TheRickster

Pass and ticket sales should be down this year because there is no new attraction. Shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, even CF or KI executives.

Yeah, you can't really catch everyone that does this...

Saw "More fishing, less b!+3ing" today. I was more offended by the fact that someone actually spent money on something that dumb.

I'm not going to lie, Disaster Transport is one ride I'd love to ride again. I always enjoyed it and it felt very unique and special.

For what it's worth you should be fine on pretty much everything at other parks then if you two go to any. Wicked Twister at Cedar Point is a lot like Drop Tower as far as it's restrictiveness goes, but other than that you're golden. Go enjoy yourselves!

Someone probably got sick.

Anyone remember how the Tuesday after memorial day usually is?

I'd also wonder if the two trains that touched/bumped aren't waiting for RMC to look at to verify integrity or repair anything.

Yeah, they need to be staffed more than June-August. The time before and after those months (and even during for certain rides/departments) is a staffing nightmare. Also just in general seasonal jobs have a hard time because people want year round employment when they can. Also working over 40 hours a week without overtime can be an issue for a lot of people.

Yup, it takes awhile to clean a queue house... so they try not to open them unless they have to.

Google maps will re-route you around traffic if you're connected to data.

Maybe I was switching that with Gemini.

Which could be correct if the lines have to run that far. I've only seen pics of the ones by the wheel, magnum, and sv.

It's really...really...good. The last few air time hills are the only ones that really hurt my legs. Vs. Storm Chaser that the entire last half of the ride was really fun, but the bruising took the fun out of it.

I think it could be for a lighting package by the back entrance on the witches wheel and steel vengeance.

When you open them, you then have to clean the areas. They are only opened as needed to keep the line from flowing out onto the midway.

One year, "Demon Drop" was the next big thing. Just remember that. On the side... I actually loved demon drop. Such a unique little fun ride.

I think on busy nights they are also cutting SteVes queue early. Which is understandable. That's a lot of people to have to be away again in the morning to stay an extra 3 hours or so, let alone ****ing off a bunch of people if the ride where to break down and they had to turn them away totally empty handed.

I think CP will be the first park to make an actual strata coaster, and not just a spike coaster. TTD being 25 million doesn't leave much $$$ room for the rest of a normal coaster though.

Your link isn't working but I googled it and found a couple other vids. A head of a dragon on a parade float caught on fire for anyone that can't watch the videos right now.

IB4 Steel Beast 312

Isn't this what the sign is for on the way to Louisville?

The billboards probably also aren't hand selected by KK. They likely hire and ad agency who spreads them out over a wide variety of areas and just try to get saturation.

Correct, I'm not familar enough with Louisville to really compare it. But I'd be willing to bet the majority chunk of KI dollars (at least the bread and butter) are from families in Mason, West Chester and the other suburbs. I bet many who live in Cincy cannot afford to take the trip to KI frequently, let alone season passes and return trips.

I would do anything for KK and KI to be competitive, but I don't see it happening, at least not for a decade or more. KK would just need way to much growth. Does anyone know how Louisville is as far as median/average incomes etc? A BIG reason KI has so much success is because of it's direct location in such a upper middle-class area (Mason/West Chester) where things like season passes and days off work to actual go exist and thrive. I've always felt like KK was more of a traditional blue collar location that would struggle to sell passes and would just have the occasional every couple of year family visit, or visit during work picnics etc. Basically more like Americana used to be. So knowing how the location could support and make a park profitable enough to have the growth necessary is the big question. I did some research... For Comparison Median household incomes: Mason: $83,466. WC: $83,904 Louisville-Jefferson County--Elizabethtown--Scottsburg Kentucky metro area: $54,546. Cincinnati: $48,900 (The Coney Island - Current Location move was a HUGE reason we have the park like it is today.)