Gordon Bombay

Dont forget Fun Spot in Angola! I remember while visiting some family in Fort Wayne a few years ago there was an article about how six flags never did anything with the Old Indiana property and was considering building a park near Fort Wayne since the area was growing so much at the time, I remember my relatives being so excited. Like Delorean Rider said, its all about location, if you build in Indiana you may not have harsh local competition but CP and KI, and yes sometimes even SFKK due draw people from that state.

Vortex would have to be my least favorite, I'd rather ride SOB on a wheel seat in its opening season than Vortex.

As I entered the park this evening to meet up with Boddah and Dane I was greeted by a familiar sound and sight... Cant wait to give it another shot, KI's maintenance teams are among the best in the industry, I'm sure they'll do a fantastic job.

PM sent to you Elmer.

Elmer give me a second to switch computers, I have the archived site bookmarked and have lots of info on Surf Cincy if you need it as well as hundreds of pictures!!!

Theres no confirmed date on when SOB will be re-opened but theres a good chance it could be open for your visit, as for Flight of Fear I would give it another chance, in 2001 the ride opened late because it received new trains and no longer has the over the shoulder restraints, it now has lap bars and is one great ride!

They werent really tearing up the track, they stayed as 4 row trains for quite some time.

Ha. Well from what I saw yesterday 4 people actually were on SOB yesterday. Four employees, not guests from the general public.

KICentral every now and then holds meet ups traditionally on the last day of operation and every now and hten throughout the season where we have two meeting times near the eifel tower usually. If andy of you enthusiasts have the chance to go to Beast Bash this year, it is a great time, last year myself, Boddah, Dane, and Zoso, were invited as guests to that event and it was the perfect way to wrap up my summer last year. Brian, Russ, and Russ' wife really do an amazing job coordinating and organizing the event.

Paramount also launched their fireworks from a location further away from The Beast or The Racer.

With all due respect to Mr. Waring, he has a great site, but he did not take all of the pictures, a lot of them are compiled from other sites whom he has given the proper credit.

Uh, in response to the OP has the park said the ride is going to open in the next few weeks or so? I dont think so, just because it is testing doesn't mean those test dummies will be replaced by human beings in a few weeks.

The WHOLE tunnel isn't lined either, theres just one strand of maybe 10 lights, just a few, not a big deal.

KI's (an earlier Gyro Drop model before PKD's and later model after SFKK's and Carowinds) was still closed today.

King Cobra is still at the park, just not where it once was since that land has been occupied by Firehawk, i believe this was said at the last SOAR.

Or any time in the future? No matter how distant, or soon. If recent reports from up at GLP prove to be true, I'm sure that incident as well will put further delays on Son of Beast's opening.

I bet this wouldnt have happened if Linder owned the park and they listened to the food services employees more often.

No Crystal Balls here.

I hope this isnt a sign of metal detectors to soon come to CP as well...

It was borrowed footage from TopGun1993 that he shot at one of the events we were at back in 06

What is the trend? Less guests each year....so CF responds by raising prices and putting less into the park?

Nice find tom, thanks for sharing! If you look closely though you can see that the log flume, hot air baloon, and train are all from footage shot at Kings Island.

Like Boddah said, calling the KI GR office will certainly give you all the answers you need and im sure the park is more than willing to help you and your young ones be accomidated. However with all due respect, and this is just an honest question, wouldn't it be much easier and less stressful to maybe get a sitter or a relative to watch the infants while you take your son to celebrate his brithday? I just think that might free up some stress and time. I hope your son has a great birthday, happy 5th birthday Joe from all of us here at KICentral!

Because the massive conglomerate that is nickelodeon is not in any way going to attract people in any way. Wheres the logic? Nickelodeon obvioulsy reaches a larger market and is more commonly found in many areas of profit and merchandising in all kinds of markets, how would Cedar Fair not profit from this? "Hey kids, we removed all the Nickelodeon stuff youve seen on tv, now we got snoopy! Oh, you kids these days dont know who that is? Well yeah, all that Nick stuff is gone, come to our parks!"

GWL stands for Great Wolf Lodge, i think chef is trying to say he prefers the waterpark at the GWL to the waterpark at KI, I do as well.