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Actually TTD has been running consistantly all year. And I am even thinking since each has opened in their respective year. SoB was up and down all the time even in 2000 when the track before the loop was always being worked on. Now Millenium Force is a whole different story. It has been down at least 3 times this year for 5-7 days each time.

It just hit me. SoB now actually has more downtime than TTD. That really is amazaing!

This sounds like another Astroworld situation.

New attraction for KI in '07? Write down all the possible attractions you can think of on post-its. Put them on all the walls in your room. Put on a blind fold. Spin yourself 10 times. Throw a dart. Humor aside, we do know that it is not a major ride. Kinzel mentioned that in one of the press releases during the sale.

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TR;TR is not my favorite ride in the park, but that being said, I will still go on it at least once when I am at the park. The depressing thing is that the themeing has gone to %$#@. For the first time rider, they have nothing to compare it with. But being a rider that was on it within the first month of opening, it really stinks. It is just like when everyone complains about The Beast being slower than when it first opened, and they are right. But the difference is that The Beast is 27 years old. Paramount really let a ride that is theme- based and almost dependant on themeing really fail. It is still a decent ride, but 100% better when all the themeing is operating.

Maureen put out a detailed question and answer press release with all of the issues discussed. Funny how ASO does not seem to recognize that.

Actually, there are no health rules about a guest being in the kitchen area of any restaurant. Going through the back door is how many famous people get in and out as opposed to the front door. Ironically, I am referring to Shaquille O'Neal using the back door in the Orlando TGI Fridays. He even commented on how clean the kitchen was.

You may want to check back about your possible franchise in the Atlanta area, especially since Fort Lauderdale is 639 miles farther away from Cincy than Atlanta. http://www.skylinechili.com/skyline_franchise.php Copied from the bottom of the franchise information screen: Skyline Chili, Inc. is currently franchising in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania (western), West Virginia and Florida. (As other states are added, they will be posted to this site.) Skyline Chili, Inc. does not currently offer franchises outside the United States of America or in (or to residents of) the following states within the United States: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington or Wisconsin. Nothing herein is intended to constitute an offer of the sale of franchises anywhere outside the United States of America or within or to the residents of the foregoing states within the United States of America.

Since there are Skyline Chili locations in Florida and Michigan as well as local states like Kentucky and Indiana I did not consider them to be just a local entity now. http://www.skylinechili.com/skyline_locations_main.php

The same reason that there is a Skyline Chili in the park. It is a very popular restaurant, and being on location, people do not have to leave the park to eat. Many out of town guests feel more comfortable at an eatery that they are familiar with, and Fridays certainly fits that description. It would really be a nice addition to the park. Fridays does have a breakfast menu, but if it would open for breakfast is another question. Most Fridays only serve breakfast on Sundays until 1:00pm, but the Fridays at CP in Hotel Breakers serve breakfast everyday for the resort guests.

For any public venue, they are grandfathered not being ADA complient, unless there is major renovations done. If Fridays were to occupy IR, they would certainly put up some serious money to renovate it. And even at that, in the whole grands scheme of things, installing a elevator would not cost as much as you would think.

Well there are actually 2 Fridays at CP. One is in Hotel Breakers which is not open year round; but it does have the one day sales record of any Fridays (I believe it was on a Saturday during 4th of July weekend). The other is at Castaway Bay which is open year round. Not having a traditional sit down restaraunt is one of my biggest complaints about what Paramount has done to KI. Having a Fridays come into the park would be a great move, but I am not sold on the idea that it should go where IR was. It seems kind of small for a full Fridays to occupy. But anything is better than nothing at this point.

Why does a coaster have to be removed for another to be built? There is plenty of undeveloped land to build & expand for rides and new areas.

The story was already updated w/o the timeline comment. Chances are that the man identified made the statement that he has been riding coasters for 12+ years and never felt anything like SoB, and the reporter took it as he has been riding SoB for that time.

But as everyone knows, SoB's history is not exactly clean. There have been some incidents where people have been banged/ brused because the ride is rough. Now the park has spent a good amount of money and time to make improvments on how rough the coaster is and make it more enjoyable for everyone. Now if there were no problems, why spend the money & time to improve it for the last 6 years? I am not an attorney, but this is the first question I would raise. We all know that SoB is the roughest coaster in the park, but it also has the same 5 star thrill rating as other rides like The Beast and FoF, so the casual guest is going to believe that the ride would be no different and we all know that there is a significant difference. There will be lawsuits, and the best way to handle them is to be settled out-of-court with the stipulation that the incident and the settlement will remain undisclosed.

Because a person who has never rode will give a more honest opinion rather than a biased one from others that have been on it numerous times. We all know how rough SoB is, and some of us even know how to *ride* it. A interview from a person that has never been on it speaks volumes on how bad this ride tends to be. Unfortunately, this could be the beginning of the end for SoB. With all the money and time spent on this one ride, and now a very serious accident that luckily only produced one serious injury (even though the person with the broken chest bone does not consider themself to be lucky- I hope there are no lingering effects from this injury), when does CF say enough is enough?

I'll wait till next year.

They could be changing the price of admission. And the only way to be fair to those who have already bought tickets is to manufacture new tickets that are significantly different than the current tix under Paramount, and reimburse those who have already purchased tickets with eithermore Winterfest tickets, or credit towards 2007 park tickets. ... or Winterfest is cancelled.

I took the article as the Aquarium as being part of Newport on the Levee not as a seperate entity. The Aquarium is the main draw to that area. Why would you ask if I have been there?

The aquarium is also year round. Whereas KI and the Reds are seasonal. It's just that the Reds have 81 home games, and if you attract 30,000 fans/ game that equals 2.43 million fans, and being that the Great American Ballpark is new, they probably attract even more than that. This is really not shocking news.

CF will not take out IJ. They can just put a building aroung it and have you believe that you are on a trip to Alaska. I highly doubt that any major changes will take place this year, but it is possible you could see a drop in some of the food prices which would be a relative easy task.

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I am in no way certain that CF is going to change any of the names of the rides. But a good way to create new intrest is to make a ride "seem" new to the general public by changing a name. It is not uncommon for new ownership to make small changes, like changing a name of a product to spark new intrest or even for an existing company to come out and say "New and improved!" even though chances are it is the same old thing. All of us here are interested of the changes that CF is going to make. And we are all going to go to the park just to see anything that CF has changed and being KI enthusiasts that we are we will be actually "looking" for changes. When the media blitz starts next year about CF's opening of Kings Island, they are going to mention changes and ride names- people may not realize that there is not a new ride and the name was not changed and just come to the park to see the changes for themselves. Instead of being "Oh it's just Top Gun" they may think, "Let's check out Thunder Road". Now if this is going to increase stock value, I have no idea.