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Question? Since they annouced that 2007 passes will be for sale for "Paramount's Kings Island" does this mean they are keeping the Paramount name? If someone gets a pass on Saturday let us know if it say Paramount on it. Thanks.

Well what do you know. It looks like Cedar Fair took a page from the Paramount book on Season Passes (Good for them). Price Season Passes right and your attendance goes up. Who know, they may take a future page from the Paramount book and focus on landscaping and theming on future rides. Add in Cedar Fairs lowering of food prices and having table service restaurants in the park (TGI Fridays?) and we may just have a quality park experience on the way.

Last time I went to Cedar Point, most of the major coasters had very hot lines. Very little shade, it was just back in forth like cattle. Cedar Point does have the best coaster collection on the planet, but the rest of the park, theming, landscaping, etc... is very poor. I am a little suprised they had that many issues with their major rides. I agree with Interpreter, that not good, since Cedar Point is Cedar Fair's flagship park.

I heard they are going to tear it down and replace it with a new Wild Animal Safari ride and bring back the monorail from Jungle Jims.

I was only being sarcastic, I was just making a point about Cedar Fair calling Cedar Point their 'flagship' park. Since most of the parks are in different media markets they could announce the rides at anytime with out interfering with another parks announcement.

Maybe they are waiting to annouce what will be new a KI (and other parks), until they announce the flagship park's new ride. You have to first make sure the flagship park gets it media attention before the step children are introduced.

Good point. If Cedar Fair wants the park to continue to be a family park, you have to keep the price affordable to families.

I agree, they need to be very careful how they price these passes. I am sure they will offer different types of passes. KI only. Ohio only? and one for all Cedar Fair parks. I just hope they don't turn this into an add on game. Example: KI pass $100 then you have to buy a parking pass for $50 and then $30 dollars for perks, etc... If the Orlando parks can offer a year long pass to Busch Gardens or Sea World for about $125 dollars (including parking and perks) then you should be able to buy a seasonal pass to KI for less than $100 (including parking and perks).

Just count it as a feeling. But, I think a water/coaster is coming to Kings Island for next year. If Cedar Fair decides to keep the Nick theming beyond the current contract I think it will be SpongBob related and on the Nick Theater site. This would give the park a coaster type ride for the ACE conference next year and add a large family ride to the back of Nick Universe.

Our budgets for Resale were based upon park sell-outs of 64,000, which included the main park and the waterpark. I agree that 49,000 is a lot, but back in the late 80's through mid 90's, a 50,000+ Friday or Saturday was the norm, not the exception as it seems to be now. So, are you saying that park attendance has been dropping since the late 80's through the 90's?

I am just excited that next year I will get to pay more for my pass than this year, pay extra for free parking and then pay even more if I want perks. 'Joe Cool' This buyout is sounding better every day. Maybe Cedar Fair will take a chapter from Paramount on passes and provide free parking, perks, etc... free with the pass? I can hope.

I think CBS went cheap on us.

Let hear it for Cedar Fair, bless their hearts, I am glad they found the need to cut the event instead of trying to make some modifications that might have changed the outcome this year.

If you want to ride the King Kobra either go to Kings Dominion (shockwave) or buy a ticket to Japan.

From the looks of the layout, and the design of the track this may be the Intamin Aquatrax coaster (as rumored). If it is, this may signal that Cedar Point is 'going in a whole new direction'. The family direction. This would also give Cedar Point one of their first chances in years to really theme a ride. Should be interesting to watch. I know over at pointbuzz their has been some recent discussion about this being an Aquatrax and a lot of the thrill ride fans are about to wet their pants. They just can't believe that Cedar Point would build a family coaster!

I really hope that Cedar Fair gives Winterfest a chance. While I agree that it was over priced, it was still great to know that you could go to PKI all the way through December. Anytime an even keeps PKI open long is a good event to me. Since Cedar Point is their flagship park, maybe they will take all othe Winterfest props from Carowinds and PKI and move them to Cedar Point to show the rest of us that Cedar Point is their main focus.

You can hope that they might start acting like a company with serveral major parks instead of a company with one major park and a bunch of little parks. I still say that this attitude will back fire on them over time.

Comparing the themeing of the queue lines and preshow I would agree with you on that point... However, the themeing of the ride experience itself the Mummy definitely wins (in my book) hands down. (I think the "fire ceiling" in the Mummy is worth the ride time by itself. ) I agree, the pre-show, line is better for TRTR but the ride goes to Mummy. You know the one thing that Universal does very well, they have great child swap locations. A lot of people don't even know were they are at, but they are really well done. Dudley Do-Right has a great waiting room near the exit of the ride that has kids play toys on the walls, changing station and its air conditioned. If you are parents and want to ride some of the big rides Universal and IOA has the child swap program covered the best.

Its a shame you had such a bad time at Disney, at least they had trams running from the parking lot. I agree with RingMaster and others, I prefer well themed attractions and thrill rides. That is why I love TRTR, Italian Job, Wild Thornberry's, etc... Universal and IOA is great. Good thrill rides, family rides, food, landscaping, theming all in one package. That is why I have been such a supporter of KI staying a themed park with themed rides over a Cedar Point experience. I have been to Cedar Point, great location on the lake, great coasters, but the park overall feels like a concrete jungle with some steel. Side note: I have small children and they enjoying just going through the pre-show for TRTR, even though they can't ride the ride yet. TRTR pre-show theming is as good or better than Mummy's.

Once again. Why are we in such a hurry to remove the Paramount theming? I like it, and I know a lot of other people that like it. If Cedar Fair can come in an improve the park, better food, shows, and maybe a larger coaster or two, why do they have to remove the Paramount theming too. Why not have the best of both worlds. The movie concepts seem to work very well at Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios, Disney-MGM, etc... It make PKI standout in the midwest market and with its attendance doing better than other parks, the general public must also agree.

Lets hear it for Cedar Point. I really believe that Cedar Fair is going to need to understand that they now have several major parks in their chain and this kind of 'going out of their way' treatment for Cedar Point will get old for the fans of these other larger parks. They need to grow up along with the corporation.

So you'd also say that you would rather ride Flight of Fear out in the open in broad daylight then inside a near pitch-black building, even though some effects don't work? And from what I can remember, Cedar Point doesn't do to well with theming, either. *eyes Disaster Transport* Name ONE coaster at a Cedar Fair park that runs through NATURAL trees instead of a "concrete parking lot." Now you can understand why I wanted Busch Gardens to buy us instead of Cedar Fair. I agree with RingMaster. I think it is crazy to say that TRTR would be better just siting on piece of concrete with out the theming. Even if all the theming for TRTR is not going it still is one of the best themed rides in the midwest if not US. I also wanted to see Busch buy the park. They would have increase the theming of the areas and rides, add great new shows, better food/mechandise and still added some great B&Ms. My only hope is that Cedar Fair does see PKI as a family park (which they have said many times in statements) and continues to treat it that way. If you want a midway, steel and concrete experience go to Cedar Point.

The average guest doesn't notice if a certain themed element is not work on a given day. I have a lot of friends and relatives that love IJST. I moved to Cincy from Florida less than a year ago. My family and I had annual passes to Disney, Universal, and Sea World. Since we visited these parks frequently, we would notice certain themed elements (special effects) not working on a given day at these parks, yes, even disney. I think a lot of this has to do with how frequently you go to the park, which makes you notice the small things more often. (I do agree that many of the theme elements on IJST, music, etc... has been a bust.) BUT, I WOULD STILL PREFER A WELL THEMED ATTRACTION OVER A RIDE THAT IS DUMPED ON SOME CONCRETE.

I sometimes wonder if most of the people that post here actually dislike PKI. It such a shame. Cincy has one of the top season theme parks in North America. Yet some of the people on this board act like its a crap hole and that Cedar Point is has no falts. I guess the 'grass must be green on the Cedar Point side.'

I am glad to hear that Cedar Point's train is better than PKIs. At the rate some of the posts are going, we should just shutdown PKI and add a direct bus service from the PKI parking lot to Cedar Point.