Dalefan

Wildcat didn't have low ridership. That thing had a long wait time everytime i went.

It's the truth. Lol. Happens every year during Haunt time.

People still take kids in during the Haunt time despite warnings and get mad at the park when they get scared or see something bad. I know we were told by our Haunt superviser last year to not scare kids under a certin age.

You can't really miss Spirit Song when it's at Kings Island. Lol.

I believe the installation of the metal detectors was more due to the racial tension that Cincinnati was knee deep in years ago rather than 9/11. If that was the case, then they would of had them put in before 9/11. The only major themepark in Ohio that didnt have the detectors after 9/11 was Cedar Point.

People on facebook are already crying about this. And they haven't seen much of it yet.

That building you speak of by The Beast is going to be a Haunt building for something.

You need to look at what they are adding to Soak City this year. Both the SOB and the CP thing you are talking about is a rumor.

Just pull out a colored piece of paper and say that i already got one. They will stop. Lol.

I had heard a rumor from someone at my work that Kings Island was going to be tearing down Diamondback and replacing it with a kids coaster. I just laughed at them.

Got an interview with the KI guards march 25th.

I applied in December too for rides, guard and sweeps. Hope to hear something soon.

Downtown Disney is alive at night. Very alive.

That would be me. Lol. Heck, i bowl up by Cedar Point at Cedar Lanes if i am staying overnight in the area.

I applied. Have yet to get anything.

That might be good, but unless they have leagues, open bowling and tournaments, they won't make anything to show for it. The alleys in Vegas do good because of all 3 of them things.

Each bowling alley is different on price and how they keep up the center. We have had a few centers in Columbus, Ohio close due to the owners not keeping up the center in alot of areas. Leagues and open bowling are the 2 things a center needs to stay open. You can't have just leagues and not have any open bowling at all thinking that only leagues will keep the center open. We have had 3 alleys close due to the owner not wanting them open anymore. All 3 he owned were money makers. He didn't bother finding a buyer for the 2. The other one a guy offered him 3 million for everything and turned it down. The other few that closed were either on a lease or burned down. We still have a good number of alleys. About 12-15 centers in Columbus. The smallest has 8 lanes. The largest has 64 lanes. The funny thing is that we have 3 centers within miles of eacher that are doing very well. If you keep the prices low and your centers kept up, you will do good and make money. Believe it or not, Cedar Point in it's early days had a bowling alley. A few of the things from it are in the history building by SkyHawk.

Being a 28 + year bowler and someone who knows pinsetters, i have to disagree with the noise and price thing to a point. Each pinsetter model type is different. AMF has at least 5 model types. Brunswick as at least 6 model types. Then you have the other brands like Murrey and US Bowling who make rebuilt pinsetters. You also still have Candle Pin and Duck Pin bowling which is famous along the east coast. Then you have 9 pin bowling too. Each pinsetter model type is different in noise and price. The older pinsetters produce the most noise and cost less unless you have to replace a ton of parts. The newer pinsetters like the Brunswick GS-X pinsetter do cost alot. But not $50,000 a piece. Unless they are talking about them as a bunch and not each. At 36 lanes, that would have the alley paying out 1.8 million in the pinsetters alone. The newer pinsetters are more quite then the older ones. The guys or gals in the back also have to hear calls that are paged to them overhead. I have been in the back when a whole house is full. It's not as loud as one would think unless you have older pinsetters that are loud. Keeping the pinsetters quite and working right also depends on how you take care of them too. I guess that you can say that a pinsetter is like a themepark ride. You keep up the maintance on them and they run well. You let them go and they start to fall apart. The only bad part about working the back of the alley is the danger of the moving parts. You have to know what you are doing and be trained well to keep the injuries down.

the red things to the right of tht building? Those red things are for the go karts.

I did an app. in Dec. Haven't heard back yet.

It was said at Coastermania last year that SOB might get the Texas Giant treatment. That was from the former CEO.

I rode SOB 3 times. 2 times before it was retracked and 1 time after. SOB all 3 times hurt my back to the point where i couldn't ride anything the rest of the day. I still have back pain. But that is why we have back doctors. The pain is not as bad as it was before i seen my back doctor. I can still do normal stuff. But i won't ride SOB again. Even if it does open up with all new stuff. I feel the same way about Mean Streak at Cedar Point.

I have seen 1 themepark fan site and 1 coaster club fan site that is real bad about the stuff you posted on. And this one isn't it.

The bulding is staying from what i read.

CEO's are like most presidents we have or had. Most say one thing and do another. Unless this rumor was said by Cedar Fair it's self, then it's not true. I have seen alot of CEO's come into a company and start letting people go who have been in that company for 25+ years and not offer any retirement packages. They only then offer the retirement package when the threat of being sued happens. Not sure why that is. I would love to meet Ouimet and ask him what his plans are as far as getting a new coaster or doing something with the Soak City at Cedar Point. That Soak City needs a major overhaul.