PKIDelirium

Google to the rescue. https://darkridedatabase.com/rides/action-theater-3/ Funhouse Express, 2005 and 2006.

Yeah, I've got the name wrong. But there was a 3D-side show with a carnival/haunted house type of theme that ran for a couple seasons next to Elvira.

SpongeBob wore out his welcome, but it was fun during FearFest/Haunt when they would have Elvira on one side and Circus of Horrors 3D on the other (when both sides still worked) prior to the abandonment of Haunt season use and the other side becoming Urgent Scare. The brief return of Days of Thunder in 2004 was nice to get, unfortunately it didn't stay around very long. The Dinosaurs Alive companion show was an upcharge, so I never did that one.

Looks like the usual "cold weather tunnel" for doing trackwork, but trackwork on a GCI less than ten years old seems odd. That section is higher-stress though so maybe a new top layer and fresh steel? I haven't seen a Notice of Commencement for a while, so I'm not sure if GCI has a contract open with the park right now. Most parks have GCI do tracking on their GCI rides (SFMM being a notable exception, but wood track seems to dry out quickly there and Apocalypse got retracked down to the ledgers by a third party a number of years ago now.)

King Cobra eluded me by a year. After not having been at the park since 1997/1998, I got a Gold Pass in 2002 and on my first visit in May, headed up the Eiffel Tower before leaving and got to see an empty space of dirt. I hadn't been aware of the removal until that moment.

Close, but you’ve got it backwards. KI’s building was built before the ride, KD’s ride was built before the building. The bridge crane is still present in our FOF, not sure if KD installed it, and is used for inspection baskets.

That one works. Unfortunately it confirms they're keeping the "castle bridge" for the entrance instead of reverting to the descending pathway and entering the building at queue level like the original.

The track is fine I think, they just need to do better with keeping the trains up because it seems like after they do a proper train overhaul, it's great, but then back to the usual offseason work and it starts getting some rattle and vibration again. They used to do those proper overhauls more often, sometimes just on one train each year and there was a serious difference.

I wonder if they're putting the long-lost lights back on the centerpiece while they're at it.

Magic Mountain probably did with Revolution.

Got a bit of a fight happening now: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/08/business/paramount-hostile-takeover-bid-wbd

And why are there two dozen different kinds of concrete surfacing? And that extra seating area for the mess hall, seems like that, and the turf for it, got relocated to build the pavilion by the Carousel...

The Paramount/Cedar Fair tech integration was tricky too. Cedar Fair had an antique system and adopted Paramount's entirely, but there weren't any apps or "pass accounts" to sort out, let alone putting together two major such systems...

Now if they'd also take the "Kings Island" off the Mystic Timbers sign. Like, you don't have to remind me what park I'm in guys...

Welp.