Thrill_Biscuit

Eleven long, long years ago, during a much, much different time.

My only trip to WDW was when I was eight. Most of what I remembered were legs and purses, because it was incredibly crowded (Easter time frame, 1977). I remember hearing the Mickey Mouse Parade, hearing the fireworks, and looking up at my mom, who was taking pictures with her Polaroid, way up there in grown-up-height-land. When I was actually on the rides, though, they were quite memorable (Mission to Mars, Dumbos, Haunted Mansion, etc.) That was just the Magic Kingdom (as long, and a little wider than Kings Island's parking lot), and it took us two days to see "everything," or so reminisced my Dad over Christmas dinner a couple weeks ago. I only remember how "TV-like" everything felt; like it was all part of the land from which all those wonderful cartoons came. At that time, though, Kings Island felt that way, too, and there was much more Hanna Barbera to watch than there was Disney, or so I remember.

And certainly the Monster?

I've seen a lot of asphalt trucks over there. A lot of 'em. Methinks the parking lot is going to be pleasantly comely ere yonder summertide!

On this New Year's Eve, as I've done across the eleven years I've been a member of this amazing site, I check the members' list, to look for names I haven't seen in awhile. Since so many milestones are coming up, I set the filter to posters who have more than 300 posts, yet whose last visit was before December 31, 2010. A picture is worth a thousand words, and your Thrill Biscuit can get a little sentimental, so interpret however you wish; but while doing so, please have a wonderful New Year, and may all of you (not just those in the picture), wherever you are, be blessed in 2016!

I know. Me, too. He's got bigger fish to fry up there on Mount Olympus anyway. [insert comical music bumper from "Laugh-In" here] Tb, who's also glad, say, 3G hasn't shown an interest. Yet.

Hey, wait a minute! At 9:45 in that video, a national (possibly even world-wide) celebrity just endorsed the argument that Racer is two coasters that mirror each other. Does that officially raise Kings Island's coaster count? Very interesting!

I had to read that again before I got the gist of it.

This off-season is quite a bumpy one! Were they thinking of moving them to their locations in more "touristy" states?

That giant lodge, over there beyond The Bat, will also turn 10. http://corp.greatwolfresorts.com/history

EDIT - Withdrawn. I was wrong. Wow, memories do tend to jumble with age. -Tb Time is an illusion. It goes by faster than you think it will. When I reached my 40s, spans of 20 years began to seem like nothing. Don't dawdle, young ones: that line about "life passing you by" is no joke. Get your lives in order quickly, then savor every precious moment of every day. The mythic, false sense of youthful security will haunt you when it spits you out; and that's coming right up!

Glad all passengers are safe, and that the first responders are in constant contact.

Supply and demand, I guess. The consternation of flying is still palpable, even after fourteen years, and someone's gotta pay for the Thousands Standing Around...

I just enjoy watching the Canada geese moving in to keep watch over the park during those long, winter months.

I don't know which was more fun: emulating riding the coaster, or trying to spot landmarks to determine the age of the video...

When you break out GameMaker to design your own version of the Geysers at Whitewater Canyon ...with modifications. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I'm just waiting for Thrill_Biscuit to create an image of Gatekeeper themed to Gateway computers... Um, okay, I'll gladly oblige; it's the holiday season, afterall!

Great video, gforce1994! Yes, waiting in line for SpongeBob 3D was memorable for so many reasons. The trains racing 'around you,' one forward and one backward, while you listened to (or joined in with) entire families singing along with the eponymous character on that TV on the outside wall of the theater ("Steppin' on the beach, root-doot-doot-dooh; steppin' on the beach, root-doot-doot-dooh!") is a summertime memory that is both unique and priceless! I miss it.

For my vacation reading this holiday season, I'm weighing three epic reading options (and I'm not kidding here): Stephen King's "11-22-63," Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," or ...this thread! Five-thousand-seven-hundred-thirty-two posts about Kentucky Kingdom... on the top Kings Island fan forum? I've been ignoring something for too long, methinks.

This reminds me of the kinds of "pump-and-dump" schemes run by the "Sopranos" crime family, but with an almost hilariously huge bait fish of $3.5 Billion!. Introduce and over-hype a plausible prospect, get investors on board, play your hand as long as you can until the Street gets a whiff of the fishiness, then sell-off and clean up.

I bug them at Guest Services so much, they never need to send me a survey.