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Kinda random but, in Intimidator305's renderings they have to supports way to light of a yellow. And in Diamondback's renderings they had it too dark. I305's supports look how Diamondback's were supposed to be, and Diamondback's look like I305's are supposed to be.

I'd rather have trees then a non-operational wooden coaster. Same, kinda. As much as I love SOB (and I love it alot!) It's torture for me to go to KI and see it just sitting there. I want to ride it so bad, it's been 116 Days since I've ridden Son of Beast...

Beast's ending is probably the best but some of my other favorites... Flight of Fear, I love that last corkscrew. Vortex, that helix is the perfect ending to a great ride! TOPGUN, I love how much you swing going into the brake run! Son of Beast, I like the turn around near the end, especially in the back seat you get some airtime diving down.

^ Kinda the same. I get thrilled by coasters but in a different way. When I was younger I wasn't scared of coasters or rides with the exception of Son of Beast and Drop Zone. But every time I'd ride something I'd be nervous going up the lift but than once I'd go down the drop I'd start having fun. Now I'm more thrilled in an enthusiastic (really happy I'm riding..) way, and don't get scared. The last time I was ever scared from a coaster was in 2003 on my first ride on TTD and that same day my first ride on Millennium Force. I kinda wish I was still a little scared because it made each ride so much more thrilling!

Very cool! Last night I asked him if he had any more videos of TOPGUN back in the 90's and now he made this video! TOPGUN looks so much better, I love all the trees that used to be near the helix that are now Son of Beast. I kinda wish they were still there, but I'd much rather have SOB than a few trees!

I've been thinking about it lately, and after reading some of the replies on this topic, I chose HoliWood Nights. I haven't been since 2001 and I was only 9 and wasn't a coaster enthusiast back then. Plus the more I read about it, the better it sounds! Breakfast at Splashin' Safari, ERT on Wildebeest (and I'm sure other slides), ERT on Legend, Raven, and Voyage! Sounds so amazing! As much fun as I had at CM08' I think I'd rather go to HWN10'.

I see them atleast twice a day. Once in the morning during Channel One at school, and just randomly at school. I really don't care for the Haunt commercial this year, kinda weird.

I want Reptar It'd go great on my desk next to my PKI Eiffel Tower!

I like one side of Rivertown, and that is the small area by White Water Canyon. I like it cause of the shade and the Rivertown-esh atmosphere. I don't like the new Diamondback plaza, looks too plain and Action Zone-esh.

^ I agree, why can't they work on other areas a little bit instead of focusing on one area? Tower Gardens should be called Tower Dump instead, cause that is NOT a garden. I don't see good landscape, I don't see beautiful fountains with refreshing water. I see run down plastic mountains with non working water falls, gross green water, faded brick path, overgrown bushes and foliage. I really hope we do get a Starlight Experience next year, mainly so the area will become nice again.

I don't recall seeing you either. What part of US were you in? It's okay, Yeah I planned on going through Urgent, Slaughter House, Cut Throat, and Trail of Terror but I never did go through most of them because I didn't have time. ...at least a year. I think this year is the worst, but maybe later in the season I'll change my mind? I guess your right, I should give it a try. Next time I go to KI I'll try to go through it. But honestly I'll probably only go to KI two more times this season, I don't know why but I'm kinda bored with KI and in desperate need of another amusement park. Yeah afew friends of mine said Slaughter House sucked, but I still want to go through it. I didn't get scared at all, not once. I just go through the mazes hoping for once I'll get scared but they are more just graphic scenes that entertain you, not scare you.

Nice PTR! I was kinda sad that I didn't see many people at KI. I only saw Brian, Adam (only for like 10 minutes), Danielle (just for like 3 minutes), and a few friends working in Urgent Scare. I was thinking I'd see alot of people and hangout with them the whole time but guess not. Glad you had fun though, but it sucks you got sick! Get well soon!

I'm watching Brady Bunch right now, I can't wait to see the KI episode again. I haven't seen it in many years!

There ya go! Thanks, and yeah Haunt wasn't that good. Thank you!

Haunt was good, but I think that last years was way better. It seems like every year it just gets less good. Still fun, but last night was my least favorite visit of the year.

All this week went by so slow, I was looking forward to Haunt so badly. Finally Friday came and at school I was bragging to everyone I was going to KI tonight. As soon as I got home I was dumb and decided to watch Haunt videos from older years, instead of get ready. Around 4 I put my batteries on the charger and got ready. Than at 4:15 I went to Mitchell's house. Right as I was pulling into the drive way I just realized that my batteries aren't charged at all, my phone hasn't been charged since Thursday night, and I forgot my Dramamine. So I texted my friend asking if he would buy some Dramamine for me and I'd give him how ever much it coasted. It coasted $6 luckily. But than when I got it, I realized it wasn't even the right kind. This prevented vomiting and dizziness. I needed the motion sickness kind (don't have motion sickness, but it helps me be able to reride stuff feeling better.) So finally we left around 5:00 and got to KI around 6:30. When we first got there I noticed that a lot more cars were there than I was hoping. So we walked to the entrance area and Mitchell's dad got his ticket (He doesn't have a pass like I do.) They didn't get done until around 7:10. While I was waiting, at 7:00 all the monsters just ran out of the entrance screaming and everyone got so scared, It was really cool. They ran through the metal detectors and just started scaring everyone in the entrance area. Than they finally opened the gates and let people in. I was walking with Mitchell but than as soon as we entered the park he got split up with me. So I waited for 10 minutes than walked over to Diamondback. While by Graeters, Brian called Mitchell and told him to meet us here. But he never came so we just went to Diamondback. The line was about 10 Minutes, and we ended up seeing Mitchell in line. I got row 9 on Red Train, which is the worst seat on the worst train. Still great, but there are way better seats. Than after an okay ride on Diamondback we (Mitchell, Rick, Brian, some kid, some guy who I don't know, and some Dave person) walked over to Beast. It was a complete walkon and I sat in the last seat. The first trim was as bad as usual but the second one (leading into the ravine drop) wasn't on as heavy so we got a little bit of airtime. The MCBR was on strong, but we fastly gained speed again. Helix was as smooth as usual, overall great Beast ride. After Beast I wanted to ride Backlot since I never do. It was a complete walkon and they weren't assigning seats so I sat back. The launch seemed way more powerful. And I actually had alot of fun! The tunnel had all the lights on, so it was really awesome seeing the track lit up in the tunnel. Since we had such a great ride we just stayed on and rode again. After two great rides on Backlot we went to Vortex to find no one at all in the station. Rode 7-1. When we got off people were inline for that seat so I wanted to switch seats an reride but Brian wanted to do Urgent Scare so I didn't get to reride. So next was Urgent Scare. Long line, boring, not scary, just dumb in my opinion. Saw a lot of friends working there, which was cool. I was disapointed along with everyone else, so we went to Skyline and ate some Coneys! I ate really fast and decided to go through Massacre Manor while everyone else was eating. Complete walkon, and way better than last year! Loved it. I plan on going through this every visit for now on. Next was Racer, luckily no one in line. I rode in front seat and than hurried and switched to back seat after that ride. While on Racer I noticed that Firehawk was a complete station wait! So we walked to Firehawk to find that some people got in line... It ended up being ten minutes. Very forceful as usual. Next was FoF. The line was about 10 minutes also. I saw my friend Danielle in line and said Hi. I rode in the very back seat with some Ride Opt. on FoF. About usual ride for FoF, the lights were on in the brake run for some reason. After that we went to Adventure Express. No one was in the station so we rode 3 times, once in front, twice in back. I love AE during Haunt! Since I haven't even ridden Drop Zone this visit I had to get a ride in. No one was in line thankfully! The crew was really slow though so it ended up being around 7 minutes. I wanted to reride but alot of people got in line so we decided to skip for now and go check out Slaughter House. Full queue, and have received texts it sucked so we skipped it. I noticed Invertigo had no line at all so we rode it in the most North seat. It was very smooth for some odd reason so I rode again only in the middle-ish area since no one was waiting for those seats. It was once again smooth but my neck hurt really bad (and still does...) So we went to Top Gun. One our way there Xtreme Skyflier was only $5 and no one was in line so me and Mitchell rode that. Very quick, we paid and got off within 5 Minutes or less. Once I pulled the ripcord We swung twice than we caught the rope and got off. Top Gun was next. You enter like you would for Son of Beast. But than you walk out of SOB's queue and go into TG's exit than enter the reride entrance. Than into the station. No one in the station at all but ride opts. so I rode front seat. The Ride Opts. were so awesome! They were really enthusiastic, funny, and really cool! We switched seats to the back and than rode again. When we came into the station no one was in there so they just stopped us for 10 seconds than dispatched as again! We rode 4 times in a row. Someone texted me saying that Diamondback has no line at all and they aren't assigning seats so I hurried up and got there within 6 minutes! There was maybe 10 people in the station so we rode in the back seat. It was cool because pretty much everyone in the station was an enthusiast so it was like ERT. It made me miss ERT on Ride Warriors so bad! I wanted to ride again so bad but Rick wanted to leave, so we had to leave... On the way out they bought nasty Cinnabuns (yuck!) and ate them in the car. We didn't get home until 3 for some reason, as soon as I got home I pretty much passed out on my bed and dreamed I was at KI again and Elvira was walking around the park giving out candy for some reason... On to the photos, since you probably skipped all that! I like how they had this bus all decked out in Haunt advertisement! At the entrance there was a lot of scare actors, but by 8:00 most were gone. This guy was making some kind of squirrel noise. I don't know what he is supposed to be though. It should say "All you Haunt is Not here." I really like how they had these advertisements on International Street! You could barley see Diamondback with all the fog. The crowds weren't too bad. There wasn't much fog. I only say maybe 10 fog machines in the whole park. Maybe they didn't turn some of them on because it was already foggy? Sadly I only got one ride on Beast, and it wasn't even all the way dark. I always like the lights they put up in this midway. This didn't turn out the way I wanted it too at all. You can barley even see Diamondback... Random Urgent Scare photo. 3-2-1-Drive! Monster looking creepy. I don't know how this didn't blur. Only got to ride Drop Zone once... The one ride I did on it was amazing though! Little too much blood... Looks so familiar! SOB... : ( I was so happy TOPGUN was open! TG's awesome crew. Thanks for reading! Diamondback: 2 Beast: 1 Backlot: 2 Vortex: 1 Urgent Scare: 1 Massacre Manor: 1 Racer: 3 Firehawk: 1 Flight of Fear: 1 Adventure Express: 3 Drop Zone: 1 Invertigo: 2 TOPGUN: 3 21 Rides in 5 Hours, not bad!

Well if it's like it's been past years, the first night is always empty. Hopefully this year is no exception.

I'll be there! Hopefully the park will be very empty!

So are all of them being removed, or just the one of the foot ball guy? I'm glad the football guy one is gone because I think it's a little inappropriate but I hope the others are still up.

Looks like they have some fog going on by DB!

The backstory for SOB is really good, but the park didn't enforce it. I bet no one in the GP knew the backstory, infact I bet not many enthusiasts did know it and still don't. If PKI would of made the theme obvious, showed videos in the queue, had a better station and queue line, ect... than I think SOB would of been a much better attraction. Theming can make an okay ride be amazing.

Whats wrong with the people behind you!