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Absolutely Reliable is a joke web site. It's 100% fictional. Heck, Roger Machina isn't even a real person to my knowledge. The park's spokespeople are Don Helbig and Craig Ross.

So is this like a Christian MTV or what?

Plus I imagine that the Picnic Grove is VERY profitable as it is or it would have been removed a LONG time ago.

AMEN!!! I rode SoB today (4th time with the new cars) while my ride today was maybe a touch rougher than last time, I still believe it is definitely smoother than The Racer, and depending what seat, smoother than The Beast. If you haven't been on Sonny with the new cars, definitely give the ride another try. The ONLY real rough part is bottom of the double helix. That part of the ride was no smoother than last week. Once again, my friends whom I rode with are with me on this. Also for all the SoB haters: I was at the park today from open to 4, and SoB was the longest wait we had all day, and we rode every major ride. While the capacity might be lower than before, we just under 60 minutes minutes to ride Sonny [however, there was a 20 minute delay due to someone who needed medical attention in the station (due to a bee sting, I think) and then a test cycle]. Each of the three times I saw the line in the morning (10AM to 2), it was PAST the service road underpass (with no gates open). One time it was getting near the entrance to the ride, and that was before the Friday afternoon crowd. Waits for other major rides this morning/early afternoon were between (5-20 minutes) My Point: Sonny was the 2nd most popular ride in the park next to Firehawk today. The public now has a lot of interest in the ride. I think the word is out that the ride is smoother and people want to see for themselves. The question is: will the interest in the ride last for a while? I think it will. Long live Son of Beast! SOB will be hit or miss for the rest of the season as far as lines are concerned. I went on July 5th and waited an hour, but went about a week later and walked right now. The ride has gotten a lot of media attention in the past few weeks, which could spark an interest. It's a matter of whether or not that interest remains.

Calling All Sick-Twisted Fear-Fetching Freaks Kings Island hosts open casting calls for FearFest performers Kings Island, Ohio - Kings Island is looking for all those with a sinister side to put some scare in the air. Open casting calls for FearFest - Kings Island's annual spine-tingling Halloween event - begin this month. Ghouls and ghosts who transform the park from a sunny summer destination into the Midwest's largest and scariest haunted event can earn up to $12 per hour. Open casting calls for FearFest 2007 will be held on the following dates: Friday, July 27 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. (for returning cast members) Saturday, July 28 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Friday, August 3 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.; 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. (vocalists and dancers) Saturday, August 4 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.; 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. (vocalists and dancers) Friday, August 10 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, August 11 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Friday, August 17 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, August 18 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Friday, August 24 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, August 25 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Friday, August 31 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, September 1 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Friday, September 7 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, September 8 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. Vocalists must bring up tempo songs in a pop/rock style with sheet music or CD accompaniment. A piano accompanist will be provided. A recent 8x10 head shot is helpful but not required. Dancers will be taught a dance combination by a park choreographer. For more information regarding open casting calls for FearFest, please contact the Kings Island Entertainment Office at (513) 754-5740 or visit www.pki.com/fearfest.

No, however I was watching Channel 5 news locally (Cincinnati Market) and they said it was down for preventative maintenance.

The agenda will be posted with the different meeting times/places. Just meet up when you can. Oh yeah -- I also got an email saying that the park is aware that the tickets say 7/11, but it's not a big deal.

I just got an email from Don Helbig asking me to inform you that Son of Beast has reopened to the public. He also mentioned that Drop Zone won't be long either! Happy riding, Ryan

Yes. We're going to try to limit it to 200-250 people. If we start getting up there, I'll let everyone know. Yeah, we've run into that. The tickets thus far have all been dated for 7/11/07, which oddly enough is the day we announced the event. I can assure you that both KICentral and Kings Island are aware of the problem and I will report any resolve (if any as needed) as soon as I get some information. I'm not sure about the $29.95 admission thing. That was a Kings Island thing, not a KIC thing. It's likely that the first tour will be before they open the admissions windows, so I wouldn't count on using that for the event.

Yeah, it'll be around 5 or 5:30 and the event starts at 9:00. I'd eat breakfast or eat in the park.

July 11th was the day it was finalized on. Not sure why it says that day, but I doubt it'll be a problem.

I think Lin's right. But then, the day that people quit going to KI specifically to ride SOB is the day that it becomes firewood.

Oh that is a treat. Did you prompt them by saying, "Remember that ride that you could have been injured on?" Yeah.. I was gonna say... how eager can they be to ride?

In order to do any of the events you must purchase a meal ticket. No exceptions.

August 3rd at noon. That's the day before. I'm excited to say that we have a respectable amount of RSVPs. How many people intend to go but haven't purchased tickets yet?

Heck no, I'm voting for Pedro Sanchez.

Yeah, if you're going to use sarcasm, use the emoticons. We pay good money for those things.

You people can love 'em or hate 'em but at least amongst the very liberal media he's not afraid to speak his mind.

lol... I knew that would get you fired up.

Cool -- great concert and we get to see our next president!

Like we could top the last train tour. We the people of the train tour In order to form a more perfect train tour As if that's possible Which it's not One train tour Forever and ever Amen Oh, the memories.

From my understanding, for larger scale parks like KI, selling rides is more of a conveniece thing than anything. Simply put: they'd rather make a few bucks selling a removed ride than having to find somewhere to store it. In big business terms, selling the rides gets you pocket changed. It's kind of like if you ate at McDonald's and someone offered you two or three pennies to take your trash for their future use. You probably wouldn't bend over to pick up a few pennies off the ground, but hey, at least you don't have to go through the trouble of throwing your own trash away.

Actually, I don't own the site. Legally speaking, Dane owns it. This is the breakdown: Dane does web design and content, I do content, PR, moderation, and things of that sort. Ryan

I suppose we see so many cases of death an injury from people just not following the rules that we loose site of things when innocent people get really hurt. No one should have to fear for their lives or safety at a park so whoever is responsible for such a thing. Well, they should pay....

Well, thanks for the kind words! We have worked with the marketing/PR department a few times, mainly casting for TV filmings, but this event is certainly the biggest synergy we've had with them. A KI museum? Well, that would be an interesting project. ACE was working with them to make a RC museum within the park, but not unlike the real ACE museum in Pennsylvania, nothing ever materialized. If they asked us to, we'd certainly be up for it!