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Joncars05, it is not about making a quick buck off of people putting stuff in lockers. Not allowing loose articles in the station can and does increase capacity. It allows the ride operators to check restraints and not have to worry about stowing or securing loose articles. Cedar Fair has been fairly relaxed with this policy. Only Banshee and Firehawk at KI currently prohibits loose articles in the station. As Six Flags parks, most of their major coasters prohibit all loose article and require people to put any loose articles in a locker.

I went through Sharon Woods once. I wasn`t that impressed. I do agree it seems a little odd that they are charging per person, and not by car. My wife and I are planning on checking it out. I will try and post some pictures after we go through it. Not sure when we will go through it though.

Well, just because those lockers have not yet been removed does not mean that they will be removed. The asphalt on the midway right there hasn`t been removed yet either. I suspect, given the recent trend at the park, that the asphalt will be removed and replaced with either concrete or some kind of pavers in front of the station area.

Well what if the employees don`t consider their "work" days as work days? What if they have so much fun at work that they don`t consider it work? I have fun working at Coney, and look forward to going in every time I go in (especially when I get to ride a ride or two...) I didn`t make it to KI as much this year as I typically do. Pretty busy with working a full time job as well as weekends at Coney. When I wasn`t at either job, I was spending time with my expecting wife. She is due on December 22nd. We did not renew our Platinum Passes for next year, since we will likely not be traveling far on any trips with a young child. We did get Gold Passes so that we can still go to Kings Island (and can take our child to WinterFest next December).

I rode the ride once with my cousin, on a very slow Sunday in October, probably around 2002. One time was enough for me to say I had ridden it. I liked the feel of kiddie land back then. It had a lot more trees (the area by the Disk-O seems so open and sunny on those hot July and August Days). And they still had the kiddie tumble bug and the hand cars, which I had a blast riding when I was a kid.

Six Flags was citing weather issues for a slow start to the third quarter. I still prefer a visit to a Cedar Fair park over a visit to a Six Flags park. There is just something intangible about a Six Flags park. Maybe it is the feeling that everything seems "fake", or that their parks seem more cookie cutter than the Cedar Fair Parks. I have been to Six Flags St. Louis, Six Flags Over Georgia, Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Magic Mountain. Don`t get me wrong, I have had fun at all of those parks. There is just something that makes me prefer Cedar Fair Parks (I have been to Kings Island, Cedar Point, Kings Dominion, Carowinds, Canada`s Wonderland, Knott`s Berry Farm, and Dorney Park).

The Interpreter will not know the exact answer to that question. He can speculate on what happens, but as outsiders looking in, it is difficult to say what exactly goes on. I would say that the individual parks probably have a little more say than an individual park does in Six Flags. I see Six Flags corporate having a tighter control of things on the capital projects than what Cedar Fair does.

I think what you are seeing there are the foundations in the reservoir for White Water Canyon. It also looks as if they placed part of the chain return for the lift hill (the part where the chain returns back to the motor at the base of the lift). You can see a diagonal under where the lift crowns.

An update on this from WLWT Channel 5 in Cincinnati: http://www.wlwt.com/article/drive-thru-christmas-light-display-opens-next-week-at-coney-island/8076746

Also, if we edit a post, you will often find the "Edited by Coastersrz" in the post, with a brief summary of what was changed, and why.

On a slightly unrelated subject (but relevant since it was mentioned that Carowinds Skyflyer was moved next to Nighthawk a few posts above), I wonder if Cedar Point has plans to re-install their Skycoaster (called RipCord) somewhere in the park for the 2017 season. It was taken down from its current location in the now-defunct Challenge Park to make room for the water park expansion.

I agree. Great to have Brad on board as well! Its hard to believe that I have been a mod on here for eleven years now!

I think your guess of where the train tracks will cross under the ride is pretty close to accurate, based on what I have seen from the footings/current structure that is standing. Being an architect, I do have some insights into layout based on foundations, etc. even if I am in no way involved with said project.

It should be noted that the Coney website says "a portion of proceeds" and not "all proceeds" will be donated as you mentioned, Oldiesmann.

Well, the 2016-2017 off season is officially here... At least we will have a new roller coaster to look forward to in 2017, and the return of Winterfest!

When I rode today, my gun worked just fine. (And I was able to get to 1,200 points). When was the last TrioTech dark ride installed at a Cedar Fair park? I believe it was Voyage to the Iron Reef at Knott`s in 2015. And it looks like there are no new dark ride additions to any Cedar Fair park for next season either. There is also a reason that they made these rides interactive. It deters the guests, especially those unsupervised guests, typically, although not always, of the teenage variety, from defacing/destroying park property.

The only problem with reusing the old WWC queue is that it is on the other side of the tracks. And most of it has probably been destroyed with all the construction (it was nothing more than an asphalt path and a wooden fence). While they won`t need a queue as big as Diamondback/Banshee, they will need a bigger queue than what Thunderhead at Dollywood has. That is a small queue and I would think they would want enough queue to hold about an hour`s worth of a wait.

Yeah, RMC doesn`t pick their projects. They might choose not to submit a response to an RFP that a park issued, but if they want a project bad enough, they will submit a response, no matter what the existing ride layout is. Sometimes the most stringent restraints create the most creative, interesting and fun layouts. Look at all the height restrictions that Alton Towers has, and how some of their rides interact with the terrain.

Bkroz, why do you think Boo Blaster`s won`t be around in 2018? If they do anything to the ride, I would imagine it would be some kind of retheme, but keeping the ride conveyance system.

I rode Boo Blasters today, and it seemed sad. Sounded like half of the soundtrack wasn`t working. There were areas where you only heard one sound effect going. It was really sad. I think a ride themed to the Peanuts would be a big hit. Especially if they were able to add a Christmas overlay to it for Winterfest.

What is people`s insistence on it being a drop track? Also, since when are people structural engineers and know what element will or will not be based on the shape of the footings? As I have said before, I think that part of what is in the shed will be the transfer/storage track area. What else KI has in store, I do not know. Based on the my trip up the Eiffel Tower, I think the station will end up being fairly close to both the train tracks and Race For Your Life Charlie Brown. There certainly doesn`t seem like there will be much room for a big queue line. I could see them taking out some of the trees by the train exit to expand the midway/provide a queue. Is it April 15th yet?

What would be the return on investment by enclosing the ride? There would have to be some RoI for them to consider such a move. I don`t see what benefit it would have, and therefore do not see anything like this happening.

Did RMC do the retracking on Thunder Run? If they did, they used conventional wooden coaster track, and not any of their topper track. I wouldn`t consider Kentucky Kingdom having two RMC creations, as Thunder Run is the same ride design as when it opened. I have ridden Outlaw Run at Silver Dollar City. While the ride was fun, and we grabbed a couple rides on it, I wouldn`t rate it in my top ten. I haven`t had a chance to get down to Kentucky Kingdom to check out Storm Chaser yet.

That is temporary bracing, until they get all the permanent bracing for the bents up. Then they will remove the angular temporary braces.

That article was interesting to say the least. The author added a fair bit of his own opinion into the ride, such as the comment about The Racer. While it is an interesting article to read, I wouldn`t put much faith in every Cedar Fair park eventually becoming home to a RMC ride. If these rides have staying power, I could eventually see a fair majority of Cedar Fair parks receiving a RMC. That being said, I think KI will be among the last to receive one, given that we are getting a GCI for 2017.