Thrill_Biscuit

People can find a lot of things when they go on a Kings Island 'Binge!' I guess the past-tense of 'Bing' is a homonym! I guess the recent Ghost Hunters episode really helps these folks along in their perception of our dear park. Oy!

[Frank Oz voice:] "There is no try. Do. Or do not. Roller coaster riding leads to pleasure; pleasure leads to thrill; thrill leads to funnnnnn!" EDIT: Oh, darn, there's no 'Yoda' emoticon.

EDIT: Beast Marathon. Can't do a 40th anniversary without one (even if it's only The Beast's 33rd anniversary).

Let's not forget the venerable "Scooby Doo" coaster, whose yellow beams were visible in a few shots of the show as well.

This one is going to hurt a little, because I really, really love AE; except for that awesome build-up to the...station!

I haven't been on it in years, but back in the Paramount days, on Flight of Fear, that pause between when the alien hum stops and the ride op says "clear".... an eternity of anticipation!

Actually, MeTV is a nation-wide network as of December 2010... Nice to see Bayern Curve, Keggers, Flyers and 'Tiques in action once again (at least on a 50" flat screen for the first time.. lots of detail I never noticed before, like the ugly green and brown water line on the flume.. yuck!) They seem to have cut out a bit for this airing (Alice's 'Crouquette' remark about ET, etc.), but a classic just the same!

Coming up on ME TV Cincinnati at 12:00. Digital channel 5.2. Never gets "old"!

Just crossed the wires... I'll edit with link shortly. Thoughts and Prayers for the Arlington, Dallas and Ft. Worth area residents... Link http://www.upi.com/T...97971333482677/ Now they're saying no damage to the park. Whew, but still praying for victims... http://www.breakingn...ngton-spokesper

It should be nice and full of peolpe, but with the warm, wet weather we've been having, the bees in Oktoberfest & Coney Mall will be Huge!! Just grab one by the legs and fly over the crowds, and you'll have a marvelous time! ( ) Kidding. Welcome!

Phew! Glad others are seeing it. I've seen unexpected characters on this site, but usually they get reported for their spam posts and are never heard from again!

A friend and I went there right after graduation... in 1987. Had a great time. Couldn't afford to go across the Interstate to enjoy a new six-inversion coaster at the time. I thought the waterpark would be there forever. Well, 27 years is a good run, I guess. I had hoped to go back again once more in my lifetime; perhaps with the kids... now, that one trip in '87 will have to remain the only one of my lifetime.. barring new ownership, I guess.

Try closing your eyes and turning your head to the left or right before and during the drop... Something like this happens ("Dang it, Jim, I'm a computer scientist, not a doctor!" )... anyway,If your visual reference doesn't match the fluid moving around in you semicircular canals (ears), then you should get that ol' feeling again!

And the air force's recommendation: um.... cut back on the Gs a bit, mate. Oh, and, well, while we still have electricity and computers let's run some bleedin' SIMULATIONS every now and again before we go to full production, what? Jolly good.

I would Interpret that as a very cerebral response! Bravo! Having not ridden the coaster myself, I can gladly extend a warm hand of welcome! Enjoy!

OH YEAH! Movie themes! Thanks fw I almost forgot! Theme from Superman, Breakfast Machine by Danny Elfman, Italia from the Talented Mr. Ripley by Gabriel Yared... I could go on for hours!

Arrrgh! Aye, but for a bit o' rum did this poxy cur throw about like a beached octopus! Arrgh! 'e shoulda walked the plank, the bleedin' scallywag! Arrrrrrrrgh! Tb, in a Geoffrey Rush kinda mood today. Arrrrgh!

"Sir Duke," a 1976 song by Stevie Wonder ("You can feel it all over!") always reminds me of Kings Island. One of my most memorable trips was a couple years later, in 1978, when we lived in Michigan for awhile. That song played on the radio like 3 times during the trip down, and then it was blasted over the loudspeakers that used to stick out from the Eiffel Tower's 50' deck. The horns and awesome Nathan Watts bass riff in that song sound like a good-time parade, which helps tie that song to my visions of the park in it's glory. Also "Telephone Line" by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) always reminds me of Kings Island, because it was the song that was playing on my mom's stereo the morning of my first-ever airplane flight, from Detroit to Dayton, to come down to my uncle's house in Mason for a special weekend at KI.

♫ ..."Ding dong"...♫

For some reason, when I started reading this thread, the song "I Adore Mi Amore" got stuck in my head. [think deeeeep] They repainted the Eiffel Tower way, way back in the middle of the last decade. Since that long-distant, faded era, not much else seems to have happened to the park's signature landmark. The park, however, is so, so much different in many, many ways.

Those are some serious 'Martin Van Burens"!

Thanks for the memories! A couple friends of mine from Miamisburg and I went there on a cool, off-and-on rainy day that year. I remember hearing "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News (which they hyped as being from some movie that was soon to come out called "Back to the Future" ;-), and "Cannonball" by Supertramp on the radio while we waited in the traffic line at the parking lot gate (both songs forever remind me of that particular trip). I was kind of freaked out at the green and brownish, frothy foam in the water on the new WWC. It was pretty gross. Over the years, it seems I never saw that again (thankfully!). The line was long and slow through the woods. No 'pay-to-soak' attractions; just a nice, long wait for what turned out to be a pretty cool first-time ride that, despite many signs warning that "You will get wet on this ride!", left me only slightly soaked on one shoulder. (Guess I was that good at dodging water...) I remember laughing at some of the clever -- albeit, in retrospect, criminally vandalistic -- replacements some bored (yet disrespectful) guest (jerk) carved into the signs, especially for the word 'wet'. I was surprised at how quickly park property was already being defaced, given the newness of the attraction. Once again, Standbyme, awesome!

EDIT - Deleted. It IS easy to get political when discussing this.

This is of great sentimental value to me! Thanks for posting! When I was very small, my mom's best friend, who knew I was just fascinated with Kings Island (at 3!) brought me a copy of the original map and my mom hung it up next to my playpen (yes, that small)... we lived in what was once the little white house across from the old fire station in downtown Mason (all four are gone now - Mom, her friend, the house, and the old fire station) - but the memory will live on. Awesome find!

Darn scientists! Hurry up and invent the food replicator!!! Speaking of synthetic food... I bought what looks like Spam, and what looks like Chili from a local discount grocery 'pallet' store. I can hardly taste the difference, and it's pretty cheap, too! However, nothing beats the real thing.