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That is an interesting opinion. After I read the article, I took it to mean that they would focus less on the superlatives, and more on fun exctiing rides, such as what IJST has turned out to be. IJST apparantly cost more than $10 million. But, that is still less than the $17 million they approximately spent on Son of Beast, but look how that ride turned out. I think that PKI will expand some in years to come, because new rides do bring in more people. But there will also be more removing of older less popular ride and replacement with new rides, which will help keep people coming back. The one thing the article didn`t mention which you did Captain Picard, is the Speedlane tickets. While they have started spreadin them out, so people stay longer, it also allows the passholders to spend less time in line for the rides. In turn, they can spend more time in the shops and the restaurants.

Well, I think that some sort of Nick oriented car ride is on its way. Why else would PKI still be holding onto the Antique Cars? They are currently parked over next to Delirium, on the old queue line pad for King Cobra.

Most of the recent additions at PKI are not wastes of space. IJST is a very fun family coaster, and has theming that is uncommon for seasonal theme parks. While the theming is no where near Disney or Universal, it is nice to see a ride with this amount of theming. IMO, all the rides the park has added since 2003 have been winners, and seem to be really popular with the GP.

It wouldn`t cost that much to make a racing Face Off? Unless I am missing something to make Face Off a racing coaster, they would have had to buy another coaster, effectively doubling the cost. And Face Off cost about $10 million (Drop Zone also cost around that much if I remember correctly.) Personally, I would much rather they bought Drop Zone (like they did) then invest it in another Face Off just for the sake of capacity.

I have to go with The Beast with the ACE walkback. Nothing like grabbing an early ride on The Beast. I have a gold pass, so I can grab an IJST Speed lane ticket before the ACE walkback, and normally walk on with the ticket before 10:45.

LOL, that was pretty good ZosoBeast! It will open when it is ready to be opened. I`m sure the park is ready to have it opened, to increase the overall park capacity, and to allow people to ride one of the more popular flats in the park. I`m sure that they are doing everything possible to open it as quickly as they can.

There really is not a lot of room behind Atom Ant Airways. Right on the other side of the fence is the path that goes in front of Reptar. Now there is a lot of space over by the Slime Maze and Nick Theater that could be used for future ride(s). I think whatever happens next year, that there will be more than one area that will receive some attention, and I am not refering to just HB and NC.

Shman, did you read my above post? That was one of the main points of my post. Several of those ride names could fit quite well with existing HBL attractions. Albeit, they will need more names than just those llisted to cover all the existing HBL attractions sans Scooby Doo and the Haunted Castle.

I know that PKI`s Skyflyer has been running deals for most of this year, and I believe last year, for flights at $10 a person. Also, Slingshot has been having specials, on some days, for Flights of $15 or $20, which is still a lot, but better than $25 a person.

I noticed one strange thing over on Screamscape with regards to those names for Nick Central rides. From Scream Scape: "Tommy’s Take Off, Dora’s Railway, Backyardigans Swing-A-Long, Hey Arnold Taxi Chase, Lazytown Sporticopters, NickToons TV Road Trip" Tommy`s Take Off, could very well be the new name for Dick Dastardly`s BiPlanes or Atom Ant Airways or even Yogi`s Sky Tours. Dora`s Railway could be the new name for Quick Draw`s Railway or Baba Looey`s Buggies. Backyardigans Swing-A-Long would be the new logical name for Pixie and Dixie`s Swing set. Hey Arnold Taxi Chase would be the new name for Top Cat`s Taxi Jam. Lazytown Sporticopters could be the new name for Jetson`s Jet Orbiters. The last name, NickToon`s TV Road Trip could be the new name for Fender Bender 500, or Huck`s Hot Rods. Or it could be the name of the new, relocated Antique Cars. Clearly, some of those names would fit nicely with some of the current HB rides. Hopefully, too many rides in HB are not sacrificed. It would be ashame for PKI to rip out rides from this area, espcially if they are hoping to retain their golden Ticket award. I can see them removing the Nick Theater as it has been used less and less over the past couple of years, and the Crystal Slime Mine Maze just doesn`t seem like a very popular attraction for the dry side of the park. It would be better suited in BB. That could be a nice area for future rides, and would help bridge the gap between the newer Nick Central area of Reptar with the older section of HBL.

Yes, the Round Up at Coney is one of those stand up rides. It "seats" 42 people at a time, and is a real capacity eater. The new Round Up ride that Holiday World installed this year, is smaller than Coney`s, seating only 33 people I believe. I have never ridden the one at Coney, but plan on doing so in July when I return to Coney as a guest at my dad`s company picnic there. It will be strange being there as a guest and not an employee. Off topic, but Coney opened their new Sream Machine on Saturday. Back on topic, I was at PKI on Sunday, and it did not appear as if they were working on anything on Delirium, when I rode Drop Zone shortly after 12. In fact, everything looked unhanged from my visit on Saturday.

And I know for a fact that on the fine print on the back of the Gold Pass, it states something along the lines of: Holder assumes all risk of personal injury.

Does anyone know if PKI has selected winners for their Paramount Rewards season pass incentive program? THey made a lot of hype about this early on, but they have yet to update the winners section on the PKI website. I was wandering if anyone has heard if they have (which I would assume they have) and if they plan on posting it to the web like their site says. I just haven`t heard much talk about this program since early on.

The logo on the park map, is in fact the one that PKI uses, and is also on the PKI website here. Yes, most of us that have visited PKI do not need a park map. But there are always those tourists, that come from out of town that give PKI their money too. Then their are the once a year visitors from Cincinnati and neighboring cities. They only visit once a year, and often don`t know the park as well as most of us do. Additionally, they may not be aware of some of the changes the park has made since their last visit and the map is a way for them to become aware of these changes. One such change would be the smoking in designated areas only, although most guests still fail to recognise this new rule. PKI needs banners llike what Holiday World has. I`m sure more guests would willingly follow this rule if they knew it existed!

Yes, when I was there on Saturday, it did not look like they were anywhere near ready to even begin testing it. And as I mentioned earlier, the state might want to come in and verify everything is up to snuff and ready to go. I know after Son of Beast experience the down time after it first opened in 2000 the state came back in and inspected it. Also, after the Round Up at Coney was rebuilt in the middle of the 2003 season due to a hairline crack that developed on the main center hub, the state came back in since the ride was essentially rebuilt.

I was under the impression that with Viacom splitting into two seperate companies that things might have settled down. By splitting into two companies, they have now lumped all their fast growth properties into one company and their slow growth properties (such as Paramount Parks) into the slow growth company. Additionally, I believe that Paramount Parks will be one of the core assets in the new slow growth company, which is to be named CBS Inc. or something similar. Screamscape shed a little more light on that subject a while back. I would imagine that the licensing agreements at Paramount Parks would remain status quo after the company splits sometime next year.

I don`t get why everyone wants to retheme Flight of Fear. What is wrong with it as it is? It has a pretty good theming package, and a pretty good storyline behind it. I think that money ould better be spent on a new attraction, instead of retheming an already popular attraction that has absolutly nothing wrong with its theming, IMO.

Nice trip report italianchef. I was also at the park today. It was a little on the crowded side, but I still had an enjoyable day. I also saw the School of Rock today for the first time. I thought it was fairly well done. Far better and more entertaining than last year`s show in the Paramount Theater.

You don`t work at the park so you can`t say it will be ready in one week. I`m sure they have to do lots of testing on it to make sure everything is working right. Also, they may have to get the stat ride inspectors in to approve the ride is ready to accept riders again.

The Top Gun logo, is the same logo that PKI has always used for Top Gun. Even though it shows an inverted train going through an inversion, most people won`t notice the difference, and those that do will most likely not care.

Personally, I would like to see a documentary about the park`s history. They could maybe install some monitors in the Paramount Story and air the documentary. I still find The Beast`s documentary entertaining, and wish I could see more of the early footage of the park, construction and surrounding area. I know though, that the Paramount Story will stay the way it is, and that is perfectly fine too because it is a nice quiet oasis among all the other screams, laughs and cheers of the rest of the park. It is a perfect place to sit down with the sound of water and the Carousel and just relax for a little bit!

I didn`t even notic anything different until I came across this thread. Oh well, life will move on. And at least it occured when the site was undergoing upgrades (however minor they may be.) Keep up the great work on maintaining the site we like to call PKIC!

The cranes were still parked next to the ride today. There were also people up at the top working on stuff up there, as well as people working on something underneath the gondola. Hopefully, the park will be able to get the ride up and running soon. I`m sure they wish it was running as soon as possible.

No, there is not much on Coney on the web. I might be going back in a couple weeks as a guest (not to work there which will be odd since I spent three years working there). It all depends on how my workload for school is. I will try and take my camera and add some pictures of Coney to my website, but that won`t happen until around the end of June/start of July. Yes there is the Coney Island main website. As far as I know there are no forums directly dedicated to Coney. Coney has reduced their pricing this season since they are celebrating their 120th season. Coney is a nice small park, with a bunch of classic flats that simply can`t be found at most major theme parks these days. Don`t forget that Coney also has the "world`s largest" recirculating swimming pool.

Ring Master, you need to get your facts straight about the coaster additions. Volcano: The Blast Coaster was added to PKD in 1998, a little more than 5 years ago. Stealth is as old as Son of Beast, and is no longer located at Great America. It is now the Star Trek coaster at Carowinds. As for the Tomb Raider coaster at Wonderland, ask most coaster enthusiasts opinions, and they will probably concur that the ride was not a smart installation at the park. However, I do believe the addition of IJST to Wonderland and PKI is a step in the right direction for the return of major coasters. Although the ride is too terribly short! I`m sure more great movie inspired rides will come from Paramount, and I`m sure roller coasters will play some role in that, it just might not be as huge as rides like Son of Beast.