dakota2112

I'm 40 years old. I'm old enough to remember having to drive 15 to 20 miles in Colerain township to get to a fast food restaurant. (McDonalds) Fast food restaurants have always messed up orders. If you frequent fast food (which I try not to) you have to learn to check your order before pulling through the drive thru. If that is to difficult, get out of your car - walk in the restaurant - and watch your order be prepared. Or better yet, go somewhere that you can watch your order prepared... cough, Chipotle, cough. Good for you. But you missed my point: the paying customer shouldn't HAVE to doublecheck their order in the first place. I don't care if it's just lowly fast food, they need to get the @*(#$ order right the first time, but when they screw it up, they act as if it's business as usual and completely acceptable. And thanks for assuming I'm a lazy drive-through user. I'm not, and I rarely eat fast food to begin with. When I do, it's usually subway.

For what it's worth... I've seen an increase in botched fastfood orders in general in recent years, so I am not surprised to see a decrease in the tolerance of such mistakes. Everyone's human, I know... but for me personally, something gets screwed up with my order about 25% of the time that I get fast food. The 50s Diner made it right, but the underlying issue is that most of the time the employees couldn't care less that they screwed up - and that is a problem.

1/2 hour tops. We go to the park exclusively on weekday evenings and are quite used to having short lines (read: spoiled ). I personally can't justify wasting hours of precious time standing around waiting to ride something. For a first ride, maybe. Other than that, 1/2 hour.

I've never ridden in the front seat on SOB so I can't comment on the ride there... but it's one rough SOB ( ) everywhere else. To me it isn't just rough like Beast or Racer... it also has a jerky kind of element to the roughness that twists my back to the point of this thought pattern: "dear God is it over yet?" followed by "remind me never to ride this thing again". I'd much rather spend my time riding Vortex repeatedly. Your mileage may vary. If you ride Vortex in the front seat, watch your knees at the top of the hill after the initial drop - they may slam into the car's shell if you're not expecting it.

On these "overbanked" turns, maybe you are feeling the reaction force along your vertical axis, with virtually no lateral (sideways) force? If a turn is highly banked then you don't feel much sideways force (extreme example = helix at the end of Vortex).

I 2nd that motion. In fact, how about this. A cross-park roller coaster of sorts. You load up on a train at one side of the park, go up a small-ish lift hill, and get to the other side of the park in no time. You get off, and other people get on and it goes back, etc. (well, ok, it would probably be very expensive, having to be completely off the ground etc... but it would make for a quick transit to the other side of the park... except for having to wait in line I guess)

Just curious - what do people complain about regarding Top Gun and Adventure Express? I jokingly complain about Top Gun's three mile hike, and the remarkably anti-climactic lift hill at the end of Adventure Express, but those are two excellent rides nonetheless and I personally will miss these rides when they are gone. If low usage impacts the decision to keep or lose a ride, then I fear for Shake Rattle & Roll. I can't remember the last time I had to wait for that ride. (which is fine with me... great ride + no line = )

If you're into car racing, I'd compare the Millenium Force to NASCAR, and Maverick to Formula 1. The MF is very fast, smooth, lots of airtime-and the main movement is up and down-with big banking turns. The Maverick is also fast-and pretty smooth, but much more twists and turns, and inversions crazy acceleration and you feel like your contantly changing directions in 3 dimensions. I love them both, but the Diamondback will be much more like MF. This is really what KI needed. I wrote them a manifesto of sorts a while back after a stinker of a visit (in the PKI days)...the main point was that they have the real estate and need to use it...primarily by putting in a long, fast, steel coaster that goes through the woods. It took the park changing hands-but I feel like my plea has been answered! I've ridden in a NASCAR Cup racecar before, and if that's a smooth ride, then I'd hate to feel a rough ride

It isn't necessarily unreasonable to wonder what the height requirements will be. My son is 52" tall so he has a couple inches to go before he can ride things like FoF, Invertigo, etc, and the height requirement was one of the first things I thought about when the Project 2009 rumors first started. (I too suspect it will be 54")

Holiday World gets extra points for that massive kiddie playground that they have. My son absolutely loved that. And I'll admit, I did too But I think KI still takes the cake overall imho (by a close margin).

Does it say something about infrared cameras? The sign I've seen says "infrared detectors" - which could of course imply a camera, but the wording is very ambiguous. (intentionally no doubt) I think cameras for wildlife is a stretch though, because cameras weren't exactly a commonplace item in the "Old West", especially the infrared variety... and the horse theme seems to be tied to the Old West / mining town theme.

One of the symptoms of a snake bite can be muscle tremors.

...and Sam the Chimp is chasing it

If it were down to horse vs snake, I'll go with a snake name. Most of the hints point towards that in my opinion. The three videos shot from ground level, the "strikes back", the "infrared cameras", the "...park will shed the details..." text, the "snake eye" or whatever that thing is, etc. Of course these could all be intentionally misleading, but they have us hyped up for something dangerous, and to the general public, a snake would seem more dangerous than a horse.

...so basically, ride everything I can attest to Vortex being excellent at night. For a nice view of the park, sit in the right-side seat. The one and only time I ever rode a coaster all by myself (well ok me and my son) was Vortex at night, near closing time. There is a psychological aspect to that which actually raised the adrenaline level just a bit, riding by ourselves like that. It was a strange sensation having the entire train to ourselves like that.

We're both in the minority then, because I don't see anything wrong with the name Flight Deck. In fact it would be difficult to find a more fitting name, considering that the boarding platform is supposed to be the flight deck of an aircraft carrier... (at least they didn't go overly generic like Drop Tower... how would people like it if Top Gun had been renamed to "Roller Coaster" )

LOL... I was going to do this but you beat me to it.

The countdown has us at 1 AM so I'm guessing we will get the info. Like gnarkiller said lastnight, "i wander what will happen when the countdown ends? Will the box burst with info?" The server will probably crash because of too many requests

About once a year, I make the mistake of riding SOB. I guess I keep forgetting how painful it is. Whoever said the pain starts even before the lift hill, you're right about that. The problem for me isn't just that it's rough as in bumpy... the lateral (side-to-side) and yaw (directional) roughness is what kills me. The cars start jerking around and twisting about a vertical axis on that first drop out of the station, and it just gets worse once the ride is up to speed. I don't know if they intended on this thing having those characteristics, but I plan to never ride the thing again. It's the only ride I've ever been on where "is it over yet?" is the foremost thought in my mind. I need to remind myself of that the next time I catch myself saying "hey let's ride SOB".

Even if the locker wasn't shut all the way and "popped" itself open, that doesn't change the fact that someone would stoop low enough to just help themselves to the locker's contents like it was their own personal property. How pathetic!!! But then again I guess that's why we need lockers in the first place, because of people like that.

Yep. Northbound 71 sometimes is backed up all the way onto 275 because of it.

Well thought out, and the best scenario so far. I'm betting on this theory/name. Multiple dots just got connected on that one! Sounds like a winner to me. I'd rather see it called Cobra than Fugitive personally, but whatever it's called I'm still looking forward to a kickarse ride

What, 22/3? That does help, but it still brings you into the Fields Ertel insanity, just from the opposite direction. Any way you cut it, having a store on 48 would make it a lot easier for a lot of people to go to a Best Buy. That is, until 48 becomes clogged with Fields Ertel-like traffic

I work for Best Buy. I wouldn't think that they would build one in Lebanon seeing there is one near Kings Automall, less than 10 miles away. Speaking from personal experience, the Best Buy near the automall may be only 10 miles away but it can take 45 minutes or more to get there from the SR48 interchange depending on how ridiculous the traffic is in the Fields Ertel area. With this development at the SR48 interchange, maybe they'll finally install a traffic light for us poor souls trying to get on 71 South from northbound 48. As it stands now, we have to yield and merge into southbound 48's nonstop flow of 55mph traffic. Throw rain or snow into the mix, and it can take a half hour just to get on 71 South in the morning. But I digress...

We need more pictures of barings at KI