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Exactly Was it really necessary to remove all those trees? Especially at the turn around so close to The Beast!

RMCs definitely have their flaws. Some of their attempts at unique airtime end up being jerky and/or they try to cram too much into a short distance. The first half of Twisted Timbers is great. The second half is a great example of Trying to do too much in a short length of track and making a jerky ride. The final bunny hops of steel vengeance are also another example The final bunny hops of steel vengeance are also another example

The parks that run trams (Hershey, Busch, Herschend, Disney) have parking that’s a good hike from the entrance. It keeps people in the park for the day more, which could increase in park spending and offset some of the cost of the trams. The Taft parks were designed with parking right on to the entrance

Didn’t S&S buy Arrow? If so, wouldn’t they be producing parts to maintain the many Arrows still out there? The Arrows being removed are bad rough rides. AE is a little klunky but not a bad ride. Cedar Points mine train is over 50 years old and still rides great. Carolina Goldrusher is 47 and also great. AE should be renovated and marketed as a new ride. Not removed. Rethemed to match Oktoberfest and a long helix added after the final lift hill. It would give the park a “new” ride at Low cost. Every park should have a Mine train.

Kings Dominion and Carowinds have retained their original, big arbor tunnels (although the structures have been replaced). It is a shame the Kings Island was removed. Now it’s just a bunch of umbrella tables and a wood wall

Yes. That’s the biggest improvement needed in the park. Look at past photos and see how many trees have been lost. The park is barren and miserable in the heat. Kings Dominion is the opposite and a much more beautiful park.

The theater would be best converted to a new indoor live entertainment venue. Especially for Winterfest

Agree. All the wood coasters at KI have great ridership.

The parks started becoming run down during the Lindner years as well. I remember going to Carowinds in 80 and it was gorgeous. By 88, the cable skyway, Hillbilly Jalopies, Flying Dutchman and Black Widow has been removed. They were actually running the hillbilly cars on the modern speedway track out of theme 88 was the last year for White Lightnin’ as well. Several things were repainted in a drab green color including the Scooby Doo coaster. I remember thinking they must have gotten a discount in that color paint. But compared to the damage Paramount inflicted on the parks, the Lindner years looked good. Cedar Fair, especially after Ouimet became involved, saved the Taft parks. They feel much more like the Taft days now. The Six Flags merger was scary because they are way over indebted, and have dirty, poorly operated, weed filled, mis themed parks.

In that scenario one would get excellent theming and price jumps annually and maybe more. Cedar Fair has been doing great theming on their own as of lately so Disney is not needed!

I always thought Vortex Invaded the isolation of The Beast. But now Orion will do that even more.

Let’s hope they aren’t removing more trees. The park is becoming pretty barren with all of the tree removal and lack of replacement over the last several years

Cedar Fair has been cleaning up the coaster collection. Everything they have installed at the park has been excellent. And the coasters they have removed have been rough. Invertigo and Junkyard Coaster are the only crap coasters left in the park now. The removal of both and replacement with quality attractions would be great improvements to the park.

Thanks for the work on this.

Kings Dominion is such a beautiful park fior that exact reason.

Planting trees all over the park is the biggest improvement they could make. Very little shade around the park anymore. it would be nice if Area 72 gets a flat ride and some themed buildings. Oktoberfest is is desperate need of a remake and Action Zone needs a theme in the meantime n

I was talking in general how it is now a practice in the theme park industry to not stay open as advertised. Kennywood is the worst for that. But Kings Dominion, another CF park, is also getting a bad reputation for that. If is acceptable at one CF park, it’s probably going to spread to them all as common practice. Carowinds closed five hours early this fall with no bad weather on a Saturday because of low attendance.

I doubt that the cut hours are noise relate but yet another penny pinching move in the theme park industry. Much like closing when it rains instead of following the posted schedule. To save money and at the same time reducing guest experience. longer hours on crowded days allows people to see all the attractions. Cutting hours will not accomplish that. The theme parks really don’t care anymore since most of their ticket sales are passholders and they already have their money. This will backfire in the long run. If the only time the parks are going to be open as when they’re crowded people are eventually going to quit buying season passes for such an unpleasant experience

They definitely did not use the terrain other than a ditch. There is a valley that they could have used for a huge Diving. finale instead of the abrupt brake run in the sky. the shortness and the lackluster out and back layout are more disappointing than the lack of records.

Why would they leave the return of Winterfest off of 2017? Imo that’s the best thing that happened In the decade.

It’s really the only good thing Paramount did in the park during their quest to destroy the original park. All of their other major installations are eye sores and did not match the theming of where they were plopped down. Although Flight of Fear didn’t match the theme of Coney Island they at least build it off to the side and now we are getting a new themed sub area.

Then having it at Kings Island is bad marketing on their part. I would never go to LaRosa’s restaurant based on how bad the pizza is at Kings Island it could be a general Kings Island problem is over all the food there is Really low-quality

I agree. LaRosas is just awful. It’s not even as good as quality as supermarket frozen pizza. How do they stay in business with that lie of quality product? Kings dominion and Carowinds have their own pizza and it is much higher quality.

In the perfect world that building would get demolished and Racers turnarounds would be reconstructed together like Racer 75 and Thunder Road. I never did understand that wide split on a racing coaster where you lose sight of the other train. If the building stands it should be made into a dark ride or live entertainment venue The Park definitely needs more indoor attractions for bad weather days

That’s probably in the pipeline in an upcoming year like Carowinds got their “new” County Fair flat ride package a few years ago.