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It will be a V-shaped bridge based on a rendering on the aquarium's website: http://www.newportaquarium.com/What-to-do-in-cincinnati/New-Exhibits-Coming-in-2015.aspx

Just found out about this although it was announced about a month ago... http://beechbend.com/AmusementPictures2015/Press%20Release%20Update%2012-6-14.pdf Pictures available in the PR linked to above. I'm now thinking I might have to squeeze a "Kentucky Parks" trip into my plans this summer at some point (take a weekend to visit both Beech Bend and Kentucky Kingdom).

Try not to be nervous about the interview, and just answer the questions as honestly as you can. They're not looking for expert answers - they just want to make sure you're serious about the position and will be a good employee. I'm sure they'll take the fact that this will be your first job into account as well. What department(s) did you apply for?

Whoever is in charge of marketing at the aquarium always has something planned to keep people coming back it seems Once again they're doing "winter family days" (2 kids get in free with every paying adult), and that conveniently runs through March 1st, at which point their giant Galapagos tortoise will be leaving - just in time for the otter exhibit to open. New otter exhibit in March. Bridge over the shark tank with new sharks in April. By the time the busy summer season hits, those will have gotten plenty of press, reviews, etc. Also, the website says the Weeki Wachee Mermaids will be back in the fall.

I will probably be there at least part of the time on opening day, depending in part on when the passholder preview night is. If I end up taking a day off work for the preview night I'll probably go in on that Saturday. I'm trying to avoid taking a lot of time off until after May due to having two enthusiast events in the course of three weeks in May (Coasterstock and Holiwood Nights).

Also face-palming at "Raging Rapids River Ride". They seriously couldn't come up with a better name for it than that? And people complained about generic ride names at Kings Island...

Here's the banner they had at the GOCC holiday party, if it helps at all.

They typically stay open til midnight on Saturdays in July, and this is at least the 2nd year that they've included the last Saturday in June in that as well. I also find it interesting that they're open from 4 til 10 on April 24th.

So you're very distant cousins (1st cousins 3 times removed according to Wolfram Alpha). Fun!

I'm wondering what exactly this "independent study" will be looking at.

Most likely the same company that always rents the park out on the first Sunday of the operating season...

I'd imagine it could be done on a case-by-case basis depending on where in the park they want to put something and what flight patterns are like in that area.

Hence why I plan on trying to make it there this year. I haven't been in about 20 years and don't remember much about that trip.

In 2005 I remember the park had to close the Sunday of opening weekend due to snow. That was when they opened in late March or early April.

You've made lodging arrangements for an enthusiast event 5 months in advance.

I may be adding a stop at The Kingdom to my Holiwood Nights trip this year, depending on whether I decide to spend Sunday at HW and also how tired I am that day.

As I pointed out, before that post was lost, the property in question is in Deerfield Township, while the park is in Mason (the park itself was in Deerfield Township originally, but Mason annexed it in the 90s). Unfortunately this makes things a bit more complicated. I'm guessing that Mason and KI can appeal to the county if they don't like the way things are going. Also, I wonder if developers realize that KI Drive could see a lot more vehicular traffic once the rebuild of the Western Row interchange is finished in a few years (see http://www.imaginewesternrow.com if you're not familiar with that).

That doesn't sound very good. You're required to make $15 million in improvements, and now you want the state to repay you for $3.5 million in sales tax to offset those costs? Why on earth did Ed get involved in this in the first place? Just to make a name for himself again? He clearly doesn't like the idea of spending his own money on this...

At some point that will likely happen though, unless a new topic is started for discussing the 2015 operating calendar.

https://twitter.com/kingsislandpr/status/554761655826284544 Hard to believe we've only got 3 months (give or take a week or two) until the park opens again for the season!

Such great journalism there too... No info on where this memo came from. No info on what part of that memo indicates that this supposed $15 million dive coaster is intended for Cedar Point...

Already posted this in the "Random Video of the Day" topic, but I'll post it here as well since it's relevant. Another girl has apparently humiliated Gaston recently. This was posted 6 days ago and has already gotten over 1.5 million views...

Re-iterating what I said before posts were lost (at least to some extent): The big change for Holiday World in my opinion came in the late 90s and early 2000s. The Golden Ticket Awards started in 1998 and the internet began taking off around the same time. Holiday World scored big from the start with the GTAs, beating out SFoT and BGW for "Friendliest Park" and having Raven place 2nd on the "best wooden coasters" list. In 2000, The Raven moved to the top of its list and the park also added Legend. This is likely when the enthusiast community took notice. The park had an award-winning wooden coaster and had just added a 2nd. Rides that size are not typical of small family-owned parks in the middle of nowhere. Sure, Beech Bend has Kentucky Rumbler, but this wasn't even added until 2006 and it doesn't even make sense where it is (though Raven likely didn't make sense at Holiday World when it opened in the late 90s). Thunderbird though is on a completely different level than their wooden coasters, so it will be interesting to see what happens with the park the next few years, as Thunderbird certainly isn't the type of ride you'd expect from a park like this. Also, I'm a bit curious as to what lead the park to add Raven in the first place, considering their only coaster at the time was an 18-year-old used Galaxi that they'd gotten from Geauga Lake in the early 80s (and which was removed just 2 seasons later and ultimately scrapped after a brief stint at a park in Maryland). How do you go from something like a Galaxi to a large custom wooden terrain coaster like Raven?

The owner of the park probably made a fortune selling that land though. According to Wikipedia, many of the rides have since been sold and moved to other locations, and a smaller amusement park opened nearby in 2010 (see http://www.ms-pp.com). It sounds like what happened is they waited too long to clear the land, and by 2010, the country was in a recession so people weren't as interested in buying beachfront condos. Things might turn around now that the recession seems to be ending to some extent, but still, luxury housing isn't as lucrative as it once was.

Heinz probably made it cheaper for CF to carry both the ketchup and the mustard than to carry only the ketchup while continuing to carry French's mustard.