Thrill_Biscuit

I would Google the keywords "amazon jerry goldsmith", and check the "listen to samples", especially if they have the soundtrack to "Chinatown". If you see "Love Theme from Chinatown" in the list, click to listen. I think that might be your song. It was kind of slow and jazzy, and had a high-octave piano, then some beautiful string flourishes toward the end. Played really well with the fountains. My turn Does anyone know what song had the real flute-heavy, kind of action-thriller sound. I thought it was from Mission:Impossible (not the main theme), or maybe from TR. I don't know, but it was really cool-sounding, and played I think right before "Breakfast Machine" by Danny Elfman. Any guesses? I'd really love to know!

Coach, I think that's "Baker Street". Great song!

Saxophone? Was it more of a pop-sounding track, or was it more symphony-like. I'm thinking Love Theme from China Town by Jerry Goldsmith? But that sounded more trumpety than saxophone...

Perhaps the sign is visible with a good pair of binoculars, and that's 200 posts...let's see if I got my third pip... [EDIT] Yyyyyesss! Woohoo!

I hope they bring back "international" music to international street. The fountains don't go well with "Been around the world and I I I I, I can't find my baby..."

Book 'em, Dano!

Very cool. Brings back a lot of good memories!

Uh oh! Get Chris Hansen on the phone! Tonight on Dateline: To Catch a Theme Park Tresspasser

I miss the Flinstones and Jetsons. BTW Firehawk is that a Vekoma Air Jumper on your banner?

Oh, but then there was the time in 2004 that my wife and I got stuck on The Vortex for about 10 minutes while a very wet thunderstorm came and drenched us most generously! I remember thinking how cool SR&R looks through sheets of warm, summer rain. You just can't pay for that level of amusement!

Awesome! It looks like construction of Metal Madness is almost underway. Have the Huss engineers shown up yet? Let me know when the tower cranes are in place, I want pictures! 500 feet. Man, that's going to be cool! [friend slaps thrill_biscuit...'wake up...wake up...you're drooling] Just kidding... Seriously, it is cool to be able to see the hybernating, oft-hidden Beast. It really is a majestic coaster.

Monster, in '04, for about 10 minutes. Got it to spin while waiting, though. Pretty fun.

KI was built when there were only 4 or 5 TV channels, no Internet, cell phones, urban sprawl, etc. The world has changed very much since those days. KI used to be a unique amusement experience in the middle of a very pastoral setting. Now, it's a cookie-cutter park in an interstate corridor, surrounded by expanding growth and development. It used to have soothing, up-beat and melodious music that gave the feel of being in a very special place; whereas now it pipes in music you can just hear on any radio. The theming and ride-name concepts connected the park to its southwest Ohio heritage. It feels more like a giant, expensive carnival now. The culture is much different, too. In the early days of KI, you didn't see and hear so much of the rudeness, sarcasm and disrespect as you see today (people running, line jumping, or imbiciles mouthing off to staff, security, etc.). Families were much tighter, and many more people respected and understood the concept of common courtesy than these days. KI is still a nice escape from the real world; I just wish the negative stuff of the real world would disappear once everyone gets through the gates.

If they changed Oktoberfest to something else, I'd hope they keep the nifty clock atop Festhaus. Removing that feature from KI would sting as much as removing the music from the Grand Carousel, or the symphonic music from International Street.

Think I'll skip funnel cakes in favor of Subway this year! But seriously, I had a wake-up call when I couldn't fit on The Beast in '04 (back then, you could have called me thrill_cake). It's embarrassing to have to get back out of the car in front of what, 200 people? I worked hard to lose 44 lbs. over the next 2 years (yep. takes a long time and determination for some). The cool thing is that it can be done, especially when there are specific goals. I got back on Beast in 2006, and have made it my annual benchmark for success.

ROTF... Excellent. Of course, they'd have to rename the area "Camp Mundane".

I'd even settle for "Tomcat" (the F-14's official name) over "Flight Deck". "Drop Tower" sounds like an unlabeled RCT attraction (a similar observation is made by other posters). I just can't wait to walk up Footpath1 and take a nice picture of Lattice Tower1, provided Mechanic13 doesn't walk in front of my camera.

Home of "Enclosed: The Coaster", and "Water" Falls!

Fly Kings Island!

I think eventually all the Chilivision TVs will be replaced with those cool, new OLED signs that keep popping up everywhere... well, I can dream, can't I?

Shades of Ray Bradbury... I wonder if it will be 451'?

Is Kings Island safe from being dismantled and sold off?

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heh, is that why your sig is what it is? i just noticed it, i like it lol LOL! I forgot I even had that sig. Well, yeah, I guess it does work for this post.

Last season on opening day I rode SR&R and went in to check out the Yogi-Elroy HB thing in Action Theater and I began to feel really nauseous! Then I rode Vortex and felt great for the rest of the day.