It's tough comparing Top Gun at CGA and Top Gun at KI because in all honesty a B&M Inverted is by far a better ride than an Arrow Suspended roller coaster. I know some on here may not recall it (some may), but when KI's Top Gun first opened I vividly remember waiting 3 hours in line for it. When I tell my own kids this they seem shocked, but it was a long queue. It use to be well themed with posters, movie music and scenes over speakers, they had several aircraft carrier theme throughout the queue. Then when you got to the station underneath the deck you had various radar and theme's that were lit up all the way up to getting on the top deck. Unfortunately like most things with Paramount as ownership of the park the theme parts was never taken care of and it eventually went into disrepair. The absolute greatest thing about Cedar Fair buying the Paramount owned parks was the great deal of care put into cleaning up the parks. Bringing KI back to looking like it did prior to Paramount ownership.
This ride will be great number one because Cedar Fair will keep it in much better shape than Paramount would have. Paramount could come up with some great theme's they just didn't focus on taking care of anything in the park except for their profits. I totally enjoy being at Cedar Fair Parks and finding a trash can almost everywhere I look rather than having to walk from The Beast to the Eiffel Tower to find 1 trash can like the Paramount days!