SOB_TOM

About the microphone hawking: Can you imagine for a minute walking down Coney mall, and all you hear is crowd noise? No one saying "Come on over, come on in. Anyone can play, anyone can win." It would be kinda creepy. Granted, my job is keeping those microphones working (hey, someone's gatta do it) but without them, you just wouldnt have the same feel of Coney than what you do right now. It would seem almost completely dead back there. Plus, Coney Mall is (supposedly) a reminder of Coney Island, the good old Golden Days of theme parks. Its a piece of history that (through some ways) Kings Island is preserving.

Might I point out where the article came from, and then ask you if it was actual "unbiased reporting?"

But attractions like GWL I cant imagine ever doing well during the theme park season. Its expensive and their main draw is off of the indoor waterpark.

In the last two days, they have surveyed, and then already started vertical construction. And there were other things that you had to think about regarding the Big Game. It was a squirt game, which meant you needed plumbing out to the game so that you could fill it. Dont forget electrical. So there was a lot of work that went into that thing.

If you remember the "Big Game" down by Vortex last year, it was set up within a week and tore down within what, a month? So no, it doesnt. It really depends on how fast the games higer ups want this one operational.

From a business standpoint, its a very good move. Basketball games, while the prizes annoy the hell out of me, are very popular. Also, look at the area around Happy Days. The walkway to IJ near Troika is always dead. So lets combine the two and put a basketball game in a dead area. This should increase volume around that area, to a certain degree, and if done correctly, the park can possibly use some of that path to open new shops, or to get vendors in there. All this started from a simple basketball game.

From what I understand, most is done either by Entertainment or an outside contractor. For the past couple of years, Tech Services has been in charge of the queue line of AT and also the one year that dark ride got revamped for FearFest.

Yeah, we are too busy figuring out what the evil empire will do to us, and if the rebel forces will have a chance of taking the park back. Speaking of which: Rebel Forces Seek Stormtroopers Please send resume to SOB_TOM through PKIC. Not all applicants will be taken, although jobs are opening rapidly.

This is going to be only my second time working Fearfest, the other being my first year. Im sticking to maintenance, cause I was told I was too scary, and that unlike most people, I didnt require a mask.

#1 TRTR #2 Beast #3 FOF #4 Drop Zone #5 Gun, cause you can sit on it all day and not get off!

Why not turn DoT into a haunted house? It wouldnt be that hard, but you would have to somehow use the center island... Or take the old greeter from KC and cut the backside of the fence and run the haunted house behind Delirium...

When you get to the top, stick your arms and legs straight out. Its the easiest way to do it

The easiest way to get information like that is to contact the park about it. I dont know if they will or not, but its worth a shot.

Or just keep going with that project, and put it under a new name. Just because the existing parks were sold does not mean that CBS cannot build others.

Theres a reason the park does not talk to ASO. The "Organization" is complete garbage, and does not release information on a non-biased basis. Look it up, the ONE man who works there does not report incidents on his favorite coasters.

Thats because CP does the same thing that Disney does: they dont announce the time of death until the person leaves the park. That way they die in tranit, not on park property.

Im no expert by any means, but I doubt it. The stresses would have the welds or bolts holding the steel together snap probabily on a routine basis. The Voyage was specifically designed to handle the stresses, and is built that way. I doubt they would be able to retrofit a steel frame into this situation.

Also Shaggy, the on ride pictures were taken when you were exiting the lava scene. The cameras were mounted to either side of the lave pit, and two in the middle of the lava pit. This enabled the picture people to segment the gondola so that you could actually see youself with a smaller group of people. And if you notice on the ride, when the gondola exits the lava scene and pauses in the upside down posistion, this is when the picture was taken.

Hey Diva, lets have storytime with your Uncle SOB_TOM: Once upon a time, at another park that is not PKI, a woman ran across a bridge over a water ride to avoid being hurt. This woman slipped on the bridge, fell, sued the park and won. Somehow, this woman proved that it was the park's fault she slipped on a wet bridge even though there was non-skid footing, signage, and a verbal repeated announcement not to run across the bridge or else you might fall and hurt yourself. The End. Also, any lawyer in the area would love this case. YES, I can see where there would be reasonable doubt that PKI was negligent. Im not going to say where, but I see it just in what you typed in. Freak accident, yes. Would a laywer pass this one up, if you say yes go to a mental ward. Anyone can prove that a theme park is at fault for anything. I could probabily prove that a hangnail was caused by crossing the Rivertown bridge over the "creek." You probabily wont hear about a lawsuit because the park will settle out of court. Its that simple. But I expect for PKI to have 27 lawsuits on their hands, and at least 26 will be settled out of court, and one will just want be be an

A power failure would not effect the way a coaster ran through a loop. Take a physics lesson, then you will understand.

PKIVortex, Im not speaking for maintenance or giving excuses, but: Wood doesnt always send out warning signals like steel. Steel you will see hairline fractures along the affected part. In wood, you can break a 2x4 by sitting on the middle, but there are no stress marks, no breaks, nothing. Eagle, Its hard to tell how much money would be lost or saved by removing SOB. The initial investment to remove it would be high, but then you wouldnt have to sink in millions of dollars in the long run. At this point, I give SOB a 50% chance of going the way of the Flyers. Also Delirium_guy, SOB was origonally built by RCCA. Paramount hired them to be the general contractors on the ride. When RCCA started to cut corners by bringing in bad wood, which was found out by the ride partially collapsing and adding to the overall cost, Paramount sued and also fired RCCA. The wood was already on-site, and there was no return policy, so Paramount was stuck with it. The normal wood used on coasters is a type that will flex, but not bend. The "faulty wood" is actually a harder wood (I dont know if it is because it was treated more or what.) Trust me on this, I tried drilling through it, and it aint soft. This flex in the wood allows the coaster to absorb more impact, but stay durable. This is what is meant by faulty wood. There is technically no faulty wood, just the wrong wood. And that, my friend, is a purchasing order problem by, *gasp* RCCA. P.S. The other wood coasters have gone through the same offseason rehab as SOB. It was mostly because of Winterfest, where maintenance had to put off all the projects and waste 6 weeks or more of the offseason, where things fell through. I dont know all the details, but I do know that when you see wood coaster maintenance with big 2x4 or 2x6's at a wood coaster, and seeing them putting new boards on the track, that they did offseason work on all coasters.

Have you forgotten how rough that stop is at the ready brakes? Thats probabily what everyone was referring to.

Well, you go ahead and protest a major problem that the park needs to have time to fix. Go ahead, I will personally call Mason Police.

Flight, dude you need to remember that a major incident just happened, and if its not fixed when you ride it, then you get hurt, along with everyone else with you. Do you want THAT on your conscience? You go ahead and take those hand CUPS and do whatever you do with those.

Chopper, how would decreased speed affect the ride by slamming people forward after the brakes?