Outdoor Man

Neutral Land: no theme created. They haven't done the best job keeping with their "area" theming for about 20-25 years.

i still find myself calling Boo Blasters, Enchanted Voyage... and great pumpkin coaster, the Enchanted Voyage line queue

yea, I caught that right after I hit "post" I like the echo effect...

OK, go ahead and say it will never happen, BUT- in 2005, prior to the CF purchase, if not mistaken FOF was scheduled to make one of the Paramount ride swaps. Wasn't Kings Dominion's FOF shut down in preparation for it? oops, Browntggrr- beat me to it. D'oh!

good TR. was there with my girls tonight also- nearly entire night spent in Snoopy Land as usual.

Wow, the topic Nazi's are in full swing tonight. Welcome to the Forums "the Racing Racer" (if that is your real name)... Only issue I have with this thread is awful spelling; the forums have a spell-check feature (though not a teacher I have a huge hang up on spelling, the social media age doesn't help either. Every time I see someone use "ur", "lol", etc... their perceived IQ is lowered). I digress. three improvements for 2013: 1) Demolition of the pile of wood on the north end of the park and announce its replacement(s) for 2014 2) RiverTown-themed, family-oriented dark ride in the former Crypt building. 3) refurbish the Carousel building/shelter. not necessarily the horses- but everything else. something coming soon that will cost a fortune and won't add a ride to the park- the parking lot is going to need to be resurfaced soon. At $12 a car, they may be saving their pennies already for that.

want to know how much they own? http://www.co.warren...R+BY+Owner_Name done in literally 2 minutes. oddly enough, not titled in the name of Cedar Fair, but Kings Island Company... interesting.

i'm going to put a vote behind this one and build on it by saying i'll bet the demise is announced along with a 2014 attraction in the coming weeks- also with the announcement that for 2013 a new dark ride that may have a family tilt to it in the former Crypt building.

Drop Tower has been operating for the past few weeks. It's been up and down. that's what I was referring to. It operates but seems to have more up/down issues than it used to. I mean, it was hit (by Doc Brown's estimate) 1.21 gigawatts of electricity... enough to send a person backward and forward in time- it's likely that they are band-aiding it to get through the season to do some tune-up work in the off season.

to someone's comment about Drop Tower's recent down time... If not mistaken, it got fried pretty good when it it got zapped by lightning a few months back. As for Vortex, they sometimes leave a train on the hill when they have shut down for the night sometimes haven't they?

the era of giga coasters... that ship has sailed; as has rumors about them.

i think i read about it being removed shortly after posting that. to the disney duplications: just using parks in the US. How many Tower of Terrors are there?: Two, and they're approximately 2500 miles apart on opposite coasts. Space Mountains: two. Small World: two. How many WindSeekers are there east of the Mississippi? Five. Dinosaurs Alive attractions east of the Mississippi: five. Vekoma Flying Dutchman Coasters cincinnati and east: three. That list goes on. Outside of Dinosaur's Alive- none of them are themed at all. Though Dinosaur's Alive is an intriguing attraction, I've been through it once and can't see myself paying the upcharge to do it again.

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Back in the 90's when the whole "goth" thing was taking off I saw two girls walking around in black clothes- pretty much from shoulder to toe. Which in an of itself wasn't too odd. Fun fact that day, it was easily 95 degrees with about 99% humidity. Now for the odd part of it. Girl #1 had a "spike'ish" necklace on, with a small chain that looked like a leash that went to a similar spike'ish bracelet on girl #2's wrist. I had a pictures of it up until about 2 house moves ago- I went up to them (I was a little more brash in my youth) and asked them- "can I take a picture of this, because when I go to tell my friends about this they are never going to believe me." Result: choice words and two birds.

went there today. the water park is very nice. the improvements over last year are good and useful. that being said, it doesn't fit the hype it spurned. Wasn't it supposed to have doubled in size? If its doubled from years past, i'll give you a crisp George Washington dollar bill. Action River is OK- though from the marketing of it I was expecting water park white water tubing. I think they added an entrance, removed another, and added a bunch of water lines to squirt yo in the face. It reminds me of the year that they were building DB, 2008- if not mistaken there wasn't anything new that year and the marketing engines shifted into high gear touting that the "Backward Racer" was being turned around so that it would be more like it was... thereby getting back to the original feel of the park. Everything was to be geared towards that... meanwhile they drained Swan Lake (is that what it was called?). Either way, the water park is a great asset. i have no complaints for the most part. working as a Marketing consultant for several types of widgets, its intriguing to see how hyped up the message was over what was essentially new paint, a new entrance, a new wave pool, and a BUNCH of new tubes.

Dogs that bite repeatedly are put down. nice analogy.

no 'peeing' match intended... an after tram from the main gate to the SC area after it closes would be nice.

i think Paramount should make a reprise visit to film an action movie where the coaster is systematically destroyed by Tom Cruise and the IMF for the upcoming Mission Impossible V. Really, think about it. if the coaster is going to come down, it should do so in a "blaze of glory"- = publicity for KI = $$$'s at the gates.

have they removed the actual ride itself? I don't recall exactly, but didn't they build the building around the ride- meaning they would have to modify said building to remove? I would love to see something "created" to take over the space that no other park has. just about all CF parks have WindSeeker. variations of delerium exist across the map. Firehawk is a "production" coaster. Kings Island isn't Disney; but one of the great things about those parks are- you can't find their rides anywhere else. and if there are variations, the theming makes it unique. I know, that's a tired conversation.

that strategy falls short with a 3 & 6 year old.

i understand where the tram between parks comes from. if you park at SC then go to the main park till close- you can't take the train back to SC and get to your car at 10pm.

I don't remember where I heard it- but the -then- Top Gun roller coaster was being measured for removal when GWL was built for a possible north entrance. i don't remember where I heard that- look at my posts from 5-6 years ago and I might have put that, i'm not going to look. I does sit back by itself and they don't go out of their way to make it look nice. I'm not lending credibility to the original post of this thread- but I think that it does fall in line with what has to be brewing. Whether or not those conversations took place or not is irrelevant... any park-going patron knows that something is going to happen to SOB sooner or later and that its removal will likely be coupled with some broader project in the area. Back in May, while in AZ, I watched from afar as a CF entourage looked over SOB in plain view of anyone walking by making hand gestures. then as they walked by I overheard "we have several months before that announcement will be made." They could have been referring to announcing that they were going to fix pot holes in the parking lot for all I know- but if I were a betting man I would bank on an announcement regarding AZ coming- and it will probably include information on the future of a certain 200 foot wooden structure.

to put in perspective- I think the main drive of the SC expansion was to bring the waterpark into the broader brand alignment of the other CF Soak City properties (naming and color schemes). as someone who has kids and has spent a deal of time in the kiddie pool section i have to say the BEST off-season project was the addition of the new sidewalks behind the kiddie pool area! doesn't take much to please me there.

that look on his face is: "snap the picture already..." They're a multi-billion $$ company with access to untold photos, and no disrespect to Don, but- is that the best they could come up with? something themed for a kids ride with a middle-aged man in the picture?

hmmm... skyine goid star blue ash price hill... gotta go with price hill chili