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Doesn`t Son of Beast have a larger track guage, than The Beast and The Racer, making standard PTC trains not fit on its track?

Nice trip report Chef! Glad to hear you had another fun visit to the park with your son and wife!

Not that I know of. Yes, in the summer after 4pm admission was $5.95. Which if you get a hold of a Kroger Plus Card and buy the tickets in advance, equates to about the same price ($6).

Admission for adults is $9, children 12 and under are $6. You can save $3 on adult admission when you buy your tickets in advance at Kroger locations with your Kroger plus card. $9 is cheaper than the ride all day bracelet prices they had in the summer (those were priced at $9.95). They are not issuing wrist bands, but it is simply admission to the grounds, which makes the life of us operators there a lot easier! (I still remember the days when Coney had individual ride tickets along with the wristbands.) I`m hoping to work Scream Machine one day, and then the Ferris Wheel the other day. But if I had to choose, I would choose to run the Wheel.

I didn`t think the lines were that bad on Saturday. But then again, I wasn`t riding the entire time, I was taking part in tours, or back at the picnic grove for lunch. The longest line of the day was about thirty minutes for The Beast, which is not that bad. Towards the end of the night, around 11, the lines thined out in a hurry. IJST`s line was close to fifteen minutes!

I just thought I`d let anyone know who might be interested in stopping by Coney Island that this upcoming weekend is the last weekend that Coney`s classic rides will be in operation for the 2005 season. The hours are from 2-8 on both Saturday and Sunday. Coney, in conjunction with the Cincinnati Horticultural Society is hosting the Fall Flower and Farm Fest. There are plenty of activities besides the rides, with booths, dozens of scarecrows, a spooctacular show in the Lakeside Pavilion, and even candy give aways for all the little trick or treaters. (I saw quite a few kids dressed up in costumes yesterday.) If any one goes, be sure to say hi, as I will be working both days from open until close!

No, even before they redid the brakes, the first train would make it about to the first pltaform on the right. Even today after the new brakes, after it gets warmed up, the first car makes it up to and a little bit past that first platform. Morning rides are always a little sluggish on The Beast until it gets warmed up. I believe Jeff when he says it is now running faster than it has ever run!

I would be against such a system at PKI for FearFest namely because it would be unfair. I can live with the reservation tickets when they are free. It keeps people out of lines, so that they can do other stuff. If you have to pay for it, then it seperates those willing to pay with those unwilling to pay. (Not like any of the lines this past Saturday were really bad, IJST had about a fifteen minute wait around 11! and Circus of Horrors was just barely out of the Festhaus!) With the free distribution of the speedlane tickets, anyone can get them as long as they get them before the park distributes them. It saved a bunch of time on FearStreet for us on Saturday, we waited no more than 5 minutes with our passes!

No problem! When we were using our tickets for Fear Street, there were people complaining in the standby line because they were only letting people in from the speed lane and not the regular line. So, if you wish to do Fear Street, it definantly would be wise to get the speedlane ticket!

Fun House is not 3d. It is a fun little ride though. Both movies are far better than Dracula`s Castle that they had on side B last year!

The walk on tickets are available to anyone for use on the Fear Street and Headless Hollow attractions. For Fear Street, there is a standby line, but they let a majority of the people with the passes enter before the standby lane. Which means it is best to get a ticket. They are available right by the Scarmbler exit, with the ticket entrance located back behind the Scrambler drive box. For Headless Hollow, only guests with a ticket can board the train for the haunt. Tickets are available in front of the train station. Any one can get the tickets on a first come first serve basis.

But in order to get the free gold upgrades, didn`t you have to purchase the pass on or before Labor day weekend? I know that in order to obtain free parking you MUST have your pass processed by the end of park close on the last day of the regular season (the 6th of November, when the park closes at 6pm (there are no FearFest or Nick or Treat activities that weekend).

They had more of the old Phantom Theater animatronics in the line this year than they did last year. The only disappointing thing is last year they actually had a couple of them operating! This year they were all just sitting there. They were playing the Phantom Theater music in the line and theaters though.

There is a sign right in front of the train station, and all the other haunts for that matter. It says something to the effect of Warning: Artificial fog and special lighting effects are used on this attraction. Also, it warns that kids under 12 should not partake in the haunts. I saw numerous small kids in the 5-8 range (or younger) walking through CornSTALKERS crying with fright from the scaracters.

Well when I went through Cornstalkers, the actors were jumping out at people and us, and following people. In parts of CornStalkers, the fog was also extremly thick, and you had to stop and wait for the fog to clear to make sure the people who were ahead of you had moved on and also weren`t still standing there. Yes, the bridge on Headless Hollow was pretty disorienting as well with the fog.

The one problem I had with Headless Hollow, was that there were long dead spots, where it seemed there should have been scaracters. It was as if they didn`t have enough scaracters working the haunt. Not to mention that the ending was very anti-climatic and not very scary. Cornstalkers was realyl good, especially with the amount of fog they had, you would become disoriented just with the fog, not to mention the scaracters in there.

Yeah, I hope to hang out with you again sometime at PKI. Yes, the day went by extremly fast, especially since we were there for almost 15 hours!

I got to the park at 9am, and registered. At 9:15, Jeff Siebert walked us back to the Carousel to regroup. He informed us that Son of Beast will be down for the rest of the season as they start its offseason rehab early (they have less time with Winterfest). Also, the Royal Fountain has been drained in preparation for it to become an ice skating rink at Winterfest. After the brief talk at the Carousel, we proceeded to Flight of Fear at 9:30. In half an hour, I managed to get in 8 rides, seven of which the lights were on. After that, the park was open and I grabbed a couple quick rides. Delirium was down all day today! At 11:30, it was time for our lights on tour of Maze of Madness. Even with the lights on, it was disorienting. Then they turned the lights out and let us go back throough it with the effects on. Still very confusing. Especially since the actors can move sections of the maze with movable gates! Then it was on to Psycho Path, followed by more rides. In the Grove I met up with Ryan (Boddah1994), Bill (ZosoBeast), and Dane. At 5, we got the typical behind the scenes Beast tour, but this was a first for me. Very neat seeing The Beast from those vantage points. We did the haunts that were included with our EHT. Headless Hollow was cool, but there were many dead spots that could have benefited from some more scaracters. Dane left around 10:30. We rode The Vortex right before midnight, and saw Adam (Klockster) working. Adam even took The Vortex for a test ride with us. Then it was on to The Beast ERT, with 4 night rides on The Beast. A long, but fun day at the park. It was nice hanging out with the PKIC gang. Even if some of them snuck off to go on a train tour, LOL!

Yes, the fog was amazing. It was especially thick in the cornstalkers path, where at time you could not see more than a few feet in front of you! Also, in one of the better points of Headless Hollow, they had the bridge (over the WWC trough) covered in fog, so that you could not see more than a foot in front of you, which was disorienting. Unfortunatly, the fog drifted out into the parking lot and 71, and not back towards The Beast!

PKIC is more reliable than the server at my work, and it is a brand new server! Its either internet, or email or the Cadd hardrive going down. It`s almost as bad as the server at school, which used to crash almost every day for hours at a time, in the middle of professors giving lectures. Then Apple came in and fixed it, for the time being anyway.

Don`t forget, Beast Bash is tomorrow! Registration begins at 9am. Lights on Flight of Fear ERT begins at 9:30 (walk back to FoF around 9:15). I got an email from Russ today, and the lunch is now included for people (like me) who are registering at the park tomorrow. $20 for people with a Paramount Park season pass and an ACE membership. I will be there at 9am!

Yes, I believe the site was down. I could not get on when I got home from work at 5:45, the site wouldn`t load, and Safari would return an error message saying the server could not be reached. It was just a temporary glitch, and everything is fine and running smoothly now!

The building is still there, and it is located next to the bathrooms by The Vortex exit. It was used for the Lazer Tag attraction until this season. The new squirt racing game that they put in sits in front of what used to be the queue and entrance to the Cinema 180.

But does this mean that this is their sole new attraction for the 2006 season?

I wonder if Skyline will be there permanantly now, or if it is just temporary through Winterfest. I remember hearing that they would have a Skyline open on International Street for Winterfest. It seems odd that it would be permanent since they already have the one in Coney Mall, and then they have the footlong express and Coney Skyline stand by the White Water Canyon entrance and exits. Great pictures!