The Interpreter

Actually it was the HILLS that were still in place!

...and the flip down bars and skid brakes...and when you boarded from the outside edge of the station, instead of the center...and there was two stop unload/load! And no one had ever thought to turn one of them around backwards!

That's why I was being nice! I think he's doing quite well...no over the shoulder restraints needed (like Flight of Fear had when it opened!)

Hi! You might want to read the entire thread before replying. It's open again.

Were they that way all day? If so, that is uncommon. But for one of the trains to sit on the lift a while is not all that unusual. A bit unusual for both of them to be, really.

Your baby's open again, by all accounts. Just had to have a good lookin' at.

I wonder if next year during the parade we will be able to see der fair?

Good. Assuming it is running today. I bet Hulk is running, too. And that entire second list of coasters like WT. Not all sources are always right. One reason for asking here!

Because I'd like to know!

I take it Italian Job is open, right?

I know...but I have my reasons for asking...

Now I am hearing that Vertical Velocity, both Steel Venoms, Wicked Twister and V2 are all also down... Anybody know about Hulk?

Regardless, now CF can go to both and say we are going to keep one or the other (if they want to do that). Make them bid against each other. A synergy!

Would Flight of Fear happen to be closed at Kings Island today? Anyone know? I hear that both Mr. Freeze's, Joker's Jinx, Poltergeist and Batman and Robin: The Chiller are all closed today.

Cedar Fair no doubt doesn't care about 'fit.' They care, as ItalianChef pointed out, about making money. And whichever franchise best serves the bottom line in a given park is what they will do.

It was one thing when they were fifty cents. But at five dollars (which some of them are in some parks), this certainly is getting darn close to gambling, if it isn't. Then again, many if not most of the prizes are no longer even worth what you pay to play. Most come from China. I bet anything the cost on those basketballs is much less than the cost to play. And the annoying BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE drives me batty. But anyway, this was a School of Rock thread. An awesome show. Well worth seeing. And those were great pix!

Games. Law. Hmm....must not ask out loud why amusement park games are not gambling....Must not. No, can't do that.

...formerly known as Oscar's. Sigh. Again.

Seems to me it is an afterthought left over from Phantom Theater. Sigh.

Thought? Yes. Money? No. Priority? No. Cedar Fair will do better? The jury is out. It all depends on what priority THEY put on entertainment. Personally, I thought entertainment at Kings Island was much better in both quality and quantity before it was largely outsourced. The same could be said of the food.

Perhaps Paramount wanted to save the thrill of participating in an audience participation show for paying customers...and avoid the appearance of having only paid shills be the participants! Not to mention in some situations an employee could make staying in character difficult for the players.

Yah, I saw the show at four of the five Paramount Parks, and I don't remember any audience participation either, other than loud applause!

There have been several posts here to the effect of one of two things: * Kings Island won't change much regardless of who owns it (most of these were BEFORE the Cedar Fair acquisition was announced...and I suspect most of them were by younger park fans who love the park but don't really understand how it is run). * Who cares? None of this stuff really matters. Go enjoy the park. (One of these was as recent at this past week...and there have been several). These have been a very small proportion of the total posts, but they have been out there.

Very well said. This is why I think those who think there will not be major changes at Kings Island (or any other Paramount Park) are mistaken. Cedar Fair WILL run these parks differently than Paramount was or would have if they had kept them. Perhaps not quickly so, but definitely so. There IS a Cedar Fair way of doing almost anything. There is, (soon to be was), a Paramount way. They are not necessarily the same, though in many areas of park management and operation, they are similar, in others they are vastly different. Some of these things are in areas guests easily see (queue lines, food service experiences, hiring practices), some are not at all visible (cash management, capital investment philosophy, degree of management autonomy at the park level, etc.) and some are a bit of both (training of employees, corporate philosophy, etc.) One of the reasons that the old Six Flags had so many problems was that there never really was *A* Six Flags way of doing things. Operations and management varied wildly from park to park. Bad operations at any Six Flags park diluted the entire brand. Excellent operations in one area at a park (say, pass processing) were easily outweighed by poor operations in another (say, food). There was no overarching philosophy or oversight.

Thanks. That page badly needs a description of what each perk IS. It's really poorly designed, IMHO.