah, yeah"

Yep. He has some pretty crazy pictures! Hopefully, flooding doesn`t happen again this year. I was down at Coney late in the evening last year right before Easter moving stuff to higher ground. The flooding also caused the cancellation of the Appalachian Festival, which will be going on this year. Nice pictures, Kevin!

I saw those skyride pictures last night. Pretty impressive. Also kind of scary the way they evacuated some of those cars! THose construction pictures are awesome as well, with many that I had never seen before! Definitely worth checking out!

I was at a hard hat construction meeting last week for one of the projects I`ve been working on here at the office, but the project site was in Ripley, OH, not at Kings Island. Right now, I`d imagine there isn`t that much to see at KI in terms of construction. I`m not even sure if they have begun to form the new wave pool concrete yet.

Nope. They were two entirely separate venues. The big grassy area where the stars are for Starlight Spectacular (and abour there the transfer track for Diamondback sits), is where the Saltwater Circus building used to reside.

While there may be enough hotel capacity around the parks, some parks do not have on property hotels. Wasn`t the point of having on property hotels mentioned as a way to entice visitors to stay longer? I know they mentioned having more night time events as a way to extend the length of stay and in turn boost the amount of in park spending that families would do in the parks.

As with anything, they are going to tweak it and adjust it in order to make things work better. I think Ouimet gets it and realizes that Fast Lane is a way to offer a preferred system (while also bringing in additional revenue), but in a way that should not detrimentaly impact the guest experience.

Definitely seems like Cedar Fair is on the right track under Ouimet. Nice to see an emphasis on the resorts. I wonder how long before we see some new hotels springing up in parks that currently do not have an on site hotel? Also nice to see the transparency that has been created.

While it is basic, it is amazing how much you are able to do with the basic software. As Interpreter said, it would have costs thousands of dollars to do that decades ago. Just think, that editing a video like that even fifteen years ago would have required expensive software, and hours upon hours of editing, and even then, would likely not have yielded such a high quality video as what we have here!

What video editing software did you use to make that? It is a really nice video! Great job!

Gary, I had not known that KI discontinued the practice of only one lap on the lazy river a few seasons back. The last time I went to KI`s water park to swim, was the season pass preview weekend for Boomerang Bay, back in 2004! I definitely will be hitting it up this year though!

I wouldn`t look much into the fence around the water park. Kings Island has said that Soak City would be included free with park admission this year. It also looks like the entrance to the "action river" will be on that new pathway connecting back from Snowy River Rampage. It will be interesting to see if they continue the practice of making everyone in the action river only get one lap before having to exit. Also, a nice little tidbit I found on the new website, is they have the list of KI Hall of Fame inductees. Check it out here: http://www.visitkingsisland.com/online-fun/ki-hall-of-fame

I`d have to say, given the fact that they have been tested at Holiday World, and given the amount of work being done to Voyage, they will eventually run. After all, the Timberliners have run on two separate coasters this past season.

For those of you who hit the report button over the last several days, thank you! I believe I have quelched all the spammers` posts, topics and suspended the offending accounts. On the behalf of myself and the rest of the KIC staff, I do apologize for the large amount of spam over this past weekend. Again, if you see a post that is spam, simply hit the report button and do NOT reply to it, as it makes cleaning up the forums more challenging.

Those stars are just part of Snoopy`s Starlight Spectacular. They have nothing to do with the 40th anniversary. If past is any indication, the park won`t do much to celebrate. I don`t believe that they did anything special in 2007 for the parks 35th anniversary.

I believe the webcam is mounted on the Coolangatta Racer slide tower. I`m not sure what the new name of it will be once Soak City opens in May.

Does the track configuration look like Diamondback track? Aka, B&M track. Remember that Clermont Steel (located in Batavia) makes all B&M track.

Not to mention that some of those injury settlement costs likely were paid out by the insurance company, not the park itself.

PKIVortex, you are correct, that the yellow paint on the front and rear cars didn`t show up until sometime in July. And remember, that until around July, once the ride reopened in mid-May it ran with only one train for quite some time.

Hmmm. It does not seem to be working for me right now either.

Thanks for sharing, John! I remember being at that Friday evening opening and was among the first handfuls of trains that left the station that night. Its hard to believe that was twelve years ago already!

Coney will not be getting anything new of any significance in 2012. However, the former Pipeline Plunge will be getting some TLC, after not operating in 2011. It will be renamed, and instead of using inner tubes to slide down, riders will slide down head first on mats, similar to the racing slide at Kings Island`s water park. Hopefully, bigger things will come to Coney in 2013!

And technically, the B&M track plant is not in Cincinnati, but in Batavia. And for the record, the manufacturer is Clermont Steel Fabricators. It certainly looks like Leviathon track. Any clue how close they are to wrapping up constructing the physical ride up there?

Gotcha. Although, I`d argue that anymore, the four flagship parks are Cedar Point, Knott`s Berry Farm, Canada`s Wonderland, and Kings Island, in no particular order. This fact is based on past conference calls, and the fact that all four of those parks were the first ones to get WindSeekers.