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^The Kings Island jump was featured on the history channel special about Evel Knevel called "absolute Evel". On Robie Knievels site he has listed that he may soon attempt to beat the Kings Island jump and some other jumps of his fathers.....maybe he'll do another at KI!?

^Care to elaborate on how close we were terp?

^I watched ALL 3 videos of footage on you tube, at first i accidently watched the Disney stunt show and thought WOW THIS IS GREAT then realized it was disney, I then watched the paramount one at PCW and thought WOW THIS IS AWFUL, the story line was too hard to follow and boring, the motor cylces just drove back and forth. Definently not on par with Indiana Jones Stunt Show at MGM.

The train closes once its finished carting guests to and from the water park and what food places closed early?

^And I agree with you, while I do believe some theming has suffered, I said its nto a direct problem from paramount, its been fine at other parks, I do believe Paramount did great things with the park and made it great, better than it ever was and ever couldve been under KECO.

^Good point King, while the upkeep of theming has suffered at PKI it has not suffered at other parks, Paramount's Carowinds still has all its Top Gun theming working and on its other rides for the most part and is a well maintained park and the theming at PCW is very well up kept. I think the upkeep of theming at PKI has to due with the confusion as to whose job it is between too many departments who bicker over it. I think CF should keep the Paramount name as long as they keep up the theming and deliver movie quality rides, however they would have to pay Paramount for the rights so why pay to advertise for someone else? I think CF will drop the movie themes except for the Nickelodeon themes, if they can de-six flags geauga lake in 36 days i think they can de-paramount pki in an entire off season.

^You may think the appearance of the IJ cars wouldnt affect a potential BMW buyers decision but you think that way because you are a sensible person, not everyone has common sense. You wouldnt believe how many people have told me they wont ride The Beast anymore becuase I quote "I wont ride anything at Kings Island with the name Beast anymore after what happened to Son of Beast". Common sense tells the well informed person that an incident which hasnt had its full details revealed that occured on the Son of Beast does nto affect The Beast which is still being operated by the park and must be perfectly safe for me to ride, but not everyone thinks sensibly like you, myself, or the interpreter.

A couple of years ago when Boomerang Bay was in its first season ti was ranked by amusement today as the 2nd in the country right behind Disney.

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, if a piece of track where to seperate or break what would happen to the train would depend on how the track broke/what exactly it did, considering you dont knwo the details of what happened (not how the sensors, not censors work) you are just blabbing your mouth and spreading more rumors.

ohh.. well yeah, and most people that sue mcdonalds dont excersise when they eat the food, so they cant really sue. Most people ride SoB and dont readthe warning, so why can they sue? but i could see how they wouldnt want to drag on a court case. THey can sue because anyone whos willing to pay for a lawyer can file a lawsuit if they wish, but mcdonalds most of the time will chose not to challenge the legitimacy of their claims and just pay them to back off so they dont need to waste their time. Like I said, stop posting about nothing which you know about, the last 4 recent big lawsuits brought against mcdonalds were about food poisioning and improperly prepared and served beverages such as coffe that was way too hot.

Very well said Hank, its glad to see some people on here still post with intelligence and respect to the victims and park employees. I'm sick of reading disrespecful posts from people like the user above me. I couldnt agree with you more Hank.

^Most of the time the legal team will just settle with the person ahter than dragging on with the court case, most major companies do this too, mcdonalds for example, rarely goes to court with ayone even if the "victim" is a complete idiot. Vortexqueen, saying the riders had no sense is completely irational and insensitive to what happened to them! First off stop posting about things you dont know about, people have filed lawsuits against the park all the time particuarly about SOB, those lawsuits did not force the park to re-track it like you claim they did. The ride has re-ceived retracking and major maintenance all over it every year since it opened, it received the most work this year in an attempt to make it a more enjoyable ride, not to stop law suits. It has been confirmed that what happened on SOB was not a regular part of how the ride operates, so guests could not expect that, so saying they had no sense is completely stupid. Seriously, something serious has happened here and the details are jsut starting to unfold, stop being an idiot!

Currently at this time theres a lot of questions and rumros going around, please only post if you have something intelligent to add to the conversation. PKI is a safe park, American amusement parks in general are very safe places, the staff at PKI especialyl the SOB ride operators and wood coaster maintenance team are impecable employees just like the rest of the operations team at Paramount's Kings Island, I'm sure they did their jobs to the best of their abilities. The ride owuld not have been running that day if it wasnt safe, what happened was unfortuanate but what exactly happened is uncertain so lets all stop throwing accusations untill we find out the real truth. Like SOB_TOM said, the maintenance staff knows what theyre doing at the park, better than the average guest knows, and I can personally say as a former employee that SOB_TOM knows his stuff.

^Wasnt it Flight Commander, not the zodiac, that ended up there?

WWC during daily, pre, regular, and post season operation opens sharply at noon.

different rides have different lock out areas, for example, at The Beast and employee may go to the bottom of the first drop and retreeive something as long as he/she is arm's length away from the track.

^Did it carry any viacom theming or paramoutn entitys etc. ? Why was the contract not re-newed, why did Paramount parks want to manage it and when the 5 parks were purchased from KECO, why was Australia's wonderland not purchased?

^Finnaly, We Were Soldiers: The ride!

The recent SLC's theyve built supposidly have a better reputation since Vekoma has changed management.

Many people just find the extended suspension and negative g's of the slow ascents painful and forceful, but if you can handle them theyre fun, its definently worth a try, the theming (although not what it used to be) is still pretty good, enjoy your ride!

Great pictures Kenban, if you oculd can you post some more pictures of the forgotten sea world relics, those woul dbe realyl good to see. You should submit your thunderhawk picture to rcdb since they dont have an updated one with the new paintjob

bottled water is $3.25 not $5000.00

^The Aquarium and zoo I could see being more fun to take younger children to, granted PKI has some great attractions and rides for the younger ones, I'm not discrediting them at all, but I found it easier to take my 4 year old niece to the zoo one day than to PKI last week.

Vortex power hour better than The Beast!? HA! I think not! Not atleast when the 1337 crew is in over there and gets teh crowd shouting B-E-A-S-T whats that spell? BEAST! and "If your gonna ride The Beast clap your hands" and "Carwash". You arrow coaster employees are one tricky pony types, The Beast crew keeps it real!

^And is still there today, I rode it saturday night and saw it.