The Interpreter

Yah...that "We Like To Party" is the Mr. Six Theme Song, used in ads. Paramount using it is just hilarious!

I always find it amusing when the music that is Mr. Six's theme plays in Coney Mall, which it did last year, and I assume still does! First we have Six Flags hanging over Coney Mall, then we play the theme song! Hilarious!

I can about assure you that will NOT happen. FearFest HAS to be highly profitable for PKI. CF will not be doing away with things that bring in lots of moola. They are, after all, a business. And businesses like happy people who bring money!

There were no storms. It didn't open until 12 or 1. No explanations were requested or volunteered! It just didn't open. And then it did.

I was at PKI Monday. I did not ride Delirium...but it did open around 12 or 1 and I saw it running with happy people on it...

Since its media day?

I don't know. I see CF learning some things from PP. When you pre-process passes, you sell more of them, and have people's money for months and months without additional costs. I can see CF learning from PP in the season pass processing department. Honestly, NO ONE was better at pass processing than PP, at least until this season...

Well, there's what they did to Geauga's. That park now closes for the season on, I believe, September 17. NO Halloween event. No October weekends at all.

IF Cedar Fair decides to make major structural changes to theming or to the parks' infrastructure, WinterFest becomes much less likely. The winter season available for the conversion work is short enough, without shortening it further by basically not being able to start such work until after January 1. Moreover, Cedar Fair is going to be on the hot seat to show they can assimilate this change and still pay dividends to their shareholders. If WinterFest was a big financial bonanza, it might still continue. If, however, it was barely profitable or lost money, I see it more likely that it will not continue. For the record, Cedar Point had a similar winter holiday gathering...ONCE, whereupon it was cancelled and not held since. But getting people to a windy park on Lake Erie in December and early January is a far different proposition than is Kings Island's. Not to mention, where do you find employees in Sandusky, Ohio in the dead of winter?

Kind of like a boy named Sue?

Cedar Fair had NOTHING to do with that shirt. Cedar Fair does not own Paramount Parks as of now. The closing will not occur until some time in the third quarter (July-September). And it still needs government approval. That shirt was approved by Paramount Parks (read: CBS or its predecessor, Viacom) a long time ago. As for Fear the Four, I have a very similar shirt I bought at PKI at least five years ago....

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/...alallentown-hed

I used to think that. Then I sat in 5-1. After having been told to by Mr. Toomer himself. WOO HOO! And NO headbanging. None.

And the park went on with the second day of the event, even though they had just had a death in the park. Holiday World is a class act. A family. And they care. As far as I am concerned, Pat Koch, Will and anyone else who runs a park can pray to whomever they choose. Especially for safety. For us all.

...or, as previously mentioned...the entire thing may have been quietly sanctioned by Uni to start with.

Flight of Fear. Or Adventure Express. Depending on the day. Ever? Okay, fine. I miss Phantom Theater terribly. And the Eagles... But then, I still miss The Shooting Star.... at a little park that, in effect, built Kings Island. Coney Island of Ohio.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I loved that! I am so glad you posted that. Cept now I want to go back to USF again.

Like they did on Hercules?

Apparently, a lawn mower overturned. In any event, it is very, very sad...

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=4959627&nav=3w6o

BET=Black Entertainment Television.

Son of Beast may not open at 10am with the park, but it does almost always open. It had been closed since last fall for a rehab and is open again. I doubt it closes for an extended period of time again this year, but it is a mechanical contraption...watch this space....if it closes for an extended rehab or repair, you will read about it here. Delirium has had issues of late. The short answer is no one knows. I am sure Huss, the ride's manufacturer, wishes it knew. Welcome aboard!

This attitude, from what I believe to be a Paramount Parks employee, no less; is why PKI is NOT a destination park. People who drive from hundreds or thousands of miles do NOT expect things to be broken on a routine basis, and shouldn't have to just deal with it "That's just life." It's also just life that people have choices and they can and do take their money elsewhere. Why choose to take a chance on a park that may or may not have rides running? By the way, Six Flags was among the worst at this. It's biggest park STILL has this problem. They need to work on that and are... Cedar Fair is known for caring about having every ride open all the time. It is one of the reasons Dragster has about driven them nuts. I will be watching, with others, with great interest as they contend with Son of Beast...

It's WHAT? No, it isn't. To start with, there is Dollywood. Unfortunately, there isn't Six Flags Over Georgia any more...they unwisely and very crudely switched their steam engine to diesel--quite literally. Train fans were and are aghast.

That's too bad, Mr. Chef! I was at the dry park today and would have loved to have seen you all.... I hope things get better with little Chef and soon.