Gordon Bombay

What are you talking about? I never said Tomb Raider wasnt a high thrill attraction, I personally love it. I was just saying IJ's lines rivaled its lines and IJ can be labeled thrilling too and that coasters are labeled thrilling, no where have I ever said "TRTR IS NOT THRILLING"

Listen closely to what your "sources" tell you, just cause you heard it from your sup or another associate doesnt make it true, not trying to be offensive just saying the general employess dont know crap, IJ was a multi million dollar attraction with lines the size of TRTR's and is a coaster, thrill seekers like coasters. Kings Island tends to hype things up a bit. No offense Jeff Seibert.

Still everyone seems to be missing THE POINT! Accelerator coasters are made with a special launch system to propel them to extremely fast speeds, and requires more room. An Xcellerator coaster will not be used to make a ride that goes 42 mph. You can do that with LIM's as demonstrated with Italian Job and save space, plus Xcellerator coasters take up a lot of room for inversions, why waste the space and money with the unreliability of an Intamin Xcellerator coaster when you can put in something more compact that gets the job done for a cheaper cost, that is how paramount thinks.

Ninja's right. They can but not as well as say a LIM coaster like FOF. Xcellerators take up a lot more room and use a system which is designed to catapult them at very high speeds, 42 mph is not a high speed and does not require the system an xcellerator coaster uses. Why pay millions to put in an intamin excellerator when you can save millions by using LIMs to launch it if thats what was decided. The parks do have a 5 and 10 year plan and an outlook on their future, what business doesnt, however, its unlikely that they know what attractions their getting. To decided what attraction their getting requires so much time and factors to take into consideration.

When did I say that? I said it would be cool... Yeah sorry about that, I thought you said Flume would suck to work.

And your proof that the ENTIRE ride will be retracted and a good dealof the structure re-worked? Waring, theres a sign outside of SOB that says it will be closed for teh rest of the season to start rehab early due to winterfest, whether they are re-tracking it or not is speculation on here, remember kids half the s**t you read on these forums isnt true or remotely correct.

Did Six Flags build a completely new park in that location or was it a park prior to SF buying it.

First off, you can tell hes full of crap and whoever told him that load of garbage is just messing with him because he claims it will go 42 mph and be an intamin accelerator coaster. Are you an idiot? The accelerator coasters cant have many elements added to them and theyre made to go at speeds from 70mph to 135mph. If its only going to be 42 mph then theyd use a different type of coaster so that way they could add possible inversions, and make it more compact. Like Roller Nut said, its way to early to tell whats coming in 2007.

Bonfante Gardens will most likely never be a Paramount Park, its too close to PGA, I believe the only reason Paramount manages it was to keep competition away from buying it and developing it. I wouldnt expect any new parks from Paramount or Six Flags, In an articel my unle sent me from Fort Wayne, SIx Flags discussed building a park there, however its unlikely to happen, six flags doesnt have the money at all.

For the last time, we will not see any Intamin Xcellerator Coasters that will break height and speed records at any paramount park in the near future.

Definently Zero-G rolls. As featured on my favorite coaste TOP GUN: THE JET COASTER!

Anytime, im just trying to spread the truth. People should be praising those trains rather than ragging on them.

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.

^You could stop being so stupid and rude. You do have to for the most part use proper grammar on here, read the TOS. I dont know what your problem is, but you keep making these boards look like a joke.

No one ever said you did.

Very well put CoastersRZ its good to see someone else is still in the right state of mind. Everyone complains that PKI's theming sucks. Well look at Universal and Disney......theyre theming deteriorates too......they just have more money to put into it then paramount parks do. Everyone complained about IJ's effects not working when it first opened........when Revenge of the Mummy opened there were entire rooms and scenes not working.

Yeah it is rough, hence the 5 rating for it and the audio warnings about its rough turbulance. But seem people just cant make time to listen or look. Im not flaming on anyone, but if anyone ever gets on that ride and comes off feeling like crap, its their own fault, they were warned.

Check your history books. Every major theme park adds new attractions or they die. This was done under Taft Attractions, Kings Entertainment and under American Financial. At one time there was no need for trucks to be brought in to do cleaning as there were high pressure watter connections throughout the park. Ecology has always come in each morning to squeegy off the puddles. I can tell you about the cleanliness at that time because I know what was expected. I remember Mr. Hooper (former CEO for the park) walking around and if he saw something on a patio he would clean it himself. That is the dedication that was shown. As far as running like crap. The honest situation is that the parks (all of them) lost money when Paramount took over. How I know this? Supervisor bonuses used to be based upon park profitability. A percentage was used based upon what your bonus rate was, what the parks profits were and what your two reviews were. The first time I ever remember supervisors not making bonus was the two years after Paramount took over. The water trucks do more than the pressure hoses and get the job done quicker. Just cause you didnt get a bonus the first two years paramount took over doesnt mean they made less money than KECO. They just bought 5 amusement parks, thats gonna set them back a bit so bonuses may be the last thing on their minds. Paramount has done more for the park than any past company ever has.

Exactly opposite. As soon as Paramount took over the park started to take a nose dive. They had little understanding of what it took to run a park. Cleanliness and maintenance meant nothing to them. The Ecology workers were on top of everything and keeping it clean. The streets would be pressure washed every night or morning. You can accuse KECO of many things, but not running a clean park is not one of them. Bull Crap, KECO kept the park looking like garbage and Paramount puts more money into cleaning the park than any previous owner. Every night trucks filled with water are brought in and every section of path is sprayed thouroughly then every morning when Im just coming in for work Ecology sups are already working on drying off the pathways and picking up what was missed. KECO made the park look like crap and ran it like crap. What did they do for the park? The Bat? Yeah that worked out well and accuse Arrow all you want, but the park rushed for The Bat to be built. Atleast with Paramount we get somethinge very year and int he past 3 years we've had two park expansions.

Exactly. Back when the park was originally sold, we thought that it was stupid and sounded terrible to call it "Paramounts" anything. LOL, then the Paramount execs showed up and we realized just how stupid they were. What are you people talking about? Paramount buying the park was the best thing to happen to it. When it was owned by KECO it looked like GARBAGE! There was gum and trash everywhere. Kings Island is much better off under a giant corporation then being independently owned.

Ahhh, my apoligies, I thought he said Wild Thorneberries would suck.

Who are you saying is an ACER? Im not.

Wow I love how you jsut assume you know what teh best to work when you dont know any of the people you work with or how the ride is worked compared to other rides. You say the Wild Thornberries ride would not be cool to work, yet its a very good ride to work with an awesome crew.

Read this once again, statements from a former ride op at LL telling about how they are NAD cars with PTC electronics, "clown"!

CHANGE!!! CHANGE!!!111 ???? I dont think I cant handle that! I hate that PKI is changing for the better to increase business, make more profit, and make the park generally better. Why cant they bring back the Eagles and make the park the way it was back in 1984? Waaahhh Wahhhhh Waaaahhh!