calakapepe

I find them to be pretty equal "needs".

Yeah because KI has such terrible wooden coasters.Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk KI doesnt have any bad woodies, but we dont have any twist and turn and give you hard airtime time and time again.

I'm very happy to live in an era where historical records are held to be more and more important. And kudos to the man walking up and taking photos. The ride with the fog below it .. it's like a dream; a scary dream.

This report will be more for the visual appeal more than the story. That's what we all wanna have mostly anyhow, yeah? Overall, this park hit a homerun for me, and food quality aside (shocking, I know), I pretty much kept thinking, "I wish Kings Island did this". I've had my eye on Dollywood ever since I started getting into the whole theme park stalking game and I saw the advertisements teasing Mystery Mine... I remember driving through Tennessee seeing brochures in the rest stops advertising Timber Tower. But almost a decade later, I am able to finally climb aboard Mystery Mine, as well as the other many great rides. --- First thing was first.. I, like many others, had to swallow my excitement and accept that Lightning Rod would not be in my immediate future. I will have to make another 5 hour car ride in order to climb aboard this ride. Very disappointing, but I honestly forgot about it not being opened when I was elsewhere. We were there for the final week of Festival of Nations. I didn't try any of the exotic food samplers. We didn't need it, but we had Time Saver, and it came in handy like... 3 times. first up was Blazing Fury. It was a neat experience, nothing I'd care to ride upon my own accord, but it's enjoyable. Tennessee Tornado was next. I was not let down by this coaster. It holds to give an exciting ride with a fantastic first drop, jaw dropping first loop, and very forceful everything else. It's a shame it's so short. We did this ride next as we weren't able to reserve TimeSaver as the device said Wild Eagle was "FULL".. (It was actually because they weren't using Time Saver because of the short lines) Fire Chaser Express is way more fun that I expected it to be. I really enjoyed this one a lot and ended up riding it I think 3 times during our trip This was my all time favorite of the trip. Mystery Mine had all the years to build up my anticipation and I was still very impressed. It was my first Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter and I'll be happy if I ever come to a park bearing one in their coaster line-up in my future! This ride seriously.. they aren't that complex of effects.. but they put Kings Island to shame.. I feel like this is the kind of ride Kings Island could've been a proud owner of had Paramount not ever been bought out and then had they not sold the park.. also had Tomb Raider: The Ride been able to keep its theming.. It's a string of happenings that kept this caliber of theming at our park. We HAD to get the on-ride photo btw.. The two scared people in the front were my other half, and my younger sister. I didn't think to debrief them of the ride, but once we got to the first vertical lift, and they complained that I didn't warn them.. I knew the second lift and drop would be extremely fun... for me > --- Oh Thunderhead.. probably my #2 favorite woodie as of now.. It's just my style of coaster! First GCI and man.. those trains are so comfy.. PTC done messed up. GCI oughtta be making new trains for woodies all over in addition to doing all this retracking they've been getting contracts for! We then made our way to watch Las Pampas Gauchos. Entertaining show.. but if it weren't for the funny personality of the mic-ed leader of the show, I'd've lost interest at some points. We also saw Mother Africa and.. that show is simply impressive all around. It made me tear up once.. I'm weird and when I see feats performed that I perceive as "impossible" I just think it's incredibly powerful. *shrug* On the 2nd day we saw Via Romen and listened to this wonderful show. Great music, great energy. Took a gander at the soon to be ready ride and I have to say.. this ride, right now, is anything but "Lighting Fast" We made our rides on Wild Eagle on the second day. Rode once on each side.. and surprisingly enough.. I enjoyed it more that Gate Keeper! Not quite as much as Thunderbird though.. Something about the ride's location makes it very beautiful and the trees wrapping around the ride give it a nice atmosphere to contrast the "top of the world" feeling this ride gives as you soar higher that the rest of the nearby rides and buildings. -- Food experience.. I heard from people that the food from Dollywood was fantastic. Well.. their service was just fine there, especially since it's not a busy day .. But maybe southern food isn't just my cup of tea. I found the food to be a little bland overall. I definitely didn't go around sampling everything in the park, but where I DID end up getting a taste.. I wished I hadn't with haste; It wasn't bad.. just not what I'd say is good; just okay. -- These are just a couple photos to carry my sort of review of the park along. I have many more on my flickr and yeah.. I'm gonna be lazy and just link you over to that page instead. There's random photos of my family and counterpart, but there's also a number of photos I'm quite proud of and some that are just neat to see, IMHO. https://flic.kr/s/aHskygM5yt Thanks for taking a gander at this report and I'm sure I will be taking another trip later this year to ride.. well.. you know.

And to hide an empty dirt plot[emoji14]

Maybe it was used as a running gag?

Get there! And I need to get to Universal before they get rid of all the movies I love..

Raven gets torn down for a new gigacoaster?Oh dear.....

Yep, it'll get slower I was responding to someone

Maybe we shan't hold our breath for a KI RMC..

The train didn't brake at all through the MCBR. Typically, B&M Dive Coasters slow down a little bit.

Doh! Im usually pretty good at these kinds of sentences... but I just can't comprehend this one!Edit. Also.. it's literally a math problem. 16 - 8 =...

... Maybe as long as it's less than an hour.. maybe an hour an a half. -Not of fan of lines.

Coolio! Probably could've been posted here though, yeah? http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/31664-kings-island-2016-discussion-thread-opening-day-april-16th/page-44#entry719060

I think they did a good job at blending it with rivertown yet still modern using that style of stone work

This makes me think of RMC and wonder if their in-house restraints will prove to prevent a mishap like in the lone star state. Was that ever decided to be ride or employee fault? Either case, it happened. RMC likes to push it, but let's hope they will show us that safety is paramount.

Personally, I've found POV videos with smaller FOVs don't translate speed very well as more current POVs that have the luxury of camera technology improvements.. (wide angle lens) and not being mounted also hinders your ability to gauge a coaster's speed. Also, you ARE allowed to have different opinions on a ride lol[emoji14]

I remember someone being concerned if elephant ears would stay.. they will! https://twitter.com/KingsIslandPR/status/718191430208995328

Whatever your thoughts on that matter, it was a spectacularly entertaining show to see as a naive youngin'.

Yeah.. but most of the rules I actually see enforced is in order to respect and keep people's work credited which, I think, is a good thing esp. as a creator who has had stuff stolen/ copied without consent/ credit. But sometimes the tone feels unwarranted, I'll say. Not being specific, and as usual, ending up in the middle. EDIT-- Very well said below me.

Each is a new screengrab and a new post. Someone might not see the older post before seeing the new one. Anyways to get back on topic... https://twitter.com/KingsIslandPR/status/718134572135936001 Looks lovely.

And with that argument it sounds like, according to their Terms of Use (US), you are not supposed to distribute the images at all without written consent, which should warrant people asking for removal, not links. It's a little hard for me to understand exactly where they feel on this, but.. it seems like they wouldn't want screen grabs unless allowed in writing, though they never seem to explicitly mention it. http://go.nearmap.com/legal/terms-of-use-nearmap-us

But why not from the providers I mentioned earlier? And if those providers truly aren't excluded, why are we not alluded to to provide links? Why the verbal backlash this time? Why not quietly remove the photos like has been done in past apparently? (I'm not saying it's okay to not link) Why is it okay to screen grab Google, Bing, and even the KI webcams, most often without a link? Those are the things that regularly won't have a link, and nothing is said. Should we now start putting links to maps.google/bing. com? Are these posts incorrectly posted because they are screen grabs? If so, I return to my questions I just stated. http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/31707-rivertown-funnel-cake-stand-razed/?p=718541 http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/31664-kings-island-2016-discussion-thread-opening-day-april-16th/?p=712842 http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php/topic/31664-kings-island-2016-discussion-thread-opening-day-april-16th/?p=715849 edit- I'm not advocating that this is fair use to not link to it, my intention is to understand why the inconsistency.

Okay to the people asking for a link to the photos. It's very similar to Bing Maps or Google Maps. They are screen grabs of their satelite images, and I believe you have to pay to use them, in case someone wants to try them out. We never get on anyone for posting Google or Bing satelite images, do we? I'm confused. Is it because he's cropped in and then not showing their watermark? Ok, say that. But when I and many, many other people post Google and Bing map screenshots, no one says anything. Calakapepe- Thoroughly confused.

Likely adjacent to the entrance to have only one rail road crossing