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Thanks for posting that HWBeast! Here's the video that we submitted for it:

Wednesday night at 10:00 on Travel Channel is the Bert the Conqueror episode taped at Holiday World. Several KICers, including me, were selected to be extras for the segment on The Voyage. A few months ago, Holiday World put out a call to their fans to submit videos in order to be considered to be extras for the two segments being taped there, The Voyage & Wildebeest. By far, the most creative was this one, featuring KIC's own DaveStroem and his family: http://www.holidayworld.com/node/3526. I don't have the talent to create my own video, so thankfully I was included in the large group video. We went to the park on Friday, May 6th, the day before their opening day. We got to ride The Voyage numerous times, and got to talk to and take pictures with Bert. A few people got interviewed, but most of us will be in the background behind those being interviewed, and of course, we can be seen riding The Voyage. So make sure to tune in! In addition to our segment on The Voyage, there's a segment on Wildebeest, and another recorded at Perfect North Slopes and their "Slush Pit". It's sure to be a good episode, and you may just see some familiar faces. Bert the Conqueror episode page: http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bert_the_Conqueror/Episodes_Travel_Guides/Indiana Bert the Conqueror episode slideshow: http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bert_the_Conqueror/Photos/bert-invades-indiana

"All the country"? There's only one country show this year, and there was only one last year. If you had said that in 2009 I could understand though, since there were two country shows then.

Giant Wheel to reopen tomorrow http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/lower_capemay/morey-s-will-reopen-giant-wheel-saturday-with-new-safety/article_c110aa7e-98e9-11e0-8a0e-001cc4c03286.html

Have it Tuesday! Have it Tuesday! Please, please please!!! (You know, since Tuesday is the actual 125th anniversary and all...) Highly unlikely, but I can dream.

^It's already been posted in this topic: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23980

Sorry to question you, but what were you doing at Festhaus while on break? I worked at the park back then, and they were very strict about not being allowed to eat/sit in a restaurant while in uniform. The only place you could go to eat was the employee cafeteria (renamed Oscar's once Paramount bought the park). I was also working that day, in Rivertown Karts, specifically the Depot Sundae Shop. I was walking out to my car when the Air Care helicopter was starting to land. When I got home, my mom was watching the news and she told me to come in the living room, and that's when I learned what happened.

^The point is that people are on here complaining about CP getting preferential treatment because it's Kinzel's home, and yet CP's wasn't the first to open. If CP was truly getting preferential treatment, then CP's would have been the first to open, not CW's.

Public Relations is part of the Marketing Department (or at least it was in the Paramount days).

^You are correct.

^ Huh? Jeff Siebert was never owner or CEO of Kings Island, so there's no way we could make him top dog "again"...

Is this the one? http://www.KICentral...showtopic=12811

I missed three questions on the Coney Island quiz linked in that article. http://local.cincinnati.com/quiz/quiz.aspx?qid=213 I missed the ones about coney dogs, the house entertainer and the daredevil. I thought I would score higher, but 8 out of 11 is pretty good!

Tear down my beloved DT? NOOOO!!!! I know it's not much to look at from outside, but I love that ride! Not to mention that building also houses one of my favorite haunts, Happy Jack's Toy Factory.

I think we should still say that Kings Island was born on April 29th, 1972. June 15th, 1970 is it's date of conception.

Mean Streak is the only coaster anywhere that I vowed to never ride again. I broke that vow in 2004 when I went with a friend who hadn't ridden it, and he really wanted to. The vow was quickly reinstated.But they did some retracking on it over this past off-season, and I've heard reports from numerous friends that I trust that it is MUCH better this year. I may give it another chance next time I go.

New Attractions Open Wednesday at The Beach http://www.fox19.com...ay-at-the-beach

It's also available on Blu-ray in 3D, Blu-ray in 2D, and dvd in 2D. Of course, I don't know that any of us have a screen at home the size of Action Theater's...

If I remember correctly, and this photo seems to confirm it, the Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier in Chicago has plexiglass on the gondolas. I don't know if that's to protect riders from themselves or to protect them from the wind coming off Lake Michigan (or a little of both), but it didn't obstruct our view. This would be a better option to me than a cage. Although I'm sure eventually someone would break through the plexiglass thus necessitating in the minds of regulators and insurance companies the need for metal bars.

The one highlight of that trip were the two or three rides I got on Screechin' Eagle. What a wonderful coaster it was. RIP My trip to KK was about a week or two before Twisted Sisters opened, in 1998. Years later, after hearing nice things about the park from other members of this site, I figured they had turned things around and I was all ready to give it another shot in 2010, and had made plans to go their opening day. Needless to say those plans changed...

When I worked at the Depot Sundae Shop (before it was Dippin' Dots, it was soft serve) back in '90 & '91, an upper manager in the Food Service department wanted us to only do three rings of ice cream on each cone, and we were also instructed to NOT put ice cream inside the cone. Of course, we all thought that was ridiculous and no one ever did that. If you don't put ice cream inside the cone, you don't have a base to hold the ice cream on. You just have a mass of ice cream sitting on the top that can easily topple over. Not only did we fill the cones with ice cream, we put a minimum of 5 rings of ice cream on each cone. Back then the cones were $1.27, and we felt that three rings wasn't enough for that price. I remember one time when that upper manager walked in and saw us making the cones our regular way, she almost hit the roof. She took a cone, gathered us around and showed us the "proper way" to make a cone. After she left we made the cones her way for about 15 minutes, just enough time for her to have left the area in case she stayed for a while to see if we were doing it "correctly", then we went right back to making the cones our way. We were such rebels!

Fatal Fall Brings Tighter Rules for Ferris Wheels: http://articles.philly.com/2011-06-13/news/29653022_1_ferris-wheels-gondola-giant-wheel

^No, but Kings Mill Log Flume was!

Huh? Since when does the U.S. Department of Agriculture regulate rides? And when did Erica Pitchford become a USDA spokeswoman? According to a press release from the Ohio Department of Agriculture from January 13th (http://www.agri.ohio.gov/public_docs/news/2011/01-13-11%20New%20Appointments.pdf), she's their spokeswoman! Nice reporting/fact checking/proofreading, Sandusky Register!