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I didnt wait. I left and took my money with me.

The biggest flaw for Dollar Days is the unlimited order. For example, at Larosa's, a customer can buy an unlimited amount of slices on one trip. We saw lines last night way back beyond Graater's and people walking out with two or three pizzas (24 slices) this amounts to $24 dollars for the park. GREAT....but what happens when the 30 people in the back who would be buying 2 slices decides to skip the line ($60 dollar loss). Ten people are waiting in line at Chicken Shack and the line starts at the Congo Falls entrance. They are waiting for food and discover that the one hundred people in front are only wanting a soft drink, so they leave the long line. (A potential loss of $140 + @ $14.99 per meal). Still others go to more places and enounter crowds, so mom day and three hungry kids decide to leave the park - potential $80 loss or more, IF the family decides not to come back even more money is potentially lost. Recommedation - still have Dollar Days, allow for full price lines, or full price locations, limit purchases to two per customer, try not to be understaffed, and plan for next year, maybe use food / beverage trucks rather than actual food stands or use stand alone booths, leave full price locations free. The idea is to keep people in the park spending money. After circling the park for to get a soft, and being ignored in Reds Grill, I left the park to eat, taking potential sales with me.

All Dollar Days food lines were mixed in with regular food lines creating massive lines, no vendors were open to buy simple snacks, and lackluster performance at the Reds Grill = #worstdayever.

Bad service at the Reds Grill, waited at the wall tables at the bar 45 minutes and no server came to us. I'm m finished for the day.

I can relate to two of those attractions. Unfortunately I was too small to ride Wild Mouse......and, on Lost River, I was too young to be kissing...

What if KI added a small field and bleachers then played games using these? This could be used for pay as you go, or for charity days for prizes. I for one would love to be entertained watching a game played with these.

Starting at about 2 minutes 40 seconds into this film, the train ride is described. The station was on the hill about where the Tempest is now. It headed east and crossed Lake Como trestle (over the canoes). then it headed west. It followed along the lake directly through the tunnel. If you look at a satellite image, just follow the lake edge west to the tunnel. Also, for those who have been to a Disney park, see if you can see any similarities.

Yes....memories like the corners of my mind...LOL Yes Disney was right! The park was unlike any other...Take a look at Disneyland and compare to Coney Island ....Riverboats (check).... exquisite landscaping (check) .... exciting thoroughfares (check).... Canoes original DL and DW parks (check)....Turnpike (check).... train ride (check).... themed areas (check Main Mall and Land of Oz).... even the litter gitters that sweep the park (check). You could say Disney was really impressed with Coney Island as a model for his parks...so on your next visit to Disneyland or Disneyworld, imagine the Ohio river just over the horizon, and you can pretty much feel like you are visiting Old Coney Island.

I'd prefer big upholstered seats with T-bar restraints. Yes...T-bars....Ahhhhh.

Don't forget the picnic groves....the main reason that Coney came to existence!

Larosa's was once a hat/ t shirt shop and before that a penny arcade. The snack bar at Sunlite Pool remains the same. I believe the brick maintenance building behind the Merry-go-round Is the remnant of the Top-o-The-Mall restaurant complex. The tunnel from the Train ride at the far west of Lake Como, as far as I can tell, still remains. The crazy, awesome tangle tree at the river is still there, check it out sometime. (four trees or so, grew around each other)

I remember that. 2005 was a maze called Cemetery Mines in the building for Poseidon's Fury, and then 2006 was People Under The Stairs: Under Construction, in one of the tent buildings behind Men In Black. It was a cool concept, but the problem was that with the constant line of people going through the house, the flashlights were given to one out of every 20 or so people. So folks right in the middle were kind of screwed out of that experience.Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk Yes....Universal always has the conga lines.....The lines there are MASSIVE and constantly moving. I do believe that Blackout is going to be a unique experience...I only hope it is NOTHING like Mysteria. That haunt was a disaster IMHO.

I thinkba haunted house or superhero theme using projection mapping would be incredibly entertaining!

Actually, we were possibly the first with a gate coaster.....look to your left as you approach the gates.

And that last part, killed it for me . I have a very difficult/nearly impossible time in "regular" Haunts that contain scareactors, handling them in that type of environment would be impossible. I was genuinely hoping for the type of experience I described. One haunt that I attended (I think at Universal Orlando....cant be sure, I've been to many) several years ago provided the leader in the group with a flashlight....however it was rigged to work for a while then it would shut off at strategic points to allow the group to experience total darkness. The groups were small but the effect was totally awesome....because when the darkness occurred the monsters came out and their faces were slightly illuminated by glowing paint. Plus it was always the leader that got the scare...so the most afraid individual in the group moved to the front to hold the "security flashlight" that turned out to be their undoing....LOL

:'( so sad to read this. Hopfully the remaining panda will grow up to be strong. It always amazes me that animals can sense that some thing is wrong with their offspring.

Try it.....you'll like it!!! Lol!

Im sure there would be a way to do the breathing and sound from a distance....maybe binaural speakers in the house....and wind from one of those percussion drum things (I'll post the name when I find it....lol) edit: It's called an Airzooka or Air Cannon http://cdn.partykungen.se/img/products/original/airzooka-1.jpg

Good Lord.... I wonder what their true motive is? I read a story where they abducted a dog feom someones porch and it was later euthanized before the owners could locate the animal. Nefarious organization.

Oh no...that's so sad. I wonder if the zoo will try to nurse it to health?

Heard something very funny while riding Adventure Express on Sunday. A mother and her six year old were riding behind me... Mom - "Are you sure this is like a train ride" 6 year old son - "Yeah mom, just like a train ride" (ride starts and right at the first drop and through out the ride) Mom - "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh - Jeesh - ahhhhhh - OOOOO-----NOoooooo!!!!" Son (giggled furiously the whole way) (back in the station) Mom - "That was NOT a train ride!!!!" Son - "You should never trust a six year old."

^^I would love to do that kind of stuff... but where do you sign up to be a haunt designer....not on Monster.com....LOL

Creepy......just feel your way through. Let's speculate. Brick walls, spider webs, slimy surfaces, then flashes of images to stoke your senses....hairy tarantula spiders on the walls, then darkness....you feel them crawling on you, while you hear them scurry up over the walls.... then you feel your way around a corner....you see flashes of a body bags hanging in a hall way....after darkness you feel your way through the bodies, you sense someone is following you, then you feel someone, breathing on your neck...more flashes of a bloody scene, you feel your feet sticking to some substance, you smell something disgusting, and you hear a knife dragging along a wall. You sense that someone is near and hear a low growling laugh in your ear...... This atraction has so much potential....I hope it's operated to the extreme!

What if it's a big empty building and groups of 20 or so are lead in at a time. It's all about using your senses so I imagine that there are no props. Keep in mind, exit lights would still have to have some sort of lighting to be up to fire code. Maybe it's a maze but has flashes of lights occasionally (not strobes) to lead the way. I'm intrigued. Either way I'm sure it's going to be a cool attraction.