KIfan73

Great TR. I so want to go to KD. Looks like I'm going to have to do it!

Wow, I rode something similar to that at our local county fair last summer. THE MOST violent ride I've ever been on.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10q1/just_how_quick_are_roller_coasters_-feature

When I see pictures of CI, it looks like something out of a movie. The trees, the landscaping, even the signs on the attractions (I really like the Skee Ball one).

Wow! Thanks for posting those! What an awesome looking place. It had to have been devastating to so many people when they found out it would close down!

First of all, thanks for this (and many others!) interesting post. I find this part of the park during this era fascinating. I even have purchased old GAF viewmaster reels showing this part of the park. I just can't believe that something like that was really at Kings Island. On a side note, my parents took me to Kings Island when I was 2 in 1975 (and we rode the monorail), and I, of course, have no recollection of it. However, I always remember having dreams about a beautiful, grassy place as a kid, but I never could figure out what I was dreaming about. Fast forward to the early '90's when I made it back to KI for the first time since that first trip. I remember having this very strange feeling of deja vu. After looking at old pictures of the park, I think my dreams were of that first Kings Island trip. I think this is what has made me so interested in Kings Island as an adult. To this day when I walk around the park, I get this feeling-can't say it's happy, or excited, or what-but the only place I get it is at Kings Island. I've heard people say that we have an "inner child", and it's like somewhere deep in my brain, it "remembers" those old parts of the park that I saw as a really young child.

This sounds promising, but I hope it happens faster than the website re-do!

I am sure that I am in an extreme minority, but I don't think that the food prices at Kings Island are that much different from any restaurant, including McDonald's.

Yeah, now it might just be the fun and ONLY.

Hopefully it won't lead to less fun in their parks.

I recommend to anyone, especially KI fans, to check out Coney. I went for a few hours last year before a two day trip to KI with some friends. It's so interesting to walk around there and think of all the history. They have a huge "flood gauge" showing how much flooding occurred during different years of the park's history. They also have some neat things in the souvenir shop.

Does it flood all their buildings (food stands, shops) at that level?

It's been really neat for the last couple of years to see all the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons from my childhood on the Boomerang channel. I think it would be neat if Kings Island would-oh, wait...

Being an adult, all of those names at least make sense because I didn't grow up with Nickelodeon. Having said that, I feel bad for all the kids that grew up with Nick and Nick Central/Universe.

That area of the park really amazes me, too. To think of all the details. What is that building next to Screamin' Demon in the lower right hand corner of the third picture from the top of this thread?

One of the answers mentioned the amount of guests per year. I understood this to be "secret" information. How does that figure compare to earlier times in KI's history?

You should write a book!

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!!