DegenRider

Thing with Racer is wood is cheep to replace. I am pretty sure theres no peice of wood left on there from 1972. As long as Arrow is making the parts and the ride stays togeather it will be there there.

Please try to capitalize. Oh yeah and if you wanna know how the ride works Huss Rides and check out the Gaint Frisbee page. It may help somewhat.

BoObKiNoS your looking at this from a rideop's POV. Its a B*tch to have to open early for the gold pass holders. With gold pass you get Close parking area Discounts out the wazoo Exclusive ride Times Early Water park entry Bring a Friend Free days (as flawed as they are they work) Double ride tuesdays Walk on Wed. Special gold pass only nights. Breakfest with the characters Good concert seats. (couldnt beat the seats for weird al or 3rd eye blind) And maybe Free softdrinks Free beach towls at BB Free sunscreen Gold pass is manily for PKI's Local crowd. It gives you a reason to come back again and again. Even before gold pass they gave out a coupon book with crap in it. Its a good value overall. Goldpass gives you more bang for your buck. Plus making it Limited time also helps bring in more sales. Goldpass really isn't for your vacationiers, its for people like me who live close and really had nothing better to do. I used goldpass alot in the spring because I only stayed at the park until 1:00 or so. if there was ERT I had a head start. Heck my mom who went to the park 2 times with me this year liked it. We were close to the gate because of goldpass parking (she refuses to get a hanicap sticker even though she can bairly walk alot of the times) and because when we sat down to get our meal we got a gold pass discount. Having parking on the pass was a goldpass thing till 2003. That was a GREAT idea. You cannot beat for 80 bucks a 2004 parking pass and season pass. I spent 127 bucks for my 2003 pass because I needed parking and I didnt buy early. 80 VS 127 is a deal to me. now a white pass Gets you into the park all season long And parking is on your pass. Hmm 5 bucks doesn't sound too bad after you size it up.

You can get parts easilly for Vortex. Arrow's parts department still ran even while they were in chapter 11. Arrow does offer reprofiling. If there is a problem with the ride a new part of track can be made for it. Vortex never has a line cause it eats people. Dispatch is quick and really easy. OTSR's are moron proof get in pull down and your in there. People like the ride as well. It could navigate the batwing a bit better but its a very well done ride. They have somewhere in the ballpark of 82 coasters running(more than any one company I believe) some of them have been up since the 70's. Arrows are built to last IMO.

BoObKiNoS play nice. I will close this if the topic gets out of hand. Remember Son of Beast was build without the aid of blue prints

That comment was not needed. Also Jeff Seibert said on the last day that attendance was up.

It looked like crap on the shirt trust me.

Heres an artical http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/11/0..._masonvets.html and a photo Thanks to dragonlord for the info and the photo.

I will have you know I had a hand in this. Aaron was going to use a funky green and yellow combo!

It DID have the trick track

C'mon I am sure they loved sending someone up the lift every 5 cycles or so cause of a computer fault. . Also could be the lawsuits from the people with hearing problems from KC's brakes.

I have lived in Cincinnati all my life and have never been to the Art Museum. Been to union terminal many times but never the art Museum.

No there isn't and I doubt anyone would object here.

Like others I went to Americania instead of Kings Island for many Many years. Problem wasn't that my parents were cheep it was that we didn't have the cash to go there(americania was a better value when you had 6 kids with you at one time). I 1st went to PKI in 1992. I was tall enough to ride The Racers and beast. I passed on The Beast. I road alot of the stuff in HB. I remember begging my aunt to take me up in the tower but alas she hates heights. I went I believe in 1994 for the star trek earth tour(correct me what year if I am wrong). I loved Star Trek when I was little and I thought it was cool. Still couldn't muster up the courage for Vortex or The Beast. I was about 4 years before I went again. We went in 1998. At that time I was with my brother and there was no getting out of any of the rides. My 1st looper was to be Vortex but alas It was broke. We waited 2 hours for FOF and I was scared out of my mind. I came off with a stiff neck. That Night I took my 1st rides on Top Gun,King Cobra and The Beast. I don't exactly remember too much about my Beast ride but the Top Gun and King Cobra were memorable because KC brought my brother great pain going into the loop and top gun was the 1st coaster I EVER road alone. That was the only time we went that year. In 1999 I got my 1st season pass. I used it about 4 times. Memorable moments were Seeing bolts fall off face/off while in line and Seeing SOB start rising into the sky. 2000 I went 1 time. SOB's media day. It wasn't done yet though. The park was only open a bit as well. I never used my freebies. 2001. I went to the park 1 time. My uncles works picnic day. It rained and poured so bad it was not funny. BUT A few weeks later I became employed by the park. I needed a job and PKI was what I wanted to do. Hatesfully trained and put to work on gay pride night in 2001 I had no clue what I was doing. Check bars and thumbs up I had very little off time but managed to ride alot. 2002 I returned to the park as a ride op. Didn't go as planned. I ended up quitting. One day in Aug I was REALLY REALLY bored and I couldnt take it anymore I found my comp Tickets and I went up with no money and a PB&J packed lunch. I also attended the last ride of the year on Beast via help from my GF(she had some freebies) 2003: Ok I know this is earliest memories but Over 30 visits not bad. Sometimes riding SOB 20 times in a day. Also my 1st timberwolf concert

PKI has a crapload of space why would they need a parking lot coaster? You are all skipping an era. Remember adventure Village. AZ is just fine the way it is. KC is dead. Those CPC folks Had to kill it!

I disagree. PTC trains are good in some cases and in others they suck. Ever road Raging Wolf Bob's at SFWOA? Thats a case of bad PTC's. Plus PTC's would be bad for the speed and the loop.

Hate to break it to you but KC is dead. Not comming back. Also Pre-AZ was adventure village. AV had nothing for theme. Which was leftover from Wild animal safari. I am so sure the park would tear down a multi million dollar rollercoaster and put up damaged goods. We already have a KC topic up so I am going to close this.

That could be true or that feeling could be gas.

Well Considering it commited sucide eariler this year it would be a bad purchase.

Winterfest would be great to have again. Park would need to have lots of stuff going on though since the rides would be down.

Find a job. Fix my car. Play videogames and DANCE!

For me going back there was no biggie but everyone was in awe. You can see most of the area by riding beastie.

Your from Kentucky and you expected this to be odd.

oh crap I forgot to mail aaron my pics too oops!