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No, but it could be a sign of things to come. KD has free Halloween Haunt with a pass or admission this year I believe.

Great photo KIFan73, and great topic idea! Currently I don't have the majority of my pics from KI on this laptop but heres one of my favorites from one of my park trips this summer. I went to Holiday World for the first time, and encountered a long, boring drive to an over rated park where a bad experience and bad service awaited me. However, sometimes you take a photograph that can completely turn your day around....this was one of them...

This is by far the coolest thing in the catalog... I knew they made the double like the zodiac at KI but I had no idea they had a triple! Does anyone know if this one is still operating at one of the great americas or which one it was at? I don't think any of these are around anymore. I know KI's was relocated to Australia's Wonderland (as was Flight Commander (seems everything in that spot at KI ended up going to AW)) and then relocated to Malaysia where no one knows if its operating or not.

It wasn't the cable snapping that severed her feet, it became wrapped around her feet, then when the ride dropped...

Wasn't he supposed to retire and decided to stick around to watch over the PP acquisition? I say can both him and falfas.

You could be on to something, we could be receiving different names however I've noticed that PKD tends to do a lot of press releases much earlier than KI in recent years. Typically their fearfest and most recently, Halloween Haunt press releases came out way before Kings Island's. PKD already announced (along with Carowinds) that next year Halloween Haunt will be included with a season pass and admission as well. It could be a sign that we are getting different names, however at the same time I wouldn't be shocked if they were the same. Cory and I were discussing the other day as to whether or not the mini cooper cars would have to be changed around or made to look different. Since the mini cooper (I assume) is seperate licensing than the Paramount/Viacom licensing, then I doubt that they would have to be changed. I do however wonder if they will have to be altered so as not to resemble the cars from the movie. IMHO, they should finnally repaint Top Gun. Give it Orange Track and Black Supports and call it The Bat or "Return of The Bat". Hell, even maybe "Son of Bat".

This may seem like an odd question, but I was wondering if anybody knew. I always remembered from growing up in the 90's, popping in a warner brothers movie in the VCR and seeing advertisements for Six Flags parks. I specifically remember a VHS tape my family had of one of the Batman films advertising the inverted Batman: The Ride rollercoasters at various Six Flags parks and the Penguin's water ride at SFKK. Back before Paramount was purchased by Cedar Fair you used to be able to watch an advertisement on the main Paramount Park's site that was a general advertisement for the PP parks across the country. The video showed various Paramount films such as Crocodile Dundee, Top Gun, Star Trek and then cut to clips of the rides and attractions corresponding to the movies. My questions are, does anyone know what commercial I'm talking about? It started with "For over 90 years the movies of Paramount have made you: laugh, scream, etc." and ended with "Experience the magic of the movies at one of the Paramount Parks across the nation" it then proceeded to show a map that included all 5 pp parks, bonfante gardens, and Star Trek: The experience. Does anyone know if this was shown nationwide? Also, prompted by watching Tomb Raider while sick from work today, I was wondering if PP ever did the pre-movie park and attraction advertisments like Six Flags and Disney did that I mentioned earlier. Anyone remember anything?

While, not the case with Tomb Raider, the theming on IJ was kept up....just most of it was never installed. Well....the headlights don't work anymore, the on ride sound is gone, but the police sirens came back after not working at all in 2006 and the smoke before the tunnel worked....nevermind. Ironically, most of the theming on KD's and Wonderland's IJ has been kept up last I heard. Given CF's track record with theming, even if TRTR or whatever they call it gets a theming overhaul, i dont expect much, nor do I expect it to consistently work. I can see it now.... TRTR is Disaster Warehouse, with a strobe light up top.....and thats it. Little Known Fact....the "fishtailing" effect on IJ is there, its only prevalent, hardly at that, in the rear seat of the last car. It was just way overhyped.

I havent been able to find much information about it to write an article on it yet.

Who did? The one next to Kroger's or Island Mini Golf, the former place by The Beach?

Not only was it too small....but its gone... Queen City Discovery - Island Mini Golf

I would not walk on the land of the old Ludlow Lagoon today its a toxic waste dump. It has been covered up with a lot of dirt so not much to see anymore. Are any remnants of the park still standing? I kind of like exploring abandoned amusement parks... http://queencitydiscovery.blogspot.com/200...01_archive.html

I think thats an excellent idea. I would paint one train blue and gold for the blue angels, representing the United States Navy, and another train red and white for the thunderbirds, representing the USAF.

I'd still rather see Tomb Raider go western and fit in with Rivertown. Just set out that old cigar store indian in front of the cave.

Well the last time I was in a Sunoco, the one adjacent to Kings Island, was this morning to buy coffee and the woman who rang me up spoke english fine. Bought gas today on the way at home at a BP in Fairfield, the gentlemen had a southern accent, yet I could understand him. Now, I don't know what a "slurpee mart" is <G> but I fail to see how you have any point. Down the street from me is a local gas station called Gas Depot, not affiliated with any major chain. It's quite a convienient place, and locally owned. The gentlemen who runs it speaks broken english, as does his wife, the other employees speak it alright. The owner happens to be my neighbor and I've known him ever since he moved here, became an American citizen (a day which he was VERY proud), and open up his own business venture. I fail to see how anyone with a strong accent is any less American than you and how they are hurting the economy, let alone how your rant about "slurpee's" prove... I think you should settle down dude, for all we know this company may work out well for Kennywood, an already great park.

Which even if they are re-used props, if done properly and maintained it could be a fresh, new look for the ride. I just hope that if there is going to be theming, the lets give the park the budget to maintain it. However if disaster transport is any reflection of CF's attitudes towards maintaining elements of theming... I personally think they should take all the western themed stuff from Geauga Lake's top spin and throw it in there.

Same year of my last visit too.

Carowinds is an excellent park and Top Gun: The Jet Coaster is one of my favorites! I look forward to seeing more pictures Vortex!!!

Why does selling it make more sense? Without the proper figures and information I fail to see how it makes any sense to sell Star Trek the Experience. For all we know it could be very profitable and beneficial to the company. Kinzel has not expressed any interest in selling it or mentioned it being a burden in any of the conference calls. For all we know it could be bringing in some profit for the company.

Seibert took it with him when he left, along with some other stuff.

Hey there Raptor Jo and welcome to KICentral! That pr guy who was speaking was Don Helbig and with him was Ryan Suhr who I believe was speaking tonight too, for KICentral. How was the party and the speeches?

Anybody know how KD's was compared to KI? Until I saw those recent pictures in the historical gallery and read train drivers story I never realized how extensive KI's Wild Animal Habitat was. It looks even better than Animal Kingdom down at Disney. What was the main reason it was removed? Cost and upkeep? I really wish I had gotten to experience it, but at the time I did I was too young to remember, atleast the mono rail will hopefully see some new life at Jungle Jims. I would love to see what positions as far as working with the ride they'll be hiring for once it gets close to opening.

Wow! Train Driver I am glad you joined this site and have contributed these stories. I knew the WAH was big, but not that big. I had no idea it had such an extensive collection of animals nor did I know that ride operators controlled the monorail trains, i thought it was all automatic! Since you have some extensive knowledge maybe you'd be able to help us out with some of these recent pictures from Jungle Jims... I stopped by on my way home from work this afternoon to see if any progress had been made, there wasn't much to report. My friend was supposed to be gettng married here in Nov. but I haven't talked to her in a long time. Obviously the monorail was not done like she claimed it was going to be by Nov....maybe she meant NEXT year. Anyways heres the pictures from 12/7/07 Here's a general overview of the approach from the starbucks station to the main station/transfer track area, the highlighted areas show were track and supports have been laid. No new track or supports have been added, nor has that crane been moved since I was last here in September. Look how close some of the transfer track footings come to the road parking lot... I thought they were having new track manufactured, this random piece was just sitting in the parking lot right next to my parking space. TrainDriver, is this the same kind of track that was at Kings Island if so, could this maybe be a piece of original track from KI? I just snapped these while I was driving and wouldn't go any further from the parking lot into any sort of construction area but near where the above piece of track was laying...monorail parts perhaps? This curved piece of track was added to the exit track from the starbucks station Thats all I got for now.

Oops forgot to post the link... http://www.KICentral.com/history/photos/th...ls.php?album=12 AWESOME 1974 photos of the monorail.

^heh, well I guess Reclaimer said it best...