The Interpreter

There's already a reference to CP on the IJST. Wouldn't take that much retheming. And Chef, note that in the article they say they won't rename the park, but they don't call it Paramount's Kings Island even in the article. I think the park, in the eyes of the public, will not be renamed. It will continue to be that which most have always called it, Kings Island.

Theme Park Targets Year Round Niche: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_465606.html

(It is unfortunate that people are losing jobs. Usually, acquiring companies don't move quite this rapidly in moving in their own people AND moving out the old managers, especially when the company they acquired is nearly the same size as, or larger than, the acquiring company. This is a mark of supreme confidence at Cedar Fair in its own people. Let's hope that confidence is well justified. The 15 were managers AND other employees. I wonder what the ones who weren't managers were... Note something else about that article. Cedar Fair does not intend to rename the park. Note, too, that there is not a single reference in the article to anything called 'Paramount's Kings Island.' We, as unit holders, as employees, as customers of the parks, or as former customers of the parks are going to find out soon if Cedar Fair's strategy is a good one, or more like that of the old Premier Parks. It's going to be an interesting ride...)

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art.../608120337/1076

Uh, that's like saying 2 and 2 isn't 4 because 1 and 3 are 4. We aren't discussing who is GM at Kings Island. We are trying to figure out what regions Cedar Fair has divided the parks into. If the last conference call was right, and I suspect it was, Kings Island and Cedar Point are in the same region, the Northern one. If that is the case, it is unlikely that H. Phillip Bender is the REGIONAL manager for the Northern Region. Whoever the regional manager is for the Northern region (and I suspect it is someone who recently was a high level manager at Cedar Point) is Mr. Scheid's boss...whether he gave a speech or not, or even if he patted a dog. He still has a boss, the next person up in the Cedar Fair chain. The article posted would lead us to believe it is Mr. Bender, but we doubt that, as the article also indicates he is over Worlds of Fun as well, which is supposed to be in a different region. Get it? Anybody know more? (What concerns me about that article is they are normally printed by business journals directly from a press release) The corporate website is no help, as it has not been updated in quite some time. It still shows Mr. Scheid at Dorney, and Mr. Bender at Worlds of Fun, both as GM's: http://www.cedarfair.com/ir/company/officers/

To my knowledge, the list of bidders is proprietary and has not been released. I haven't even seen any media speculation as to who they might have been, which is very unusual indeed. There was, however, apparently a bidding war.

And until I just read your reply, I didn't realize that some attorney somewhere will not doubt call the ride just that in his closing argument at a trial, if there is one. I have thought, from the beginning, that SOB was a most unfortunate name choice. You don't see Cedar Fair calling Millennium Force MF. I wonder now, if Son of Beast does reopen if it gets a new name. You can't call it Beast: The Son, either, as that is just BS.

Uh, you seem to have missed that of the restaurants CoastersRZ listed at KI ....right in the middle of Skyline, LaRosa's, etc., was Subway! To which you said: Ah, never mind, I guess you had to be there! I'd rather that Subway was The Varsity North anyway, but that'll never happen! (Even if the Varsity in the Northern Atlanta suburbs does look like the building was designed by the Imagineers...)

That's why I posted it. I suspect the article is in error....

So does Cinci...it's just been closed for many, many years...in fact, it never opened!

Was Worlds Of Fun's General Manager: Now is Regional Manager over Worlds of Fun, Geauga Lake & Wildwater Kingdom; Paramount Canada's Wonderland; Kings Island; and Star Trek the Experience in Las Vegas. http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stor...07/daily32.html

http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2006/c...ogvisit=y&npu=y

They don't have Subway in Atlanta? Wow.

As PKIVortex said, SkyRider at PCWo is a much more faithful rendition than is Shockwave at PKD. And, except for being in Canada, from Cinci, PCWo is actually about the same distance away as PKD is!

Mantis and Chang are near clones? I'll have whatever you are smoking! I can tolerate, and in fact sometimes even like Chang....but Mantis? Sigh! At least Shockwave and SkyRider are TOGO's, and SkyRider is nearly (but not) identical to King Cobra.

You do the best you can with the options you have. And yes, I understand. How well I understand. In the last five years, I have lost two very special people for whom Kings Island, (or my trips there with them) was very special. In the first case, my first trip back there after the death was very, very hard. In the second, I actually found the return to be comforting. Kings Island is a very special place. I think that is one reason why those of us who love or have loved it so much are so critical of some of the apparent boneheaded moves that were made there lately. And hope so much that Cedar Fair brings to Kings Island what they promised at Geauga Lake: "The fun is back."

All the $15 parking SF parks are doing it. At places like Kentucky Kingdom, where they don't own the parking lot and don't get the parking money, you don't get the "free" map. SFGAm is a fantastic park. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Viper, by the way, is very loosely based on the Coney Island Cyclone. It is, perhaps, one of the least faithful of the Cy-clones. That being said, it is a very fun ride, indeed!

Not to mention that MaXair has not had the same mechanical difficulties that Delirium has had, with the possibility that the ride cycle on the latter has been altered in order to prevent recurrences thereof.

May I suggest you try to get to Paramount's Kings Dominion or to Paramount Canada's Wonderland, and ride either Shockwave (KD) or the SkyRider (CW) for your dad? If you are like I am, I think it would give you some fulfillment.

Better yet, maybe we could just avoid acronyms that most people wouldn't understand, or at least explain them the first time we use them in a post... In my opinion, passers by to a website shouldn't have to feel like they have to learn a foreign language to participate, or even just to read!

...and you would be right. I still see divorced husband and divorced wife in my mind's eye every time I see dh or dw. I've even seen people use dd when they mean dear dog. I just find them all a bit annoying and bit too cutesy. But that's just me. I see that they take up a lot less space in trip reports, almost all of which mention family in Disney forums. And almost none of them refer to dear dad, since they are usually written by the mom (but sometimes by the dad), who took the kids to Disney...and typically adults do not take their parents to Disney.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060809/1062507.asp

I don't want to get too technical, but it does take two or three years to plan a ride, and as such, we'd be seeing something the park was planning under Viacom's reign. Of course, who knows...CBS could've seen the cost when they took over the park and gave the original idea the axe in favor of a new bathroom or something. Are you then saying that under CBS the park "went to pot?"

You are more than welcome! Thought it might help others, too; or I'd just have sent you a PM! Thank YOU for being such a good sport!

For the longest time I thought dh meant divorced husband...then I realized that ds couldn't mean divorced son...at least not for the little tykes!