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This is the dreariest looking day of construction I've seen so far. It looks very muddy.

...unless you happen to be turning 40 in April. -Tb, who knows it's the new 20...

WOW, Im not the only one!!!!! haha this is old. but yea actaly during the summer, on my lunch break when i worked at krogers, i would have my friend drive me to ki and have lunch at festhaus. Guilty Wow! Had to dust that one off? I still do that, by the way. Now it's much more interesting watching DB going up.

I think I'll ride in the middle 'stadium' seats! (I fall for head choppers all the time. Just can't fight the flinch!)

That is awful! It's kinda like waiting 17 years to see a spectacular movie prequel, skipping a day of work and spending $20 on tickets and popcorn, because the hype leads you to believe you're in for something spectacular, only to leave feeling "wobbed and cwunched." ...paging Mr. Barnum....

^LOL "Beast1079"? That would be a 929-year-old, wooden terrain coaster! Talk about rickety!

^Thanks! I'd miss ol' Vortex if it was gone, but DB just makes it look like a "beginner" coaster.

"My" pond (Landen area) was iced over this morning, with about 1/4" dusting of snow. I must say that it was hilarious watching the ducks landing on ice! Video (Not of my pond, though) (Back on Topic) ^Nice phone pix of DB from KI Drive! Kinda makes Vortex seem like it's sinking or something... hey....where ....did ....everybody....get ....those.....tomatoes....hey [splat]

I think I understand what he means by 'reality'. There's physical, lucid reality, and then there's the use of the word "reality" that has come to mean "harsh reality." To 'muse' is to think, ponder or be concerned about the issues of life. Adding "a," ergo "amuse," means not to think about it, as though checking 'reality' at the front gate in order to get lost in the fun of being entertained by and/or hurled around by all the magnificent amusement attractions. Real, yes, but certainly an escape from 'reality'.

Oh, I can just see it now... Based on Photo by Eckhard Pecher

Sometimes life gets too busy for yam yamming, but I do remember to eatsk me spinachk. -Tb, who has yet to open a can using a corncob pipe...

haahahahahahaha. i saw that to. actally i thought it was like a rocket or something America's first flame-throwing splashdown?

You might be a KI addict If you... get bored and come up with stuff like this: (KI Themed Paintball Tower with "Diamondback" fast-escape slide)

^ It chose an interesting place to birth its soul of fury... but then again, the draining of Swan Lake was one of the first signs of the coming of Diamondback. [EDIT] I was about to call Area 51

Somehow I imagine something like this being on a track more like Avatar, rather than a circuit.

Thanks! About 15-25 minutes, tops. ^I do see those new tracks, too. I agree. It makes sense that that would be the exit lines.

Wow, that's to funny! That's going on my blog! What software do you use to make these? Thanks! I'm honored! Well, believe it or not, it's Microsoft PowerPoint. Except for the horses, plane, Eiffel Tower head and other gifs, most of what you see are drawing objects that I set with 3D gradient fills. The trees are all the same tree, which I place carefully and then reset brightness & contrast values, as well as re-sizing. The fog effect is really an oval autoshape set to fill from white to transparent, then ordered behind the first layers to give the illusion of depth. I'm a stickler for detail, so the shadows you see are all the same as the fog, only black-to-transparent. I drew the arrow sign 'by hand' using autoshapes. Mt. Helbig is the same curved line repeated three times, with the center one 'dashed' to give the illusion of track supports. The 'dashboard' is just a long triangle. The high-tension electric towers are really two images of a lattice tower reversed and superimposed over one-another with contrasting grey values. I then added the power lines and braces and faded them to appear more distant. The fence is a repeated lower case 'L,' shaded with brown shadow, and with a white curve drawn through them. The snow cap atop the hill is just a freehand object that I set to gradient from gray-to-white, to make it look sunlit. I then group the images, save-as-picture to jpeg format, post on my blog, and then post here on KIC. It's much faster for me than PhotoShop or Roxio PhotoSuite, both of which I also use occasionally.

Hey! No Barnstorming the horses!

Perhaps "Mt. Voss"? Redux: The Majestic, Snow-Capped Mt. Helbig rises above the Diamondback Sierra, high above the treetops! (can you tell I have the day off?)

Wait! Stock Market Summit doesn't sound as Kings Islandy as all the others. Are you sure?

[Edit] I joined! Thanks!

I have. I used to dreeeam of having a house in that area, but it has built up much more than I ever expected. Aside from free 5-minute firework displays on summer nights, and a unique view of things you just don't see everywhere else (an Eiffel Tower, the occasional (now ubiquitous) coaster hill), the area has just grown into a giant subdivision; the feel is just not the same anymore.

I don't think it will for a long, long time. It would be sad if it did. 2008 Eric Liming

^ The Majestic "Mt. Helbig", as viewed from pastoral Western Row Road: