KIfan73

I don't think that rides are the only things that could put Kings Island on the map, assuming it is presently not on the map...

I looked for my trip report for that years Winterfest but it has disappeared into the mists of time. (Too bad, I would have liked to relive it now.) Is this it? (something's a little messed up with the formatting).

I was just gonna post the same thing..."Imagine Winterfest"...how mean...that's exactly all I'm able to do, is imagine it!

Awesome pics. Makes me a little homesick!

Maybe park guests could run on electricity-producing treadmills while waiting in line!

Wow, that's a little scary. I've thought about the exact same thing.

Who says CF doesn't do theming? Have you seen what color most things on a real flight deck are? Not bright red, that's for sure.

Looks like WindSeeker may be the ride closest to a restroom!

Wow, another year already! Six years! To think I've been a member here longer than I was in high school, and almost as long as I have been in college.

Is this the same spot? Doesn't seem like there's that much room in that area to put the ride and the queue.

That's one thing that I can't believe hasn't been shared much, is pictures from IS. Some of those shops sound so interesting, I'd love to see what they looked like inside.

I voted for bringing back Winterfest. Yes, I know, I have read on here the hundreds of times that it won't ever be back. But, that doesn't mean that I don't wish it would!

In the photos above, it looks like a neat place for kids. Wonder why it was closed?

I would think it would be a bit disheartening, in a way, to buy/own an amusement park knowing full well you could probably never pave its parking lot. It seems like it would be like buying a house knowing you could never fix its busted up driveway.

I thought the same thing. Was this theater located in the Enchanted Voyage/PT/Scooby Doo/BBoBB building?

Well, the kids would like it...introducing Vrtx! Oh-you meant the actual ride's loops...

Do the seats move in AT any more? They didn't the last time I tried it...

It's so hard to imagine walking around KI, and everything being brand new. On a side note, I'm sure that when KI opened, they wanted Coney Mall to emulate Coney Island. After just shutting down a popular amusement park to open a new one, they wanted former Coney patrons to feel at home. With that being nearly 40 years ago, it doesn't seem like there would be too many Kings Island goers that care whether there was a "Coney Island" section of the park. Even though CM hasn't looked like it did in '72 for quite some time, I wonder if this latest remodeling effort will move even further from the original concept.

Gosh, I would pay admission to be able to go and watch them work on the park during the winter. All of this construction/rehab stuff drives me nuts (in a good way) during the offseason!

Actually, I think that shop employees are ordered to run to the person that fell into the fountains and try to sell them a Kings Island life preserver...right after Keyhole photographers catch the "once in a lifetime" moment...

I have to go with this... http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22072

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/10/29/video-radiator-springs-racer-looks-like-giant-slot-car-track/#continued Looks pretty cool to me...just one more reason why I want to visit Disney...

You really have to search for it on the park's website, too. It seems to have been taken completely off the "front" page. Strange.

According to my calculations, if the cap was 60 feet in diameter (I'm guessing, I may be way off)...That cap goes into the ground about 6.5 feet, on top of the H-pile sections 90 feet into the ground...whew! I think sometimes we forget that, although we're at an amusement park, we walk among some massive feats of engineering!

SOB never had that title from me before, during, or after I rode it... Who knows, maybe KI will try a prototype giant swinging ship ride...SoVF, anyone?