Thrill_Biscuit

You might be a pki addict if you... Sit around and try to imagine new rides for PKI, like this: My Webpage

^Congrats on #2000!^ Couldn't they just 'theme' the water plant? Make it look like an 1800's sawmill, so the canoers can be amused, too? Just a thought.

Paramount's Sandusky Skyline.

PKI doesn't seem to have coasters that go through other coasters, or over/under established areas of the park (the path to FOF was built after Racer). Why use undeveloped land, when a ride can wind its way through the existing park?

Amazing! A Christmas-themed Fear Fest! How ingenious! Okay, just kidding. This looks a little too obvious to me. The snow, sleigh bells and holiday music seem a bit TOO obvious. We're being set up for a surprise, I think.

I have an Eiffel Tower keychain, some faded Boomerang Bay flip-flops, a Beast shirt, and about $0.12 worth of PKI Pennies. I used to have a distorted glass 7-UP bottle from Glass Blower (c. 1977) and a plastic, chrome-looking Eiffel Tower that was, like, 6" tall, but, alas, they're gone.

I got stuck on Vortex last year during a downpour. One train was stuck just outside the station; the other was stuck in the brake run coming out of the helix. We had to sit there for like, 7 minutes while about two inches of rain fell on us. It was great!

Yeah! Like, that Brady Bunch episode in 3D. Intermix a 3D-ification of the original episode with an "Alice-Cam", so we can all enjoy the thrilling, high-speed romp through the park with "Mike's" plans as she hurdles the ropes and stantions of old Oktoberfest! Oooh--and the scene where Marcia comes splashing down in the old Keelboat..in 3D! But, most awesome of all.....The Racer Scene....in 3D! (ever notice they got the film backwards, btw?) They could use a new SBSP3D. "Is That My Patty" is gettin' a little stale.

It's that they don't teach manners in school anymore! 1. Line jumpers have been conditioned not to fear punishment for minor infractions; 2. The rudest ones learned to overpower their parents and all other authority figures at an early age, and never looked back. They'll just as soon punch you in the face than to comply with the rules; 3. Nobody stands up against people like this, like they used to. Time was when people would shout at line jumpers until, embarrassed, they'd comply and go to the back of the line. Now, everyone's too afraid of getting flipped off by rude punks....or getting sued. ...But, things can change for the better.

I've been there since my third birthday in '72 (which was the park's grand opening, I think). (I was in a stroller, and the train whistle was loud and kept scaring me.) Since then, I've only been there 33 times. I bow to the chap who got the red carpet last year for his thousandth visit! Wow

Yeah. Especially the one where the cop does the little spin move at the end, when the cars go by. Groovy, man!

The Mrs. Puff Boating School thing is a cool idea. Maybe a full-scale Krusty Krab restaurant with tv's playing the funniest SBSP episodes ('Frankendoodle', 'The Algae's Always Greener', 'Band Geeks') would be a neat addition. I wonder if PKI has ever had a 'you're in the video' place where kids can go in front of a blue screen, recite some lines, then come back and pick up a DVD where their footage has been cleverly edited into a cartoon short (Spongebob, FOP, Neutron, etc.) That'd be neat-o.

Great pics. (Nice to see the Eiffel Tower all shiny and green again! Last season it was starting to look pretty nasty.)

You might be a PKI addict if you... Dream of buying a $345,000 condo in Mason, just so you can watch free fireworks off your back patio.

Very funny! LMAO. Leaving my bricks at home from now on.

Even though there's no movie by this name, I've always wanted to name a wood coaster "Timber Tantrum".

Okay, my friends! I take it back. I worded my gripe incorrectly. SDGC and SDATHC are great, enjoyable rides to take your kids on. I was only poking fun at the 30+ guests who I've seen riding these two attractions alone. It's unsightly! One more gripe: People walking around the park with 3D glasses from SBSP3D. They're supposed to go in the bucket, people!

Watch it! I may be grown but Iam only a college student so therefore I dont have kids and I love scooby all the others you listed I can relate to. Zoinks! Fair enough, Scoob. College students excluded. I forgot one: Guests who freak out when they realize they have to get off the elevator at the top of the Eiffel Tower! They rode the darn thing up; what's so scary about standing still on an observation deck?!?

1. People (usually little punks) who spit on people from the staircase for Taz; 2. People who flip the finger to Security (behind their backs, of course) after being asked not to do something, then turn around and do it anyway; 3. Parents who complain out loud because their kid isn't tall enough to ride an attraction; 4. People who loudly express how much PKI rides suck, despite the fact that they will never have one fifth the talent nor imagination to ever create one; 5. Line jumpers; 6. Grown men riding any attraction ascribed to Scooby Doo (without their offspring); 7. People who tightrope-walk the rails of the covered path to AE; 8. People who slime the handrails with loogies; 9. People who cuss; 10. Basketballs

"Top Gun", the movie, is 19 years old! Haven't there been any newer, cool jet-fighter films in the last two decades? Maybe there are fewer riders because the freakin' movie is in the Lawrence Welk league? The soundtrack provides nostalgia for a generation that can't ride the thing anymore, perhaps? Maybe it can be re-themed "Blackhawk Down" or "Behind Enemy Lines". Those are movies that are still kinda hip, and can be hyper-themed for maximum thrill effect. "Top Gun" was cool in the days before Anthony Edwards (and, yes, Tom Cruise) went bald. They won't get rid of the coaster; maybe they'll update it. Oh, wait! That includes your Thrill_Biscuit...Aaaaaargh!

You might be a PKI addict if you... Go 7 miles out of the way from Blue Ash to go through the drive through at Kings Mills Taco Bell, then park in the farthest parking spot in the Cinema parking lot across the road, just to feel like I had lunch at the park. (Man, I'm cheap!)

Whoever put F/O right next to the front entrance was a genius! Its signature "CLUNK! (pause) SCREAM!" seems to work as a kind of "Just look what we have in store for you!" sign for new visitors to the park. It shows the excitement of PKI in one, swift stroke (sorry, Mr. Lucas).

Snow in the forecast??? Could this be.....Winterfest?

^What a coincidence! I was born in Mason, went to KI in '72 (yeah, I'm old), then moved to Detroit (well, Canton TWP) in '73, and loved the heck out of our 6 hour drive down here to visit our aunts and cousins in the 70's. My fave trip was in '77, where I rode the Slide over and over for 6 hours with my cousins! I can still hear "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder blaring over some loud speakers that were on the walk-up deck of the Eiffel Tower. (Everytime I hear that song, I'm back at old KI, running for the big Slide). Then I'd go back up to the 313 and brag to everybody about it!

I'm not sure how peaceful the Paramount Story is going to remain, what with a new attraction featuring police sirens, helicopters and machine guns going in nearby.