Karen

Meet and greet at 2pm 1. Boddah1994 2. Captain Nemo 3. zosobeast 4. CoastersRZ 5. CombatStupendous89 6. Avatar 7. CoastersNSich 8. UncleHenry (Working) 9. HOYS (attending) 10. Reclaimer (98% sure I'll be there...possibly with a guest) 11. Karen - if I am considered part of this? Dane are you working at the park? If so where? We will be there the last weekend of Kings Island!! Friday - Sunday

I am new to this site!! A big Kings Island fan and love being able to come to one place to find everything out. Learning new and remembering things from the past. You have all done a fantastic job with this site!! Thanks so much!! Been following a lot of strings about the Son of Beast, various ideas and view points, and the many other contributions from all!! It was a blast hearing from my fear fest buddies on here too so it is really a place to get information and keep in touch with your various favorites!! Happy Birthday - Many wishes to you on a continued success with this in the future!! Totally agree on this being the best site on the net to visit on Kings Island!!!

Can I check Assylm out??? Hey what part do you play there?? Can I get a guarantee that you will scare the living daylights out of me?? LOL Got to have that fear portion to it!! I know the guy at the front of the line is in the wrong place. He does so much better at the end!! Miss watching him scaring everyone!! It is going to rain a lot so just might do that - inside and all - so long as those passage ways are wider this year than they were last. It is not hard to find me - big woman in a wheelchair and green coat. Expecting some good scares!! Thanks!!

If you consider PKI the highlight of your life!!! Might change my name to FearFest Addict

sorry all of the attention I am NOT used too. oops. Mostly people ignore me or try to lol. So it is really nice to have people notice.

Yes undertaker wanted to say one more thing - Sometimes when you called my name or saw me staring the chain saw guy was usually right behind me and would slam a lid and just scare me to death!!! All the attention everyone has given me is not something I am used to so that was another thing I just ate up!! It was great!! Honestly I do love it!! As I have said I am jumpy by nature. Growing up the kids at school used to sneak up on me and "goose" me. I think they took measurements of how high they could get me to jump or how loud I would scream!! It was all in fun and even then enjoyed it!! Look forward to this weekend - will spend some time in coney maul then my usual time up front - you know me I don't leave that place until the last slider goes in for the night. Again thanks for being so good at what you do!!! You are totally awesome!! I hope the people at Kings Island values all of you as much as they should!!!

HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Kind words nothing you are fantastic!!! Yes I will be there both days rain or shine!! Are you kidding??? I made sure I had someone going with me to help with that wheelchair!!! All you had to do was stop and stare at me and I went into hiding!! That is why I stayed where I did. That make up is awesome!! Is that the picture I gave you?? I have more that we are picking up this week. Too many to print out on my portable printer so we send them off. I am sure I have a few more that we took of you. It is kind of hard getting them because of the smoke that you are always walking through and the fact that you even scare my kids!!! Someone on another string asked if I was that "KAREN". LOL I think we had a classic scare thing going there. Last weekend several people were watching us and laughing their bottoms off at how you were scaring me. I saw them out of the corner of my eyes as I turned and was real surprised to see you again!!! Wow usually you advance a little - I move and you go back but last week??? OMG Evertime I stopped and looked you were still coming!!! OHHH the one weekend, I was sitting on the left as people come in by the little store watching to make sure you were off somewhere else, I lost sight of you. Then that noise went off and got me a bit worried so I scanned and still could not see where in the world you took off. Suddenly that speaker came on again and you were right behind me I nearly died!!!! OMG YOU scared the living daylights out of me!!! It was awesome!!! Yes I get that same rush getting scared that you get scaring me!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!! Before you leave Friday or Saturday night please pose for a pick with me?? Just be nice and don't scare me so badly then lolol. Honestly you really do frighten the crap out of me and I can hear you half the night saying my name. Man each time I heard it no matter where I was, stopped dead in my tracks and scanned the area looking to make sure you were not advancing on me again!!! You did not have to come at me to scare me!!! Dane "chain saw guy" found that out real quickly!! He got the biggest kick out of slamming trash can lids behind me too!! I am not fully confined to my chair and am going to try to take enough over the counter medications (ibuprophen - rarely ever take anything stronger - hate medicine) so I can walk more - do not let that deter you from sneaking up!! If it hurts I will sit - the pain usually goes away rather quickly once down and the pressure is off. Got a lot of unfixable back crap but once I sit the pressure on my back goes away so the pain eases. I meant what I wrote on that picture too!! You are fantastic and I am going to really miss you all this year - please come back next year!!!!!!!

yes please add more to that site!!! This time get those sliders / scareactors. I call them sliders as that is what the park calls them. So any where you see me post that you know. lol Sliders are the actors that walk around and slide up to you with those awesome spark skates that are concealed in their hands, knees and upper part of their shoes. I think this year's sliders are better than any year I have ever seen.

I got on the Son of Beast the first year it was out so likely it was the first set that hurt me. Never bothered to attempt it again. When huge bruises on both of my legs kind of deterred me lol. Might have to check it out again next year if it opens.

Hey rain or shine I am going!! Can always stay in the main entrance as they will always have enough there to scare. Almost all of the haunted attractions are located inside of buildings so I am sure they will be open. Great place to warm up a bit as well.

Ok ignorance has lifted. LOL went to the site and saw it. Great job actually. Wish you had some of the sliders in there!! Loved the undertaker and it is nice to know which one is the hauntguy now - he was pretty nice to me on my visit.

I could not see the video?? Where is it located? Would love to see that!

Son of Beast had other issues too. I know several people that ended up with bruises on their legs. I am one of them. Those bars need to be either widened or heavily padded. I had to go to the first aid for ice packs as my legs swelled so badly. Any thoughts on that?

Wow hauntguy if they ever did something like that I would be first in line! Just remember the wheelchair accessibility. I have an electric one that often gets stuck in the current haunted houses to the point damage was done to my chair and I am in fear of damaging PKI property. My own idea would be the sliders. They really need a lot more of them and should have them in all areas of the park. The new work crew zone is another joke. To make that one work allow those workers to be more active and move toward the visitors so that when you get through the smoke there is someone staring at you and startling the various visitors. Right now it is just walking through and seeing them pushing something or hanging around from some structure. None of them were really doing anything that would scare much more than a child. Wouldn't it be awesome to get rid of that Holiday zone because who in the world is that scaring?? It is not large enough and only barely interesting in trying to find all of the bones or gore in the scenery that at night is harder to see. You have a few jokes walking around and acting like they are directing you into Santa's village. This is more designed to scare children and should be moved to the kiddie area for daytime viewing with removal of a few of the bloodier items. I noticed a few sliders trying to spice it up a week or so ago by getting people as they came out of it. Why not improve more on the corn stalkers. They did the right thing the past two weeks by enlarging the area but why not put in more haystacks and more places for the actors to hide - plus adding more actors so that there are scares all over. I agree with the lines and how they have them set up but when they enlarged the zone they did not add more places for the cornstalkers. Return the cornstalkers on the fake posts like they had early and last year. When you can not determine which ones are real and which ones are going to jump out at you it adds a sense of the unknown. Let people kind of get close to take a real look at some of the stands and have the cornstalkers suddenly either jump from the stand or another one come up behind you and make some rather loud noises. Last year they had this one stalker that had a group of us watching. We were all gathered around, off to the side, this guy was awesome. He would sit there and just kind of watch people. With that costume you could not see what he was looking at and it was really hard to tell he was not one of the fake ones. Well he would suddenly jump out and start chasing people. It was the best thing we saw that year!! He was worth watching. They changed actors in that position because following weeks it just lost the luster and some of the other ones did little more then grumble or move just enough to startle. Why don't they have actors in those boxes?? That was another thing about last years cornstalkers that is missing this year. Just a few ideas to improve what they currently have. Being in a wheelchair it is hard to really enjoy the enclosed attractions so the open ones are really more accessible. Sleepy Hallow is awesome but also could use a few more actors - not many more but one on the left as you come in and possibly just a few more in the "woods" to pop up on the fense and scare folks. That one on the ground was awesome and scared the crap out of all of us!!! The ones by the boxes were great too. They had one bouncing out that did a great job.

Ohh did want to comment that on the other attractions/haunted mazes. Well the others are not so handicapped accessible either. There are narrow walk ways and narror turns that caused damage to my wheelchair last year because I could not manuver around them easily and it knocked off my one foot piece. We had to take my leg pieces off of the chair and put them in my backpack or I had to hold them as they would not fit and I could not afford to keep replacing them. Sleepy hallow, corn stalkers, main scream, holiday horrors, and work zone were good on the accessibility. The cowboy manor was good on the outside but ran into a few very tight turns on the inside. Psycho path was great last year but the many bumps and numerous times I got stuck just took all the fun out and we had people bogged down behind us. This happens whether I am in their scooters or my wheelchair. It is very embarrassing when people are screaming at you to move it along that we were holding up the lines. I felt very uncomfortable so just gave up even trying any more. I have written several letters to PKI and have not only not gotten a response but nothing was changed this year. It would have been nice to at least offer me a pass for my problems and damage to my wheelchair but nothing. Forget getting anything into the Asylum - if it is like last years there is no way. I got a Kings Island Scooter stuck in there to where the employees had to get it out. My own wheelchair did not fare any better. When you have people in there screaming at you to move it along like the "actors" did last year - well I choose not to even attempt it this year. The guy at the end of the Asylum who is this year getting people to enter it is entertainment enough!! He was awesome last year and was chasing people away nonstop - he also got me a few times when I was not paying attention to where he was. Had a lot of fun with him while my family waited in line to enjoy that attraction. That is a lot of what I do is wait for them to enjoy the haunted houses and thus got more interested in the sliders so that I could find fun with fear fest too!! They were ok last year but this year they have been fantastic!!! Best crew ever!!! A few of the sliders are repeats of last year - glad they came back as they were the same ones that gave me a great time last year!!

Yes I think all of them have done a great job!!! The chain saw man would have groups of people running away from him with that ripping of noise coming from it!! The various sliders were attacking all they could find and how they kept up the stamina of running as much as they were was simply amazing!! I have to give a lot of credit and admiration to those guys out there!! Love them all and hope I see them all next year. Gave them pictures taken of them along with a thank you note and my email so that hopefully I will hear from them!!! I don't get a lot of enjoyment in my life and when you see a group of people see beyond my chair to give me a great time - well they rank high in my book. Other years those sliders went after the young and pretty only but these guys are going after anyone they think they can get a good reaction!! I have just as much fun watching them in action as I do being scared by them!! The guy in black with a distorted looking face has a competition going with me. I try to keep track of him and he goes out of his way to disappear and sneak up on me!! He wins.

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Went to Fear Fest both days this weekend!! We had a fantastic time. Did not do too many of the "haunted houses". Corn Stalkers and Sleepy Hallow along with the new Cowboy Manor. All were good. Sleepy Hallow did not have nearly enough actors. Not able to do the Psycho Path because it is simply not wheelchair accessible. A wheelchair can get through it but not if you plan on keeping it. Last year I kept getting stuck in the many dirt holes and various places where they shot out water at the guests. The best part was the "sliders", Chainsaw man and the Undertaker. The actors this year did an awesome job. They picked me as one of their favorites and tended to chase me around most of the night. It was so much fun. Several times they surrounded myself and others in their bid to put some scare into us!! Someone informed the undertaker of my name which he used quite often through out the night. Even coming up behind me and scaring the life out of me. He put new meaning into his words "I am digging your grave tonight!!". Loved his line to the parents of small children "Don't blame me for frightening them, YOU brought them here!". That ton of voice and his earie laugh was enough to send chills up and down my spine!! I spent many a moments jumping at that wicked and evil laugh!! My abosolute favorites were the "chain saw dude", the slider in all black with the distorted face and the Undertaker. Also the shortest slider in what looked like a burlap face. These men were awesome!!! Kept me scared and getting others to chase me as well. There was some competition with the chainsaw man and the slider in black as to how many times they could catch me off guard - trust me it was a lot!!! I burns me up to see these people treated badly or to see people walking around like they are "too cool" to be scared. Why go to Fear Fest if not to be frightened??? Quit taking the fun out of their jobs and go with the flow folks!! One of the sliders laughted so hard almost every time he got me because of my reactions. It was something to watch him fall over laughing!! I think the sliders, undertaker and the chainsaw guy need to get a little respect for the great job they all did in the front of the park!! They also kept visitors on their toes throught out the park as well!! Sure mad my trip and season passes worth while!!!