BoddaH1994

Well, it looks like this topic has expired. I hope you have a great time at PKI. Make sure you fill out a trip report and tell us how it went! Ryan

Will The Vortex leave? One person's knowledge is probably is as valuable as the next, so there is no reason to attack someone for what they have to say. These insults will not be tolerated on PKIC. If you want to go somewhere and just sling mud all day, you know where to go. Otherwise, watch your posts, there's no reason for this thread to get closed or for you to get suspended or banned simply for disagreeing with someone. Now, in an attempt not to have to close the thread, I ask: Will The Vortex leave?

There's already the "Hurler" at another Paramount Park. Hey, whatever happened to the Murph Mobile in the Paramount Story?

I do agree that something should be done about the Monster, although not entirely feasable. Fortunately, the ride isn't exactly a huge drawer in the park, so most days patrons can enjoy the ride with a reasonable waiting time.

Althought I do agree with you that The Vortex isn't going anywhere, you have to remember that the King Cobra was painted just a year or two before its removal.

LOL...I never thought anyone would not know this. :offtopic: Keep it nice kids, we're here to have fun, not to sling mud. Plus, all of my sources tell me that The Vortex isn't going anywhere.

If it works the same as last year, it will be a park sell out day so according the the calendar, the park will be closed to the GP.

I think that's it. To my understanding, they would organize it so people who were gay would wear red shirts those days, but it wasn't anything official.

Yeah, it's really hard to say. This year has be relatively dynamic thus far. I really hope the lines are short so you can experience a lot of the park and fall in love with it as much as the rest of us have.

PKI had their first official Pride Night last year. It was the day the sign fell.

Anyone ridden a Jump2? I hear they're cool. I'm sure if PKI got one, it'd be the "biggest" or whatever.. just in the spirit of being PKI. What is the ride experience like?

What's happening y'all? I guess you guys haven't yet noticed the NEWEST fan fiction from the author of the Unofficial Guidebook to Paramount's Kings Island. You may remember him from such stories as Phantom Theatre, Adventure Express, and PKIC on Mars. This one reveals the deepest and darkest secrets of our wonderful pirate ship that sits in the darkness of Oktoberfest. Click here to read the short but sweet "history" of VIKING FURY!

All of the rides listed above are pretty good rides. I'd say that the only big mistake that the park has made was that hyper wooden painful thing in the Action Zone. I have to wonder if Werner Stengle lost his mind after making an awesome ride like FoF to making a buch of helixes and a loop like SoB. You may argue that a wooden structure is limited.... well, my not so brilliant friend, if you look right down the road in Rivertown, you'll notice SoB's daddy, which is a wooden coaster with a couple of helixes, but one HELL of a lot more personaility that its idiot son... Disagree with me if you will, but I was sorely disappointed after my first spin around on SoB.... Now, with some track work, it might actually be a ride that doesn't run the risk of causing injury to the innocent patrons aboard, but even if it were a coaster made of marble, it would be just a hill, a loop, and helix, after helix, after helix, after helix.

Rumor have been flying like mad that they'll get one in the near future. Then again, who knows...

Once again, anyone can write an editorial so long as they go by the guidelines already stated. You have to keep in mind that Chef has already written a book on the park and is a freelance journalist, and the PKI '04 article is from a newspaper and we obtained the rights to post it here, so it don't hesitate to try to submit an editorial if you don't have a Phd in English. We'll help ya edit it.

I'm willing to bet that there won't be a show there anytime in the near future. They totally removed the stage and everything. You'd think that since they have an ampetheatre right there in HBL that they'd have SOME sort of child-oriented show, but I guess not.

Highly doubt it was suicide. Sounds like something the press would blow out of proptortion. It really is sad news. My thoughts go out to her family.

I think ecology has done a great job thus far. I have also noticed a million times improvement between dry run day and last weekend as well.. The crew up at PKI seems to really be getting things together and it's looking to be a great season!

lol... I don't trust PKI.com, and I ESPECIALLY don't trust Dane Thomas, so I called GR.

I just called GR, for those of you who were wondering, the park isn't open Fridays for the rest of the month. darn.

Well, happy birthday to Trouble! I'm thinking about going up either tonight or tomorrow night, but I can't go Sunday because we've got our first Best Buy softball game of the season and we're going to get slaughtered. Anyway, if any of you will be up there tonight, either IM or PM me and maybe we'll meet up. Ryan

Of course it's possible. If the mechanics of the ride failed, then it could come up. Why else would the add the seat belt part to rides like Face/Off and DZ (in addition to stopping people from sliding out of the bottom)?

I'm not entirely sure about the whole conspiracy thing, but I have heard from several sources that the valley did in fact happen. It is the obligation of the employees no to leak information, but flat out denial is one step further. When it all comes down, is the ride still safe? Of course it is. Did it valley? Probably, but most rides have at some point in their history. Although I am an advocate of a patron's right to know the actual facts, it seems like the park (assuming of course that this did happen) is attempting to put this behind itself, and I think we should respect that.

Does there need to be a poll? Because when I started this post, I did not make it a poll. One of the head guy come and added the poll, I don't care, i'm just wonting to know why. I'm not sure who made this into a poll, but the reason why it was done was purely orginizational. You could read teh whole thread and unless it is a landslide, you may not know how people feel about this particular issue.

I noticed that myself... is the first choice 1 and the 2nd choice 2? Let me know and I'll edit it for you.