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"They'll survive." Oh my god. Give 'em hell for me you guys! Tell them Jackson's Hair says No!

Sounds like a good time, although I doubt I'll be able to go being that it's a Monday. I hope I can though!

Thank you Cedar Fair for continuing to focus on Live Entertainment, the shows sound great and I can't wait to see them here at Kings Island. The lack of Marty's Party is disappointing, but I think it's worth it for some of these shows!

This is just sad. I've been following coaster news for 3 years and in that time I've seen 2 Millers bite the dust, one of them was my #2 woodie. Sigh. If you feel bad though, imagine how Elvis feels right now!

Insult? Bah. Kings Island needs all the support it can get!

I caught Mid February and Quite a Bit More Delay. Anything else I need to know?

When does that vote take place anyway?

Holy Name Change, Batman! As if I hadn't had enough trouble following this topic!

I'll admit, I was one of the people who would yell back "Cedar Point!" whenever I heard that, which was either followed by a stern silence or a joking "Incorrect, the correct answer is Kings Island." I'm already scheming some remark to yell back for the Fun and Only...hmm....

WOW! The park MUST be in trouble if their biggest cheerleader posts something like this. I had no idea that you found much of anything that Cedar Fair had done that bothered you...you are even happy with The Peanuts coming...I am speechless. I meant as far as such things in their marketing department goes such as slogans. I pride myself on my Cheerleader status but when it comes to things like "The FUN and only" I've given up on it. They can add a 230 foot Steel Hyper, Rejuvenate the kid's area, make the park look nicer and prettier then it has in years, bring back shows and entertainment to the park; and then they draw people to the park with "The FUN and only" and I can only gawk in amazement. Sure, there are things they need to work on, finance for one thing and their idea of how to collect nickels, but still. I love Cedar Fair and what they've done to my park but honestly, "The FUN and Only?" Whoever came up with this one needs to be forced to ride Son of Beast!

Kings Island: Lower you're expectations and remember who you're dealing with. With any luck, maybe Apollo will hire some Management to come up with a decent slogan and paint what needs to be painted!

Well, it is Kings Island, Where Else would expect such PUNny slogans? Hey...watch it...with...those...Tomatoes!

Ha ha, if that's the way it worked I'm sure they'd have quite a lot of ticket sales by now with a plethora of rides!

Right now they're trying to sell visits for the upcoming summer, and season passes, and planned trips. Why on Earth would they boast on their website that one of the most....colorful....rides in their lineup will be closed?

Ich verstehe nicht!

Now I want to visit Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Posted 8 days ago: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=20630

I'd just like to say, he didn't "Clear it up"....it's been "Cleared Up" for quite a while now, it was decided that it was the 2009 map about 12 days ago when it was originally released.

My votes: Best Steel coaster: Millennium Force. IMO, this was the biggest impacting coaster of the choices. Bizzaro at Six Flags New England is cool, but it really didn't do much in the sense of progressing the steel coaster overall. Millennium Force was the first giga, first with a cable lift, and it really set the tone for the next decade. Seeing how far you can push the design of a roller coaster. Best Wood coaster: Voyage. From the choices shown it looks like it was between Voyage and El Toro. And sorry, but El Toro's practically a steel hyper. Cable lift, nearly 200 feet high, out and back layout with tons of airtime, even steel rails! It's like Intamin took a mega coaster design then put wood supports underheath it. Voyage, however, is a true woodie. I've never ridden it, but from what I've seen and heard, it's fastm aggresive, and reckless. Kudos to the Gravity Group and their massive gonads for trying this ride, and making it a sucess! Best innovation: Either the 4D or the Flyer IMO. And look at how successful the 4D is from the park's standpoint. Maintenance nightmare, expensive, it drove Arrow Dynamics, THE Arrow Dynamics bankrupt. And the idea that they are more popular is questionable. The flyers have been tried and perfected. You don't need to revamp them to get more ridership. The B&Ms are very popular and the Vekomas aren't half bad. Best watercoaster: Jurrasic Park River Adventure IMO. This one is the most well done. It's hard enough to keep a story going through a coaster, even more so with a water ride with only one real drop. Yet this ride managed to keep yours truly grinning ear to ear throughout the ride, and I hate water rides. That says something. All the others are pretty cool and well done, but none as good as Jurrasic Park. Best epic fail of the decade: This is like comparing Apples to Oranges imo. Though I have to choose the local favorite, Son of Beast. 'Nuff said. My two cents.

Best innovation is the plug and play for you? Forget not the giga, or the flyer, or the strata, or the 4D, but the plug and play? Jackson, confused...

I've officially given up on this topic, all this business talk might as well be German to me.

I live 10 miles away from it, but I hardly ever drive past it. Whenever I go by I always get excited.

Now all you need is 2/3 vote for it.

Thanks to that, now I have Use Somebody by Kings of Leon on my iPod and whenever I hear that song I think of Diamondback.

A. Funny, my #1 park is USF's IOA and my #2 is Cedar Point, just like in the article. B. Under Six Flags Magic Mountain it has a picture of Steel Dragon 2000, in Japan. C. I would not put KI in the Top 5 parks in the world. Even from the parks I've visited it's still not that good. Granted, it's my home park so it's very special to me, but there are better parks. Cedar Point, USF & IOA, Disneyworld Florida, Dollywood, all deserve a better rank then KI. IMO, of course.