KIfan73

I couldn't have said it better than these 3. I love Oktoberfest. In the midst of the craziness of the park, I like to go in Festhaus, ride VF, and eat at the Biergarten (BBSS). It just has a neat vibe to it. I also didn't realize they changed the name of the railroad. I agree with Gordon Bombay on the train.

I just posted something about this on another thread, but this sounds like a good place for it, too.. Maybe they really have a strategy. Maybe they're trying purposely to make the ride names generic so that people think of the whole park itself, rather than individual ride names. I think I remember posts awhile back about CF wanting to build their "brand".

CWA has a Vortex too... I think the name for drop zone should be like Death Fall...and at least they didnt name IJ:ST to Car Ride Through an Unknown City. Given what happened this past season to another drop ride, I'm surprised Drop Zone wasn't named "Safety Tower".

Unfortunately, all I know about KI before 1992 is through pictures and postcards. IF Cedar Fair takes the park in any direction even similar to the way it used to look, I would be ecstatic. Just don't want it to get worse.

I'm confused. When you go to another park that is not a movie theme park, or a former movie theme park, do you still get the same "cheaped-out feel"? How many other amusement parks are former movie theme parks? The only other major amusement park I've been to was Cedar Point. And, yes, I thought that the atmosphere there was a bit plain in comparison to KI. I've always liked KI because its always seemed to be a classy place. I never did care for smaller amusement parks, or any place that had a "carnival" feel to it...In a nutshell, I'm not an amusement park person, but mainly a KI person. Like I said, sure, the rides are the same. I guess when you like a place so well, you just worry a bit if it seems to be taken in a direction that you're not sure about.

These changes in ride names are seriously making me question if I want to go to KI this season. Before you start rolling your eyes, I understand that the rides will be exactly the same. However, it just makes me feel like the park is a more generic place than it was. Probably isn't rational, but it would be like if I went to McDonald's and they gave me a "Double Decker" (Big Mac), and I washed it down with a "Cola" (Coke). Is it the same food? Probably. However, it just gives you a cheaped-out feel.

This should be interesting!

Maybe Kings Island can hire whoever made that video to do some advertising for them.

How do you know that the Paramount names don't help revenues? And how do names of rides that have been in the park for upwards of 14 years not relate to Cedar Fair's business? I think its a big risk for any company to go through and change the names of some its biggest attractions.

It may hold you in a loop...but I'm pretty sure you'd be SOL if you had no restraint during the corkscrew on Vortex (It always makes me uncomfortable when it slams on the brakes right before it).

I always enjoyed when the rides were themed to a movie. I actually did get a little caught up in the excitement of that. So, I guess, I'm going to miss that a little bit. I always had a little bit of the feeling that the ride was the part of something a little bigger, rather then just an amusement park ride in Cincinnati.

Makes you wonder how Disney is able to keep crowds coming into their "classic" attractions.

Start Crying Let me clarify. It was apparent that they used a cutting tourch where they could not unbolt it. The ride was not cut everywhere, only where it was a difficult place to deconstuct. Having never seen nor ridden The Bat I cannot say wether it deserves a mourning. Where does it say that was The Bat?

As this discussion continues, I keep picturing a group of overzealous amusement park fans in night vision goggles combing those woods.

^I'm always exhausted after a day at KI, but that might be an interesting little drive sometime...

Can you actually drive back to that area, and behind the park?

Yes, "Flight Deck" is the one that bums me out. I don't think I'll ever be able to actually say "Hey, lets go ride Flight Deck"...

But now its official!

They must've just done that. I checked just a little bit ago.

Mike, you have the best stories. Glad to see you posting again. Did you ever take any pictures?

I think the F/X theater would make a neat setting for a resaurant.

I went to KI in the beginning of October '93. By this point, could all of the remnants of WAH have been removed? I don't remember seeing any part of it on that trip. Oh, to have been able to ride that one more time!

I think everyone that visits this site does their fair share of trying to help Cedar Fair out... Dear Cedar Fair, I could help you out more if you had a nice restaurant to go to, and possibly some more interesting stuff in your gift shops.

A-ha. Thank you. That makes perfect sense now.

It would probably boggle the mind to know what it takes to run an amusement park on the scale of Kings Island. One of the more interesting parts of my trips is to watch people spend money. Standing in line for food, I almost get dizzy when I watch how much people spend and how fast they do it. Despite this, it must not be "enough".