violakat03

I hope you have a picture of that somewhere.

One thing I found an interesting disparity between Kings Island and Cedar Point was the price of the food. Paramount really jacked up the prices, and Cedar Fair never lowered them to match CP prices. I was shocked when walking around Cedar Point because the prices seemed much, much more reasonable. My husband and I actually ate in the park a few times, something we never, ever do in Kings Island.

I'd have expected more than just one answer from you.

Having ridden Goliath in it's inaugural year, I think I'd have to agree with you. Everyone was just really really pumped over that roller coaster. In and out of Atlanta - when doing research for whether I wanted to go to to SFOG or Carowinds, something I came across a lot was the comment of "you HAVE to go ride Goliath" even from people who had never ridden it! And now that we've finally gotten a coaster that the whole country can be excited about, what do you want to see Terpy?

And that's why we love you. As to the original post ... I've been stuck on The Beast, I saw Drop Tower get struck by lightning, I helped get a very obese woman unstuck from a bathroom stall, witnessed an assault, and had a fog-induced panic attack. All but the first and last were when I worked there, and I'm sure I'll think of more.

The two I miss most are King Cobra (<3) and Skylab. King Cobra was quite possibly my favorite coaster in the park, because it was short, fun, different, and almost always walk-on. Also, of the 3 standups I've ridden, it was by far the smoothest. Skylab was the first ride I ever went on that went upside down. I rode it the same year as my first coaster. I really love Witch's Wheel at Cedar Point because it brings back memories.

Yes, but which would you rather have, a new fresh topic with new fresh ideas, or a thread that started nearly 5 years ago, died for 3 years, was revived a year and a half ago for a whopping two posts, and died again? I'm in a peace-keeping (or "don't pick on the newbies") mood today. Forgive me, Terpy. (edited to clarify which post I was replying to)

Wow, what a derailed topic we have on our hands...

Yes, but if he'd brought up this 2 year old thread, wouldn't every body be jumping on him for bringing up a dead thread?

I'd like to see them concentrate on maintaining more than just the landscape. Cedar Point has absolutely beautiful landscaping, and you can see it beginning to return to Kings Island as well. But there's more to a well maintained park than just landscaping and extra trash cans. How about keeping the water areas clean? The pond by Viking Fury was absolutely disgusting for most of last season (though not as bad as Mantis's pond!!). I don't even remember seeing water in BLSC's splashdown area, let alone the splashdown feature actually working. How about bringing back the fog effects on Flight Deck, BLSC, and IIRC Adventure Express had some too? They could sure pour out the fog during Haunt (enough that I literally couldn't breathe and had to be taken to first aid) and at CP's Iron Dragon, but no other time or place it seems. You can see the type of neglect that's so prevalent at Cedar Point continuing on at Kings Island, and that's just really sad.

"Where was this bolt supposed to go...?"

Yeah I was thinking that too. It's going to be awesome. Can't wait to see the first run with the splashdown effect.

Never on a ride, but in the promotional literature that KI representatives took to like .. area high school and such, for the 2003 season, I was in one of the pictures.

Very cool. Thanks for the info. Any word on if you can get the ERT at CP that platinum pass holders get? When I worked at PKI, I could get into any Paramount park for free, and since you had to enter through the employee gate and could exit the park at any area, I could do ERTs and stuff like that. Only thing I couldn't do was the gold pass double rides.

Oh, I've got plenty of work history. I've been working since I was 14 (including 2 seasons at PKI) and I'm now 23. I've been a manager at a jewelry store, sold cars for 2 years, and delivered pizza on and off whenever I'm not making enough money elsewhere. I'm hoping my age and past history will help open up options. I really want to work a coaster if I go with rides (I actually listed department trainer or merch auditor as my first choices), and if I can't ... well, I'll try Cedar Point! The first season I worked there, we got an ERT on The Beast and Tomb Raider. Since it was the year TR:TR opened, everyone went flocking to it .. I walked on The Beast and rode it 3 or 4 times in a row with a bunch of crazy, excited, screaming employees. It was pretty awesome.

I guess I'll find out, won't I? I'd also love to work on The Beast, so I might end up working during the ERT's anyway. No big loss in that case.

I'm crossing my fingers to be able to actually work at Diamondback.. I'm going to make sure I'm one of the first people at the job fair because if I work in rides, that's where I want to work! I'm also considering working at Cedar Point, so who knows what I'll be doing.

As an employee at KI do you get priviledges at other CF parks, or do you only get into KI? Since I am probably going to work there this summer, I'm wondering if I should buy a platinum pass anyway because I intend to make several visits to other CF parks.

Don't worry, I can't either.

Absolutely yes, but I recommend not following in the footsteps of many other forums and making it just a reiteration of things that have already been posted. One of my favorite forums does this - once a month, sends out a "what's been happening on the forum" newsletter. Considering I'm on that forum daily, I pretty much just delete it, since it's links to news articles that have been posted and interesting member posts in the main forum. I read all those anyway! Member articles, trip reports (especially to parks that not many of us have been to, like ones in California and such), get to know a KIC member ... all those are excellent ideas!

Yeah, the pay vs gas money was the biggest reason I didn't try and go back last year. When gas was running at $4/gal and I lived 40 miles away, it wouldn't work. The two years I worked there, gas was hovering around $1/gal and I had a slightly more fuel efficient car at the time. Though, the 50 minute drive with no cruise control and only AM/FM radio really stank! If the job I interviewed for last week doesn't go through, KI or possibly CP this summer will be a big possibility. My husband's starting a good paying job on the 2nd, so any pay I get will just be extra and can go into savings, so minimum wage won't be an issue.

Glad I'm not the only who noticed Flight of Fear suddenly lining up like crazy. Used to be walk-on in the evenings, now it's a 1 hour wait all day long. Grrrr!

I always use Firefox. What drives me nuts is that the college I go to has been having issues with their website, so assignment submissions are only allowed through Internet Explorer (ugh). My IE is so stupid. I have ad blocker enabled on it, but I still get them. I'll open IE, then it's only a matter of seconds before I get a popup, then the popup refuses to close and I get a system error message. Yeah, I've had issues with submission forms before on Firefox, but I very, very rarely go outside Firefox. The online math class I'm taking uses a site that's not real friendly with Firefox, and AdBlock for some reason blocks the content in the submission area, so I have to disable all my pop-up blockers and AdBlock to do my homework!

Oh the irony! Just think, it makes you feel more like you're in the park! (or you could do like I shamefully admit to doing ... and use AdBlock for Firefox - I only started using it after my favorite forum began using smart text ads. They drive me bonkers.)