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Actually makes sense considering the increased traffic with Orion and those that will say "hey the line for that looks short compared to Orion" - then they get in the building

Loved this ride.

Place a piece of paper towel on the bridge of your nose. The paper will soak up the moisture.

"Drones, where we're going we don't need drones."

Yes - we want a "SHRUBBERY"

Great video and great content creator.

2 major parks looking at not even opening this summer makes the situation about masks seems even less important. It can always be worse. "Strap It On & Ride!"

Kennywood has on their calendar that they have cancelled their Halloween event and instead will just be open. I can see other parks following suit. https://www.kennywood.com/calendar

Last names a-d go to Orion, e-h go to Beast, etc.

Doing it the other way. Capacity for Orion is 1650/hour. Half of that would be 825/hour times 8 hours gives us 6,600 people to ride it per day.

Couldn't agree more:) Not trying to be mean. Watch Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. Good stuff.

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

I wouldn't say incredibly fast considering Jimmy Buffet sells out Riverbend in an hour I will say however that it does seem to be going smoothly. Kudo's to KI's IT department (would that be KIIT (kit) for short :))

You beat me to it True it isn't even close to being a active as KI Central.

pointbuzz.com comes to mind.

I got my email at 9:11am.

I should be noted that there was an update to the KI and CP app for androids yesterday. (However my vouchers showed up even when they did the 'test' earlier this week.)

Looks like they are aiming for 10,000 for each day. It will be interesting to see how the reservations fill up now that they are live. I'm expecting them to lax the 1 visit per season pass holder once they see what the demand is.

Mine showed up immediately. Waiting till 7/7 to make sure the kinks are out of Orion.

I believe Universal is selling masks for $6 or 3 for $15. Hopefully CF will follow suit (I would love a Beast one. Plus Cedar Point can make a 150 year anniversary mask. I would buy one just as a collectors item. https://allears.net/2020/05/14/news-universal-orlando-selling-hand-sanitizer-and-face-masks-at-its-retail-locations/

My wife heard a tip to put a napkin between the mask and the bridge of your nose. That way the napkin will soak up the moisture and your glasses won't fog.

Interesting how much things change in a week. Last week there was a post on facebook about KI and their new guidelines and it seemed about 50% of the people were complaining about having to wear masks and the other guidelines and had some supportive replies. I noticed one today and about 5% were complaining and very few of them had supportive replies. Looks like KI holding to their guns is working. Good for them. I've been outside working in the yard with a mask for 3 hours just to see how bad it would be and I was absolutely fine (and I'm over 50!) in 90 degree heat. People are generally resistant to change, they were that way with seatbelts in the beginning as well. Stick to your standards KI, there are people out here who support you for it and appreciate it.

I've been a programmer for over 25 years and I can tell you that test servers are tricky. Even when you duplicate the environment exactly there are still differences between test and live. Live has so many more variables that are not controllable (human users for example). They could have put the word "test" on the icons for the reservations (or a small text block explaining it was test) and simply removed that when they did go live. It would have cleared up confusion. In addition the link was never publicly released so they probably underestimated the number of people who would try and find a link. (I did make a reservation, but found it on a thread on this site). I probably would have done the same as them (and have in the past) but with clarification on the actual site the it was a "test" environment. Wouldn't have been a bad idea to keep it up (adding the "test" message) and make it public to get an idea of the demand. Also it would have helped people understand the registration process. Just my thoughts.

I ended up getting an email later in the evening notifying me that it was a test system and my reservation would not be valid automatically and to watch for when the reservation site goes live. Nice that they sent out that email to remove doubt.

As far as the deaths go There's "Tower Johnny" Also on Wednesday, May 18, William Dunn, the investigator from the Warren County Sheriff's Office received the autopsy and lab results. While no drugs were in John's system at the time of his death, he did have a blood-alcohol level of 0.21%, which is over twice the then-legal drunk driving limit. At the time, Dunn refused to release the autopsy report to the press. http://kingsislandghosts.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-truth-behind-tower-johnny.html#:~:text=A high schooler%2C "Tower Johnny,bare bones remain the same. and also Candy Taylor Just after this at the back of the park, Ms. Taylor, who was drunk, boarded Flight Commander at approximately 9:45pm. She rode by herself which later was determined to be the cause of her death. As the ride proceeded, she passed out (her Blood Alchohol level was 3.0. ) while flipping the ride upside down. Since her body was limp, she slid to the side towards the empty seat next to her and out of the over-the-shoulder restraint and lap bar. She fell 60 feet to the concrete below in front of eye-witnesses who were horrified. A design flaw in the ride was blamed. The ride was closed the rest of the 1991 season, but re-opened in 1992.