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inb4 second chaperone policy

When you buy a 2023 gold pass today; this will grant you access to the rest of this season (Haunt) plus the entire next season. This means you can use your new pass as your entry ticket (and parking ticket) on public operating days. (See the park calendar for all public hours) As a Gold Pass member, you are allowed 30 minutes early entry. This does not exclusively mean just entering early but it will allow you to get on select rides: https://www.visitkingsisland.com/season-passes/early-ride-times The parking lot opens around an hour before the park opens, or half an hour before early ride times start. For the remainder of the year, Diamondback and Mystic Timbers are open 30 minutes early to Gold Pass (and above) holders, as well as some kids rides.

That is a great point to make; I would rather the park be open about what they plan on doing but it seems more often than not they're very secretive behind closed doors. While I can't really blame them, as it's likely the way corporate wants them to deal with it, there's not much I can do to change that. More often then not the park is beaten to the announcement by enthusiasts who leak plans and/or on-going construction. The park is often not a fan of this sort of behavior too. Sometimes they purposefully "leak" things to get the ball rolling.

I still have speculation that the park might continue working on Beast with the goal of finishing the helix structure rebuild. Won’t find out until we enter the off-season, but the hopes are there. If not we’ll deal with waiting another year. I trust they have some good stuff in store for us.

Keep in mind just because the park doesn’t announce it doesn’t mean nothing is going to change. Every park gets an offseason budget to spice things up. Will we see more Beast work? Are they gonna paint DB? Will they do track work on Diamondback by the trim? Will the parking lot get more repaving? CF loves KI, it in my opinion is better than Cedar Point, it’s gonna get a Vortex replacement just give it time; stuff takes a while to plan. At this point you can know they likely are planning as it’s usually done 2 years in advance.

We should see the park post the official Haunt map sometime before the 23rd.

I used to see a lot of Kings Island ads; especially for Mystic Timbers. I never saw any TV ads for Orion.

Cedar Fair in general is a very quiet with how they handle situations and discuss their future plans. I feel the park PR people may be concerned about corporate getting angry at something said publicly and/or revealed accidentally, which is why news comes slowly or all at once. I could be completely wrong; but it seems that way in my eyes at least.

They seem to be working on the lift motor as of this moment. A few cars parked right next to it. Update: A few more cars showed up with people heading to the lift motor area. They are definitely working on it.

I believe they’re having lift motor issues. Some days are better than others; likely will see a full motor replacement soon?

Well deserved; glad to see all the work Kings Island put into this season being recognized at this extent! *lifts glass* To many more awesome seasons!

Well deserved!

A second GCI would be interesting; and with WoF it could be possible for a second GCI to appear right down the path from Mystic :haha: Let GCI push their new Infinity Flyers to their limits and see what happens. oops double posted; sorry

I would love for it to interact with other parts of the park. A lot of Kings Islands coasters are setup in a way that most of the ride is in the back area or around the edge of the park. Kings Island still, in my opinion, lacks a great thrillseeker ride. Not expecting an RMC or some intense Intamin; just something that really easily stands out on top of the lineup. Really hope KI goes above and beyond with this area of land; there's so much potential with that plot and really should pay homage to the strides Vortex made when it first opened.

https://www.visitkingsisland.com/events/haunt/conduct-policy-and-guidelines

I have been watching it most of the day. They were first late to test the ride, got two trains on the track, then it was stopped for hours until they sent a train around and plopped it into storage. (Around 1:15pm) The last train sat in the station until around 6:30pm when it was sent off but at an incredibly slow speed. Took 20-30m to climb the lift. I kid you not this was incredibly slow. Thought it wasn’t moving at all until I looked closed and saw it slowly moving up a pixel or two every so often. It hit the MCBR and was stopped there until 7:30pm-ish when it was sent off and then put back in storage. Possible lift motor issues? It did get its chain replaced in the offseason. Curious to know if it’ll be open tomorrow.

Just saw this a minute ago too. Hope anyone injured recovers, these types of accidents are horrible.

Hearing rumors that extra padding was added to the inside of The Beast final helix. Not sure what this could be but has anyone ridden Beast recently and noticed this said padding? Curious if it's real. Thanks

me having flashbacks for Vortex Selim may be hungry for demolition, but time will ultimately tell

I feel like staffing this year at KI was much better. Given they had some stuff closed during the week, a lot more of the shops/registers are open on weekends to deal with increased crowds. Shoutout to KI for always running as many trains as possible on their coasters no matter the park crowd level.

Since we've reached (and passed) the end of daily operation for the 2022 season (excluding Winterfest) it's a good time to start looking towards the next operating season to think of what we might see change. This thread is aimed at speculating what work we might see done in the off-season for the 2022-2023 season. Whether that be during the weekdays when the park is closed or after the final operating day for the season (Oct 30th). We already know that Cedar Fair has announced no major capital investments for Kings Island regarding the 2023 season so any work we see will likely be similar if not less compared to what we saw in the previous off-season. Some initial ideas that I'm throwing out there: 1. More Beast trackwork; GG might come to finish the rest of the helix with the goal of finishing the new structure (this may be in the next 5 years?) It's obvious to see how much life GG sparked back into Beast with the work they did. I can very easily see Kings Island giving them the opportunity to come back to do more of it. Whether this happens is still up for debate, but I for one would love to see it happen. 2. Diamondback repaint maybe 3. Parking lot gets more work to repave another part or the rest of it Seems like a no-brainer to me at least given most of the parking lot still gets pretty packed; as long as a lot of the potholes get filled/repaired What other things would you like to see happen or think might happen? Things you think won't happen for sure? (excluding obvious major capital investments of course) Hopefully as the year progresses towards and into the 2023 off-season replies may include confirmed off-season work.

Speaking of the old Crypt building What about a Vekoma Mad House themed to like rivertown monsters/some lore? That would be a fun dark ride and get a new flat ride in the park.

who said there couldn't be a roller-coaster themed restaurant with a roller coaster that wraps around it? my kind of restaurant tbh

They need to do something with the old Crypt/TR building because it's just an eyesore with its sporadic and periodic use during Haunt. Yeah don't think they'll ever demolise LaRosas', too much history there. I'd love to see The Vortex plot get a mix of thrill and entertainment. There's a lot of land there, could def fit a coaster in the back along the forest; maybe interacting with Beast in some way without ruining the darkness of night rides, with an extended midway into the plot for new flats and shops/restaurants.

Time to begin speculating what changes they'll make during the off-season!