KIfan73

If exhilarating translates to a ride that's really "taken my breath away" (no, not Top Gun ), it would have to be Diamondback.

Great pics. The water around Flight Commander...I didn't know that used to be there. **EDIT**^I posted just a little too quick...lol.

Yeah, you should have searched, but in this case, I think that video is worth mentioning maybe every day. It's been about a year now since I first saw it, but that may be the best, most interesting thing I've ever seen!

I hope the Kings Island management grasps how much the music affects the perception of the park experience. I wrote a polite e-mail to KI stating how much I disliked a lot of the music they were playing last summer. I hope lots of other people that feel the same way do the same.

What kind of music did KI play around the park before Paramount?

One of those photos reminded me of something that I always see when riding Flight Deck...do some of the indoor slides actually go outside part of the way?

I am really excited about KI this year. I finished a Master's program in the fall, so this is the first year since '07 that I'm not going to be worried about getting getting home and getting an assignment done. I love the whole day(s) of my KI trips. Packing the car, the drive there, pulling into the parking lot, and walking to the gate, it's all great. Walking from the car to the gate and entering the park does bring on a feeling in me that nothing else really does. It won't be long!!

Hopefully they didn't use the jackhammer on it that I hope they removed from SoB...

Were any "flurries" ever spotted around a certain wooden structure around the Kings mills/ Mason area this winter?

It was a fun ride. I'm glad I got to ride it a few times.

The timing is interesting, that's for sure.

Could do kind of a "tour of past Kings Island management"...have wax figures of all the past high level managers of Kings Island you could pass by and hear ways they helped the park, or what they did to ruin it. The current display and what just comes after it would be really interesting to see!

I'd like to see an Old West themed sit down restaurant that you could only get to by riding the train.

If you enter IS and go left, then turn left to go to Oktoberfest, I believe it was on the corner opposite the sign shop/caricature place...or I may have that all screwed up...

I'm sure it was a simple togo in both articles...

I don't think you're the only one.

The colors on the mug would probably put it in the mid to late '80's. I've found a few items at garage sales, always great to find those! I have collected way too much KI memorabilia-from garage sales, my own park purchases, and eBay. I think when I buy a house I'm going to have a KI room.

Wow, how embarrassing! What an important word to misread! I hope Scooby is still allowed in the park!

Well, actually other types of service dogs are also allowed in the park, but most doggies are relegated to elsewhere. The real question...where is Scooby allowed in the park now? Only with you or can he go in? Ah, the answer awaits most patrons on April 17... As for Seeing Eye Dogs, did you know that is one organization that provides guide dogs? http://www.seeingeye.org/aboutUs/ Will Snoopy be in unexpected areas of the park, other than PS? Why would Snoopy only be allowed to come in with a patron? Some patrons will find out before April 17?

I don't think I've ever pulled into KI's lot without saying to myself "First ones here!, first ones here!".

Oh well, it looks like we'll have to go back to talking about the merger...

Diamondback for me.

I could actually see KI putting a coaster in this location for several reasons. Flight Deck has been left for dead, and SOB is a well-documented basket case. If those two rides were taken out of commission, due to their placements at the very edge of the park, it wouldn't be much of a change to KI's footprint. With the rehabbing of Rivertown along with DB's installation last year, they have already done much to make it an almost-new area, much like they did with Action Zone in the '90's and 2000's.

Looks like DB's ravine (edit, too slow... ).