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This is being discussed here.

Ha... very interesting. Good find!

They're going to do whatever the safest, smartest course of action is. If it's not in your best interest to be able to ride SOB in two weeks, then so be it.

I'm guessing this is limited to PKI... Flight of Fear Tomb Raider: The Ride Delirium The Beast Face/Off

No one has died as a direct result of the ride experience on any of the rides listed above.

Let's not use this as an opportunity to offend eachother. Yes, this IS a big deal. Regardless of how minor it may play down I can tell you that there were helicopters, ambulances, and all sorts of news crews there... I know.. I was there. People should feel safe on this and any ride. People having to go to the hospital is NOT acceptable and should NOT happen, especially with a high class park like our wonderful park. Of course this isn't the norm. People have been hurt on SOB before, but just imagine now many cycles went through today before the incident let along since its opening in 2000. Let's be respectful here.. people got hurt, lessons were learned, and we can be sure that the park will see to it that this will NEVER happen again.

Now you should have thought about THAT when you registered. :-) Just kidding, we'll do that.

Well, I can tell you that the Paramount/Viacom/CBS folk must have done their best to make Winterfest fail. I'll tell you that Winterfest had always been an event that made money with very little overhead in the past. Coaster, you pin pointed exactly what the biggest mistakes were with the event. I certainly hope that CF gives it a chance, again. This is how the pricing was explained to me: The price of the event reflects the value of the product itself. So if Winterfest retailed for $9.99 like Holidayfest or the Festival of Lights, it would cheapen the product to be on that level when in all reality Winterfest encompassed a lot more than those events. Not unlike regular amusement park tickets, the average person finds a better value online or through different venders most of the time. What came back to bite them was when newspapers and magazines compared the events to eachother and made it look like Winterfest cost more than double the others, which wasn't the entire story.

The only reason why I like KingsIslandCentral is because KICentral seems so naked since we've been PKICentral for so long. Once again, all of the URLs will direct towards this site.

Yes, it was opened by the same company, KECO, a year later.

Sorry to double post... Click here for a special note about the Nights of Fire tribute video.

Dear Users of PKICentral, Since posting the Nights of Fire video early Sunday morning, the staff has received some very mixed reviews. Some people believed it to be patriotic, while others thought that the use of 9/11 fotage wasn't a product which our users have come to expect from PKICentral.com. Realistically speaking, I had never intended the video to be a funny or happy video as we normally produce. I see Independence Day as a celebration of the freedoms which many have died defending and thought that any video which I would make for the site would be a tribute to just that. The sights of towers crumbling with thousands of Americans inside both terrifies and upsets me as it does many of you. As unrealistic as it may seem, the events which happened almost five years ago are now imbedded into the minds, the souls, and the daily lives of each and every patron who may be reading this post. In this dynamic world of happiness and terror, peace and war, and order and chaos, many things will shape the very essence of our environment, whether they are things that we want to remember or things that we wish never happened. None of the footage in the video was intended to be politically charged. If there's anything that I truly wish PKIC could do for you, it would be to both entertain and challenge you. Many of you have been around for quite some time, and in the past three years, I have seen many people learn and grow as a result of these forums. Not just knowing more about our wonderful home park, but to learn from the thoughts and ideas from the many people who post on our forums spanning over an extremely large age range and reaching the entire world. Having a video that was so emotionally driven, my intention was to have the view step aside for just a few moments and truly appreciate some of those who have shaped the world around them, whether by patrolling the streets in a country on the other side of the world or by simply falling victim to a hijacked airplane crashing into their workplace. I have heard the argument that the video was inappropriate because children read the site and watch the videos, which is something that I totally respect. However, I refuse to limit the output of the site as a result of that. There are things that are appropriate for children and things that are appropriate for adults, but to assume that children should not know why we live in the world we live in is a disservice to them. Children are not stupid, they're as smart as you and me... they're just shorter than we are. I would encourage some honest feedback of the video. Do most of you feel as though the video was a tribute to the American people, or do you feel as though it wasn't what you were looking for when you came to the PKIC site? I do not intend to apologize for creating, posting, or sharing the video with the community, however I do apologize for not putting a warning up about some of the graphic nature of the video as it has now. That was an error on my part and I am the only one who should be held responsible for that. Thank you for helping to make PKIC a better place! Best regards, Ryan Suhr PKICentral.com Media Director

The photos will likely keep the "PKICentra" name on them because it's completely unfeasable to edit 3,100 photos but everything else will be converted. Future photos will of course be watermarked with "whatever-central".

I've been having major computer problems. A total format and two upgrades later, I'm ready to roll.

Hell, they'll all redirect to this site anyway..

Thanks for the kind words everyone! If you haven't seen the video yet, please download it and let me know. This is the first one I've done for the site in about a year, so I'm still knocking off some of the ring rust. In response to some of the political statements above, that's far from the intention of the video. I actually Googled audio for "patriotic" and that came up and it seemed extremely appropriate for the direction in which I was going with the video. Remember, the Star Spangled Celebration ends July 4th!! Ryan

Since there's a good chance that the Paramount name may be dropped from the park, it wouldn't make too much sense to continue to be PKICentral. If we did change the name of the site, which one do you prefer to be the main URL? We own all three, PKICentral.com, KICentral.com, and KingsIslandCentral.com, so this is going to mainly be which one the site is named after. Please comment below.

It's that time of year again: the 4th of July, and PKI never fails to please the masses in their wonderful Independence Day Celebration! Some special entertainment offered is: Rabbit Hash String Band, Funnel Cake Stage in Rivertown 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 The Earlytimers, Funnel Cake Stage in Rivertown 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30 Ohio River Minstrels, Funnel Cake Stage in Rivertown 6:00 Travlin' Riverboat, Rivertown Roaming 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 Professor Numbus, Rivertown Roaming 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30 Country Step Cloggers, International Bandstand 12:00, 1:00, 2:00 Ramblin Roses Square Dance Club, International Bandstand 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 Eddie Stamper Group, International Bandstand 3:00, 4:00, 5:30 Elivs! Live in Concert!, International Bandstand 8:30 Great Lakes Timber Show, Swan Lake in Rivertown 1:00, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 1869 Redstockings, Grass area behind International Showplace 1:00, 1:30 E Team Skydivers, Grass area behind International Showplace 2:00, 7:00 Also don't forget that the Nickelodeon Celebration Parade rolls through the park daily at 5:00. Some queues close at 8:00, The Beast, Racer, FX Theatre, Vortex, and Launch Pad. Of course at 10:00 Nights of Fire begins! Also, don't forget the all you can eat picnic in the Picnic Grove! It's just $9.99 for adults and $5:99 for children 3-6! Click here to preorder tickets!! The marketing team at Kings Island was so kind as to give us a perfect view of the fireworks from on top of the International Restaurant, so of course we had to share it with the rest of you! Click here to see photos from Nights of Fire and the Star Spangled Celebration! Also, click here to see the new PKIC Star Spangled Celebration tribute video!!** (Firefox users must right click and Save As) Regards, Ryan PKICentral.com - One nation under God. **Warning: The Video contains footage of 9/11 and may not be appropriate for those who are extremely sensative to the subject.

I'm guessing we won't see any major de-Paramountization until after this season. If there's a Winterfest, they'd start to drop it on us then.

It's going to take a long time to convert everything over to KICentral, that's IF we do that... Once again, it doesn't hurt anything to be PKICentral. In all honesty, the decision has yet to be made.

Very cool... they did used to have a battle scene in the train ride.

Anybody ever have the urge to have a BM after riding a B&M? I've never thought of it that way... My only impression of a B&M is Chang at SFKK, so I'm going to just take your word for it that they're really as great as you guys say they are.

...and, he'll have a big briefcase full o'cash with him! Don't forget that part Of course it'll be handcuffed to his wrist and he'll have to let out a coy chuckle as the papers are being signed.

Friday by 9:00AM. Remember, this is Jeapordy rules, if you over guess, you loose!!!

According to the FCC, you must be of 13 years of age in order to join any forum on the internet. That's not our rule, that's the federal law. By the age of 13, if you can't construct complete sentences and use proper punctuation then you should be allowed on PKIC, at PKI, or in public in general. The only exception of course being if you had some sort of disability, but 99.999% of the time it's just laziness and a total disregard for the people in the community trying to read your lack of English.