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In my experience, on a busy day FL+ at KI is worth the extra cost. KI seems to sell less FL+ compared to CP. Both KI and CP do about a 50/50 FL+/regular queue split. Compared to KI, CP sells too many FL+ and CP queues are crazy long.

The silence of Orion's lift hill vs. Orion's fist drop screams.

For me, The Beast is still a great ride. She is a little rough sometimes, but worth the queue. However, if I were to compare chalk and cheese, The Beast is a much better ride at night than during the day. Hopefully, we can enjoy night rides on The Beast again in the not-too-distant future.

An outside seat, on the back row of Diamondback, anytime of day or any weather - still the best first drop of any CF park I've visited.

In my opinion, this reporter's facial expressions and lack of inquisitiveness suggest she does not believe the news she is reporting.

I got four rides in between 5 and 6 PM. Then I called it a day at 6 PM, when the clouds descended. Seems ride wait times can be okay during the weekdays.

I was at Kings Dominion on May 23. I had to reserve the date to enter the park. The park was pleasantly full and enjoyable. FL was on sale, but not many people seamed to purchase. Perhaps because the park was not over crowded. I am going to CP this coming Sunday and I am anticipating a crowded park with very long queues.

For me, a ride on Orion is almost too priceless to count. Sadly, this year just three rides.

Yes to Dive Loop.

Preteen girls be spending their parent's hard earned money.

Adventure Express is my daughter's favorite ride. She was also excited to see the badly needed upgrades.

In my experience, FoF still operates during moderate thunderstorms because it is protected by its building's lightning protection system. However, when other coasters shutdown because of inclement weather, the queue for FoF is crazy long.

Diamondback is probably the number one FL ride. Note, it is FL and not FL+. My recent experience is that FL fill about 30% of each train. It seems the line separator allows FL to generally pick their seats. The line separator then must fill the remaining 70%. The trains can seat 32 riders and 70% is about 22 seats. The line separator does not have time between trains to logistically fill all 22 empty seats, because they cannot mentally log which seats are still available. My experience is that typically 6 seats of each trains are empty. That equates to about 27% empty seats of the 22 non-FL available seats. Overall, this equates to about only HALF of each train being occupied by non-FL passengers. On Sunday, one of the ride operators saw I was counting empty seats and without prompting acknowledged it was near impossible to completely fill a train. A solution I don't have, but my guess is FL is reducing non-FL capacity during busy times to about 50%.

I can sympathize with you. I've been planning for weeks to go to CP on June 6, 7, and 8 of this year. Today CP e-mailed me to say the park will now be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays during June, because of staff shortages. I purchased a Platinum Pass and a Platinum Season FL+ to make this trip. I can easily visit an additional weekend later in the season, but how many other people also made plans during these days that they must now cut short?

I was at KI on Sunday. I observed the rotating disc of Delirium supported on stands. Presumably, the crane was used to place the disc on the stands to relieve load in the swing arm. I also saw an oxygen acetylene hose on the side of the swing arm. Oxyacetylene is commonly used for cutting and welding of steel. Looks to me that structural work was being performed on the powertrain of the swing arm.

Based on my experience today and talking to a line separator on Banshee (while the ride was temporarily down), I'd say the FL quota per coaster train is between 30 and 50%.

From my experience, the coaster ride operators have white boards they use to log the number of FL riders each hour. I'm going to KI tomorrow and I'll ask the operators if they have FL quotas. My guess is they limit the number of FL per an hour.

My daughter and I share an annual meal plan. I agree, it is difficult to utilize because of the queues. Season Dining Fast Lane Plus would be $375? Crazy money for fast food.

Definitely a telescoping crane from Piqua Steel Company. These cranes are typically used in construction and maintenance. Not usually demolition. At KI, I would say it was used for something like, lifting a derailed railroad car or a heavy component of an amusement ride. Using it to work on Delirium makes sense.

My thoughts are that restricting FL might have little effect on queue times. CF sells season and daily passes at the lowest possible price to maximize sales that maximize revenue. When purchasing passes, people typically do not think about queue times. CF sells FL at the highest possible price to maximize sales that maximize revenue. A minority purchase daily FL as a one-off splurge. A smaller minority purchase season FL. Restricting FL could result in CF increasing the price of passes to compensate for lost FL revenue. However, increasing the price of passes could counterintuitively reduce revenue due to reduced sales. Alternatively, CF could reduce the price of passes, and increase sales and maintain revenue. (See bullet item 1). The net result could be that queue times remain about the same, because even though there are fewer FL, significantly more people attend CF parks, because more passes are sold at a lower price. My daughter and I have season FL, but we choose not to abuse that privilege. Opening Saturday, we rode four coasters together.

Maybe Bob Ross also recently painted a silhouette of Orion over a landscape in heaven. May he rest in peace.

I ordered the same croissant sandwich yesterday, but was disappointed. I'm glad your experience looks better than mine. Your post has inspired me to return to the French Corner again. Thank you.

Miami River Brewhouse was a thumbs up today. The French Corner's food was average, but views of the one-third scale replica of the Eiffel Tower were excellent.

The Squishmallows store was one of our longest waits today. Crazy.

My experience as a PFL+ was about the same today. My daughter was sad to miss FoF though.