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I entered this one.

I'm really still not sure which one I'm entering. I'm considering the fact that many people will be entering very similar photos because of the walkbacks. I would enter that shot of Delirium if I'd gotten the entire wheel in the pic.

Exactly the point I was trying to make.

I only disagree with that statement because it's so generalized. Kings Island has worked so hard to appeal to so many venues. Claiming that families are where the money comes from shows that the park feels that it needs to redeem itself for something, which it does not need to do. There are all types of people and all types of groups that visit an amusement park. There are singles, couples, families, enthusiast and VIP groups, small and large groups of friends, church and youth groups, school bands and organizations, and company outings. Families don't necessarily spend the most. In fact, I see most families out in the parking lot having a tailgate party with lawn chairs, blankets, coolers, and the car radio on. I spend money on clothing, food, and souvenirs, and am a 3 time platinum passholder. I feel that it is not fair to them for them to claim that their money only comes from one source, regardless of how appropriate that phrase may sound to a limited group of people.

Agreed.. It's a SINGLE RIDER line. Not a HEY, LET'S PRETEND OUR ENTIRE GROUP IS SINGLE RIDERS JUST SO WE CAN GET ON DB FASTER line. It's not fair to those who are actually single riders.

I have to agree. The SRL really makes no sense to me. I waited in it only twice, and thought it was a waste of time. Both times I waited in the SRL, I noticed that the people who were far behind me were on the train in front of me. I also notice groups abusing the SRL by pretending to be single riders. Are they just impatient, or do they not realize the capacity of this coaster? You don't stand still for more than 5 seconds in that queue. I got in line when both queues were full and the line was out on the midway by Central Grill, and only waited an hour. I think Maverick's SRL makes more sense. When Mav's entire queue is full inside and outside, it's a painfully slow 2 hour wait. The SRL doesn't start until the bottom of the stairs leading to the loading station, but it slices about 10-15 minutes off wait time if the SRL is short.

Darn straight. I can just get up and go to KI on my days off since I only live an hour away. CP, however, I have to plan in advance. For anyone who isn't aware, CoasterMania! is pretty much just like Ride Warriors Weekend.. except it's at Cedar Point. That is something I refuse to miss out on.

Dang Zach, you take such great photos, it's almost like I was there!

I have a MF avatar on here, and a DB avatar on the CP forums I'm a member of, because adhering to a norm is just not my thing.

So do we just send the photo in, and give them our information if we win the contest?

You'll be my ride buddy, right? Tell no one of our plotting.

The forecast for Sandusky on Saturday is calling for scattered thunderstorms.. this is awesome. Last time I went to CP when they were expecting weather like that, I got 25 rides in the 13 hours I was at the park. 9 of those were on MF. It's an excellent coaster to marathon, I can't get enough of that gut wrenching first drop, or the smooth, exhilaratingly fast dives in and out of the trees and the coaster itself.. waaaaaaaa I miss my Millie Saturday can't get here soon enough!

I will do the best PTR I can this weekend. I may have to leave my camera in a locker so those enormous, towering rides at CP don't eat it. I'd rather have a short PTR or just a TR than watch my Cybershot raise from my pocket and spin off into the stratosphere.

The RWW flyer we received only gives us the email to send our photo entry to. Should we include our name, address, phone number, and/or username along with the photo we submit?

What.. the heck am I doing in the bottom right of this pic? I can't tell if I'm yawning, talking to Steph, or just hanging out with my jaw open like a dumb@$$.

!!!!!!!! That picture is hysterical! I so wish I could have gone Sunday, I had to work. I'm really upset that I missed The Racer walkback. Glad to see you felt better for the last day.

I was the one in the yellow tank top who yelled out your screen name and waved at you.

I am glad that you got to go on The Beast walkback. That was so awesome of them to wait for you and tell you to take your time. I was afraid you wouldn't make it!

!!!!!!! You guys are hysterical! I love it!

The one I'll be bolting for at 9 am this Saturday!!

http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/admission...point_perks.cfm

When I was there last Sunday, I heard Sonorous by Protonic in line for DB.. and I laughed to myself. I heard that song played several times last year while waiting for a very large blue Intamin at a certain park up north.

Oh I almost forgot! I heard Two Tickets to Paradise by Eddie Money playing at the front gate on opening day.

I've heard Taproot - Wherever I Stand and Jet Black Stare - Ready To Roll played in Diamondback's queue. What music have you heard playing in queues, or throughout the park? I say we get a list going. I have a Cedar Point playlist on my iPod with 41 songs.. I wouldn't mind having a Kings Island playlist.. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Let me first warn you that I arrived at the gate before 6 am, and left around 1 am.. so there is no way I am going to remember every detail of the day. If I did miss something, please feel free to add it with your comments! I left my house around 4:30 am with a Rockstar Punched (surprisingly good.. tastes exactly like Hawaiian Punch mixed with Sprite), hoping to get some McDonald's breakfast on the way.. but nooo, the West Milton McDonalds isn't open 24 hours (I take Route 48 to Route 571 to I75.. there is construction on Route 718 and it's a pain in the you-know-where). I never did end up getting breakfast (stupid decision). I arrived at the gate around 5:45 am to see about 6 cars sitting at the closed gate with their lights off. So I joined them. When I did park, I got the very first spot in row 50 in gold pass parking. Steph (kittenpooh) parked right behind me, and she had her hubby Ryan with her, so we walked to the front. We arrived at the front to see Adam (pkiboy), Elissa (sp?), Derrick (Phantom Theater), Dustin (pkiruler102), and several others. Check in went smoothly. We got a schedule, a lanyard, and a free drink wristband! Don Helbig came up to us and informed us that we could all indeed participate in the DB morning ERT! I was so ecstatic, I was jumping up and down and dancing. Steph, her hubby and I all headed over to Beast. Here is Steph and her man. I got a couple good shots of DB while we were waiting on the amazing Beast to open. When Beast opened, we ended up meeting Rachel (StalkerChick). I love her energy and enthusiasm, finally someone will dance with me to the 3 Point Shootout music! Tom76257435647564256 or whatever was in line too, along with several other KIC members. At this point I saw so many people that I knew, I lost track. Please don't think I forgot you, I didn't! We rode Beast 3 times in a row, and met up with even more people for BLSC. We rode that three times, and on the last ride, my lanyard broke.. I was highly amused that out of all rides to break my lanyard, it had to be BLSC. Don was at the exit, and I was going to ask him for a new one, but Avatar (Jesse) took my broken lanyard and gave me his. Jesse is awesome. After that, we hit Vortex, and then decided it was time for morning ERT on Diamondback! We rode that three times, and then the line got long so we headed off to Runaway Reptar. After the ride, Tom got sick and some of it got on Steph's shoe. After we made sure he was all right and he was laughing it off, we were pretty much picking on him about it the rest of the day. We were shocked to see that Crypt was open and didn't have a huge line, so we went for it. This ride was extremely intense, we spun a lot and I did not see one light on throughout the whole ride.. now THAT'S what I'm talking about! We all chilled out for a little bit before heading to The Beast walkback. Kat called me, frantic because she was stuck in traffic outside the park and was afraid she wouldn't make it to the walkback. I walked to the front and asked the leaders of the pack if she could join if she got there a little late. They said it was a 50-50 chance and that she would have to hurry. She did end up making it about 5 minutes after the walkback started, but the supervisors (?) were kind enough to wait for her and let her join the group. Whoever that was that waited for her, I want to thank you. Kat has really been looking forward to this, and was very upset at the thought of not being able to make it in time. That was extremely kind of you. Here are my photos from the walkback! DIAMONDBAAACK!!!!!!!!!!!! Back to BEEEAST! It was so awesome to put your hands on the supports as the train climbed the lift hill. It gave me goosebumps. And LMAO at the random thumbs up at the bottom left of this photo.. I didn't notice that until now. Steph and I also got our photo taken with Don.. wow, I look retarded. Finally, the photo I've tried to take 946 times! I got it! Steph wanted to see what was going on in Action Zone, so we headed that way. We wanted to ride Delirium, but it was down (imagine that). So Steph, Tom (72657 or 76257 or 74542727676425 or something), Brad (Indyguy4KI), Justin(M17), Dustin and I all headed for the almighty Drop Tower. I took this chance to test out my camera again. Me and Steph. More photos. I decided to really test the zoom on this bad boy. A ton of us met up, and our group got bigger. We all decided to hit Racer. Half of us went for the blue side and the other half went for the red side.. my half rode the red side. Strangely enough, we ended up racing together.. and of course we won because we rock. We decided to head back toward Diamondback, and picked up even more people to join our group as we headed down the midway. By this point, we were a KIC troop. We rolled up to Diamondback with a total of 22 people, and when we told the ride op how many we had (thanks to Jesse for being the official head counter), the look on his face was priceless. He was great at getting us all together.. we took over almost an entire train! It was great. Photos I took while in line for DB: Peek a boo, the snake sees you. After DB, I was starting to feel the heat, so I went back out to my car to apply more sunblock and grab my shades. I saw 6 more buses full of kids coming in, and the parking lot was an endless sea of cars. People were pouring into the entrance with no end in sight. I found my group chilling by Diamondback, and we all decided to head over to see if Delirium was running again. It was, but the entire queue was full and the line was out on the midway. We rode it anyway. Brad would like to know what these red buckets on top of Delirium are for. Being hoisted up, and stopping 15 feet short of where RipCord stops you. I really wish I'd gotten the ENTIRE wheel in this pic. I cut off half the people on the ride.. grrr. Since the park was packed by this time, we headed over to X Base to check out FOF.. but decided on Firehawk. I was so glad at that point that I had reapplied my sunblock. Green paint still showing on X-Hawk. We waited an hour, and chose the very rear seat. You really get whipped around in the rear seat too, IMO totally worth the wait. We met up with Danielle (keiko_coaster). We all went back for another ride on Racer, and then headed to the Emporium because we were freezing. I announced that I was going to buy a hoodie because I was freezing, and half of my group walked out wearing CF VIP jackets.. guess I wasn't the only one freezing to death! Then we all decided to chill out with a ride on the train, until I heard music and Danielle and I started dancing. The guys behind us were cracking jokes about taking a video of dancing girls. I got a nice photo of DB from the train. I really liked this. I never saw it before.. I rarely ride the train. It's a nice ride though. After this, everyone headed for Nick U to ride Avatar before The Beast's birthday party, but they didn't have enough time. I'm sorry, but you will never see me on that ride, it spins way too much for my stomach's liking. I get nauseous just looking at it. Off to The Beast's birthday party we go! They had cake, snacks, drinks, and a live DJ. I wasn't into the music until I heard them play the Cupid Shuffle and the Cha Cha Slide. Danielle grabbed me, and out on the dance floor we went. I sat back down, and Rachel and Zach (KI Man) started trying to pick a food fight with me with Gobstoppers and pretzels. We got tired of sitting down and listening to Scooby music played at eardrum-cracking levels, so we headed for a night ride on Beast. One half of the group split off to SDATHC and my half split off to Beast. We rode Beast once, and then headed over to *drum roll, please* NIGHT ERT ON Diamondback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brad was my ERT buddy for most of that. The ride warrior in me came out full force. I was jumping off DB, bolting down the exit, and running through the queue all the way to the station. I looked right behind me and he was totally keeping up! Way to go Brad (wristband high five!). For my last four rides, I met up with Ryan (BoddaH1994), Dane, and Jesse. We were all tired and slap happy by this point, and it made for some hysterical on ride photos. I ended up lapping DB a total of 13 times on ERT before they closed the queue. Ryan walked with me back to my car, and I left Kings Island around 1-1:15 am. Thanks EVERYONE for an amazing day. Ride Warriors Weekend was an outstanding event. Ride count: Diamondback - 17 (13 in a row on ERT) Beast - 4 BLSC - 3 Racer - 2 Drop Tower - 1 Crypt - 1 Runaway Reptar - 1 Delirium - 1 Vortex - 1 Firehawk - 1 Train - 1