silver2005

^That plus I love the look of the station and aesthetics on the trains, its butter smooth, the airtime is solid, and it has one of the coolest names and logos of any coaster.

Gemini is one of the most underrated coasters at CP. I adore it.

My prediction- if this isn't taken down by next year, it won't last 5 years.

What's worse is that the ride was designed and built in house, so all the liability is on Schlitterbahn.

^^They must have taken PR tips from Intamin. Dangerous-safe? Really?

^Quit playing it so coy and naive to what you're doing. You know exactly what you're doing. You're just posting the way you are to get a rise out of members here. All you've been doing since around the announcement is complain and do these vague posts on things that are wrong to you. You are just seemingly having these opposite viewpoints of a lot of members, not to mention you're posting tons through the day. Dude, just give it up.

While in context, I prefer Bat over Flight Deck during its time in the Cedar Fair era, I am a fan of its early Top Gun days. Top Gun was the coaster that got me started being interested in coasters, and the theming was awesome. It had models of the planes, some radar stations, and movie stills along the queue, the giant billboard with an F-14 readying for take off, the ride crew dressed in USN attire, the much better red and blue-grey paint job, a simulated aircraft carrier control room in the lower station queue, and to top it off, some smoke that shot out as the trains dispatched to semi-simulate a carrier launch. It was such a cool ride in its early days. It also used to be a lot more wooded in that area before SOB came, which made for excellent night rides. I considered it the 2nd best night ride in the park at the time behind Beast. That plus you got to see and smell the campfires from the former camp grounds. Fun fact- the original station was designed by John DeCuir, the production designer for the movie.

New for Hersheypark in 2017- Triple Tower. 3 S&S Towers, all with upward and downward thrusts during their cycles (S&S Double Shots) - Hershey's Kisses Tower- 80 ft - Reese's Tower- 131 ft - Hershey's Tower- 189 ft Location near Kissing Tower http://www.hersheypark.com/2017/

The front seat is pretty smooth, too.

Initial list for I-Street playlist- - Stars and Stripes Forever and any of Sousa's more popular and well known marches (Washington Post, El Capitan) - Baby Elephant Walk- Henry Mancini - A Theme To A Summer Place and Theme For Young Lovers- Percy Faith - Clair de Lune- Claude Debussy (only after closing, preferably an orchestral arrangement over a piano arrangement for added effect, it would go perfectly with the fountains at night) - From out of left field- Breakfast Machine from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure- Danny Elfman (since I heard this in the park back in the Paramount days, I can't stop associating it with Kings Island). - Aquarium theme from The Carnival of the Animals- Camille Saint-Saens - Theme from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves- Michael Kamen - As cliche as this song is, it works- Chariots of Fire- Vangelis - Love Theme from St Elmo's Fire- David Foster

^^I will be doing the auditions if they have them again this year.

The fact that its closing in September and not the end of the year make me think either an overhaul is in order or something really big will go in its place.

I'm just asking as I can think of a bunch that would fit a theme park setting, including that of I-Street, but I'm not to savvy on if KI actually puts in movie music, mainly due to licensing issues. I'm trying to take a realistic approach. EDIT: I'm not counting music in Planet Snoopy or WindSeeker's playlist, I'm talking what's played on the midways.

SOB wouldn't qualify for a Force ghost. I'm pretty sure it had some dark side elements during its lifetime.

Just out of curiosity- does Kings Island's current playlist contain any movie music?

I'm guessing whatever else they have planned is something for Rivertown. With CF's additions to KI, they usually do something to spruce up whatever area the new attraction is going. I'm kind of in the camp of them tearing down or re-using the Crypt building for something. Rivertown is the only area without a decent flat ride. Some TLC for the KI&MVRR would be something fairly plausible as well IMO. They just added Tropical Plunge to Soak City and now one to Rivertown (a ride which interacts with the train no less), it makes perfect sense to do something with the train.

That first building has to be the train storage. No other area of the track suggests that other than right there. I'm guessing what happens goes on when it curves into the station. I'm doubting there will be a Verbolten style drop track there.

I'd be happy with another Top Spin style ride (does anyone outside of HUSS make them?), knocking down the Crypt building to make an outdoor version though. They're good crowd magnets.

I feel inspired to create a playlist for I-Street now. silver2005, off to scour the interwebs.

I was amazed to see KK brochures in the hotel I stayed at in Dale, IN. No billboards outside of L'ville though.

There's a lot of Percy Faith and Henry Mancini music that would fit perfectly in International Street.

A lot of that classical music is indeed Christmas music. I've played a lot of them and recognized a lot of them as such.

I think its obvious what's in the shed. Cedar Point even has one half of what we need!

Beast. Night. Rain soaked tracks. That is all.

I doubt Clifford or Clifford Jr show up for this one.