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The park has zero control what ride manufacturers determine to be a "safe" rider. If a manufacturer spec changes, the park has to as well. Unfortunately, different ride ops see things differently. I suggest a visit to guest services so that it cannot be misunderstood.

We really don't know if the park is not being consistent.The easiest: we really do not know if the person in question is being honest about being on the ride before. I know that parks I visit often during the year the ride ops get to know me by face. Given this person's unfortunate condition, he would be even more recognizable. I have no way of understanding his frustration given how capable he is, but to be consistent, certain criteria needs to be met. He does not. This is an issue that will never go away. Ride manufacturers cannot design rides for every handicap and still maintain a budget. I wish they could.

If anyone calls my Beast a girl gets NOTHING!

^ The offer from SF obviously was not the right price.

For the right price, everything is for sale.

Welcome to OHIO where your FUN will be taxed to death!

"Fanboys", or as I refer to them as enthusiasts, go to the park so often, they recognize the little things, most often in a negative light. They also have this belief they are entitled to certain things because they visit the park often. The majority of park guests, non-enthusiasts, do not recognize all the little things like a boring 2 minute walk to a ride. The park makes decisions for the majority of their guests. Do they listen to enthusiasts? Sure. But the park cannot act on every enthusiast demands or they would go out of business because enthusiasts will never be satisfied.

There has been a couple books on SoB in wide arranging genres:

Thank you for summing up where we are going wrong with society today and our dependence to keep our minds occupied other than imagination. People now "need" something to occupy their time for a whole 2 minutes instead of actually using real words to converse with another person. Even if you are alone, strike up a conversation with another person in line. I have met some fantasic people waiting in line for a ride.

I never understood why some feel this way. Numerous articles were quoted with: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110423/NEWS01/104240311/What-s-next-Son-Beast- Why is this not good enough information to the point some believe KI acted like SoB did not exist?

^Your mom did not end up going?

^^Along those lines, I wonder how many trees have been killed updating law books or tax books not only on a yearly basis but a monthly basis. Nice idea Hank. I hope your project gets the support needed by those "in the know".

Handing out something for free due to acts of god/ out of the control of the park has the potential to create a: "can open, worms EVERYWHERE!" scenario. Handing out a freebee for 100 could **** off 1000 for their own "issue".

If CP does it the right way, GK will not be a parking lot coaster as accurately defined in the pic above. But we really will not know until June. New landscape projects similar to what is needed for GK are almost certain to die if done prior to Memorial Day on the southern shores of Lake Erie.

It is the age of social media. Just a small nugget of info about the park keeps followers interested in the off-season and keeps them coming back looking for more. Bald eagles are quite majestic in the the wild. We had one outside of work a few years back eating a rabbit. We watched & snapped pics for quite some time in pure awe. Many of us posted what we saw on our own FB page. It is fun to look back and decipher a tweet like this, but you know what they say about hindsight. Some info about bald eagles & their nest: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/www/critters/eagle/826572782.html

I really don't believe the bald eagle tweet was a hint at all. There is a bald eagle nest near the CP marina (next to MF) & pics have been posted to their page back in December 2012: From CP Marina FB page: http://www.facebook.com/jackeym/posts/4392985945615?comment_id=57606273&ref=notif&notif_t=like#!/photo.php?fbid=10152375587110298&set=a.10150180793960298.429494.10150155427005298&type=3&theater

I don't believe KC deserves to be on that list. SoB may also be a stretch only because nobody can predict what the ride would have been like if enough money was spent on it from the beginning & if the construction issues did not arise.

Kentucky Kingdom group gets preliminary approval of tourism incentives http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130130/NEWS01/301300114/Kentucky-Kingdom-group-gets-preliminary-approval-tourism-incentives

http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/3386226-74/zoo-record-attendance#axzz2JPxQt2xb

Just so you know what I was referring to smalls: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/26241-flight-deck-removal/page-4 http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/22809-tower-johnny/?hl=tower%2Bjohnny http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21833-kings-island-ghost-sightings/ http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/19800-tower-johnnyor-something-like-that/ http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/14635-tower-johnny/ http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/13965-tower-johnny/ http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/12949-paranormal-activity/ http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2390-tower-johnny/ http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1588-is-kings-island-haunted/ http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/281-is-kings-island-haunted/removal/page-4

I knew this was coming..... BTW- you are killing me Smalls!

It makes me question if something happened, or if this is planned for a reason. KI's FB page was always active, especially by KI itself (Don??) providing info & answering many of the same questions- over, and over, and over, and over..... Whoever is in charge of KI's page is MUCH more visible than whoever is in charge of CP's page.

Ed Hart press conference @ 2:30pm on KK approval.

From KI:

Don't think so? I can see why you would question it. As Captain Nemo point out, each ride is very different. To the point that I would say completely different with the exception of both being steel coasters & using wheels. I would have believed for someone to take the time to look at each ride, and take the time to actually post on CP's FB page that: "Cedar Point does it again!!!" he would really have a small background in being an enthusiast. Although for it to be "again", you would guess this new coaster decision at CP mimics other decisions made at SFMM, which really has not happened.