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Fun to watch. They are busy today.

It's sinking into The Vortex.

ACE announced members as of 12/31/2019 can attend media day. More details soon. Registration starts Feb 7 @ 10am. visitkingsisland.com/ace

Carowinds opens March 21. Weekends for awhile. Open spring break April 6 -9. All of this is on their website under events.

Can't be noise right? They stay open til midnight Sept/Oct

Now up

I'm nice to workers and try to help out. My goal is to simply get the train out and going. I'm doing it to speed things up, not necessarily to be nice.

Orion and AA are currently both listed on Fast Pass Plus.

I visited KI 5 times this year. Had a blast every time. Vortex was a favorite growing up. I'm happy I got to ride it during the final season again. That was cool. Before this year I hadn't been on a coaster in 22 years because I wouldn't fit. Dropped half my weight and changed my life. Also visited KD, Kennywood, Hersheypark, CP, Carowinds, SFoG, KK, HW, Knotts, Strickers, Lake Winnie, Dollywood, SFMM. What a year. Fit on everything without a problem. Can't wait for 2020 and Orion. And many others.

Cedar Point's page has a bit more info. Same type program. Just to give an idea, Cedar Point's prices were $375 for Silver (4 hours), $475 for Gold (9 hours) last year. https://www.cedarpoint.com/tickets-passes/vip-tours

Still available. Runs a few hundred dollars but you'll get VIP treatment. Most every park does some variation of this.

104 Days til opening on April 11th.

https://www.kingsislandgear.com/ Shipping seems to be $6/order.

Yeah. Click on through. If you use Paypal it will even show you the exact conversion before you hit the final submit button.

Yep. Same for dining and funpix. Ends up being a roughly 12% discount after taxes/fees/conversion.

Save ~ $100 on the all park all season FL by purchasing at Canada's Wonderland. Also of note, last year they did $69.99 for admission and FL+ on President's day weekend. Can save you a few bucks on FL+. Carowinds was $59.99 on Pres Day.

If it's busy like last Saturday you'd pretty much have to go looking for the actors in these areas. We rarely saw them at all.

Good video there. Hope more and more people get a chance to see it. It came up on my feed earlier today.

The Beast is down. Employees at gate said "Not sure if it'll open today but we hope so."

Is this station really going up before West Coast Racer's station? lol

Just some FYI: On a tour of Thunderhead at Dollywood they mentioned they installed a new chain this year. He suggested they averaged 6-8 years on that ride. And they check the links to ensure they are within tolerance, etc. as mentioned above.

Do they keep that machine on-site? I'm guessing it's shared and moves around?

Dragster is not open on Fridays due to staffing per CF.

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I'm really looking forward to the Halloween stuff. I've never done one of these events. Until earlier this year, I hadn't been in an amusement park in 20+ years. I'm addicted again. Looks like we'll end up doing SFOG, Holiday World, Kings Island, Knotts Scary Farm, and Magic Mountain. Might go to Universal but it's crazy expensive and we don't have a ton of time. Small chance I work in Carowinds end of Sept. Going to be a great couple months. I've been told KI is pretty good. How would you guys say it ranks with others?