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Change Rivertown Junction Dining Hall into a table service restaurant. Backyard BBQ is a more suitable venue for All-You-Can-Eat anyway. Edit: I thought of another thing. Stop trying to charge 6.29 for fries. I'm not buying those unless they are at least $2 less. Even at an amusement park they are still just fried potatoes.

Well, maybe if you didn't eat food *in* the park. Hehe.

SOB will get plenty of snow rehab this winter.

I'm guessing the cost per rider on The Crypt has gone above the acceptable amount.

Maybe they can get one of those guns that shoots beanbags or whatever.

I think this post is evidence of what the park has given the long time/hardcore fans to be excited about since Diamondback. I mean, who's shocked that we don't have a huge thread discussing WindSeeker?

I think it would be interesting just to see them do something like strap match. Matches with blood always seem a little too over the top.

Yeah, I'm sure KI is announcing the removal of a major ride using a Halloween Haunt prop. </sarcasm>

You might be right, but I think we will have to evaluate this for a long time to be certain. KI had the Nick license for a while. The real question is whether it will be worth it for Mall of America when Nick comes and says they want an additional 10 million to keep the license, because they know that it is profitable for them.

I'm going with the more effective strategy of not buying Fast Lane...ever.

Well, I was hoping that KI would get the B&M Invert when it closed. I guess that won't be happening, eh?

Wouldn't it be more logical to say it could use more trees?

I wouldn't take anything to be 100%, especially since the guy who said it will no longer work for the company starting in January.

Please let this be the *only* coaster wish list thread of this offseason.

Thank goodness! May it never cease to be that way.

Are they going to be renaming all of the slides as part of the update? Seems like a lot of the names could stay the same and it would be no big deal.

Rumor has it the Dollywood Wingrider will be identical.

Good point about possibly closing CGA in the future, GYK. There are many rides that I would take at KI from that park. Flight Deck would be the top of the list, and the best thing is that they would have to give it a better name! I wonder if there is any real possibility that they would remove the "box" from The Crypt. I can't imagine it is very likely. They probably use it for storage during the winter. The ride would likely need to be disassembled in order to take the building down anyway.

As time goes on, my standards for 2012 continue to drop. At this point I think I would be content if they would just repave the parking lot. But they won't. Because they are Kings Island. Funny how KI seems to remind me of the Bengals.

What does fake mean anyway? Let them staple a dollar to your head and see if it is fake. I'm glad they don't really kill each other, if that is what fake means.

Yeah, the temperature can really vary wildly. The past few years they seem to have had good luck, with many weekends in the 80's. I wonder if it snowed if that would turn away some of the mega crowds that show up.

Note to self, stop opening threads with ambiguous titles.

Right. Season passes will go on sale like they normally do. I just don't think there will be an announcement until maybe early next year.

Usually yes. It is possible they will continue to wait if they have no "new" attractions for 2012 though. Without a major attraction of some sort to help sell season passes, it can be better to just wait until January when people will be more excited about any kind of KI news.

That's good to hear. Too bad it took 3 months to get a replacement, but I guess it can be assumed that KI was just waiting for them to make another one.