teenageninja

I was going to comment on this as well. I'm a Mechanical Engineer, have worked in manufacturing my entire professional career. Reverse Engineering will probably work for a significant portion of things. They'll likely replace the part, confirm everything works as normal, and then sign off on that item as a suitable replacement part. There are some items, that they'll struggle with. Items that are patented. Expensive components like gear boxes, hydraulic pumps, etc. However, it should help out with a significant portion of things.

Seems pretty expensive to me.

I doubt you'll see the park open much earlier. Spring breaks in Cincinnati are too varied in dates and the weather is super unpredictable. I remember opening day in 1999 it was snowing. I don't think you'll see the park extend the season much either. The dorms are mostly to fix staffing issues that the park encountered during the summer and hopefully to increase the quality of employee at the park.

I was quoting the above poster who was saying they should be a second gate for employees. I'm all for them building the dorm and hiring more and better overall workers. Especially in the food department.

I understand. I was referring to staffing LATE in the season, not early. This created similar problems back then, when UC was ending spring quarter in June.

Why would they do this? It's unnecessary cost. They would have to construct a new entrance, staff it during working hours. They would likely need to install locker rooms, staff HR to make sure that they have uniform options. It says on the announcement that there are shuttles to/from the employee entrance.

Especially now that UC has shifted from Quarters to Semesters. A good chunk of the employees at KI attend UC, and UC, until 2012 or 2013, didn't start until mid September. It's really hard to get staffing the first few and last few weeks of operation. When I was in Park Services, I would run rides the first few weeks of the season, as I was in Rides in my earlier career.

I would be really surprised if Route 666 (or some variant of it) was not a part of the Haunt and Winterfest plans going forward.

I was actually one of the kids in the show when I was younger. I got a free T shirt when I was done.

Very interesting, curious as to the benefit of this. I imagine these trees are gone unless they build seat walls or something around them.

Agreed. Right now, they seem to be so focused on quantity, which I understand to some extent, that some of the houses are very limited on Scareactors. They are also very short. I would much rather have some longer houses (with interior and exterior elements) and have a longer wait, than to walk through a Killmart or Wolfpack that take 2 or 3 minutes to walkthrough.

Way too big. Have to have people to keep it clean, empty garbage, patrol it, etc.

I don't see them getting rid of Timberwolf. It's not used often, but when it is, it results in very high attendance days for the park.

Haunt attendance will always be good, regardless of the quality of the event. I agree with @AZ Kinda Guy maybe the worst year I've attended yet.

I was saying I think they are going to demolish the Dino's area for future attraction. Otherwise, I think it would have been really easy to put the Antique Autos on that path back there.

Another thing to keep in mind is they could relocate those maintenance buildings if they chose to. Not saying they will or should, but it's an option.

You could connect the two if you had the path go down the existing maintenance road and built a jumper from the maintenance path to Dino's, although I think Dino's is getting demolished, purely because that would have been an easy opportunity for them to put the Antique Autos back there.

They aren't removing them for no reason, I'll tell you that.

Sure, you can argue that they can do it, but if they can build it in an area with a flatter grade or better quality land, they are going to do it. Not to mention, they have to build roads to get materials out there, etc.

For the people who haven't been around here a lot. The park does own a lot of land headed down towards the river, but it is very steep and probably not suitable for building supports on without serious reinforcement. You'll likely never see development all the way out there.

Just a bit of revisionist history here, and I'm probably wrong to some extent. I recall back in the mid 2000's they had a FastPass system for some of their bigger rides, Millennium Force, Dragster, etc. It was a hand stamp and they would tell you what time to come back. I definitely remember those two specific rides had the merge near the base of the ramp that goes up to the station.

I think a lot of the disparity in crowds had to do with the fact that most people didn't know the park was open last week plus you have a lot more people off work this week than last week.

Spent so much time putting up lights and didn't even bring down the Firehawk sign?

So a sorority house? Oh wait.

It's capacity was not very good, and I assume this one won't be much better. In theory, they could get up to 1600 riders per hour, but I would imagine it'll be closer to half of that.