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Ok thank you everyone! I will consider all of you opinions.

Ok Main Entrance it is! I'm thinking about Maverick for the first ride though. Thoughts? Oh and my parents will just be dropping my brother and I off at the park. Is there a drop off/pick up area like at KI where you do not need to go through the parking tolls. I have free parking with my ID but for picking up purposes.

^Ummmmm that is kinda what I am asking you guys for? I don't know seeing that it has been years since I have been to the park. Is one better than the other?

I will be leaving for Cedar Point tomorrow morning and probably going to the park at night and then all day Thursday for sure. Yes, I know the forecast but that's not stopping us. I have not been to the park in 10 years so I am coming to you guys for help. My question is, what entrance is best to use? I know there is a marina entrance and the main gate but I am unsure of how to get to either one and who is allowed to enter these gates. I have my employee ID but my brother will have to buy a ticket. I hope that helps and help form you would be much appreciated.

Firehawk shirts are also on sale for $5 That's what I was going to say. I for one do not see Son of Beast leaving. That is my opinion so don't hammer me on it. However, I do see Crypt leaving. If you have to tone down a ride because it is breaking itself and the ride still has poor reliability then why keep it. May it RIP (Rust in Pieces)

I believe you mean to say, If you have a KI Gold Pass you can upgrade it. The price of the new pass will be the price of what you paid for it subtracted from $160. I am also headed up there this week. I leave tomorrow morning, might go into the park tomorrow night but staying the whole day Thursday. I havn't been for 10 years and I still have 4 credits waiting for me up there. It will bring my coaster count to 99!

From the webcam it looks like they want to open the ride but they can't for some reason. All of the trains are on the track and there is a line forming outside starting underneath the sign.

A girl at the Shake Rattle Roll crew today was having us play simon says while on the ride and was pretty enthusiastic. I had a lot of fun.

15 year olds do not work the Haunt. They work HOWL-O-FEST which is during the day before the Haunt starts. They cannot work that late because of the minor labor laws.

I also noticed the metal detection process becoming a lot faster. I think they did change the strength of the detection or something. The AE crew really was disappointing on Friday night. They were very slow and used words they shouldn't be using in front of guests and just didn't seem to be in a very good mood overall.

Finally someone that agrees with me! There is a reason it had a 15 minute wait today.

If there is on thing KI needs right now is a GREAT woodie. GCI please!

I don't understand how you think you can get back into preferred parking without a re-entry receipt? It is just like re-entering through the main gates, you must have a handstamp no matter what you used to get in earlier. Anyone can go and buy preferred parking and take the receipt to their friends to get into the parking area for free. This isn't bizarre at all, you are just on the other end of the rope and don't understand the concept like the rule makers do.

Flight Deck, last row really pulls you over that first hill. Then gravity takes over from there. The whole ride is full of great forces, the ride is just too quick for people to think about it. One of my favorite spiels the crew says "Enjoy your ride on Flight Deck, brought to you by gravity. We discover it, you experience it." Or something along those lines.

I was just browsing the Cedar Point website for my upcoming trip next week and noticed some cool information on their pages of all of their coasters. They have a column called Ridership which shows the amount of rides given in any given year since it opened. I thought this was pretty cool and really wish Kings Island would add this to their websites. I also noticed something strange about the numbers and wondered if anyone here could give me their two cents. Here is an example of one of the coaster pages. http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/park/ride...aptor/index.cfm If you scroll down you can see the Ridership column. Here is what I noticed. On all of the coasters, the year of 2007 has a much noticeable decrease in riders than the previous years and then in 2008 the number seems to rise back up. For example, Raptor shows 2006: 1,645,189 and then 2007: 1,421,255. And then in 2008: 1,609,503. Did something happen that I am unaware of in 2007 that caused this? It seems to be the same effect on all of the coasters. Well if there is something that is very obvious that I don't know, shame on me, but I thought this was a cool feature to have on the website and thought it would be fun to share to those of you who have not seen this yet.

You guys are so lucky you have the chance to work the Haunt. I was considering doing night shifts Haunt and day shifts where I'm at in the park now but they need me where I'm at so I think I'll stay there all year. Hopefully I'll see some of you guys because on Fridays when the gates open they put down the metal gates at the turnstiles and all the roamers and other actors go out there and when they open the park they open the metal gates and they all go running towards the metal detectors. I hope I'll be at turnstiles a lot during the Haunt!

On one of my first rides in row 16 I turned around during the splashdown and got it right in the forehead! It was like late March so the water was freezing!

That is awesome that you had such an awesome day even though it was packed. I am disappointed to hear that Red Racer is tied with the almighty Flight Deck! lol It should be first place in IMO. I just got my 90th ride this year on Flight Deck on Friday! The purple wrist band can do glorious things!

You should be happy Kings Island is making all of this money and staying open for you. Besides, why would you go on a Saturday when it's open until midnight?

I only ride rides right when the park opens on Friday nights then it starts to get a little more crowded and I go to the Haunt attractions. Sundays were so fun to work during the Haunt because the park would be so empty and the guests would be happy with no lines and everyone was pretty relaxed.

Since Coastersims went bye bye I found Coastercrazy.com and is very much like coastersims. That's where I posted my first coaster, Timberwolf! Nolimits is the best though, I love being able to download others coasters and learning from them.

I thought Carnevil was my favorite! I hate clowns and the clwns makeup and stuff with the 3D glasses made it cool. The room with the dots where the guys were like invisible against the walls was also cool. The scariest part to me was the evil looking clowns whether it was just pictures our actual people in maks they scared me. I thought it was pretty fun. My least favorite was the one where you had to ride the train back to get in line (don't remember the name). It was very obvious where everyone was hiding (behind the crates right in the view of the guest) and wasn't very scary.

It's called LockOUT not LockDOWN. Sorry, bugging me.

I might try and do day shifts where I'm at now and night shifts in the Haunt. I know people who did that last year. It looks like it would be very very fun.

In line for Diamondback, "Yeah they got that Canadian's Wonderland". I just thought it was a little funny.