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Does anyone know if someone has made an Enchanted Voyage ride layout like we've seen with Phantom Theater? I haven't been able to find one and would love to see the path it took through the building, especially since it was subdivided after Smurfs Enchanted Voyage.

There was a glitch that did that to a few items earlier in the day. One of the knights allegedly rose to $10k before getting put back down to the actual top bid price. I certainly don't think any of these items will go for above $10,000 — though some of them might have an even lower bid cap than that. We looked through some of the items around 10pm and the difference in prices was interesting to see. I wonder if there are any other items that also have old SDatHC props hidden under them besides the two ghosts from the beginning of the ride.

I think that is 100% what they'll be doing, it's just upsetting that they can't figure this kind of stuff out to be released in January. I'd love to see a big America 250 celebration as well. Someone either here or in one of the Facebook groups claimed that a higher-up or spokesperson said this will be the last year for Carnivale, but I think it'd be easier to revitalize the entire event (while keeping the name and theme) than to bring in a whole new one. I saw someone else say that Kings Island just brings the same back every year; but isn't that how seasonal festivals usually work at regional parks like Kings Island? As for the Passholder Preview hours, that email said they won't be published because the park isn't open to the general public. I believe they might make it "official" on the events page. If I saw correctly, Dollywood required their passholders to make a reservation for the 2026 Passholder Preview. I don't think that's what Kings Island should do, but they do need to find a way to make it less hectic and/or bring the crowds down. Maybe only have it open to those who purchased their pass in the first month of sales? That would make it more exclusive while rewarding those who purchase early. The Bands In Residence concert series would be very as long as they don't take away from the existing entertainment to do it. KI needs more entertainment offerings, not less. Bringing back stuff like the races and some exclusive events would be easy money for the park.

I've heard that one I-Street jazz song too many times. Even instrumental patriotic music (for the 250th) all season would be better at this point. Speaking of the 250th I wonder when they'll release the events and festivals calendar. It was released on March 4th two years in a row, but now I'm thinking they might still be ironing some details out. Some other parks don't even have events posted past Star Spangled Nights so far. Something else I noticed on the webcams last night was at least 10 cars driving through the park between 3:30-5AM (I work second shift so my sleep schedule's crazy right now). They all went to the building between Alien Abyss and (what I believe to be) a water tower. Does anyone know what that building is? I thought the maintenance and security offices were up near the front of the park, but maybe there's more back there?

Another sign of Kings Island waking up to start the season is here: the lights in the Royal Fountain have been turned on and are synced up with the tree uplighting along International Street. Tonight they are cycling through four solid colors and then twelve bouncing chase sequences. I suspect the fountain will be filled around the same time as it is every year. It will be nice to see what decorations are installed and when the park sign will finally go back up! We've been seeing the Kings Island medallions on each light tower since 2022, so maybe they'll change something up for 2026? Not too much, but I think some new decorations on the light towers would be nice.

That also means Six Flags could be taken over by private equity, just as happened with Busch>SeaWorld>United Parks. Taking a gamble on who owns and operates Kings Island is much riskier when the big operator playing field is so limited. Six Flags and Cedar Fair merged, Herschend is paying off their purchase of the Palace properties, and United Parks is already in the thralls of private equity. Enchanted Parks is also off of the table since they're already taking on the management of 6 Six Flags parks. Are there any other big North American park chains that I'm not thinking of? If this is just going to be an uphill battle then I believe the best way to stave off a potential takeover would be for the company to split itself into 2-3 smaller, more manageable chains. That 2-3 separate chains is also after the sale to Enchanted Parks. Kings Island could be the crown jewel of a new chain if they separated. As jzarley said, we've barely seen what Six Flags looks like under John Reilly and some of the other new leadership. Only 4 parks have been open for more than a few days in 2026 so far. The first couple of opening weekends have seemed to go poorly, but I think that's pretty standard for these parks.

I believe Adventure Port has the new brown metal bins. Camp Snoopy has some metal bins, but they also have some reskinned gray plastic bins. All of Area 72 has gray plastic bins if I recall correctly. Magic Mountain also received some new metal bins in their park entrance area for 2025. Carowinds might have gotten some for their Camp Snoopy. I know Cedar Point got some blue bins for the Main Midway. I meant to mention in my original post, but user Dancegames on Reddit made a digital version of the Worlds of Fun trash can stickers. I'm sure someone could easily put other park logos on it if you really wanted to. Image: u/Dancegames on Reddit.

Please, no more of the Fun & Only ad campaign (sorry to Fun & Only on here). They've gone through a few slogans throughout the years with A Wonderful World of Fun (1970-ish); C'mon Get Happy (1972-ish); Where the Magic of the Movies Meets the Thrills of a Lifetime (thanks Paramount); the Fun & Only (2010?); the Largest Amusement & Waterpark in the Midwest, which isn't really a slogan; and It's Amazing In Here, though I think that one also flopped. Kings Island should either play into the park name with "Where FUN Reigns" or go with something different enough from Cedar Point. I'd love love love for them to use the Wonderful World of Fun tagline again — especially since they have musical snippets of it from Fun, Fireworks, and Fifty. "C'mon Get Happy" would also be nice to see used again, though it might not fit as well as a standalone slogan (it would fit better as a tagline after the park name instead of on its own).

Now I understand what I was seeing. There was something behind the turret that was the exact same color as something below it. It does look like there is something either wrapped around the left turret or something is different (more than just paint) on the right turret. The two spikes near the peak are gone and it kind of looks like there has been some additional work to those top two turrets. I really want to say that the right turret actually looks to be down to the bare steel structure. That could be the different colors playing tricks on my eyes, but where the left turret looks like a white bucket the right one looks like a circular steel plate on top of a cylinder.

I wouldn't recommend doing landscaping in this weather (30F, high winds, and snowy), so I'll go with maintenance; although I thought most KI maintenance vehicles were pickup trucks.

If they choose to withhold construction in favor of the drone show then I could see a potential June or July opening, even if it's a small and lackluster coaster. Something I would like to see stay/brought back is the foliage currently present in Vortex Valley. That or some kind of nice landscaping and hardscaping package would make the area around/under the coaster look much better compared to what was there before. The park could also potentially move the drones to a different flying area depending on the criteria for where they can fly over. I can't imagine they use the entire Vortex plot for the drones when they mostly fly within a relatively narrow rectangle.

What's funny about KI using slogans is that they currently don't have one. Where parks like Cedar Point has "A Place Like No Other", Carowinds has "Where the Carolinas Come Together", and Kings Dominion has "Virginia’s Premier Destination for FUN", Kings Island's website just has the park name. I like the sound of "Where Fun Reigns" (although Six Flags might use the uppercase "FUN").

Adding to this, there are also a ton of white cars in front of the Antique Autos. There were more about 10 minutes ago and they might be SUVs, but either way I don't know what they'd all be right there for.

I feel like a moving walkway would only slow down operations in addition to being a relatively big project. As for the rest of Epic's problems, I don't know that there's an easy way to fix many of them. They could add more shows with simple sets to offset the massively tech-based productions in WWoHP: MoM and the Isle of Berk. A couple of relatively simple stage shows/musical revues would at least give them something to fall back on. One more thing: I understand that they probably have to use the full name Wizarding World of Harry Potter Ministry of Magic because it's probably a copyright/trademark thing, but it's far too long of a name to have for a land. Ministry of Magic is also a bad name for the land on its own, but I suspect that might change once they add a second ride.

My personal feelings about private equity aside (they're bad), they literally just love to suck the value out of anything they have stock in. Would bankruptcy help to do anything to get private equity out of a somewhat controlling share percentage, or would it just make it worse by possibly inviting more/other PE into the mix? If UPR does end up going bankrupt then I hope someone would be able to come in and take on some of their parks. I assume they'd go for Chapter 11 reorganization, which might lead to closing parks if they can't find a buyer.