The Interpreter

Especially since it does mention the Paramount Parks. Traditional PR writing would then list their owner and its slug line...

I find this very odd, in a park where one can find very little heart healthy food, you get this. Note also the complete absence of any mention of Cedar Fair! THIS IS MUCH EASIER TO READ BY CLICKING THE URL. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....04397985&EDATE=

Let us hope that one of them is days and hours of an Intamin coaster actually being operational during its first season...

Uh, you have to be 13 to post here...by law and the terms of the site. But you don't necessarily have to tell the truth about your age in your posts, I suppose. I, for instance, could claim to be 39.

I just hope Toddler Admiral doesn't become ill and you have to leave the park early. That seems to always happen.

If you had said better than Spiderman at IOA, I might have understood. But BTTF:TR is ancient and, by some accounts, about to be refurbished/remodeled/removed. There's a reason for that.

All the area of which you write used to be part of Great America. It was sold off while the city ran the park. That's an industrial park, and I really don't see that becoming a part of the park again unless both the city and Cedar Fair wanted it to, and were willing to invoke condemnation to make it happen. Somehow, I just don't see that happening. Then again, I don't see a football stadium happening in Santa Clara either....

You don't get if you don't ask! Heck, sometimes you don't get if you DO ask!

All three coasters are excellent rides. But I see a number of Cedar Fair parks they might end up in long before they did at KI, assuming that PGA even closes, which doesn't seem likely at this point. Possible, but not likely.

There was a time when PKI did height bracelets at Guest Relations. I know for a fact they did it several seasons ago.

Yes, straws must be available for those who are physically incapable of drinking from a cup. It isn't optional when beverages are sold in a place of public accomodation. They can be the type that is phsically attached to a lid, though.

If someone says Grizzly, I think I will be ill. A coaster so...uh...interesting, that park PR resorted to calling it "bumpy." Honestly.

Paging Mr. Shaggy! Or PKIMaureen! When did straws make their entrance to Kings Island?

Now, with ADA, straws must be available. But, I must admit I was surprised when KI brought them into the park, prior to the ADA. When did straws first appear at KI?

...or Medusa!

It's a rarity all right. It's the ONLY one in existence in the entire world. . . Not the first, but the ONLY one currently.

There was a time when Kings Island didn't give out straws, either. And the Lion Country Safari was there at the time. I'd never made that connection. Thanks!

I take it you haven't ridden Hydra....

You didn't catch the part about a loop being rare on wooden coasters?

The odd thing is the same concerns are being expressed at Cedar Point. What will become of our first among equals status? Will we continue to get the major capital expansions in the future? What now that there are two parks in the chain that get more attendance than we do? Will this acquisition hurt Cedar Point? Will we lose some of our best managers and employees to the former Paramount Parks? Should I take a job at one of those parks if offered? Will I get to keep my job here if they offer me one elsewhere and I turn it down? Those are the major concerns up there.

http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/i...=35066260537923

http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.d...0369/1085/Local

But only as a backup plan for the Forty-Niners if they don't get what they want from San Fran and only if Cedar Fair (and the city of Santa Clara) agreed: http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/monterey...ts/15071696.htm

The hill is actually 420 feet tall (ten more feet that you had listed, but thirty six feet and an inch less than Cedar Point wishes it had built it...if they wish they had built it at all!) The cars used to be more like dragsters when the coaster first opened, but that's a story for another day...perhaps someone else will tell it rolling midway through that day, frankly I tire of it.

Well, if that plan was already in the works for next year, there is no reason to think any differently. The campground would produce revenue for Cedar Point and may already be budgeted. And we all know it is needed (even those of us who would sooner sleep in the trunk of our cars before we stayed in a campground!)