Gordon Bombay

Well, that S&S ride that fell apart was called "VertiGo", not "Invertigo." VertiGo history at Cedar Point The ride was located in the park's "challenge park". *images from www.ultimaterollercoaster.com Invertigo is the standard name for the face-to-face inverted boomerang from Vekoma, so I imagine they either pay vekoma the right to use the name or some other deal. Vekoma Invertigo

Notice they still have Survivor the ride....I wonder why the name of that didn't change and if the ride is still interactive and relative to the t.v. show.

It was meant to be a "B )" to make my second point. To build on what Brown said, not only was the passenger intoxicated, but it was the operation policy recommended by Intamin that allowed her to come out of the car.

Looks like fun... I don't remember seeing this when Boddah, Dane, zoso, and i went in 06.

Where has he stated that he's never ridden a stand up coaster at all before? Edit: Re-read what he said, *slaps head* for reading too fast, sorry cory.

Just as safe as the Flight Commander. Just had to put that out. A-) You're not old enough to even remember Flight Commander or the accident. B-) You obviously don't know anything about the accident.

I think photoshop is alright unless your trying to forge it as a true media depiction or release by the park, which in that case is a debate of legality and ethics. However, I think we should have a photo shop competition and topic again! I have gotten better at since our last topic when I was the "MS paint Master!"

Klockster, I accept your Lego challenge! There should be a KIC sponsored lego challenge. RZ, no offense, but it was kids like you and my friends when I was younger that annoyed me with this.... Random colors!? Come on, there needs to be some sort of pattern of uniform color scheme here!

^Thanks for posting that, that is awesome. Does anyone know if the PGA theming deteriorated as bad as Kings Island's. Note that in that article there is no such thing as the F-14 Phantom, its the F-14 Tomcat that was featured in the film and at the time was the Navy's primary fighter aircraft. Them saying the "Phantom" twice makes me wonder if they really though the movie feature F-4 Phantom's considering Kings Island's Top Gun has that big image of an F-4 Phantom behind its station. (In the billboard before the queue line they have F-15 Eagles flying above an aircraft carrier, the F-15 Eagle was primarily used by the Air Force and the carrier variant version never made it past the design phases.

With what Monroe said, I'd even wager that without the restraints on Vortex, you'd be falling out like Bavarian Beetle's pennies on those corkscrews after the block brakes.

Can you post it? I'd like to see it I'll try and dig up the picture when I go back to Cincinnati, although its a little embarassing, i was like 11, had buzzed hair and looked like a dork. I don't have the Titanic anymore, it was broken apart and it's lego bricks salvaged to make the U.S.S Enterprise.

Lego's were by far my favorite toys as a kid and I wish I still had the time to build with them today. I have my dad's blocks from the early 60's and a bunch of kits from the 90's. I remember every month my mom and I would send a picture off to Lego Magazine of something I had built to try and get me a spot in their section where they display recent creation's by kids, and every month someone else had built the same thing, but better, and got featured instead. I still think my Lego recreation of the Titanic was the BEST ever.

Topic already being discussed in great detail here.... http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?...&start=1110 I would add your above post to the discussion.

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Did you work there when they had the foot barrels installed on the bottom of the lap bar restraints? It's kind of hard to put a back pack on the floor there. I also never understood the backpack at the park idea unless you were a parent or something, if I ever have a bag with me, it's usually a camera bag and I reinforce the padding around the camera inside so I can take it with me on a ride (depending on the ride of course), not to mention I secure it, having first hand seen what happens when even a small point and shoot camera gets away from a guest and goes backwards.

Brown, before you criticize anyone for making a typo, maybe you should read the article first.... The article is talking about the renewed popularity of Draughts, or more commonly called "checkers". It was really bad last season, but this season Carowinds officials are so worried that so many folks will be staying at home to play Draughts that they won't even have enough guests in their park to warrant opening the water park. You know its an off day when The Interpreter makes a typo

They could be correct, but they're not really clear, usually there is more than one anti rollback on a hill, unless he's referring to a single set of anti rollbacks and each link on the rollback's failing.

My only problem with the name Flight Deck is that I think of an actual Flight Deck....an aircraft sitting on the top level of an aircraft carrier. Sure, that works fine for Top Gun's theme....but what theming did Top Gun really have anymore? Some billboards with the planes on them I guess. But I think it would have been better just naming it a generic CF hawk name like "Skyhawk" and giving it some new paint.

I can answer yes to both of those... (Although, I usually think of "Congo" in terms of the Michael Crichton novel first, and the Paramount movie second...) To add to your polling, though, I wonder how many know what a "Risk" board is! I can answer yes to both of Elmer's questions and I can accept your challenge to play Risk JZ!

Sure, they're routinely revamping the site to be in line with the other Cedar Fair websites

haha thanks KIBeast. We're all pretty busy this of fseason, I'm sure everything will be taken care off shortly. -Gordon Bombay, who, on 3 hours of sleep, is waiting for a philosophy test to begin, then will fix names in the photo gallery.

Thats why we have an "Anything Else" forum. Users on here have many more common interests besides Kings Island. Edit: "Anything Else" is what it used to be called, now its called the "Off Topic" forum.

As stated, twice, on page 2 (of 3) in this topic...

Well, now that we're all getting along. I'm with you KIfan......back to the discussion at hand... I know recently Valleyfair had some trouble with folks they found in some tunnels underneath their park.

If I am a park owner investing quite a good deal of money in a new product such as B&M's new (at the time) stand up coaster, I'm expecting it to be a good product that will draw guests and keep them coming back, guests don't do that for a ride with a rough, crappy reputation just as B&M did not go around at the time saying "Hey we got a cool new design, but its our first so EXPECT it to be bad". You have a lot to learn.