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Upon looks, I'm very impressed with the new coaster. For its footprint, it has a good amount of path interaction and its got a pretty good length for what it is. I'm excited to try it this summer.

I'm glad they went with different because we'd probably not have Beast if they kept it safe.

Night ERT events and midnight closes would be nice again.

I decided just to go ahead and book things and decide later if I'll cancel. I won't buy tickets for the Reds/Cardinals or SDC until the week of. For Musketon and Port Clinton, I'm staying in my usual spots. I'm hoping Michigan is friendlier than my last few times getting from Muskegon to Toledo. For St Louis, I slightly prioritized the following drive to KC so I'm staying off of I-70. Luckily, St Louis is pretty compact in terms of traveling to downtown and SFStL (probably 30-40 minutes from both). KC- I can almost walk to WoF. Branson- staying off of what I think is the main strip. Still 15 minutes from SDC.

I might do the zoo. The plan with St Louis is to do museums and the arch on Friday, Reds/Cardinals game on Saturday and SFStL on Sunday. May do the zoo Saturday as the game is a night game. KC will be simple, just exploring downtown and WoF. Leaving St Louis very early. I'm somewhat contemplating a day and a half at SDC and exploring Branson a bit. I'm also looking forward to doing BBQ in St Louis and KC. Also also, expressing my discontent with the Chiefs. 😉

There's a good chance these trips get massively cut. I don't think I can deal with gas prices for all this. At the bare minimum, I'll try to keep Cedar Point and SDC.

I honestly think Festhaus as a whole needs a top-down renovation.

I generally liked it. It's at the very least a HUGE upgrade from Boo Blasters. My only issues are that the dialog could be a bit more clear and maybe more use of music through the ride (especially for a ride themed to a theater with a maestro). I'll give it a A-.

Aaaand KI plays the National Anthem at close.

Did anyone else notice the shipping container by Beast's second drop?

Beast does have a rattle as it goes off the 2nd chain into the new track, but no such thing as it gets towards the helix. EDIT- I heard fricken Stairway to Heaven today in Coney Mall. Thank you KI staff. Also, Racer's rock play list is a bit more modern now, not just 70s.

I am very impressed by the improvements of the ride ops today compared to yesterday, especially for opening weekend. Sans Banshee and Monster.

This will happen during e-stops.

I will say, the use of the term ghost notes is a clever pun. Yes, ghost notes are a thing in music, particularly in jazz.

So not only is it raining, but the temperature dropped significantly. Kind of an ugly, miserable rain. Phantom Theater is a HUGE improvement over Boo Blasters. I do prefer the original due to nostalgia, but the new one is good. Beast's retrack is solid. A bit more laterals starting the drop into the helix and the trim is smoother.

Preview night observations- - Red Racer feels like its running a bit faster and harder than blue, in a good way - The new I-Street music, while nice that it's different, could be turned a bit louder (throughout the rest of the park, too) - Crews are very much still learning (that's obviously okay, but felt more prominent tonight compared to other years IMO) - I'm still not used to the Six Flags logos (I'll probably feel that even more so when I go up to CP in June) - It was WAY slower crowd-wise than I though considering the good weather today and the not-so-good weather for Saturday. I came in the evening so I didn't chance PT, but I will be getting to it early for opening day.

I think I may have been on the first public train on blue Racer today.

I have but one thing I wish from this ride- A reprisal of the original's music. That music went hard for the early 90s. Plus the inspiration it took from Bach and ALW's music was nice, too. I'll take a clever nod to Phantom of the Opera as well for aesthetics.

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As much as I hated SOB, I actually didn't mind that for whatever reason. EDIT: Also, Firehawk's were way more high pitched.

I'm a little hesitant to say they removed them. I feel that the helix would pull some serious positive G's, in kind of a bad way, with no trims. Also, there are hotter days in the summer where it runs kind of gnarly (even as a self proclaimed Beast fanatic, I admit it can have its bad days), even in the better seats, and in those scenarios, I'd rather the trims stay.

https://www.facebook.com/visitkingsisland/videos/1496369315185897/ Is this just KI using typical amusement park speak or is there a possibility the trims before the helix are gone?

I know its early, but it appears opening day may be a bit rainy.

This is very good news for me. https://www.facebook.com/ACEEasternGreatLakes/posts/pfbid0yeMPy4YbTgWaGxFQvSrwDrGDAxLsZSv6PVLba3Lqw7hEpG1P4bU8VTBVsPQtsosGl

^It also had the most annoying anti-rollback noise ever. I still liked it, though. I prefer it to the 2 Superman clones I've ridden (GAm and GAdv)