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Im personaly more of a fan of resturants like Crown Colony Reserve or Coasters or Midway Market that are different than resturants outside the park. Kings Island needs a nice sit down resturant, but they dont need another chain resturant. Lets see they have Subway, Chik Fila, Skyline, Larosas, why not put a Mcdonalds in and you would basically have a nice selection of fast food resturants in the park.

One question I have about GWL is does this one have a family style resturant like the one in Sandusky? By family style I mean you pick like two entrees, 4 sides, and desert and they bring it out in huge bowls and platters and you share everything. The GWL has a resturant like this in Sandusky and is quite excelent, just wondering if I get to look forward to that or not. post 666 ewwwww

Well GL is going to get a $10 Million boost this year from Kings Island then. Cedar Point must be in some serious debt after building Millie, TTD, and now Maverick. Man how is that park even staying open. Im surprised they arent charging $20 just to park.

Interesting idea, so does that mean that Kings Island asked Geuaga Lake if they could buy X-Flight and that Cedar Fair had no input on that decision? Because some parks during hard times would find it dificult to add or improve anything if this truly was the case. While I do believe that parks receive funds based on their various numbers I do doubt that is completely what everything is based on. After all the press release discussed how funds were alocated by Cedar Fair to their individual parks, not the other way around.

Yeah this one is just a big larger than the Great Wolf in Sandusky. I would imagine once this place takes off and especially in the winter months you will more than likely see Kings Island bring WinterFest back.

Hmmm lets see RideWorld Thrillride UltimateRollercoaster are now all wastes of good URLs. Love the outdated content too. Great work folks.

I agree Mr. Fudd Nothing funnier than Fabio taking out that poor bird and breaking his nose. The pictures were great and he looked so thrilled. I love the tech that Universal uses especially on Spiderman, but still for my money The Mummey is absolutely amazing. That coaster is just insane, and the giant animatronics, the fire, the scarabs! That is in a league of its own. Also I have been on Dragster when the Canadian Soldiers invade Cedar Point. Now for those who dont know what the Canadian Soldiers are, they are also known as Glaynippers or Mayflies, basically they look like giant mosquitos and Millions of them hatch out of Lake Erie, breed for 48 or 72 hours and then die. Cedar Point is a magnenet for them because of all the lights and its location on the lake. Once they all die there are mounds of these things throughout the park that stand 2 feet tall. Anyways ridding Dragster with hundreds of these things smacking your face and body is not that fun. I recomend eye protection and not opening your mouth, unless you dont plan on eating dinner. When we got off of Dragster we had bugs splattered all over us along with little blood spots. Not a pretty site.

6pm tonight as well, cant wait to fight the trafic. 4 days off!!! I wouldnt look for anymore record breakers to built anywhere in the country. The era of building the biggest, newest, most records broken is gone. At least for now. I see no reasson Cedar Point and Kings Island cant coexist within the same company because like mentioned earlier they are different parks. Also Cedar Fair will not let any part of the former Paramount Parks deminish. That doesnt make buisness sense, especially as seeing they are starting a family focus at CP. So King Island fits that family market gameplan. Cedar Fair will do a great job with their collection of parks, especially with Kinzel on board for a few more years.

PointBuzz is normaly a day late and a dollar short, because they will not even allow specualtion on something regarding any of the Cedar Fair parks because of their relation with the company. Hence when ScreamScape broke the Maverick story with pictures of the artwork, Pointbuzz pulled the forum and banned the pics. Im not really a fan of Pointbuzz because they do not allow as much free speculation and discussion about the park or parks. Unlike PKIC, which has a great relationship with the park and always has exclusives. Here we are allowed to discuss speculation and rumors that tend to be true. If the tables were turned Pointbuzz would have pulled the forums discussing the removal of the SoB loop and also X-Flight coming. So just becareful what you read on Pointbuzz because a lot of it has been screened, thats why the community there is nowhere near like PKICs

This just brings excitement, because Cedar Fair is showing that they are obviously committed to improving the former Paramount Parks. Kings Dominion is getting a huge investment almost on par with Cedar Point and Kings Island is also up there. 2 Paramount parks in the top 3 of parks receiving money from Cedar Fair. I think this is a great sign of things to come for all parks within Cedar Fair. I would look for the $10 million to go towards relocation of X-Flight, painting and theming of X-Flight. Paint, landscaping, and general maintence throughout the park and also atleast 1 new resturant addition in the park. I think 2007 is going to be one of the best years KI has had in a long time and I think the park will look better than it has in a long time. Also Glenpc dont be affraid to post around here, we are all pretty nice. If you keep making posts like your previous other PKIC members will respect you because atleast you can support your opinion. Just one thing though, dont be skeptical of Cedar Fair, they are a tremendous company and they will be comitted to Kings Island and making it one of the best parks in their chain.

When a Tree falls in the woods and nobody is around does it make a sound? Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? Why do they have the same Avatar? These are questions that the worlds greatest philosophers have tried to answer, but have been unable.

Just some quick notes. X-Flight is coming to KI, very logical. For a company that is looking to cut costs and save money this makes perfect sense. Smaller footprint and less maintence costs at GL, which is struggling to reestablish itselt in the Cleveland market. Logistically this is going to be easy transportation from GL to KI and also fairly inexspensive for moving a coaster from one park to another. Will help boost attendance at KI which has not had a major thrilling attraction in a few years, this is not for famlies. KI is the #2 park under Cedar Fair, Cedar Point is still the flagship and always will be. Also what better way to help 2 parks and one with a major addition without spending a lot of money compared to building a new coaster from the ground up. Concerning the clearing of land. You can always make land flat with grading, so Im sure this piece of land will be as flat as the parking lot in which X-Flight orginally flew. Also it is easier to remove all trees, build the ride, and plant new trees. For a big coaster X-Flight has a pretty compact layout which would make it more dificult to build around trees, unlike a coaster like The Beast which is very spread out. Hold On Tight and Get Ready For X-Flight Landing in 2007 at Kings Island

I was not Offended in any way shape or form by Holiday Horror, but I thought it was a worthless attraction that added nothing to FearFest. I saw it more as people were bitter about WinterFest being cancled so they used some props and tried to twist it. It was a meet and greet and nothing more, entertainment level was 0 for me and for the roughly 12 other people that experienced Holiday Horror and Fear Fest with me. People say that I didnt get it, but I also say there was nothing to get. Great I can go talk to drunk Santa or his crazy elfs. Yeah thats fun and entertaining. Now if they would have made Holiday Horror an actual attraction or scare zone, with those same characters and more props I think it would have been very popular and also twisted. But instead Holiday Horror turned out like a half assed inside joke.

I will still love to see a S&S Screamin Squirel installed at Kings Island. Small footprint and still fits the family demographic. Who wouldnt want to stand around and watch that slowly flip over all day. Very cool.

Why dont you smash this rumor??? Or any other, Im waiting? Seriously though from what I have seen with the quick deconstruction of X-Flight at GL I would say that it could be on a truck and headed down 71 by the end of January.

Well I was calling for the Area 51 themed area as soon as the X-Flight rumors started. Glad to see other people feel the same way. Get some used military hardware, a couple Duece an a halfs and some perimiter security fences and youve got a pretty decent themed area. Some fresh paint, camo netting, a few food stands, and your new area is ready to go. I think you could widden the path that currently goes under Racer with some more Steel Trusses, put up a guard tower as you enter the area and its good to go. With high enough fences and trees you would never see the maintence buildings.

Yeah good thing they didnt go with the early intamin drop machines, those things are a capacity nightmare and take awhile to cycle. Glad KI built the Gyro Drop

I am personally glad the put Drop Zone in the front of the park. Gives the skyline a more agressive look, instead of being at the back of the park.

What kind of work was being done on the first hill? Where they on the track on the support structure itself. Also please eloborate on how you know its going to be awhile before they are complete. Was part of the track missing or the structure? Just wanting some details.

The entire area consisting of the never open food stand, the crappy euro bungee, and the laser tag building that just sits there looking worse and worse every year, refurbished. Seriously that part of Coney Mall is dead. A nice ride like a SkySwatter, Topple Tower, Jump 2 or a Screaming Squirle would go great there and would really improve that end of Coney Mall also.

Seriously probably nothing more unnerving than ridding a steel multi looper when it sheds a wheel. Bet that makes a heck of a sound and racked, with a real nice thud. I always thought it would be horrible to be stuck upside down partially through an inversion just hanging in your restraints. Thats one thing I have never experienced while ridding a coaster

A ride that truly lives up to its name... Well guess you could call it flying nuts and bolts, but I dont think that would sell to well. Just doesnt have the same pizaz as Chaos...

Well I personally converted my copy to Power Point so I can give an impromtu lecture on the various structural failures of SoB to any of the unsuspecting company that comes to the house this holiday seasson. Along with the popcicle stick mockups I have created of the broken bents, it is a pretty enjoyable presentation. Well about as enjoyable as an engineering presentation on failed roller coaster structures can be. Ill be here all week folks

You know its bad when the Chaos report is almost 3 times the size of the Son of Beast report. Still are failing fastners and bolts really that big of a deal? Still its a fun ride and the possible death or bodily injury makes it even more thrilling... Long Day at Work, Can Everyone Notice???

^ ^ Well Almost? Is something missing??? Just one of those days folks