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The Flight of Fear one is interesting…but the slime one is pretty lame (imho)…once it’s off of the card it will not make a bunch of sense…they should have skipped that one since they couldn’t put Nickelodeon’s name on it.

I swear…if this site were not meant to be family friendly you would see some very explicit words! How sleazy is the newest 50th Anniversary pin offering?!? The park must be taking tips from Disney on how to attempt to squeeze as much money out of their fans. First we had the recent 50th Anniversary coin set that was asking fans to rebuy 2 items that they probably already owned…but now they’ve topped themselves…now they want people to rebuy 5 things!!! I am SO disappointed in the park with these sleazy sales tactics. Anyone who knows me knows that I try hard to own the rarer items that the park brings out…but they can choke on this one, I will not buy this out of principle.

I received my latest batch this week…the most recent 8 pins. I am truly amazed at the quality of some of these pins. Viking Fury with it’s actual swinging boat is great… and Sky Lab’s wheel really spins! The Winterfest one looks a lot nicer in person than I expected…both Amazon Falls and the Festhaus ones are nice. I am a bit underwhelmed by both the King Cobra & Vortex pins…they seem to be pretty generic compared to most of the others…but I still like having them.

I remember snow back during one of my Fearfest trips back when the campground still existed…it was during the day, and cold (obviously)…but it was an adventure. (It was decent sized flakes, but never accumulated on the ground.)

They wouldn’t even have to touch the Paramount years unless they wanted to…there are enough older rides still unaccounted for…plus they could do things like The International Restaurant, original marquee sign, the inflatable theater, trams, fountain with pedestals…I could fill out probably 75 pins…but then of course most people wouldn’t want most of them!

If we were living in a world like the movie “Liar, Liar”…at least half of the restaurants in America would have to use this as their slogan!

This sign ended up at a flea market for sale way over 10 years ago…I regret not buying it now…although I have no idea (still) where I would have put it.

I like this…but I have also liked seeing all of the scareactors congregate at the foot of the fountain at the end of the evening…it gives me a good chance to see the makeup & costumes in a good light…so I’m a bit torn over this.

Skylab…so big the card can’t hold it all!

Yeah…Funpix is a must for me, it pays for itself in no time.

Numbers 23 & 24…I really like the Festhaus one! Now that the regular season is over and we are only at 24 pins released…I wonder, will they try and complete the set by the end of this year, or just keep bringing out 50th Anniversary stuff next year?!

I am assuming this is not the coin you are talking about, correct? If so, would you mind sharing a picture of it? (So I can be on the lookout for it! )

I hate to say it, but I’m becoming a little fatigued by all of the 50th Anniversary stuff coming out. I don’t appreciate that this set comes with the same pin & keychain as the first 50th Anniversary set which was released earlier in the year…so I don’t need more of those…I want the coin, but I might just pass on this one.

What…they couldn’t have gone that extra mile and thrown in a little “thoughts & prayers” too?!

I have been waiting for a Viking Fury pin…very happy! (Not so thrilled that they put the 1982 date on the Winterfest pin…it kinda dated it.)

These are cool…available in blue & green…but my wallet is at its breaking point…hopefully they will last awhile. https://www.kingsislandgear.com/collections/new-apparel/products/limited-edition-ki-mv-rr-blue-engine-cutout

^I ordered mine within’ hours of being listed and did get them at $8.99…someone must have messed up when they listed them because when they arrived they did have the $9.99 price stickers on them. (Underneath the stickers printed on the card is the old $8.99 price…as I mentioned earlier, I am guessing that some “bean counter” must have done the math and decided that $8.99 wasn’t enough for these pins so they raised the price.)

In my opinion it can change day to day…and even hour to hour…it just depends on how much heart the scaractors feel like putting into their part at that point in time. I have gone through the same haunt on different days and it was a completely different experience both times…good and bad.

Numbers 19 & 20 are now available!

Repeats yes…but that is the nicest looking Bat pin I have seen…and if you look closely the red paint is glittery, so if it’s like the Salt Water Circus one which also had glitter paint, it will look even better in person. P.S. There are still 32 pins left in the series, I’m sure you will still see some of your suggestions…but the park has to keep it interesting for the casual fan who just wants some of the major rides.

I like this one!

Numbers 17 & 18 now available.

13, 14, 15 & 16 are now available…I’m glad the balloon got one.

New on the KIGear site.

This will come off as a complete fanboy type post…but here goes anyway. I received my latest batch of pins today…and I will say that I don’t care if this batch & all of the future pins are $9.99 each, they are worth it. I have purchased about every pin that the park has released over the last few years and I can easily say that the quality of this series is above any of those. In the past, if you don’t count the Paramount days, the pins have been a single layer…this series has raised the bar on quality. Several of the pins in this series have “3D effects”. The Clown Band, Skeeball & Spinnen Kegger pins all have a spring that suspends an object above the bottom layer. The Flying Carpet pin has a groove cut in it so that the kid can slide up & down the slide when you move him! I also like The Sky Ride pin with the dangling gondola. Another thing that I like about this series is the backing cards that the pins come on, I like that the park has gone to the trouble to have each card specifically made for each pin instead of having a generic 50th Anniversary type card for the whole series. I am looking forward to the upcoming pins…personally I am hoping for a Rotor pin and hopefully a Viking Fury one.