Gordon Bombay

Yeah, I know. But when I saw that Winterfest was coming back, I just had the thought "Maybe Paramount Hired Someone that really understands what running a theme park means." But then it actually is probably a learning curve item. Granted, Taft Broadcasting did not know everything when they opened Kings Island or Kings Dominion. They had to learn through trial and error. The thing that I had found sad with when Paramount took over was that they attempted to reinvent the wheel. I never have understood why companies have felt that they need to not learn from the lessons that their predeccesor had already learned. Your always complaining and whinging about how Paramount Parks is such an awful company and cant run theme parks, yet obviously theyre doing pretty darn good for themselves. Paramount has put more into the park than any past company.

Those trains do more harm than good, you can feel that same bumpiness when the trains leave the station on The Beast and when they run through the brake shed, just be glad those Premeir trains are holding you in so tightly. No they cant use FOF's trains as those are for a smaller gauge of track, once again the problem with SOB is the track not the trains, if the track was fine and the trains were the big problem something wouldve been done and thousands of dollars spent on re-tracking wouldnt have had to be done. Think about it. What are you guys talking about, Its that we're trying to make a normal wood coaster go 80mph. If you tried to make the first hill on any of our other wood coasters 218 and have the coaster go 80 it would be just as bad. And what do people mean by suspension. There are no shocks, no struts, no rubber tires on these trains or any other trains. BTW heads up, fof runs on tubular steel rails with nylon/polyurethane wheels. Oh and cobra didnt have problems, it was just old and togo was no longer in business. Plus they needed to spice up AZ some so they took it out. I never had a ride on Cobra that I didnt absoultely love. RIP Cobra, Maybe I'll find love in Skyrider because everyone knows that we're not gonna finde it in Shockwave. Thats not necesarily true I love how you assume any high speed wooden coaster would be bumpy, yet you dont know that, SOB is just due to its design, not the trains. And, if you read correctly, you wouldve seen that I didnt say FOF trains could run on SOB.

Shaggy, thats the best darn post on this whole message board ever! Great job, compiling all that information, i really enjoyed reading that, plese share any more random facts you have ! Great Job! Only one grammar error too!

Because it's darn good thats why. Ive ridden tons of wooden coasters as well as Legend and Raven, none have come close to The Beast. Theres just something about the tunnels, the woods, the drops, and the speed.

I thought you posted a TR, this is your only trip this year!?

NOOOOOOOO! Your kids enjoy a ride with *GASP* HB Characters! Erhmm..Hanna-Barbera is still around most 8-17 year olds know about the Jetsons and Flintstones so dont act so surprised. If that were true, and HB was as popular as it says it is, then it would be HB universe next year, not Nick UNiverse.

^You are correct sir, and they hated the Kings Island inn.......there were spiders in the bathtub

Actually he did ride it, He simply refused to ride without the camera being tested. No he did not, he did not like to ride coasters, the actior not the charecter. If you remember they race while Mr. Brady is at the meeting, I remember seeing this epsiode with "pop up Brady" and it stated that he did not like riding rollercoasters.

The Waynes World themes featured restauruts themed to Stan Mikita's donuts, the Hurler rollercoaster whose station looks like a paramount sound stage and whose PTC trains had flames painted on the side like the mrth mobile. Thats all I remember from when I was there.

Taft Broadcasting produced both the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family, thats why both shows filmed episodes at Kings Island.

^Stupid Jan, always messing up the plans of the family, that screw up with the Yogi poster shouldve been the last straw! Jan out, cousin oliver in!

Ahhh old school Kings Island....I remember dropping some of my first dope jams and poppin beats on the smurf ride......ahhh.....the good ol days. DID YOU KNOW.... That, the guy who played the dad on the Brady Bunch didnt like the way the camera looked on The Racer train and asked for a test ride of the train before anyone rode, when the train came back the camera had fallen off into the car, had the cast ridden it.....they couldve been dead. That wouldve really messed up Marsha's nose!

Anyone got a picture of the PTC trains with the merth - mobile flames on them?

Theres going to be Santa's Slay, a new interactive dark ride combining Christmas and Haloween in which an evil santa is on the loose to steal christmas and murder the elves! (Not recomeneded for children under 13) This will be made by the same company who produced Feafest and The guy who played Ernst will be taking part in the show on Friday nights!

^The guy you quoted said million.....not billion.

Im just messing with you, SFOG is a nice park, its gotten A LOT better and Goliath looks cool, however SOB isnt going anywhere.

Its still easy to find out who the person is....if the mods know PKI doesnt want that posted they can easily turn over the ip adress and name of the employee involved.

Now that the son is asleep we need to gather him up and put him up for adoption. I'm sure there is a park somewhere that can take him under it's arms. Maybe SFOG would like to adopt it so they can have even more crap.

^There was more theming originally.

Ok so it shoots you off at the beginning yet your still swinging, soit begins different but most of the ride and the end are the same?

I was reading on Carowinds Zone about how the Hurler rollercoaster there used to be themed to the movie Waynes World and that in 1999 all the waynes world theming were removed from the ride. Does anybody have pictures of what the ride looked like with the WAynes World theming?

^That would be pretty cool, doesnt seem feasible or tangible though but that would be really cool if you could get to the top and see another one at GL but arent they too far away?

^They already do, in fact they had a better year than CP this year and beat CP in attendance last year and possibly this year, plus Kings Islands childrens area is rated #1 out of every park in the United States. The U.S. may not beat CP or Universal in evey aspect but they do a darn good job in other areas.

I work at beast, usually what most employees say is just crap heard from rumors. Its like that game telephone it starts out with one thing then ends up being another. 90% of the general employess dont know anything about whats coming in the future and how the park runs its business against other park chains. Some of us know stuff, most of us dont.

What are the chances this same topic will be started again again over the nenxt few weeks?